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by mmarq 5y ago
Depending on the task, I find C# async/await more intuitive and complete than Go. I haven’t used Go for a while, but you can’t await a goroutine, you have to use a channel, which is more complicated than just using ‘await’. C# has chan
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> The puzzle is why the EU doesn't have dominant industries - this is especially stark in sectors that have evolved since the 1980's. Software and Computer Hardware (chips) are clearly one of these, green tech is another. I’m n
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by mmarq 5y ago
The only interactions made cumbersome by GDPR are those with organizations that abuse their users/customers’ data. Otherwise you don’t even need a cookie banner.
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Introduce them to both and let them do what they like. Other games or exercises would work as well.
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France, like any other western country, UK included, is heavily dependent on the USA for defence. France’s low opinion of NATO is part of a broader delusional weltanschauung which sees France as an economic and military superpower. It is st
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by mmarq 5y ago
Countries where people eat bread, pasta and rice on a daily basis have lower obesity rates than the US, so I think it's more likely a problem with lack of food culture. After 15 years I'm still surprised by British adults talking
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by mmarq 5y ago
I don’t think that a study on such a complex matter involving just 36 participants does really advance science in any way. Said that, as somebody that has almost only worked on enterprise software, my job has been mainly to write code that
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by mmarq 5y ago
> Much fewer people need to get higher education. I really don’t see any reasonable scenario where this could be true. > main thing is people wasting their time + becoming upset and angry at the society, perceiving themselves as the &
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by mmarq 5y ago
These so-called VPNs are only good to bypass Nexflix’s regional filters, and shouldn’t even be called VPNs. Nobody should assume these services can be used to improve security or privacy.
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by mmarq 5y ago
It doesn’t have to be speculators, whatever that’s supposed to mean, it could be social housing built and managed by the city council. And, of course, “half of it” was a hyperbole.
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by mmarq 5y ago
Tempelhofer Feld is for the most part an abandoned field, if half of it were used to build housing a problem would be solved and no damage would be done. The issue there is the usual weird coalition between landlords that don’t want more re
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by mmarq 5y ago
This is only true in places like the UK or, I understand, the US, where renters do not enjoy the same protection they would in other countries. My brother rents a flat in Germany, he can't be evicted (unless he stops paying rent) and r
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by mmarq 5y ago
What does it even mean to separate capitalism from government?
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10 of these 12 months are on statutory parental leave, which is something like 140£ per week. If you have a decent job, it’s almost equivalent to unpaid leave. Recently companies started offering enhanced parental leave, usually 5-6 months
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by mmarq 5y ago
> Sorry, I don't agree. If the supply of labour increases without any consequent increase in demand, then one would expect to see the price of labour reduce, right? Which is only true if the foreigner in question teleports themself
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by mmarq 5y ago
> Can you provide some references for your (rather strong) claim? My claim is self-evident, if you believe something absurd, you are by definition “far removed from any modern notion of truth”.
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by mmarq 5y ago
> And what would that be? A study linking both while accounting for every other factor? I don't think it's even possible to do such a thing. What’s the point of saying something if you think that it’s impossible to prove? >
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by mmarq 5y ago
You are right, I didn’t express myself correctly. I meant that the vast majority of Britons (and of Westerns) believe that immigration has a negative effect on wages, which is a false credence. They haven’t all voted for the Conservative pa
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by mmarq 5y ago
> The proof is in the pudding: "we can't find local workers willing to work for these low wages so we'll import them from abroad". Everywhere in world there are labour shortages, because we just ended lockdowns 3 mont
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by mmarq 5y ago
There’s no opposition to gaslight, the vast majority of the population believes the myth of immigration reducing wages, while there’s no evidence of it being true (you are welcome to provide some). This vast majority is not the opposition,
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by mmarq 5y ago
You can apply for naturalisation one year after you are granted indefinite leave to remain. If they had a passport in 2019, this person must have applied for ILR before the EU Settlement Scheme, which started in 2019. So in order to prove t
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by mmarq 5y ago
> But a lot of people are in fact opposed to indiscriminate immigration Everybody is opposed to indiscriminate immigration, whatever that’s supposed to mean, otherwise we wouldn’t even have passports. The debate on immigration in the Wes
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by mmarq 5y ago
The contradiction you’ve identified is a phenomenon that’s pervasive in the West and I think it’s caused mainly by the ageing population. It is more evident in Italy because the population tends to be older, its employment rate lower and be
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Bruce Is a Parrot with a Broken Beak. So He Invented a Tool(nytimes.com)
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You can calculate a weighted average of some sort. Or you may sort them in categories and compute the average for each category. For instance you can say that wine in the UK costs on average 9£ per litre and that cheap wine cost 5-7£ per li
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by mmarq 5y ago
Barilla is good but is not the highest quality brand, it is the most famous because of ads. De Cecco is better and slightly cheaper (I checked your link), possibly because they spend less in ad campaigns (and maybe in packaging?).
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The price of wheat produced in Italy will be more or less the same as the price of wheat produced abroad, otherwise Italian producers would be losing money. But wheat price is not the main determinant of retail pasta price, which is more li
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by mmarq 5y ago
I think the real problem is that “some guy wrote some crazy shit on a forum and somebody liked it” became newsworthy. The fact that this journalist didn't even check the story on Google, is certainly a problem but no the main one.
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by mmarq 5y ago
In Rome you can still find Mussolini’s obelisk and some fascist inscriptions here and there. Italians definitely don’t celebrate Mussolini these days (well, some do, but you get the point).
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It’s not that rare, “è stato plagiato da x” (he’s been brainwashed by x), it’s relatively common (given that people don’t talk that much about brainwashing).

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