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by flexie 10y ago
I talked to a senior diplomat recently. He said that when talking to diplomats from China, Russia, the US in the beginning of his career some 30 years ago, nobody asked about the EU opinion on issues. In the last 10 years, however, he never
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by flexie 10y ago
I am not British and I am not whining about anything. Travelling is different from residing, studying and working. Nobody knows whether Britons will be able to live, work and study freely in Europe, including you. Letting Britain keep all t
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by flexie 10y ago
It happened because the majority - the people who voted to leave - are mainly older and roughly speaking don't have to live with the consequences, whereas the minority - the people who voted remain - are mainly young and will live with
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by flexie 10y ago
Oh, I was talking about their office. They live elsewhere. Several in their 40s.
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by flexie 10y ago
36,000 euro in, say, Valencia, that's close to 100,000 dollars in San Francisco when adjusting for purchasing power. Not great but certainly not that bad either. For someone with three years experience. I know a team of developers sout
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French court fines Uber, execs for illegal taxi service(reuters.com)
66 points by flexie 10y ago|82 comments
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by flexie 10y ago
Only articles based on EU funded research or also articles based on research funded by member states?
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by flexie 10y ago
Do the bots speak English only or can users train them easily to talk with customers in other languages?
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by flexie 10y ago
Very impressive :-) How easy would it be to roll it out on all other places on Earth than the current 4 cities?
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by flexie 10y ago
You lost 90-something percent of your territory, 90 percent of your population. You used to be the largest economy but now you seem impressed to be 5th. You used to impose your influence on all others. Now you are mostly in the receiving en
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by flexie 10y ago
The EU is not democratic enough and does not have sufficient military power. But Britain is too small and weak to ever again become a unit regulating itself. Too much is cross border nowadays and probably also was back in the 1700s and 1800
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by flexie 10y ago
Yes, especially when talking about languages and culture although these countries have many geographic, economic and social similarities. Same with Iceland, although Icelandic is Germanic. Even if so, Finnish is an officially recognized min
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by flexie 10y ago
The scandinavian words for strawberry, "jordbær" in Danish/Norwegian (directly translated "earth berries" or "ground berries"), "jordgubbe" in Swedish (earth lump) are believed to be named such b
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by flexie 10y ago
Scandinavian languages, except Finnish and Sami, are Germanic :-)
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Watch the First Full-Scale Demo of Hyperloop Technology(gizmodo.com)
2 points by flexie 10y ago|0 comments
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by flexie 10y ago
Tesla, while an engineering wonder, is much less complex to produce than cumbustion engine vehicles. It's a wheeled computer. I suspect their challenge will be more about getting enough resources for batteries and finishing the product
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by flexie 11y ago
I thought it was the nature of business to sell at higher prices than you buy. Feel free to moralise but try to live up to it yourself: Don't buy anything produced in parts of the world where people make less than you. Buying employees
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by flexie 11y ago
Denmark, mainly
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by flexie 11y ago
That only weakens the argument. Cost of living in Toronto is nearly 2.5 times higher than Sofia: https://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/comparison/sofia/t... But median salary in Toronto is merely around U
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by flexie 11y ago
But also two of the places in the world that pays developers best. I bet developers in Oklahoma City are paid much less than in SF or NYC in average. So the main point stands.
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by flexie 11y ago
Oh, please. From my experience living in the US and now living in the capital of Bulgaria I know that the price of food, housing etc. is way lower here than in the valley or NYC. Easily 3 times cheaper. And the tax is lower too. But don&#x2
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by flexie 11y ago
The device you used to type in your opinion was likely produced in Asia. This enabled you to pay less without getting less. You can in fact get a Bulgarian developer which is just as good or even better than many Western European or America
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by flexie 11y ago
Today you have streetcars ("trams") in more than 200 European cities and they have also needed replacements and been upgraded from time to time. So why did streetcars thrive in most of Europe, but barely survived in America? We ha
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by flexie 11y ago
I didn't know either. I bet Alan Eustace didn't have the PR of an energy drink company.
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by flexie 11y ago
Are you kidding? Entering the US as European requires filling out long forms (days in advance), weird questions, finger prints, eye scan etc.
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by flexie 11y ago
Kind of a lot to conclude from my questions and kind of a wrong use of the words hubristic and provincial.
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by flexie 11y ago
Interesting that it's still considered such a popular brand. Although I know the brand I haven't typed 'yahoo' in the address bar or a search engine for years. I actually think this was the first time I wrote it anywhere
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by flexie 11y ago
Earlier today the prime minister actually first tried to get the president to dissolve the parliament (as some kind of retaliation?), but apparently the president refused. As I understand it, this is the first time in Icelandic history that
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Peabody Energy, World's Top Coal Miner, Expected to File for Bankruptcy(desmogblog.com)
2 points by flexie 11y ago|0 comments
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by flexie 11y ago
the income-averse; I have yet to meet those. work-averse or income-challenged maybe. Or underpaid or poor.

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