I've always had trouble internalizing the "physics" of physics or chemistry, as if it were all super arbitrary and there was no order to it.

Computation and maths on the other hand just click with me. Philosophy as well btw.

I guess I deal better with handling completely abstract information and processes and when they clash with the real world I have a harder time reconciling.

Investing in the stock market at least in principle is investing in businesses that use that money to increase productivity. We should discourage investment in vehicles that do not optimize for productivity (real estate, bitcoin, metals and similar).

Most local produce initatives fail because they're not actually better than the global/international variants, especially considered from a price/quality pov.

Just pointing out the obvious steelman people seem to be missing.

It's interesting how clearly 80% of the developers in the community clearly have 0 clue about modern PHP. People mention shared hosting, code in html files, CGI and bad security defaults. To be clear these things have been dead in the PHP world for 10+ years, but most developers here have used it once in 2005 and haven't seen how it looks like in the modern ecosystem.

It's as if whenever the topic was Java, the discussion would center only around the devs working with Java 1.8.

Likely, the rest of the discussion on HN is of the same level, but I have a harder time spotting the errors.

Besides the shared nothing architecture mentioned by sibling:

- A more mature community and ecosystem for open source packages e.g. basics like following semver

- One single clear option for package management, which is also by far best in class

- Simply better performance except maybe compared to javascript

While the rest of the options may tick one of the above boxes, none of them ticks all 3.

I'd say nothing except human nature.

That is not common in Europe. Generous compensation and additional time off is quite typical for engineers handling on-call burdens.