Beretta_Vexee

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by Beretta_Vexee 8mo ago
It's true, the cost of living in NYC also plays a role. It has become very expensive for many countries to send staff there as expatriates.
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by Beretta_Vexee 8mo ago
Sorry, I wasn't clear. I don't think these initiatives really protect Europeans. Anton Carniau, a Microsoft executive, testified before the French Parliament that ‘as a last resort, if we are forced to, we must transmit the data’,
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by Beretta_Vexee 8mo ago
Half of the UN agencies are relocating all over the world. The financial and accounting departments are moving thousands of people to Madrid and Bonn. They will not be coming back soon.
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by Beretta_Vexee 8mo ago
It is incredibly stupid and counterproductive to make this kind of statement publicly. Most of the GAFAM companies are doing their utmost to try to reassure their European customers with a facade of sovereignty. All these efforts will come
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by Beretta_Vexee 8mo ago
The US ambassador to France has just had his access to parliamentarians and members of the government withdrawn because he is trying to turn a neo-Nazi who died in a fight into a political martyr. There are similar situations in Belgium and
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by Beretta_Vexee 8mo ago
Feudalism : The nobility held lands and means of production from the Crown in exchange for service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord's offices, f
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by Beretta_Vexee 8mo ago
This is not the only difference in the banking system; 25-year fixed-rate mortgages are also a feature that is rarely found elsewhere. The minimum 10% deposit is mainly there to cover taxes, which cannot really be recovered by the bank in t
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by Beretta_Vexee 8mo ago
On the other hand, I have already seen Germans complaining about the lack of possibility to buy train tickets by bank transfer.
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by Beretta_Vexee 8mo ago
It's more taboo to talk about revolving credit card than crack addiction for a french. I don't know a bank that offer them, even the shady online bank.
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by Beretta_Vexee 8mo ago
There are equivalents in several European countries. The problem is that these networks are national and not European, let alone global. National banking players did not want to give up their turf. The European Union had to twist their arms
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by Beretta_Vexee 8mo ago
There are many countries where debit cards are the norm and credit cards are extremely rare. In France, people are so afraid of consumer credit that cards are renamed ‘deferred debit cards’ rather than credit cards, otherwise people do not
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by Beretta_Vexee 8mo ago
Wero is just one of many systems available that allow individuals to make transfers easily and almost instantly. There is also Bizum in Iberia and Blik in Poland. These instant phone-to-phone transfers are very popular, especially among you
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by Beretta_Vexee 9mo ago
Oslo and Madrid come to mind. For the worst than london, The Rome underground is so sparse, it not really usefull. Paris is dense, chaotic and overcrowded.
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by Beretta_Vexee 9mo ago
The difference in wind speeds can be quite significant, which greatly alters some forecasts. The question is often when it will rain, not if it will rain.
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by Beretta_Vexee 9mo ago
French report: The project presented is not new; it is a continuation of the Tixeo project ( https://www.tixeo.com/en/secure-video-conferencing-solutions... video-conferencing-service-tixeocloud/trial-tixeocloud&#x
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by Beretta_Vexee 9mo ago
To add to what has already been said: - Business law is in its infancy and local courts excessively favour the Indian side. In the event of a dispute, enforcing the terms of the contract can be very complicated or even illusory. - Banking a
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by Beretta_Vexee 9mo ago
Not to mention the ‘new edition of the rules’: buy back half of your units, the other half now behaves completely differently.
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by Beretta_Vexee 9mo ago
They have successfully pivoted from a hobbit focused solely on board games, which requires travelling to someone's house with your figurines, going to the shop, etc. to something broader, selling video games, science fiction novels (of
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by Beretta_Vexee 9mo ago
It is mainly cosmetic and probably due to sharing resources (web template) with their other products. There are no new features.
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by Beretta_Vexee 9mo ago
Oh I can do it but I am not really representative of the average user. Plus I have a lot of points of interest, note, picture, that I could request via gdpr but not easy to reuse and couldn't be imported into Strava. Strava isn't
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by Beretta_Vexee 9mo ago
They are also very good at pooling their infrastructure and software stack. This accounts for a significant portion of the costs.
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by Beretta_Vexee 9mo ago
For example, they bought the German hiking and cycling app Komoot. It's a mature app in terms of functionality, with a stable user base. There's little chance of hypergrowth with this type of app. It's also complicated to swi
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by Beretta_Vexee 9mo ago
It's complicated, there are two types of applications and networks. 1) Direct payment systems via mobile phone, generally designed initially for payments between friends and family. They have been set up in several countries by neobank
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by Beretta_Vexee 9mo ago
It's more of a payment processor issue than a device issue. If you are in a country or area with a large Chinese population, you can usually pay easily in RMB with Alipay. If you use Visa and Mastercard, you are subject to US regulatio
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by Beretta_Vexee 9mo ago
French here: If we can send French soldiers to fight and die in Mali for years, only to end up with a military junta that prefers the Russian Africakorps, I think we're ready to send our soldiers to die defending a European ally. Plus,
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by Beretta_Vexee 9mo ago
But none of its citizens nor territories for the moment.
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by Beretta_Vexee 9mo ago
The local population consists mainly of Inuit born on a pair of skis. They will let GI freeze to death in a vehicle stuck in the ice after sabotaging the roads. The Arctic climate is more deadly than any automatic rifle. Militarily occupyin
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by Beretta_Vexee 9mo ago
40% of medicines and active ingredients used in the USA are manufactured in Europe. 30-40% of Boeing parts are manufactured in Europe. Our financial, telecommunications and supply systems are so interconnected that if they were to fail, our
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by Beretta_Vexee 9mo ago
This has worked very well in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. It is a giant island in the Arctic Ocean, populated by Inuit and people born on a pair of skis. If they don't want you here, they will make sure you freeze to death in a troop
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by Beretta_Vexee 9mo ago
Our British friends depend on American Trident missiles; only France is completely autonomous and sovereign in terms of its nuclear strike force.

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