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by DominikR 10y ago
This data is incomplete. For Germany it says that they had 440.000 asylum applications in 2015 even though Merkel herself said that they took in over a million in 2015. Apparently it was 1.1 million registered refugees for Germany alone in
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What is constantly ignored by the media is the fact that most people coming to the EU illegally at the moment are not refugees but migrants that come because their countries economy is in bad shape. For example in Austria only about 20% of
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I think this is really hard to pull off. Your best chance is to work on some project that will show off your skills, even if it is your own side project and then proactively contact companies. Open source projects might be a good idea becau
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I agree. What I do as a consulter is to make sure I do a good job (therefore I don't take any project if I don't think I'm a good fit) and then make sure that I stay in touch with my clients and some of their employees in the
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I tend to agree that the constitution is the wrong place, it should probably be a law. But this has nothing to do with xenophobia, it's about the social order and norms that we have and that we will have in the future. I like the freed
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It would be a visible symbol that Islam is part of mainstream culture which it is not. It is part of other cultures and these cultures have very different views on social norms and order, laws and politics.
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> I'm not familiar with the Swiss situation but doubt the constitutional changes around minarets were fought over the merits of Islamic architecture or nuanced arguments about zoning. It is a misconception to believe that these are
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This happens in every sector in every country and should be persecuted. But I just can't believe that the Silicon Valley tech sector dominates the West just because they are somehow the best at bribing politicians. I just take a look a
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I as a citizen of a EU country (Austria) also share the same concerns regarding NSA and invasion of privacy by the US government and I'm highly critical of the wars started/instigated by the US in the last 20 years. But I have no
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See my above comment to hellbanner. Aside from that MeetUp and GroupMe are social networks too. Yes, they are different but I didn't say that Facebook is the end all perfect implementation of a social network. I just refuse anyone tell
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Well even if 6 billion use emails, it is no proof that Facebook is not beneficial to the others. It is at least to me and to the parent.
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> However, the comparable US company can invade my market Again talk about "invasion", I'd suggest you don't be so emotional so we can have a fruitful discussion. Aside from that nobody owns the market. You may feel i
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Your examples aside from chat apps are quite unrealistic. I don't even know when was the last time I invited someone to an event using any of the listed methods, it must have been years. But even if running into friends at the store wa
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It doesn't look random to me when the biggest IT companies all originate from a small area in or near San Francisco. The US government spent a massive amount of money over decades in infrastructure and in government contracts which in
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Invasion implies use of force and against the will of someone. Nobody forces you to use Google services, eat hamburgers or listen to US music.
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> How is it not problematic when American tech form an oligopoly on internet services? They are the best so they won. I have no problem with that and I don't think anyone should have as long as there's no abuse of power. > E
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> The US government forces American tech companies to spy on users, so US companies are to blame? It's not so important who is to blame from a moral perspective, it's still a serious issue. > These services are so useful and
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Does it matter in if it's the drug addicts fault that he is a drug addict or not? The parent shared his opinion on if a basic income is going to help that person or not. You could instead describe how you believe a basic income would a
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by DominikR 10y ago
Some widely used illegal drugs are known to cause mental illnesses for some. MDMA, magic mushrooms and LSD just to name a few. I've always been curious about hallucinogen effects but I chose to never try it because of the risks.
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Thanks for your comment, I also grew up in a poor immigrant family (non academic parents) and was able to move to the top 0,5% and fully agree with you. My personal experience is that the problems poor people face (at least here in the West
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My point is that this software is badly designed since almost no company would ever accept that the source code of their products will be sent to unknown third parties. I mean the person that developed this plugin will probably also develop
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> If you can't factor it into your costs of doing business (that you pass on to the client) then you either have to factor it into your costs of doing business (that you have to eat) or decide to take the risk of not bothering. Than
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There is a difference but it doesn't change anything for me as a contractor. I'd imagine suing Google or Apple would be no fun when I'm sued by some bank for a breach of NDA. As a software dev we ideally should keep in mind f
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I've done projects with NDA for the Android platform where using Android Studio today is almost mandatory. After reading this post I remembered that Android Studio already has some kind of spell checking active by default and to be hon
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I have finished a few projects as an external contractor for companies in the financial sector and many would be surprised how paranoid these companies are about the source code. Aside from the (sometimes insane) checks they have in place I
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Those people living in the Eastern Ukraine for generations identify themselves as Russians so of course they fight against a government that hates everything Russian and threatens them. On the other side of the border many Russians feel sym
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What really makes Brazil a no go for me is how dangerous it seems to be. I wouldn't even dare going there for vacation let alone live there for an extended period.
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As somebody who does weight lifting I can say from my experience that I performed much worse back then when I didn't take the time to eat a breakfast before going to the fitness studio. I actually even had to stop the training sometime
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> The researchers said they found no evidence that people were paid for the posts, adding the work was probably part of the employees’ job responsibilities. Probably? How on earth do they reach this conclusion? Is this science? > Alth
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No I did not claim this. I wrote that drug and alcohol abuse is affecting more homeless people than others. This is obviously one of the causes why the death rate for homeless people is higher. But you are obviously not interested in a norm

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