Many people try this. I think Sonder was most recent but they pivoted. Blueground will do corporate apartments short term. I think these aren’t effective against Airbnb customers tbh. It’s not a perfect platform but the others are not as good because availability is key.
I mean, any "definitive" list of countries is gonna be inaccurate in some way.
For example, according to ISO 3166, Kosovo is not a country, but Antarctica is, which isn't particularly useful in real-world scenarios. Kosovo does have its own ccTLD (.xk, although it's supposed to be a temporary one) and were tariffed.
The reason I've mentioned Soviet Union in particular is that its domain is still active. You can go and buy .su right now, unlike say .yu (Yugoslavia), .dd (East Germany) or .cs (Czechoslovakia), which were deprecated.
Realistically I’ll take my 82.6 years in San Francisco over 78.1 in Berlin, 85.39 in Madrid, or 80.4 in London. The tradeoffs are better for me and I don’t want to make America into Spain to get those last 3 years to Madrid. It’s all right. 82 is a good life.
To each their own. I’m headed to Spain to live, not to grind unnecessarily. You only get one life, and most of how we spend our days outside of family and loved ones doesn’t matter. I’ll have a glass of Sangria for you (a lie, I’ll take the whole pitcher and drink while reading HN).
America gets what it deserves: self defeating turmoil and churn disguised as effort and progress, while objectively being a worse place to exist (happiness, health outcomes, etc). Line goes up, but life is suffering.
On a per capita adjusted basis UAE/Dubai blows about every other place out the water for number of incoming rich migration (even on absolute basis they are near top). Much easier to get an investor visa, far lower taxes on business income, you can easily import servants and trade duties are miniscule. Everything is available if you are rich because all you must do is fill out some relatively simple paperwork and whoever you want appears.
It looks like in this age for the rich the optimum is something closer to dictator capitalism, as democracies start to embrace more regulation and social redistribution schemes. Singapore and Dubai have been winning choices so long as the people in power don't change their mind and start splitting skulls.
The Middle East human rights situation is in conflict with my belief and value system. Agency and autonomy are important, as well as shared responsibility and collectivism (as no one is an island). Us, not I.
I like taxes, with them I buy civilization, help those in need, and build lasting institutions of value and relevance.
And they don't even bother holding their noses tightly sealed as they let them pass. Source of income (you know what I mean) has no bearing on these places. Enjoy your neighbours, definitely don't piss them off without.. consequences
As a Spanish person I can’t even imagine what would make someone come here to live - I suppose you’re already exceedingly wealthy?
Almost all of my friends with higher educations have left for northern countries, as the situation here is untenable for young people. Of course if you have money that’s not an issue… and evidently the kind of money that makes that non an issue can only obtained in places like the US.
Spain is one of the best places in the world to live if you have a steady income, you don't have to be wealthy to be happy. I've lived there for many years working for Spanish companies, with spanish salaries.
But seeing how you blame mass immigration, mostly uneducated and low-skilled workers, for the fall in wages of the educated people leaving the country, I wonder if your vision isn't too myopic and narrow on economic issues due to political bias.
As for the struggles of the young people in the country, because real state is inaccessible, I agree with you, but it's a problem in most capital cities of the civilised world.
I didn’t blame mass immigration for the fall of wages of educated people. Maybe you misunderstood what I said. It’s uneducated young people who suffer from that. I have clarified my other comment.
>Almost all of my friends with higher educations have left for northern countries, as the situation here is untenable for young people.
>Bottom of the barrel wages for natives are the result of uncontrolled mass migration - we have received millions of immigrants in the last decade, which has basically destroyed wages.
Putting those two sentences of yours together triggered that thought in my mind, I apologise if I was wrong.
when you say "immigration has destroyed wages" you mean "immigration has lowered the floor of low wages" but you also imply "businesses CAN pay higher wages but WON'T".
i wouldn't blame the immigrants there. the whole thing managed correctly would be (or actually already is) a huge boon for the country. the suffering of the young and poor seems to be a choice made by the greedy.
Well that explains it doesn't it? One can cheaply employ your youth at bottom barrel wages and buy up or rent the real estate without competition with native professionals. And I'm not damning anyone who does that, it helps the locals more than them not coming at all. The Spanish government has more or less set up the incentives to play out this way -- that Spain is a place to come on holiday or to retire but not a place for native educated professionals to partake in business.
Bottom of the barrel wages for the uneducated natives are the result of uncontrolled mass migration - we have received millions of immigrants in the last decade, which has basically destroyed wages, and has made the poorest suffer.
On the other hand real estate is held by wealthy old natives and laws are enacted to make sure that real estate increases in price forever, the young be damned - no one cares about them since our population pyramid means they’ll always be a minority.
I’m very interested in understanding the challenges in building more affordable housing in Spain. Do you have any resources you’d recommend or be willing to discuss more offline?
Regarding renting, it’s legally almost impossible to kick out a squatter, which means most people choose to leave their empty homes closed instead of renting them, which, added to mass immigration, has led to a surge in rent prices.
It’s a complex, nuanced topic, but the cost of living in most of Spain is much lower than the US. Healthcare in the US for a family of four costs me >$20k/year. You can live comfortably in Spain for ~1.5x that in euros.
To be honest, I enjoy discussing politics with my friends. They’re all pretty good at discussing it. We have lots of common interests otherwise so it’s easy to just step away and talk about other things in the group Slack instead.
Are we fucking around here? There are exactly two construction projects that got estimated on time and cost in the US. Cost overruns are so routine as to not be noticeable.
In fact, if this is not the case, then this makes a good argument for the cancelation of CA HSR since it must be run by notoriously incompetent people since it is delayed decades and over a hundred billion over budget.
Yeah. Construction projects arriving on time and on budget is almost unheard of, aside from maybe the construction of common structures, like residential homes, where the builders have already built the same building 100 times before.
A more general application of this is why we have LLM tool use. I don’t have the LLM figure out how to integrate with my blog, I write an MCP and expose it to the LLM as a tool. Likewise, when I want to interpret free text I don’t push all the state into the LLM and ask it to do so. I just interpret it into bits and use those.
It’s just a tool that does well with language. You have to be smart about using it for that. And most people are. That’s why tools, MCPs, etc. are so big nowadays.
When the pilot ejected and landed, the 911 dispatcher goes through some sort of flowchart like a call-center guy in Calcutta except at approximately 0.25x the pace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCk3yk_38Fc (seriously, it's like watching an LLM execute on CPU).
Then there's the plane that no one could find for a while
Then the military said the reason they had to demote him was that while a normal pilot could have done what he did, he was a test pilot and they're supposed to run closer to the redline.
Overall, that combined with the contemporaneous Secret Service gaffes that nearly had the President whacked while they stood around in photo-op poses, really made me think: What if these people are all playing at their roles and they don't actually know what to do? I know it's general Millennial jokes that "nobody knows what they're doing; we're all just making it up as we go along".
But that's not true. I kind of know a lot of what I'm doing. There's a whole bunch of things where I can just execute with low error rate. These guys are doing something more important and their ancestors did it better. Which makes me think that they're not so good at what they do.
> (seriously, it's like watching an LLM execute on CPU).
I dunno, it seems fine to me. The person starts the call by saying they need an ambulance, so she is going through trying to collect information about what the injuries are.
The problem is that the pilot wanted to contact 911 to warn them about the plane crash, but somehow that got misinterpreted by the homeowner and got them on this ambulance track, and the pilot isn't doing a good job of saying "don't worry about me, let's talk about the plane". He keeps chiming in with these questions about the plane crash that seem to come out of nowhere.
He also doesn't even mention that he's concerned that the plane crash might have injured someone else.
Maybe there's more to this that was edited out.
But I'm not sure what the criticism is: she's supposed to stop asking questions about his injuries, and suddenly ask about a possible plane crash that they haven't had any reports of yet? What would that even achieve?
Many of these people did not break the law and they did enter legally. It’s just that the dragnet is attempting to maximize numbers and has low specificity.
It’s just that when something hits a process there’s a massive step change as everyone normalizes processes around it. Until that moment, rare events are all that you see.
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