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by dsomers 5y ago
Counterpoint, I was once asked to take off my shoes in Germany. I can’t remember if it was Frankfurt or Munich — probably Frankfurt. That was just because I was randomly selected for more screening. All of the other times flying through tho
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by dsomers 5y ago
I feel for you. My grandparents were apart of the Italian diaspora too, but they ended up in Canada. I often thought how difficult it would be if I had to choose because both countries are close to my heart. I’ve seen a number of American f
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by dsomers 5y ago
How does Europe have it worse when the debt to GDP ratio of the combined Eurozone federal governments for example is lower than the US fed? Further, most eurozone countries, like Italy don’t have sub national debt(its regions and cities can
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by dsomers 5y ago
I’m really shocked at how causally some HN commenter will discount the very real problem of online child pornography. It honestly disgusts me how people will hardly acknowledge it’s a real problem.
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by dsomers 5y ago
I disagree, the rate of vegetarianism has been increasing over the years and the rate of people demanding more ethical meat products e.g. free range eggs and chicken becoming more popular too. This is the free market catering to demand tha
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by dsomers 5y ago
Haha I’ve had this happen multiple time too. They try to convince you that they’re on you side, because if you make more they make more. But really, most of them would rather you take a lower offer than risk the deal not going through at al
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by dsomers 5y ago
Sure, there are still plenty of places you can drive in Leiden. I guess the point I’m trying to make is small cities in North America favour car transportation to an extreme. It is to the point where it’s physically dangerous to walk to som
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by dsomers 5y ago
I’m not talking about Berlin or Paris. I’m taking about small European cities I’m familiar with that have vibrant walkable downtowns. Off the top of my head, Leiden Netherlands, Haarlem Netherlands, Peacara Italy, or Zug Switzerland.
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by dsomers 5y ago
I agree it’s improving from the 90s, but when I go back to the Midwest from Western Europe, the difference is dramatic simply in the number of people downtown in public spaces for cites with the same population.
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by dsomers 5y ago
Not true. Go to Leiden Netherlands and see how economically vibrant a small city can become if it incentives efficient land use and limits traffic in city centre in favour of pedestrian paths an public transit.
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by dsomers 5y ago
Lol, have you been to the Midwest? In small and medium sized cites there downtowns are often dead, including the small city I grew up in. All of them easily accessible by car. Dead city centres in North America more have to do with the post
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by dsomers 5y ago
But won’t this make the fish sad?!
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by dsomers 5y ago
All the more reason to not use these companies for anything that’s even moderately important.
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by dsomers 5y ago
The choice for the prisoners is making $4.50 a day or sitting in their cell doing nothing to improve their life. Don’t act like this isn’t still exploitive to the point of it obviously being a false sense of choice —- especially with the BS
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by dsomers 5y ago
A bit of a tangent, but I think some people often criticize GDPR because it doesn’t have perfect enforcement, or some people are annoyed by the cookie banners. However, a positive aspect I don’t hear talked about enough is how it has had a
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by dsomers 5y ago
I think they’re doing fine regardless.
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by dsomers 5y ago
Who benefits from this are UK banks and ultra wealthy that don’t want to follow incoming EU regulations on money laundering and tax avoidance that were a reaction the The Panama Papers leak.
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by dsomers 6y ago
Honestly these are such lame points that I hear again and again. I lived in Toronto, bad bike infrastructure, and now live in Amsterdam with great infrastructure. People here with limited mobility use electric wheelchairs in the bike lanes
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by dsomers 6y ago
I suppose you don’t read anything about population demographics in Canada. If you did you’d realize we have a very low birth rate. Without immigration Ontario and Canada will fail, like Italy and Japan we’ll be stuck in economic stagnation
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by dsomers 6y ago
And your still wrong. Too much of Toronto is zoned for single family homes which is the main driver of lack of affordable housing. When you walk around midtown Berlin you don’t see any single detached houses with big front yards. What you s
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by dsomers 6y ago
It is hurting families because mostly only small 1 bedroom apartments get built which are more attractive to Airbnb investors. However zoning is probably the biggest problem, yes. Far too much of the city is zoned for single family housing.
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by dsomers 6y ago
Don’t listen to this guy. I’m Canadian and lived in Toronto for eight years. Toronto housing is expensive because of lax lending, bad zoning, and bad regulations. That’s it, Canadians are to blame for this. For an example Berlin is a simila
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by dsomers 6y ago
There’s not a lot of evidence that it’s not the locals creating a bubble because of speculation and lax lending. If you don’t believe me look up how nicely private mortgage debt in Canada correlates with the growth in housing prices in Cana
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by dsomers 6y ago
Condos built in Toronto are mostly terrible for anyone that’s not single. They’re basically Airbnb speculation boxes in the sky. The city suffers badly from “the missing middle“ problem because of bad zoning. It’s a big part of why I moved
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by dsomers 6y ago
Are you from the North? I know in Southern Italy red peppers are popular on some dishes. E.G. Spaghetti Aglio e Olio
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by dsomers 6y ago
I’m not a vegetarian, but I eat a lot less meat now than two years ago primarily because of climate change, but also because it now feels easy because I’ve found meat alternatives like this that I enjoy the taste of.
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by dsomers 6y ago
Is that because soy has been engineered that way and mung beans have not? I pose the question because I remember my grand uncle who has been a soy farmer his whole life telling me that when they switched to Monsanto seeds they got some huge
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by dsomers 6y ago
He did, he claimed a Bitcoin transaction takes half a million times more energy then a credit card transaction. 621 kwh
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by dsomers 6y ago
I applaud you for speaking rationally in the face of Bitcoin hysteria, but in my experience it has turned into a religion, and no amount of rational argument will sway these people.
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by dsomers 6y ago
Because this ‘currency’ is volatile like a small cap stock. This is the thing I always get a runaround about from Bitcoin advocates. Some say it’s a great currency, some say it’s a great investment. Well, by definition if it’s good at one t

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