I am German and honestly can't wait to move to the US once I get a suitable H-1B offer. I already spent 8 months in Boston for a research stay, and back then the doomer mentality among natives was wild to me. From an outsider's perspective it’s crazy to watch. Life, and especially the ceiling for what you can achieve, is still 10x higher in the US than anywhere else.

I think people in the US severely underestimate how stagnant it feels in Europe and other continents right now. We are basically just stumbling from one crisis to the next, without any strong leadership (the US two-party system definitely has its advantages here, as you're able to charge fullspeed into one direction instead of not moving at all).

If you actually want to build ambitious things, the friction here is exhausting. And instead of being rewarded for high output you get taxed to death to prop up a system favored towards an aging/declining population. It's essentially a massive boomer tax. Younger workers have zero political leverage to change it because our demographic is just too small to matter at the ballot box.

Sure, the US definitely has its ugly sides, but if you want to work hard and actually capture the upside of what you build, it's still the only game in town. Even if that means jumping through all the hoops the current gov throws in your way.

I hope I can call myself an American one day.

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Still rough in places and not full parity, but very usable now and I run it daily at work (forced mac life).

[1]: https://github.com/gTile/gTile

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- Major breakthroughs in robotics research thanks to ultra scalable simulation software and RL

- AI will become even more useful in daily life

- New drug discoveries or successful stage 3 clinical studies related to / similar to GLP-1. Also in longevity research.

- Renewables will get even cheaper

- Creators will thrive with all the new AI tooling

- Government services will become more digital (at least in Germany)

- The war between Ukraine and Russia will end

- Interest rates continue to fall, causing an uptick in housing buildup

- The EU finally takes a harder stance against uncontrolled migration with concrete measures that will bring numbers far down.

Negatives:

- Societal loneliness will continue to accelerate

- People will use their brains even less, thanks to more widespread LLM use

- the Nazi party in Germany will become the majority in two states (but won't be able to govern them)

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If you work a lot in remote dev environments (I use coder a lot at work) that really does the trick.

And this was for the German market only. So I am quite sure that it was more common in the US at an earlier time, as they are usually ahead of us.

I published each version on a separate WordPress blog covering roughly the same topic, chose random pictures, set random publish dates close to each other, and signed them all up for Google News. This non-AI dogshit dominated a small tech niche, making a decent amount of money at the time for a 14-year-old. I am pretty sure I was not the only one coming up with that idea at the time.

I primarily got my desk because I was tired of having bad posture and back pain. But since I also started working out heavily at the same time I built the table, I can't attribute the desk only to alleviating any pain I had. It definitely helps though with good posture.

I'm also happy I got a smart version that can remember 4 heights. I had another (much more expensive) table at my previous workplace that didn't have it. And it was a pain switching from a seated to standing position.

[1] https://timdettmers.com/2023/01/16/which-gpu-for-deep-learni...