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by jack_tripper 1y ago
Like which?
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>I've paid out of pocket for a medical procedure in Europe For a second time in a row now you're deviating again from the topic of my point of debt collection just to go on an off-topic rant again on how expensive the US is c
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by jack_tripper 1y ago
I don't think that contradicts what I said previously but feels more of an off-topic tangent. And of course when you earn US wages you can afford to get private care in Europe out of pocket given how lower wages in Europe are in compa
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by jack_tripper 1y ago
Damn, well in that case that explains why a lot of people in the US can be in debt yet so care free, which is unthinkable to us here in Europe as even small debts carry consequences.
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by jack_tripper 1y ago
You're missing the point completely. I was not talking about why hospital debt is big, but the difference in how debt in general of all sizes gets collected. Because in most of Europe even a 50 Euro debt will be collected, medical or n
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by jack_tripper 1y ago
>I don't think Cook is into cost cutting. Check the box contents of the first iPhone versus the latest iPhone. >4. Burnt $5B on Apple Park; Original budget was $1B Apple Park started under Steve Jobs. >5. And, so many o
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by jack_tripper 1y ago
Not really. You get a bill in any country when you're not insured not just the US. But most people in most western countries tend to be insured by default through some national system if they have a legal job, or, if their system is pr
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by jack_tripper 1y ago
>I've just ignored any medical bill As a not-American, I wonder what are the rules of this "game". Can anyone in the US just ignore their bills and debt and it's all ignored anyway? Because in most European countrie
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by jack_tripper 1y ago
And it's gonna be $200B+ when they put ads in everything like Google. Shareholders will love it even more. I remember articles discussing how Steve Jobs was hated by Wall Street since he prioritized consumer experience above cost cutti
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by jack_tripper 1y ago
I disagree. Unlike the US, tech salaries in Austrian private sector are not terribly amazing to begin with, so the Austrian government would have no issues to find labor within the budget that they gave Atos, not to mention that government
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by jack_tripper 1y ago
>Economies of scale are huge in software and IT since once it's written copying and running code is basically free. If that were true, then all these government IT projects from these infamous consultancies would all come in-time
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by jack_tripper 1y ago
>overpaid, ok, but they have at least some knowledge in the business. With all due respect, setting up a Nextcloud instance for a government entity is not really rocket science requiring a 150 IQ, Stanford grad, PhD, galaxy-brain labor
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>And I'm guessing more people are likely to have heard about NextCloud before while probably not heard about Atos before, unless you're Austrian You don't need to be Austrian for that. Atos is a pretty infamous IT servic
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by jack_tripper 1y ago
Correct title would be "Austrian ministry replaces Microsoft with Atos". I wish Austria had domestic national IT development teams for national products/websites, like the high quality ones Denmark or UK have, instead of just
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by jack_tripper 1y ago
>but in general GPs shouldn't be doing psychological evaluation, period. I am in Europe, and this is the default. Where did I say GPs have to do that? In my example of my friend's being misdiagnosed by GPs, it was about anot
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by jack_tripper 1y ago
Finally, a programing job that AI won't be able to replace. We had devices like those in university, left from previous generations where they'd manually program Z80s ROM by hand through switches and see the output on LEDs. Then p
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by jack_tripper 1y ago
>Countries vary, but in the US and many places there's a shortage of quality therapists. Worse in my EU country. There's even a shortage of shitty therapists and doctors, let alone quality ones. It takes 6+ months to get an
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by jack_tripper 1y ago
That's why I'm surprised Trump didn't sign an executive order to rename the 'Canada goose' bird to 'America goose'. Is he asleep at the wheel, or how did he miss this opportunity?
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by jack_tripper 1y ago
> I don't come from the USA and in fact you literally couldn't pay me to go work in or for the USA. That's why I also said "international tech hubs" because that's were it's easier to find non-MS job
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> I quit my job (thankfully I was in a position that I was able to) What about those who are not able to? Because your argument falls flat on tis face once if you remove that part.
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>All the newest Mac hardware that came out in 2018 still gets security updates to this day. Yeah but that's because Apple also made the HW and sold it to you directly so they're responsible for both SW and HW. Microsoft did n
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by jack_tripper 1y ago
Seme though. What are the odds the increase in Mac sales just correlate to old Intel Mac users finally upgrading to AS?
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by jack_tripper 1y ago
>You're framing this completely wrong. Why? Old Mac hardware are also powerful enough to run Apple's latest OS, yet they won't bother backporting it. You have to throw away your Intel Macs. Same for ChromeOS hardware.
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by jack_tripper 1y ago
Why let facts in the conversation when we can have FUD dominate it?
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>Mindset explains the other users complaint perfectly I guess. Yes, how dare SW engineers work to just put food on the table for their families, and not fight your imaginary tech revolution against MS-shops? > Take pride in your w
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>I don't think I was ready for how bad it is. Says it's unthinkably bad then proceeds to give only one example. There are several other issues you can list. >the terminal -- the terminal! -- freezes after staying open sev
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by jack_tripper 1y ago
>the Porsche 911 is one of the most reliable vehicles on the road There's a joke in my country: A guy stops at a red light next to a Ferrari and asks the Ferrari driver: "Are those cars any good? Because and I don't see
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>Here in Europe they need a very serious reason anyway (like gross misconduct) Definitely not true in all of Europe. There's some countries where severance pay is not mandatory for all workers' groups and reasons aren't