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by flexie 3y ago
A few things: 1: Indian wages are going up. The difference gets smaller every year.* Note that many of the best Indian developers are paid in USD, and even for the developers that get paid in Rupees, the company they are hired by locally of
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by flexie 3y ago
From the point of view of spending less resources, a smaller world population is good. However, most resources are consumed by the relatively smaller, wealthy populations who's populations have been stagnating for decades, not by the l
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by flexie 4y ago
All these wars were before NATO existed. Ukraine’s defense is a formidable army which has stopped the advance of what most experts thought was the second most powerful army in the world, and the fact that Ukraine is supplied weapons, traini
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by flexie 4y ago
Ukrainian NATO membership does benefit NATO in several ways: - Ukraine is the only country in Europe to have fought off NATO's main adversary - Ukraine has a large, powerful and experienced army, much larger than those of most NATO cou
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by flexie 4y ago
English too, is a mix of foreign languages. Only dead languages don't evolve. Italian is a descendant of the Latin language, which itself borrowed extensively from Greek. What is so special about today's Italian language that it s
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by flexie 4y ago
It's counterintuitive, but broad and straight roads are often more dangerous, as they invite faster driving.
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by flexie 4y ago
I think we've had online tax-filing for perhaps 15-20 years here in Denmark. We log in with our digital signatures, report what income has not already been reported by employer and bank, and claim the deductions that have not already
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by flexie 4y ago
I hope you would, and unless you happen to live near a major political center or a military installation, I think your chances would be very good. A nuclear war would be terrible, but it's not a doomsday scenario. In the last months, w
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by flexie 4y ago
Isn't that more a question of adding to the mix frequent scraping of - a few thousand news-sites (like nyt.com, bbc.co.uk), - a few thousand very popular blogs (based on what influencers people search for), - a handful of social media
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by flexie 4y ago
But healthcare is just as long as you work for that FAANG. Once you are out, you are on your own. Not so in Germany.
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by flexie 5y ago
We've used Hetzner for years. We never called or faxed them. Great service, by the way.
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by flexie 5y ago
Just eat less. Much less. And don't drink alcohol, juice, milk, ice tea, or soft drinks. Drink water. My suggestion: Skip breakfast. Take a cup of black coffee. A lunch consisting of a salat made of half a cucumber and a medium sizes t
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by flexie 5y ago
The US and the UK asked Ukraine to surrender its nuclear arsenal to Russia, pledging they would protect Ukraine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit... Now, when it's time to honor that pl
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by flexie 5y ago
Young Europeans died in the US war in Afghanistan. So far, the only country to ever invoke article 5 of the NATO treaty is the US - on September 12, 2001. Adjusted for size of population, as many Danes as Americans died in Afghanistan. h
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by flexie 5y ago
If it matters how rich the investors she defrauded actually are, perhaps she should get just a few months in jail: "Notably, Theranos’ investors weren’t the usual-suspect venture capital firms. Rather, her funding came from individuals
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by flexie 5y ago
I realize that it might be the whole point that it shouldn't matter whether modern Greeks are descendant of ancient Greeks. But I still find it odd that an article about the topic nowadays doesn't mention DNA analysis such as this
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by flexie 5y ago
Let's not get carried away bashing Italy. Perhaps the best indicator of the standard of a nation is its median life expectancy, which in Italy is 83.2 years, almost 4.5 years more than that of the US. Italy is a first world nation, and
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by flexie 5y ago
Pariah country? Ask any large diaspora, and they will readily tell you bad things about their country of origin. That's often why they migrated. I agree that when it comes to IT, Italy doesn't perform like California, New York sta
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by flexie 5y ago
Every day. Chicken, pork, beef etc. We buy it at the butcher though. Don't know if prices at butchers rise less.
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by flexie 5y ago
I don't experience much inflation. In fact, I don't see any in my budget. I know everyone says prices are getting higher, but we've actually tracked our expenses the last 2-3 years, noting down every little expense in a sprea
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by flexie 5y ago
European healthcare and education is great, far cheaper than American, and it is indeed free for many of the patients and students.
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by flexie 5y ago
When you pay workers less than what they need to survive, you externalize the wage to society. When you use temps in stead of real employees, you externalize their healthcare etc. as well. When you sell books in Europe, but you don't p
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by flexie 5y ago
No, Jeff Bezos loses. Everyone else wins. Yes, the consumer pays more for a book but he also lives in an economy with better paid jobs, free healthcare, free education, and more competing bookstores. Amazon's low costs is only possible
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by flexie 5y ago
I am very happy with the Tesla company, CEO, marketing, and cars, but I can't believe that it should be worth 1 trillion dollars. A trillion is one with 12 zeros. I know you can't compare valuation and production of a company, but
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by flexie 5y ago
Every American uses around 400 gallons of gasoline and 12,000 kwh electricity per year. So if you put a tax of $2 on each gallon of gasoline and 7 cent on every kwh electricity, you would finance that. And once it scales, it will be cheaper
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by flexie 5y ago
That's just part of the money supply. M2 increased as well, but perceptually much less. There is no evidence of hyperinflation as of now, but we certainly have an inflation hype. The items I buy in the supermarket are same price as bef
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by flexie 5y ago
And there is a seemingly endless supply of oil and gas. If you pay enough.
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by flexie 5y ago
The truck driver shortage reminds me on the fossil fuel situation. Generally, we hear that truck drivers won't be needed in the future: Trucks will drive themselves. But now we have less truck drivers than we need, and the future with
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by flexie 5y ago
Shouldn't one look at genetics as well? When a completely different ethnicity invaded and called themselves Roman, and copied the parts they wanted from Roman civilization, but without having almost any Roman ancestry, are we to consid
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by flexie 5y ago
Asians in NYC are only the poorest demographics if you include the large, and poor and growing groups of Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Indian, Arab, Iraqi, Syrian etc. immigrants in your definition of Asian. Those are not the Asians overrepresent

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