deodorel

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by deodorel 10y ago
Ok, let me tell you my experience: Fyi I am left wing guy, like european left wing guy :), currently living in Bucharest, Romania. Here the taxis are regulated so the supply is limited but you can't really buy a licence, there is some
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by deodorel 11y ago
Well, The hobbits did not get eternal life, quite the contrary. While is super duper to get to see the blessed realm, most scholars agree that for mortals getting to see so much beauty is bad and actually shorten one's life.
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by deodorel 11y ago
One thing that bothers me is the author remark that the Greeks never had any organised state like structure except for the Macedonian kingdoms ..yes they did for like 1000 years. It was called the Byzantine empire. Before the modern Greek s
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by deodorel 12y ago
The problem might be that, during most of history, The majority of African groups either didn't have enough resources in order to accumulate enough wealth to afford working organized structures/states or were too fragmented. Most
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by deodorel 12y ago
I would rather say that most euro countries are being ripped of by Germany, in multiple ways like the beggar thy neighbor of internal devaluation, rigid finacial policy when it suits them, way too higher trade imbalances with the other euro
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by deodorel 12y ago
I don't know why, but each time i read about the shortage of devs, i see another cry from the industry: "we want more immigration so we can drive the sallaries down!"
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by deodorel 12y ago
What about using the new google tool that they were forced to do by the EU to get his blog out from the search results? I think you have a pretty good case.
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by deodorel 12y ago
You look for sunshine, sea, jobs and an european location? Have you considered Sophia Antipolis, on the French cote d'Azur? I live and work there and it's quite nice, and you'll surly find a lot of java jobs.
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by deodorel 12y ago
Well, you missed an intermediar level: saying Vous John/Mike/whatever. That is, using the plural form with your first name. :)
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by deodorel 13y ago
Well, point taken, indeed the popular notion of time travel is quite far fetched. However, at a basic level it is not outside the current scientific consensus. But things can change, we don't know a lot of what can, or can not be possi
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by deodorel 13y ago
sorry to contradict you, but all the laws of physics are totally reversible, so in theory you could turn back physical time. The problem is that you need to do that for each atom, molecule from your body in order to reverse all the interact
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Merkel and Hollande to lay foundation of ‘protected’ EU internet(euractiv.com)
1 points by deodorel 13y ago|0 comments
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by deodorel 13y ago
The article says that, "EU will regulate the standards to death, stifling innovation", but on the other hand the main problem with the internet of things is that, left on their own devices, private actors would act in their own in
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by deodorel 13y ago
Really? Well, maybe it's a bit blunt to resume it to that, but that's pretty much it. Have you read the article?
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Help NSA: print a few years of your email and snail-mail them the package
1 points by deodorel 13y ago|0 comments
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by deodorel 13y ago
Hello, I think Kim wants to do something alike, the mega email. Anyway it might very well be a good niche market. I would be very interested if i had the time, but you know, kids, shit, life ... :(
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Ask HN: is there any good email service hosted in europe?
9 points by deodorel 13y ago|4 comments
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by deodorel 14y ago
Well, the problem with minorities in US, Germany and everywhere else, is that usually they are immigrant, poor, living in bad neighborhoods, so yeah, they will pretty much score lower at school, have much more crime, etc. But not because th
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by deodorel 14y ago
This article just won a Godwin point: basically if only the rich whites are taken into account, the American school is better than the Canadian one ... sure, that's a nice way to evaluate an education system ...
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by deodorel 14y ago
Well, if you hop too often it will look bad on your cv, so it will stop you at a certain point. Otherwise yes, the best way to increase your salary is to change jobs, if the economy allows it. Just leave at least 2 years between jobs :)
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by deodorel 14y ago
"To do anything in France requires a lot of red tape. To join a gym or go on a fun run you need a certificate from your doctor, which they charge you 70 euros." That's not true, you can get the certificate from your "family" doctor, and the
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by deodorel 14y ago
The nerve on that police guy ... he wasn't willing to speak English ... like if he was in your beloved US of A everyone will be chatting around with him in French. Start learning a few foreign languages before snubbing around people for not
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by deodorel 14y ago
what I would like to see it's an aggregator with a nice ui, like the oldreader, but also with a nice api so we could have all the ecosystem we have right now around google reader. i'am searching and I didn't found one yet :(
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by deodorel 14y ago
Well, the article was in itself a bit anecdotical, as someone else put it, so i tried to keep up. Yes the experience is quite different, and while i am very passionate for what i'm doing (i'm programming a way or another since i was 12), i
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by deodorel 14y ago
well, that's because your in us of a. I'am an european so i had my 5 years of software eng. degree for free, plus i was able to do freelance work in the same time. So, no debt, 5 extra years of partying, drinking with my mates (many of them