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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Or you could look at inequality, Gini and/or the 20th, 80th etc. percentiles instead. > Is the immigrant-accepting country poorer as a result? Yes, in this specific case it would be poorer per capita.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> boom certainly not economically. I’m not that certain about this.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
I think it’s more about western vs eastern Europe. EE countries which adopted the Euro did quite good as well. For instance growth in Poland lagged significantly behind Estonia or Lithuania in the last 10 years or so.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
It was actually sarcasm?
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
People still move there because it offers significantly better opportunities for most high-skilled people?
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> I always see Americans getting really snarky about Europe I more often get the impression that it’s the other way around. As if the fact that there is more to life than money somehow justifies the fact that much of Western Europe is no
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Also race is a significant factor due to reasons.. A white person living in well-of state has about the same life expectancy as those living in the highest rated European countries.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Are you ready doubting whether the US as whole are more diverse than any single European country?
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
these oversimplified averages don’t really reflect anyone’s actual situation either
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> I don't think any EU city can compare to the US juggernauts such as NY and SF in terms of housing shortage and inflated prices. Zurich, London, Paris and Munich Also median income in SF and NY is much higher (with the exception of
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> $2000 for a 50 sq. feet box makes your economy bigger? Isn’t real estate generally cheaper in the US than in Western Europe in PPP terms?
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Growth is not the same quality of life. GDP per capita (PPP or not) is a bad (and very lazy) indicator to use if you’re trying to measure QOL.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
The gap between American doctors and those in some European countries is even higher than the one between software engineers.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Are you saying that the war in Iraq was in anyway profitable for the US? > As luck would have it, the US achieved that right after conquering Iraq Yes? A whole of of things happened back. I’m really not sure what are you implying here? D
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> status as reserve currency is exactly why the US GDP has been overtaking the EU USD was the reserve currency in the 90s and mid 2000s. Back then the Euro was very strong and some large European countries were close to overtaking US in
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
If you want to measure the standard of living there a much better indicators than GDP per capita for that. PPP is also a deeply flawed concept because comparing the quality of goods and services in the context of different consumption patte
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> equal plausibility Not really. It’s a myth created in the early 1900s or maybe a few decades earlier.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
I’m sorry, what’s not true? 6% ABV was enough to kill germs prior to their discovery but then suddenly it became 60% in the 1800s? Interesting.. People were boiling “dirty” water to make it drinkable since at least Ancient Egypt. There is p
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> drunk instead of water because the alcohol sterilized it. No it didn’t. Just think about it, beer is what? 4-10% ABV? That’s not even remotely enough to sterilize anything. Boiling which is part of the beer making process obviously he
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
To be fair this is just a marketing campaign some people on this thread seem to be taking way to seriously for some reason…
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Presumably the point was getting on the news to attract a few more tourists.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
That’s a lot of strange assumptions considering you’d likely be hiking alone on that island and just met a few people here and there. > when practically everyone Where did you get everyone? I assumed this is just a marketing campaign sta
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
There is a huge difference between subscription services like Xbox game pass and streaming
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
That’s because most people who bought these machines 20 years ago now just buy laptops which are perfectly sufficient for their use cases. Even if there was a 3000-400 desktop Mac Pro I doubt many people would buy it instead of a MBP. If yo
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> indie creator tremendous power and performance per dollar. Not with 8GB of RAM and Intel and AMD had caught up with performance per dollar. Apple is mainly competing on performance per thickness/battery life/fan volume which
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
So the average salary for an experienced developer in Britain is just barely above the national median? That’s a bit surprising..
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
They seem to list ~ 50k as the bottom range on their site
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Maybe, but my point is that it initially appeared in the middle east (and probably in northern Eurasia at a similar time) but was likely first introduced throughout most of Europe by migrants/invaders from modern day Turkey. The people
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
It wasn’t very rapid. In most of Europe white skin was introduced by famers migrating from the middle east who displaced the hunter gatherer populations at the beginning of the neolithic.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Those that fan reject the null hypothesis?

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