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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
I'm not sure what the solution here is... At the end of the day, if your city is nice enough, and demand is high enough, and supply is low enough, you're going to see prices per unit of area rise. And you can do two things, pay mo
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
Indeed, my employer (Netherlands) is also quite flexible here. Problem is that it almost always comes at the cost of promotions. I've never seen someone who works parttime get promoted. Everyone who gets promoted works full-time. In ot
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
> How do people put up with this bullshit? Because the group that gets the highest salaries is also the group that wouldn't put up with lower salaries. And the group that gets the lowest salaries, is also the group that puts up with
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
> felt if I saw similar level people earnt more and I raised this but didn't get equalised it could hurt my sense of justice and how content I felt in the workplace. Shouldn't it, though? It's like saying your partner is c
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
This so much. My biggest gripe with trains is that I am never able to actually get the logistics right. I can hop on google flights and book a multi-city trip, I get a single price, and it's basically going to steer me towards roughly
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
I really don't get why trains can be so expensive and what we need to do to fix that. To an extent, flying is just way too cheap. I mean, I was looking at a roundtrip london/barcelona just last week, it was $25. By train I'm
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
Works great for me... It's also nice that virtually every external person I've worked with, has Teams somehow. Even ex colleagues moving on to other companies I reconnect with on Teams right away haha, because the new company is u
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
It's true that housing is getting ridiculously expensive. But there is a side that's often not really told, or really explained well, which is interest rates dropping consistently and hard. Take a look at the mortgage rates: http
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
There's typically one person on the street, one person at the window. There's one rope that goes up-down on the joist, and one rope which the person below can pull away from the home as well as use to stabilise.
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Tax was levied on the width of the house.
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
Our debt is in part due to heavily subsidised tuition fees. Students cost about $15k a year, of which only 3k is paid as tuition and the remainder by the government. In the US many students average 10k tuition fees, or a multiplier for priv
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
Indeed. Oxygen is very valuable too, but it should not be expensive for this reason alone. It's abundant, and therefore cheap, and that's a good thing. Similarly, hypothetically speaking, perhaps teachers are the most valuable pro
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
Doesn't quite get negative elevation right, visually. The Netherlands just drops off the map. Otherwise great website!
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
I'd say this is spot on, particularly the part about going to college for lifestyle reasons, combined with a field that is low-paying, and a choice of uni that isn't particularly cheap, is a bad combination. I'm not sure I ag
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
On youtube and spotify I'd usually just get a list of music from the same artists, or from artists who operated in the same genre that I liked, but had a very different sound to what I liked. Somehow, discovering new music on youtube&#
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
Don't forget you work to live, you don't live to work. Even if you love your work, you don't love it every moment of the day. Sure, if you're close to a breakthrough invention to cure cancer, or have to race the competit
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
If the young people's contributions can be largely replaced (or rather, supplemented to the necessary aggregate contribution) by technology, does it really matter? There'd be no question of a ponzi scheme. You can sort of already
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
> And here we are, still wondering why the digital camera market is collapsing. Of course it is collapsing No, nobody is still wondering that, not for many years. And indeed, of course it is. That should've been the end of an articl
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
Yeah I was really blown away by that. +4 hours. We're getting into territory of having virtually no 'range anxiety' with your phone. On my S10 I now have a cheap $5 charging pad at the office, and I never really think about c
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
Definitely not most of the time. In Amsterdam, window prostitutes need to be registered with the municipality, chamber of commerce, tax authorities, and with the window operator they operate at. Minimum age is 21. This operator needs a lice
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
Ran into this a lot myself. So far I haven't been able to get very far to consolidate all these variables. Whenever I see threads pointing to economic growth or decline, I'm left saying there are tons of confounding factors, but w
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
I think it's time we start to think seriously about noise pollution and regulation. Most countries have laws around noise, but policing typically isn't helpful. You tend to have a 'self-mediation first', 'police war
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
Scooters aren't being actively policed. Electric mopeds work fine, as do electric bicycles if you don't like regular ones. There's public transport bikes as well. Further you can still take taxis, rideshare or rent something
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A few reasons. One, it's not a corporation, virtually every single school in the country is a public school. She's essentially a gov employee. Teachers have been striking and protesting against low wages for years, gov doesn'
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https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/net-in... https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TSLA/tesla/net-inc... Just compare...
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
> (2) Annual wages have been calculated by multiplying the hourly mean wage by a "year-round, full-time" hours figure of 2,080 hours; for those occupations where there is not an hourly wage published, the annual wage has been d
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
The figures are adjusted for prices and expressed in 2011 dollars. As such, any number (e.g. $12k) on the graph, whether it be in 1980, 90s, 000s, 2010, should represent the same buying power. Calculations and methodologies can be off, of c
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
Depends... at my company (financial/legal services, multinational, quite a corporate environment but... in the EU) nobody would ever make an issue out of taking your dog to the vet. Dentist? No problem. Any medical thing, anything with
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
> But isn't China's growth still mostly in the non-poor parts of it, No. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_administrative... Scroll to: By share of national GDP per capita It'll show you:
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by IkmoIkmo 7y ago
> 6% growth would be the envy of many countries. For comparison, the last time the US did that was 1984 No, not exactly. It has to be contextualised. Growing 2% if you're already rich is fine. It's essentially a promise they&#x

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