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by _vbnz 4y ago
Yeah, Hipchat and Flowdock were reasonable Slack alternatives but Teams is a complete nightmare.
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by _vbnz 4y ago
I can't stand all the beating around the bush language. All stuff like "best wishes to those impacted by the course correction in our employee base". Like they aren't just numbers or human resources, it's real peopl
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by _vbnz 4y ago
It's bizarre they're still pushing zero-covid so much, even without vaccines, Covid is dangerous but it's not apocalyptic.
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by _vbnz 4y ago
The Communist Manifesto - before I didn't find history very interesting because in class it was literally just taught as remembering birth dates of kings and the dates of actions by "great men", etc. Whereas Materialism (and
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by _vbnz 4y ago
But piracy affects the capitalists that run the US establishment, whereas wage theft benefits them.
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by _vbnz 4y ago
But they could just do that directly - like Russia and China have done with Yandex, VK, WeChat, TikTok, Baidu, etc. But for some reason the EU is still hooked on neoliberalism and anti-protectionism, even when it has ravaged the continent w
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by _vbnz 4y ago
It sucks they should just set up a fund for fundamental projects - Linux, LibreSSL, OpenSSL, etc. and then make companies of a certain size contribute. It could even be a way of boosting the European Tech industry by funding FOSS consultanc
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by _vbnz 4y ago
> The end effect of those Bizantine regulations is that big companies just use them as loopholes while small businesses get weighted down with them. Yeah, this is exactly the issue. I work in Finance and the right to be forgotten /
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by _vbnz 4y ago
We have labour-saving technology though. Automation leads to higher productivity, so those fewer people can earn more and spend more. The economy will do just fine. I think it'll be a rocky time though, we're facing a new Industri
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by _vbnz 4y ago
The same EU that introduced the GDPR, Link Tax, Cookie Law, etc. as "easier to do business", really? The EU is to the German establishment what the USSR was to the Russian establishment.
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by _vbnz 4y ago
> Regarding language, unfortunately English is no longer a EU language and so I see little reason to make an effort to support it when alternatives are available. What about Ireland and Malta? Also English is the language of internationa
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by _vbnz 4y ago
To be honest, it's probably best to just wait it out a few months. One poor-performing employee isn't worth the risk of destroying the morale and trust of all the others.
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by _vbnz 4y ago
I meant his demands that the LPR and DPR hold recognised referendums for independence, that Crimea be officially transferred back to Russia (after being arbitrarily granted to Ukraine by a Communist dictator), and Ukraine to remain neutral.
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by _vbnz 4y ago
I learnt both, they complement one another at least.
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by _vbnz 4y ago
Mi parolas Esperanton kaj mi rekomendas uzu la librojn Teach Yourself Esperanto kaj la novajn Enjoy Esperanto kaj Complete Esperanto de Tim Owen, kaj na Lernu.net kaj Duolingo.
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by _vbnz 4y ago
It's crazy, we could have harnessed nuclear power and solved these issues. We should be throwing everything have at solving Nuclear Fusion too. Fossil fuels are a limited resource and the energy return on energy invested is only going
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by _vbnz 4y ago
Europe is facing complete economic collapse in the face of hyper-inflation, energy shortages, the Euro collapsing in value and rising interest rates. It's a shame that the continent that was once the birthplace of democracy, the scient
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by _vbnz 4y ago
Yeah, European capitalists at least. And they'll destroy our wages and trade unions even further.
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by _vbnz 4y ago
Why is it our responsibility? Intervened on which side in Georgia? That Georgian government was absolutely terrible, putting dissidents in prison, firing on protests, etc. - just because they're anti-Russia doesn't make them good.
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by _vbnz 4y ago
I mean, I'm a leftist in the EU, it's just that the system isn't working due to cuts and mismanagement, and unfortunately the "left-wing" parties here are more concerned with identity politics and policies benefitin
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by _vbnz 4y ago
But the EU is super conservative - e.g. banning gene edited crops (now available in Brexit Britain at last - https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61537610 ), the ridiculous cookie laws and GDPR restrictions, et
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by _vbnz 5y ago
Yet you include Google and YouTube? WhatsApp is hugely popular in Europe and Asia, I don't see including a filter as an endorsement.
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by _vbnz 5y ago
To keep the class system intact. The ultra-wealthy don't pay much more tax (and don't pay property or inheritance tax, and capital gains tax is also lower than income tax (wtf?)). It's a far less progressive country than the
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by _vbnz 5y ago
Yeah, Amazon has a system to determine the most cost-effective shipping, including where to ship from to begin with, and even shipping the same item even if it belongs to another seller, if it is easier to ship. It's not just a greedy
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by _vbnz 5y ago
I agree completely, at least here in Sweden it's harder to rent flats out, so this is less common (it might change next year though when the conservatives/nationalists win). IMO I'd make renting restricted to government monop
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by _vbnz 5y ago
It was the socialist authority that carried out a lot of the construction though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Vienna Can't see that happening in SF, they'll probably just tighten up the laws on loiterin
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by _vbnz 5y ago
> “Capitalism” is what people do when they’re not having sex (and sometimes even then). It is the most powerful economic engine we know about. Capitalism is when people does stuff. Capitalism is a system where the Earth's resources
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by _vbnz 5y ago
They pay significantly less in Europe. I was paid ~75k EUR (~87k USD) as an L5 at Amazon (incl. bonus), levels.fyi states you'd expect around $165k in the same role in the US. That's before taxes in both cases - literally half the
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by _vbnz 5y ago
It doesn't have to happen overnight, they could just provide greater support for trade unions and co-operatives. And nationalisation of "private property" and land reforms have happened outside of communist governments, e.g.
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by _vbnz 5y ago
They had already been elected to the government in both Italy and France though, in a coalition with more centrist socialist parties. In both countries they already held ministerial positions, so this just isn't true. In practice they&

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