The device you used to make this comment relies heavily on quantum effects to make efficient transistors. The necessary theoretical understanding of semiconductors did not exist 120 years ago.

You're right. If you were educated, you would have learnt about the numerous applications of particle physics in modern technologies.

> Nothing practical has been create based on those theories.

Ever used GPS?

A CD player?

A laser?

Semiconductors?

Einstein laid the theoretical foundations for lasers in 1917, and it took over 40 years of "impractical" scientific work before the first functioning laser was built. It took decades more for them to become a cheap, ubiquitous technological building-block. The research is still continuing, and there's no reason to assume it will stop eventually bearing fruit (for the societies that haven't decimated their scientific workforce, anyways). Look at the insanity required to design and build the EUV lasers in ASML's machines, which were used to fabricate the CPU I'm using right now, over a century after Einstein first scribbled down those obscure equations!

I sincerely wonder how someone that is unaware of any of this finds their way onto HN, but at the same time it is an educational opportunity. 'nothing practical' indeed...

In addition, lasers were long believed to be a scientific novelty without any real world use.

What's interesting is how many things can be made to lase, and how many ways there are to do it. The list appears to be never ending and new entries are made all the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laser_types

You should probably invest in your education so.

France cloud provider scalaway has great prices. In some services they are cheaper then AWS. So I think that devs just need to research a bit more.

Also Hetzner (germany) is super cheap when compared with US hosting providers.

You are missing one of Europes largest hoster: OVH (Originally from FR)

I used CC in year age and it was not good. But one month ago I paid for max and started to rebuild my company web shop using it.

It is like plowing land with hand one year age and now is like I'm in brend new John Deere. It's amazing.

Of course its not perfect but if you understand code and problem it needs to solve then it works really good.

And slow Bureaucracy :)

I have friends who wore going to Iran for business meeting. Friends are from former Yugoslavia state who still have connections to Iran. They export sparkplugs to Iran.

Interesting thing is that they say they never seen such a beautiful country with even more beautiful people. Also they said they filled up two full car tanks for ~5€.

Their conclusion is that people there live much better life(more fulfilling) then people in western countries.

Maybe that's a good example that as a tourist/guest you only get a very biased perspective when visiting another country.

Hard to be fulfilled when you have no water, power, or enough money to buy bread.