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by cplanas 10y ago
Netherlands is a different country that applied very different immigrant policies. Pretty bad ones, I would say. The fact that Netherlands immigration policy may be a failure does not imply anything about the US one, or about immigration as
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by cplanas 10y ago
In Spain at least, "estadounidense" is the standard for "American". Which is the ethnic slur?
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Or people for who English is not their first language. In Spanish at least, an "americano" is anyone from the Americas. People from the US are "estadounidenses".
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by cplanas 10y ago
> In another comment section (Reddit, I believe) there was anecdotal evidence that visitors from Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Poland and Romania regularly outstayed their visas and were notorious for violating a tourist visa, hence the add
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by cplanas 10y ago
There will be a hit in tourism, but I doubt that it will happen on those three countries. When Americans go to Europe they tend to focus on France/Italy; Spain is more popular for Europeans. Think about tourists in Miami (searching for
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by cplanas 10y ago
There is no "EU nation", and therefore, no EU nationalists. Moreover, most of European federalists are internationalists.
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by cplanas 10y ago
ACLU defends the American civil liberties, not only the American civil liberties of American citizens. You seem to assume that the American civil rights apply only to citizens. That's a peculiar interpretation, and openly against Supre
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by cplanas 10y ago
If you feel like the article is too long, you can watch this 11 minutes presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8Dd5aVXLCc . It summarizes their methodology. I took the presentation link from the article.
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by cplanas 10y ago
> Temporary ban on immigration [...] I have never been more hopeful about the future! I was curious about you -there are not many that support your positions in HN- and I checked your past comments. You seem to be an immigrant too, as yo
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by cplanas 10y ago
Europe is much, much stabler, at least right now. I follow the political polls in Europe and what you say is... mostly not true. > AFD in Germany in the 15-20% range According Wikipedia, no poll ever has given AFD more than a 15%, with t
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by cplanas 10y ago
> A regular employee/salaried dev is looking at at least 90k euro/year in nl According Payscale, the average salary for a developer in Netherlands is 41k Euro/Year ( http://www.payscale.com/research/NL&
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by cplanas 10y ago
> Many countries (Italy, Spain) don't have functioning stock markets at all. Is there some kind of irony in this comment that I am not getting? I mean, both countries have fully functioning stock markets. The main index for the Span
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by cplanas 10y ago
This. We are headed to a slow-growth society, in which existing wealth is much more important than new income (yeah, I like Piketty). It's not only in the US, also in Europe.
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by cplanas 10y ago
Nate Silver commented (debunked, I would say) this issue on Twitter. It seems that the "abnormality" detected or does not make sense (Pennsylvania, Michigan) or disappears when controlling for race and educations levels (Wisconsin
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by cplanas 10y ago
> if you're a US citizen That's something you can opt out of. In fact, some do: http://fortune.com/2016/08/11/us-citizens-renounce/
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by cplanas 10y ago
As you say, this happens with many videogames and other kind of stuff: I remember the case of a child that started to interact with other children after watching Jurassic Park. He totally wanted to play and talk about dinosaurs. The article
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by cplanas 10y ago
Pokémon Go cures autism, apparently. Well, maybe the one caused by vaccines.
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by cplanas 10y ago
> It's obviously not accurate to begin with: Romanians aren't all going to the best European schools and they do not have access to such. Your "obviously" is certainly not obvious. I live in Denmark, and my experience
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by cplanas 10y ago
I think those common cultural elements form the American culture. Having fairly distinct regional cultures, and even languages, is not uncommon. If the US would not share a culture, intra-US migration would be a big issue, as it is in the E
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by cplanas 10y ago
Diversity, as understood as a possible problem for social cohesion, is not about race: it's about culture. And the vast majority of Americans in the US have only one culture: the American one. The exception for this is first (and somet
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by cplanas 10y ago
> homogeneous society [...] Scandinavian fetish Foreign-born population of Sweden: 16% Foreign-born population of Norway: 13.9% Foreign-born population of USA: 13.1% https://data.oecd.org/migration/foreign-born-popul
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by cplanas 10y ago
> Nordic countries [...] owe large part of their success to colonization in the past. The Nordic countries had no (or negligible) colonies. The Nordic countries are Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Iceland and Norway.
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by cplanas 10y ago
The fact that you are putting Spain, Greece and Italy as example of poor EU countries already shows you have an alarming lack of knowledge about the EU at least. Spain and Italy are average countries in the EU, GDP per capita-wise. Greece i
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by cplanas 10y ago
Just finished with the first two volumes of Cixin Liu's trilogy. Really good stuff. :)
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Or they leave.
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by cplanas 10y ago
I'm from Barcelona, living in Denmark and moving to SF soon. I have a couple of friends working in 3scale, and they seem happy. It looks like a good company to work for. My plan is going back to BCN at some point, so if you are still s
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by cplanas 10y ago
Ironically, that's one of the offers with highest salary brackets I have ever seen in Barcelona.
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by cplanas 10y ago
Getting a similar position in a US company is not easy. The US visa system is sheer madness, starting with the H1B lottery.
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by cplanas 10y ago
Barcelona feels like Spain? Frankfurt and Berlin feeling generally like the same country? I can agree that London is the most international city of Europe -at least right now, probably not in the close future-, but your descriptions of the
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by cplanas 10y ago
Spain has a history with Latin American countries, that's true. It's something that all former colonial empires share. UK has also a history with the Commonwealth members. Said this... do you seriously think that UK is closer cult

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