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by jk2323 9y ago
Besides crime and different values (women, gays, open society), Germany is one of the most dense populated countries and has 80 Million inhabitants. How many immigrants do you want to accept? 1 Million? 10 Million? 100 Million? 1000 Million
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by jk2323 9y ago
Agreed. But please also consider the extra benefits for welfare recipients. Extra clothing support. Generous checks to buy their first furniture, laundry machine, TV. Maybe even a computer (not sure about the computer). Fact is, even as a f
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by jk2323 9y ago
This major [left wing] magazine says 2/3 can hardly read or write (in their own language). http://www.zeit.de/2015/47/integration-fluechtlinge-schule-b... They also quote, 70% of refugees that started a &quot
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by jk2323 9y ago
If he is accepted into wellfare (and the last number that I saw around 700000 had been accpeted) it is comparable. I posted it on HN and got downvoted. I will post it again: 60k is 2800 € net per month. A refugee on welfare would get approx
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by jk2323 9y ago
"Infrastructure spending is not the best way of propping up the economy." We were not talking about "propping up the economy", we were talking about sustaining it. "You get more for your buck by giving the money to
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by jk2323 9y ago
"What's the alternative? Restricting basic needs like education and healthcare to well earning citizens?" No. Especially health care is solved much better in most of Europe then in the US, where it is approaching 20% of GDP.
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by jk2323 9y ago
"A bubble is a problem almost by definition." Define a "bubble". Capitalism, a debt based driven industrialized society (high capital requirements and pre financing for the production of goods) is a running bubble. You a
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by jk2323 9y ago
"Arguably they're the root of most of our debt issues." Are they? Growing debt is necessary for a growing economy in a debt based society (AKA capitalism). It was the housing debt bubble that kept the economy going (by increa
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by jk2323 9y ago
"I feel people can do almost anything they want there" 'We have always done it that way and we will keep doing it that way'. There is very little chance for change and opportunity. Also, very little venture capital. I do
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by jk2323 9y ago
1. Salaries are much lower than, let's say US or Switzerland. 2. Taxes are much higher then, let's say US or Switzerland. 3. Real Estate prices are totally out of whack. So if you make 60k (a very good salary for an engineer even
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by jk2323 9y ago
"In some jurisdictions, pension guarantees have constitutional protections that may not be erasable by simply passing a bill." You would be surprised what bills can be passed. The 3rd Reich ("Nazi Germany") was supposed
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by jk2323 9y ago
"What does this mean? That these staggeringly high numbers (if true) do not necessarily mean doom but "merely" that at some point people will find out that the pensions they have been promised won't be there when they re
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by jk2323 9y ago
This is 2800 € net per month. A refugee on welfare would get approximately 400 per adult plus 300 per kid plus rent paid (and free insurance). For a family of four this is 1400 Euro. Let's assume 1000 for rent in a city. This is 2400 s
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by jk2323 9y ago
Yes. But this is VERY risky. See this as an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Schickedanz The article does not give much details. But managers basically stole her wealth from her and siphoned it to thems
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by jk2323 9y ago
Why do they want to ban crypto? Because of terrorism? Why does Poland or Hungary don't want to ban crypto and why don't they have terrorism? Easy solution: Ban Islam and Muslim migration.
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by jk2323 9y ago
An African government official visits Europe. There, a European government official invites him to his luxury home. The African is shocked. He asks "How can you afford such a house if you a just a government official?" The Europea
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by jk2323 9y ago
"Once filesystems are mounted read-only you can safely power off the machine." In Ubuntu/Kubuntu there was once a key combination to forcefully unmount all file systems. THey seemed to have discontinued this? No?
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by jk2323 9y ago
You mean "using"? I always was happy with ReiserFS. What a pity.
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"Conveniently, China uses a 4' 8.5" track gauge, unlike Russian metric gauge, so they can move freight cars all the way without a gauge change." Aeh, when was the last time you looked at a world map? You realize that the
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by jk2323 9y ago
Wow. Now we have both in Science. Proof and Proof of a negative. Impressive.
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by jk2323 10y ago
It is not about "ubiquitous sensors", it is about non-invasive. A good starting point would be: http://www.mendosa.com/The%20Pursuit%20of%20Noninvsive%20Glu... Would be very interested in the email of Johny Srouji