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by mmarq 4y ago
They support communism, like in Italy, because it is customary for teenagers in affluent blocks to do so or to join extreme right wing parties. Half of my friends have been senior members or founders of minuscule communist parties before fi
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by mmarq 4y ago
What about kids who didn’t have a yard where they could play? Those whose parents lost their jobs? Those that have been evicted because their parents could not pay ever increasing rents? Besides, living in an economy that moves from recessi
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by mmarq 4y ago
No: > Labor productivity is the gross domestic product generated per hour of working time.
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by mmarq 5y ago
I’ve forgotten to mention that for the first time in their history Southern European countries have enjoyed the German inflation (which is no inflation) for decades.
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by mmarq 5y ago
> (but they're also being squeezed by European monteary policy so I can't blame them too much) Southern European countries are actually being subsidised by the ECB’s monetary policy.
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by mmarq 5y ago
Productivity doesn’t only depend on hard work, but also on many other factors, such as capital intensity and institutions. One example that comes to mind is that in the UK I get a new laptop every other year and whatever software licence or
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by mmarq 5y ago
I found it extremely annoying when I went to the doctor in the UK and they asked what my race was. First because my racial background is nobody’s business and it’s an information that historically has only be used against me. Second because
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by mmarq 5y ago
> I spend 40+ hours a week in front of a terminal. Italians work way more than Northern Europeans, but their salaries are significantly lower because of low productivity. This is true for any occupation, including software development.
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by mmarq 5y ago
> anything approaching Volker-level rates would mean a catastrophic level of defaults in all sectors That’s the point: raise interest rates until they cause a recession, that suppresses demand and so kills inflation.
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by mmarq 5y ago
You haven’t considered that many talented developers have to send kids to nursery or buy a home without help from their parents.
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by mmarq 5y ago
I may have misunderstood your message, but I don’t see why interoperable messaging apps should require clients to exchange data in clear text.
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by mmarq 5y ago
> Ok then keep your five month old at home (that's what you want me to say right)? And now you want to say "then keep your four year old at home" No, I am just going to say that now we have vaccines and treatments for cov
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by mmarq 5y ago
They are also way more dangerous for a 5 month old baby.
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by mmarq 5y ago
Well, then I don’t want anybody who isn’t fully immunised against measles or meningococcus to get anywhere near my child
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by mmarq 5y ago
It would fly in the EU, if you branded your product accordingly. Maybe "Product of the USA" doesn't mean much legally. In the EU you can probably brand something as "Product of the EU", but you can't make wine
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by mmarq 5y ago
I’m dead serious, school menus in Italy are (at least in theory) monitored by the ministry of health, to ensure they are healthy and well balanced. Children don’t buy food at school, they are served a meal from a fixed menu (which may chang
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by mmarq 5y ago
I’m not familiar with American labelling, but in the EU there are several labels that mean different things. I’m not an expert, but roughly speaking PDO ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_designation_of_ori... )
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by mmarq 5y ago
> Tobacco and junk food are big targets for the "protect us from ourselves" crowd who think they should dictate values to other people. It is insane that a minor is allowed to buy or consume junk food in an institution (a schoo
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by mmarq 5y ago
That's not true of any country and it's not about rollercoaster and silicon geography. It's about having stuff to do that isn't going to the mall or to the N-th replica of a Weatherspoon or of a Young's pub. I'
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by mmarq 5y ago
Or 19 for that matter, if one really thinks about it
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by mmarq 5y ago
Council tax is paid by tenants and it’s ridiculously low compared to property prices.
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by mmarq 5y ago
I’m not saying that a Briton will be unhappy in Manchester or in Coventry, I’m saying that for me, a European that lived in Rome and Berlin and Dublin, these are non-places where nothing happens and where there’s nothing to do. When I say t
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by mmarq 5y ago
If you live in the US, there's no reason to move to the UK. Life is extremely expensive, especially if you are planning to start a family. The UK outside of inner London is a non-place where only the locals can live, with the GDP per c
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by mmarq 5y ago
> One person said that 130K USD salary in the Bay Area would be equivalent to 50K GBP in London I don't know how expensive the Bay Area may be, but 50K in London (3100 per month) are barely enough to pay rent (2000 per month) and de
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by mmarq 5y ago
I mean that if I managed a news app and the EU sanctions forced me to remove RT from the results served in the EU, it would be easier and safer for remove them for everybody. Otherwise I’d risk to violate said sanctions.
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by mmarq 5y ago
> what ends up happening with the "voting with your feet" strategy is that the country ends up with a "brain drain". This worsens the situation because the only people remaining are the ones who either had no means of
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by mmarq 5y ago
It’s not that easy to move to the West when the only preoccupation of our governments has been reducing immigration.
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by mmarq 5y ago
These outlets have been sanctioned by, at least, the EU. I think it’s safer to block them everywhere. Said that, they are part of the propaganda machine of a criminal regime, something akin to Der Stürmer. As far as I’m concerned, they shou
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by mmarq 5y ago
> My "proof" is that everyone I know in Germany has been forced to change their kids school or use homework help or other way of paying for help in school because the parents either aren't educated enough to help by themse
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by mmarq 5y ago
> In Germany there is a big after school business with homework help that parents have to pay. There are old disilusioned teachers that has quit school and started homework help instead, making more money and actually helping the kids. I

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