wahrsagevogel

Since the EU does not have a common fiscal policy the challenges are not the same.

Sure, but we are talking about 3.5 months (1.5 before birth, 2 after). In addition in the months before birth you are allowed to continue working if you wish so.

I'd argue most of the companies will be able to handle that. Especially since you have plenty of time to prepare.

Above is only the part which is different for men and women for obvious biological reasons. There is also a paternity system leave starting from 2 months after birth but this should ideally not discriminate either gender.

> For instance, in Germany the woman's job position must be held open for her until she decides to return to work (possibly years later), not to mention the full salary compensation months before and after giving-birth, when she is no longer working.

The company will be reimbursed for the salary by the health insurance upon filling out a form. A company does not pay a single cent more than the cost of hiring another person for the position.

Unfortunately it looks like Purism also has some problems in this regard.

http://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2015/02/23/the-truth-about-pu...

You should look up median and how it is different to the average.

Yes it is. And it is called mathematical reasoning. You don't need to have some childish intuition to grasp the tunnel effect. It is enough to understand the concept of an exponential function of complex arguments.

Complicated problems need abstract reasoning not handwavy explanations. "Imagine two rivers which merge at some point and two boats floating down these rivers. Which one will be first? Think about it and solve your race condition problem." Pure nonsense. We have powerful ways to think about programs with programming languages. For physics this language is mathematics. If you want to understand something study the language.

And bits like "Babies also intuitively grasp that objects exist even when you’re not looking at them, a concept called “object permanence” that goes against the classic Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics [...]" are just sad. An observation in the physical sense and the observation of a newborn are not the same concept. Babies have a memory. Computers have memory. Therefore babies are computers.