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by jq-r 4y ago
> They also have a floating LNG terminal, very valuable due to recent events. You can have all the LNG terminals in the world, but if your government and judicary are completely corrupted, normal citizens won't get a cent out of it.
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by jq-r 4y ago
Thats true. Albeit, having 20% of your GDP depending on tourism is a not a great situation to be in.
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by jq-r 4y ago
> Longer term, Croatia will have lost control of its monetary policy but one would expect they reckon they'll gain more from the switch. You cannot lose something which you don't have. A bit /s, but don't think its mu
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by jq-r 4y ago
Well, nobody was accepting euro much (legally), because well, it would be illegal. Dunno how it was in Amsterdam in 2002, but for the next 15 days a lot of smaller businesses just won't work until the 15th when kuna is officially not a
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by jq-r 4y ago
In reality, Croatians never stored too much value in money (be it kuna or euro, or deutch mark), they've stored it in real estate. Why? Because taxes are one of the highest in the world, and in return people get next to nothing. So ins
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by jq-r 4y ago
I didn't say that the inflation is 35%, I just took the spot prices of groceries I usually buy and those are that much higher compared to months previous. There is no beating around the bush, the economic situation is far from good. Wa
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by jq-r 4y ago
There are some satellite offices already in the cities that you mention. Those are usually from some big shipping/offshore/maritime companies which can afford it. Those offices attract locally skilled and/or certified workers
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by jq-r 4y ago
The inflation in the last couple of months has been very high. The price of groceries (and pretty much everything else) has been increased at least by 35% and climbing with no end in sight. A lot of basic stuff doubled in price. It is maddn
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by jq-r 4y ago
> It's an attempt by some groups to have others jump through hoops that they define. The end goal is never language, but the ability to control what others do and be the one calling the shots. Nicely put. Living in a Eastern Europea
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by jq-r 4y ago
This argument makes my head spin. So as long as we’re hypocritical and pull up the ladder behind us - that’s fine, we don’t want to jeopardize our standard of living? Or the nicely worded phrase usually used in conjunction with boomer gener
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by jq-r 4y ago
I disagree as your theory doesn't account for the difference between buying power of citizens in different EU countries which varies greatly. If my country (Croatia) is importing natural gas for cheap (and it is), and then selling it t
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by jq-r 4y ago
You're exactly right. In Croatia everything of any value is owned or being sold to German companies and they pretty much own the place (or at least what worth anyway). All of this is facilitated by the same government for the last 30 y
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by jq-r 4y ago
Atlassian Jira is a good example of that too. It is safer to click on a minefield than a Jira page.
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by jq-r 4y ago
Could be both.
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by jq-r 4y ago
Rate limiting. They wouldnt like to make the conversation too fast for them. And also to keep the conversation more “realistic”.
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by jq-r 4y ago
Just a note about Trailforks. It was introduced as a crowdsourced, free application/service which was lacking data, but had a huge audience. So people little by little put a lot of riding data in it (trails, routes, media, info etc), t
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by jq-r 4y ago
Depends on your imagination.
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by jq-r 4y ago
I'm having high hopes for Bear notes v2 (called Panda in beta). It does the textbundle format which makes complete sense, and also has native pen support on iPads. So actually it is simple, and a joy to use, and also you're not lo
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by jq-r 4y ago
There is a natural tendency though. It’s called a war. The bigger it is the bigger that reset button is.
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by jq-r 4y ago
It was definitely a waste of my student time. I had to take the class on my second year and spent a semester learning UML because the professor was all into it. We've just heard about OOP at that time, the biggest achievement was being
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by jq-r 4y ago
Depends ;). In Croatia its still called nedjelja (Sunday) and ponedjeljak (Monday).
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by jq-r 4y ago
Are you talking about non-Pro MS Surface 3? Interestingly enough on my non-Pro Surface 3 I had no problem installing Ubuntu, Mint and Pop!_OS. With the first two I couldn't make wifi to work after sleep, but with Pop!_OS it worked perf
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by jq-r 4y ago
Ring?
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by jq-r 4y ago
I think its very spread out at least in Europe in my experience. Hell even my own brother is envious on my salary because he got a engineering degree (vs my IT degree), so "by right" he should have a higher salary than me. Aside f
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by jq-r 4y ago
That's really not an indicator of quality. They lack competition. There is some correlation there but that's a different story.
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by jq-r 4y ago
Royal Caribbean owns Silversea Cruises, and those guys go as far north and south as possible. Also everywhere else in between. This is s godsend to them, and the guests are going to appreciate it.
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by jq-r 4y ago
Emphasis on the Mediterranean. Right, you have free data roaming in EU, but the world is a much bigger place. Those cruise lines operate all over the world where getting a local SIM card with any amount of data is usually inconvenient or so
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by jq-r 4y ago
Excellent read, thanks! I guess this is what we call populism today. Relatively smart people filling the minds of the populace with stupidity, slogans and catchwords just to do their bidding when the time comes.
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by jq-r 4y ago
You cannot put Karcher and quality in the same sentence. Had 3 of their pressure washers of different prices and they all had a premature death. Maybe their shop vacuums are fine, but pressure washers...
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by jq-r 4y ago
This. This stuff happens all the time. So there is a new construction planned somewhere, workers accidentally find some walls etc. Archeological team is dispatched, they remove much more ground, as much as to see how big the object(s) are,

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