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by jq-r 5y ago
So what's your point then? Of course stuff changes in 20 or 30 years. Everyone wanted to join the EU. They've joined, and for the last 20 years the elites are reaping the benefits. And that doesn't change the fact that there
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by jq-r 5y ago
Because unless you're rich, you're not living, you're surviving. And those are vastly different things.
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by jq-r 5y ago
Wrong. EU is the boogeyman for the governments in Eastern Europe. Whatever unpopular move they make, EU gets blamed for it. It is easy to blame some entity everyone knows exits, but at the same time, that entity is more like a group which d
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by jq-r 5y ago
If you put it that way, the "war" has already been won by Germany/Austria here in Croatia. There is next to no Italian influence (only in one small region). Everything else is German/Austrian owned. Banks, Telecoms, big
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by jq-r 5y ago
Yeah, this was always such a weird complaint. I'm sure that there are moving companies which will do that for you, or you can probably rent some truck and do it yourself if wanted.
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by jq-r 5y ago
To add two points to that. First, people here always point out about the boss looking over the peons in their open space office. That may be true for a lot of situations, but what is also depressing is that even if there is no boss/ma
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by jq-r 5y ago
Obviously I've touched a nerve there. I painted a small picture how the EU research grants are being misused and this being a just a part of bigger problem with EU money over here. Did I claim anything about your country? Of course not
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by jq-r 5y ago
Not sure why you're so upset about it. Obviously our experiences differ and I'm not denying your experience. I generalised what is happening over here in Croatia on at least two universities that I have experience with (directly o
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by jq-r 5y ago
Is this the reality at least in Europe? Especially with regards to people not leaving parents' houses, marrying much later, having less kids, and generally having less disposable income. There always was some upward social mobility and
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by jq-r 5y ago
Add to that a large volume of EU funded "projects" which are just alternative names for transferring money to professors and other administration. So everyone wants to work on a EU project, as they will get a lot of money for very
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by jq-r 5y ago
And your last sentence says it all. Somehow all these people want/require everyone else to come back to the office which is just unfair.
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by jq-r 5y ago
They should ask slashdot how the redesign worked out...
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by jq-r 5y ago
Try https://www.windy.com then. Will blow your mind.
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by jq-r 6y ago
Wow, really. I'm quite surprised that they couldn't make one model where you just remove the stand like on every other monitor in existence.
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by jq-r 6y ago
^ just a nice sounding ad hominem attack ;)
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by jq-r 6y ago
Yeah, I'm not sure if it prevents corruption at all. In my country public tenders are just another word for corruption. A real example: police force wanted to get say 1000 new squad cars. One of the points in the tender was that the ca
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by jq-r 6y ago
I've never travelled through Suez, but did some other canals like Panama and Kiel. Autopilot won't be used there I'm sure. Canal Authority requires having a Pilot onboard and he gives commands to the Helmsman. Even on the ope
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by jq-r 6y ago
"Consultation hours" in some EU countries.
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by jq-r 6y ago
True, it is a simple concept as it seems to me. 1. define some reliability target (better expressed by some SLOs) in advance and what steps to do if that is not reached 2. if the service fails to reach it, do the steps to increase reliabili
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by jq-r 6y ago
This is also almost my first time that I've heard about "cargo cult" and that does sum up nicely a lot of things I've seen at my place. I hope this is a valid example? 1. Project P fails spectacularly, really bringing th
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by jq-r 6y ago
Having a similar situation myself actually. In a team of SREs and "SRE" only in name. Just a bunch of ops guys, and being on the bottom of food chain[1]. When I came over there, and I shit you not, there were pager duty alerts eve
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by jq-r 6y ago
True. And if you remember all those hearings where they pretty much forced those Twitter/FB/Amazon/Google CEOs where they berated them like little kids. Those CEOs didn't really object much and knew they could get in a l
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by jq-r 6y ago
It is the exactly the same hand symbol Henry VIII used to mark down interesting passages in Bible which he hoped would help him to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon.