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by mmarq 5y ago
You wrote: > It wasnt Germans, French or Spanish though was it, it was Romanians, Polish and Bulgarians. as if this weren’t the result of normalisation of hate against Eastern Europeans. Not that I care much, I’m not Eastern European, bu
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by mmarq 5y ago
I think the UK managed to strike the worst possible compromise between the Europeans and the Americans. The NHS provides some basic service, but if you want a French or Italian style healthcare, you’ll end up spending thousands of pounds pe
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by mmarq 5y ago
Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon Inflation is always and everywhere a fiscal phenomenon
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by mmarq 5y ago
My point is that if you start your career owning nothing and work hard, you pay an insane amount of tax on it. Even if you make 100000£ per annum, it will take 20 years to accumulate as much wealth as a guy who inherited a 60 square meter f
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by mmarq 5y ago
In the UK, the stronger drag on wealth accumulation for the poor is the absurd taxation on the middle incomes (50K+), especially given the very low level of service of public schools, healthcare system, childcare, etc…
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by mmarq 5y ago
To be honest, I’m kind of fed up with the normalisation of hate against Europeans and, in particular, Eastern Europeans. As if the Britons were some kind of a master race with a God-given prerogative re: ranking nationalities or races. If y
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by mmarq 5y ago
> A lot of people, and that includes British Black and Asian people,ironically, didnt like the feeling that they were being swamped by people who spoke a different langauge, that were crowding their schools and health service The English
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by mmarq 5y ago
Before it went insane, the UK played a positive antagonistic (to Germany) role, that I believe helped shaping some European institutions. The EU is in some way weaker, because it lost a very important state, in some way stronger because eve
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by mmarq 5y ago
What happened in Eastern Europe was Russian imperialism. I was referring to Cuba, Vietnam, several African communist regimes, etc…
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by mmarq 5y ago
In fact all communist revolutions, bar the Russian, were nationalist/liberation revolutions or at least started like that. Then they became oppressive regimes (and that was the point since the beginning, maybe).
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> Except it's literally the other way around. EU companies will be at a disadvantage because they cannot use the data to neither improve their service or to monetize it in some way. As if ROHS weren’t printed on each single piece of
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by mmarq 5y ago
Regulators are contacting businesses which they suspect are in breach of GDPR to give them the chance to become compliant (I was in companies that received such communications). If the company is in good faith, they’ll fix whatever the regu
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by mmarq 5y ago
I can’t downvote yet, but you can indeed lower unemployment without rampant inflation or devaluations.
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I had a child relatively recently in the UK, and we had to pay for many visits and scans that anywhere else in Europe would have been free. For instance you never see a gynaecologist unless something very very bad is going on. If you want t
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by mmarq 5y ago
> The author says it’s easy for Italians to understand Sicilian, but I’m sure anyone who learned Italian as a second language from textbooks won’t feel the same. Sicilian is not intelligible to italian speakers. The only dialect that is
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by mmarq 5y ago
Seeing how Deliveroo stocks are doing, one wonders if it is all just regulatory arbitrage.
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Small and medium sized employers are very bad places to work. The Italian definition of small company is one with less than 15 employees, these companies avoid much regulations and practically employ at-will, when they don’t use temporary c
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by mmarq 5y ago
Milan being the exception, tech jobs in Italy are generally bad and low paid. Large consultancies tend to work on government projects (often useless or extremely boring), smaller companies still make websites for the baker down the road for
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by mmarq 5y ago
Northern Europe, as in the place where people can’t cook, starts a few kilometres north of Modena. ;)
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Autonomous regions (regioni a statuto speciale) have much less prerogatives than American states. They receive more transfers from the central government and can legislate on some limited matters. Imagine Kentucky receiving twice the fiscal
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by mmarq 5y ago
If you don’t collect personal data (and 99% of those that do shouldn’t), you don’t need to do anything to be compliant. If you need personal data and don’t do anything weird with it (weird being systematic violation of your users’ privacy),
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by mmarq 5y ago
I'm not saying that's your case, but this reminds me of a colleague of mine who was tasked with building a piece of code to calculate some metric related to the adjacency of faulty parts in a production batch. He initially wrote a
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by mmarq 5y ago
Sometimes I think one should have to install an extension to opt-in, opt-out being the most reasonable default
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It’s Time to Get Rid of the IT Department(wsj.com)
2 points by mmarq 5y ago|0 comments
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EULAs are irrelevant if they go against the law. You don’t renounce all your rights because some law intern wrote in the EULA that you sold yourself into chattel slavery. And for those things you can give up (such as some of your data) you
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by mmarq 5y ago
Italy is at best stuck in the 70s, and it's becoming more irrelevant each day. It's a place where starting a company takes 3 months and costs 5000 euros just for the paperwork, where only 20% of the population completes tertiary e
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> generating massive fees for every. single. operation That's the part that I understand the least, buying a random shitcoin costs 50$ to authorize the DApp and then another 50$ to process the actual transaction. How can financial t
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> US Monetary Policy also not in the pocket of Cali or NY i.e. the important players, like Euro is in the pocket of Germans. In the past 20 years the main job of the ECB has been to monetise Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and French debt.
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by mmarq 5y ago
The causes of the lockdown shortages are cultural, toilet paper disappeared in Northern European and English speaking countries, while in Italy (and I think in some places in Spain) yeast could not be found.
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Rust 1.56.1(blog.rust-lang.org)
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