mipapage

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by mipapage 14y ago
Yeah, I think you have summed it up quite well! I have a few neighbors who have the entrepreneurial bug and have started small businesses during this downturn. One fellow said he would be happy to be making enough to employ his brother in-l
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by mipapage 14y ago
I would guess it depends on the market you are after. I know Java devs working long hard hours and people who want to hire them that cannot find anyone. But I'm guessing those folks aren't the young crowd.
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by mipapage 14y ago
Okay, so they aren't gaming the system in that manner, and in that there is a ray of hope. But it could also be that they are out of work and cannot play that game any more, instead are either 1. properly (or willfully) unemployed and on Pa
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by mipapage 14y ago
The majority of the people here don't get it yet; how much pain will have to pass to sort this out. Its been a windfall for the last 10 (to 20) years, and then it is just too easy to blame the government. I wish some form of serious, respec
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by mipapage 14y ago
"collecting paro and working, or collecting paro and rejecting work is horrible." Paro = unemployment insurance in Spain.
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by mipapage 14y ago
I don't see that Spain is at the worst of it. The majority of the people I talk to about this, both family, friends, and people on the street (seriously, I ask cashiers, waiters, friends of friends) don't seem to get it it yet. Most of the
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by mipapage 14y ago
I'm Canadian and have lived here (Spain) for 10 years. I think it is partly a generational thing. If you find a mid-30's developer with kids, my experience is they will take what they can get. The trouble is, as you said, many have left (I
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by mipapage 14y ago
Thanks for the reply. Interesting, I thought (speaking roughly here) entities put money in gold during high volatility - times where its hard to find stable bonds and currency. Thinking about it, perhaps that last condition is rarely the ca
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by mipapage 14y ago
Interesting, normally when currencies dive the money moves to gold, no?
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by mipapage 14y ago
Its still too early, IMO. Prices aren't that cheap yet and the cost of living, while cheap, hasn't plummeted. Yes, there are a lot of people out of work, but speaking with a few folks in the last 6 months they say it is still hard to fill I
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by mipapage 14y ago
Yeah, or let someone in-house make it their pet project. Tied with the 37s name/links etc and that revenue, what a great side project for someone to run...
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by mipapage 15y ago
That last sentence you write exposes your cultural bias towards work and skills. Its not quite the same in Spain. Just ask the architect next door, who with 2 years of unemployment is sitting around, waiting... Well, he is fixing his house
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by mipapage 15y ago
"There are 5,27 million of unemployed in Spain... which leaves 43% without any sort of benefits" Sure, but how many of those people were unemployed before this mess? I live on the mainland, and honestly there are a lot of people "working",
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by mipapage 15y ago
Yeah, people always quote the unemployment rate but don't seem to get that there are a LOT of people working and collecting "paro" as unemployment insurance is called here. That said, if you are out of work and not working illegally, life i
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by mipapage 15y ago
For sure, but man did that color scheme hurt my eyes...
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by mipapage 15y ago
Taking this very very low tech... I ran a 5 day running race in 40-50C heat this summer. By grabbing ice cubes at the control points during each stage and holding them in my hands - as opposed to putting them under my cap like most runners
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by mipapage 16y ago
UTMB is cool, and then right next door there's the Tor de Geants: http://www.tordesgeants.it/ The Europeans are kinda nutz.
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by mipapage 16y ago
More from the same author/author background: http://www.ted.com/talks/evgeny_morozov_is_the_internet_what... I knew I'd seen that name before.
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by mipapage 16y ago
"Cash only" is pretty common in Southern Europe. The local first division soccer team is cash only and strangely, its hard to find solid numbers on how many folks were at the games. From the cafes to big business to retirees who are collect
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by mipapage 16y ago
I've been living in Spain for 8-9 years now and notice this whenever I go back to visit Canada or even the UK. Interestingly, when we go to foreign places where English isn't the official language I find that I take on my "Spanish identity"
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by mipapage 16y ago
Nicely done PStamatiou. I went thru the same crunch a couple of years ago and dropped bread, dairy, coffee etc and it made a world of difference. I actually had the folks at the gym and some friends casually tell me to eat more food as I ha
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by mipapage 16y ago
I'm roughly at the same point. Ultimately for me I need to decide if, on a deep level, having these things are worth more then maintaining these things. I found that the answer was deciding what is the simplest version of my life that refle
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by mipapage 16y ago
We have a client right now who is in the real estate sector; they ran ads leading people to a free guide which itself eventually leads them to the clients sales people. They had a home sell on the first couple of thousand of FB adspend (~10