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by mmarq 5y ago
It comes from Civilization V, where you could become the suzerain of city states. ;)
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The Master and Margarita
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I started the comment saying that salaries in Germany are approaching those of London. Probably Berlin is still slightly below, but I think Hamburg have completed the catch-up. Later I wrote that you get a better lifestyle in Germany with 6
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by mmarq 5y ago
Because renting a half decent flat (new build, 60sqm, inner London) costs 2000£ per month, good food is extremely expensive (Waitrose would be an average supermarket in Southern Europe), the NHS is not as good as its continental homologues,
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by mmarq 5y ago
> I always say that when it comes to lack of candidates there's this magical thing called "money" where if you throw more of it on the table the problem suddenly resolves itself. In the past few years, developers’ salaries
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Librarian's lament: Digital books are not fireproof(zdnet.com)
2 points by mmarq 5y ago|0 comments
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The point where we disagree is that I don't think passport equality implies unrestricted immigration. Also it seems to me that your comment implies that unrestricted immigration will result in millions of “undesirables” moving to the W
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The only straw argument here is that passport equality implies such a thing as: > completely unrestricted immigration with zero checks and balance EU citizens, whose passports are equal at least within the EU, can’t move to another EU co
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> won’t be destroyed by foreigners Should I expand on this? Do I really have to show that countries with a larger foreign born population (such as Sweden or Germany or Switzerland) are doing better than the UK? You have made an exception
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Yes, we should stop treating the poor of the world as if they were subhumans or a pest waiting to invade our homes. Even from an egoistic perspective, Western countries, especially those whose pension system is an unreformable Ponzi scheme
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“Lovely little picket-fence green England”, assuming it’s even a thing, won’t be destroyed by foreigners, but it is destroying itself because it hasn’t been governed since the 2008 crisis. It’s probably the only place in Western Europe wher
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Don't ask for a big pay rise, warns Bank of England boss(bbc.co.uk)
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You’ve just posted a link that proves my point: Despite its complex challenges, Sweden is in a better position on housing than many other EU countries. Only around 8% of Swedes live in households spending more than 40% of disposable income
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The only housing hellscape I had to deal with in my entire life has been renting in London. Thank God I finally managed to buy a flat, but I’ve been at risk of homelessness with a solid 6-digit salary, because landlords can evict you with 1
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by mmarq 5y ago
> At least in London, this has been a problem for 20-30 years. For most young people, buying a house is becoming an impossibility. The real problem is that 70% of what we call London is square kilometres of single family homes, with not
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It isn’t similar. As you mentioned, it’s much quicker to get a scan in Germany (or Italy or France), which is specular to saying it’s very hard to get referred for a scan in the UK. Seeing specialists through the NHS is very hard. I’m givin
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> Despite its reputation, I find that Europe is far more provincial than the US when it comes to food - a lot of stuff you think of as ubiquitous in the West will be "foreign" food and harder 48 to find. (And if you like tacos,
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The only year in which the NHS budget was cut in real terms was 97 or 98. Otherwise it has increased in real terms since 1980. Since 99, the NHS budget almost doubled. It is increasing right now, the current plan (2018-2024) increases the b
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by mmarq 5y ago
The problem is that you have to go through a GP first, which has a budget and tends to be very conservative. Many GPS will try some silly experiments for months before writing a referral. But once you get a referral it’s reasonably quick. M
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by mmarq 5y ago
> I see and hear of GDPR violations everywhere (here in the UK, pre and post Brexit). Despite the threat of legal action, companies still ignore (too small to care) or are ignorant of the rules. At the end of the day, Big Tech still owns
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Session IDs and loadbalancer cookies would be required cookies, "legitimate purpose" is a different concept
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The real issue with London is not much rent but the quality of housing. I think London is the last European city where people deal with pests (mice, bed bugs, etc…) in their houses.
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It’s not just the money. If you announce that you are going to found a tech startup people will think that you are just going to play Space Invaders (mind, not COD or FIFA) all day and stop having showers. If there’s a chance in 200 for an
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If wages increase because productivity has increased that won’t cause inflation. Besides, salaries are not included in CPI, because the representative consumer doesn’t hire people
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Fanpage publishes lots of crap, but it is also one of the few newspapers/websites still doing investigative journalism in Italy. For instance: https://www.fanpage.it/attualita/an-undercover-investigation...
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The Crowd Supply link appears to be broken: https://www.crowdsupply.com/ironbci/pieeg
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> People who run websites really should know what they're doing, at least in broad strokes. You can't just change a law and start issuing fines as if everybody was a criminal. You need to allow time for people to adapt, especia
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> Agreed. The way the EU has handled this is naive at best. The EU could have started fining everybody and unleash hell at unseen levels. They would have ended up bankrupting companies and people who added google analytics or AdWords to
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I agree and I’d add that until 20-30 years ago having an attention disorder wouldn’t prevent somebody from having a normal life, so, I think, many cases went undiagnosed. Today, almost everywhere in the West, you need a professional job to
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With Southern France and maybe Paris being the exceptions, the eating habits of the average Frenchman are closer to those of the English and the American than to those of the Southern European. Said that, obesity is largely a problem of the

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