I have the opposite experience. Goes to show the difference between people.
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.
But if the alternative becomes more real estate investment than we already have won't that be even worse?
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.
Whenever I read HN talking about PHP I am reminded of the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. The level of discussion on the topic is abysmal, compared to (I guess perceived?) the discussion on other topics.
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.