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by mmarq 5y ago
Amen
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by mmarq 5y ago
I think it’s undeniable that iPhone uses less materials than all the objects it replaces combined, even if it consumes more materials and pollutes more than a 1970s programmable calculator (and I’m not too sure about that), it certainly req
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by mmarq 5y ago
And it also requires much less energy and maintenance to be produced and operated. Growth.
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by mmarq 5y ago
Lots of material would go into the production of all the tools it replaces. A programmable calculator, a mobile phone a GameBoy, a music player, my mother’s cook books, etc… combined will likely require more raw materials.
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by mmarq 5y ago
I don’t see this as problematic because, at least for Eastern European countries, the west absorbed some of their unemployment, while they were catching up, potentially reducing internal tensions and smoothing the transition to a modern hig
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by mmarq 5y ago
> Also, at some point certain things are just 'good enough', and marginal improvements require a ton of effort but don't make life better. For example, mobile phones - an 8 year old phone would work just fine, if not for f
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by mmarq 5y ago
The very fact that my iPhone is lighter than my father’s calculator, should say something at least about raw materials.
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by mmarq 5y ago
Maybe, I have a degree in economics, but I’m a software developer and not an economist. I’d say that if innovations are built on top of other innovations and if we get occasional breakthroughs, the process may be approximated with an expone
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by mmarq 5y ago
> Fundamentally exponential growth is not sustainable in the long run. Growth doesn’t mean that we make materially more things, but that we make better things. Compared to a torch, a calculator, a phone, a GameBoy, etc… an iPhone require
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by mmarq 5y ago
I am not saying that the set of poor Europeans living in the UK is empty, nor I’m saying that no grocer in the UK ever hired a Spaniard or a Frenchman for 11.1£ per hour while a local would have cost 11.6£ per hour, or whatever the poor ear
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by mmarq 5y ago
> that the idea EU immigration was driving down wages was a cynical lie It was a lie, EU citizens in the UK earn significantly more than the locals. If I wanted to be a member of the underclass, say a cleaner, I’d be in Germany, where I
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by mmarq 5y ago
Yes, the local political class and elites should take responsibility and act so that people stop expatriating, if that’s really what they want. What the article suggests is that we blame the foreigner, ie the German and the Briton, because
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by mmarq 5y ago
The same happens in Southern Europe and membership of the EU allowed me to get a 6-digit income and to live in a country where I don’t need a political affiliation to get a decent job and where the state bureaucracy is not merely a welfare
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by mmarq 5y ago
> In the East, meanwhile, the elites are shamed to silence, for they’re complicit in a population collapse of wartime scale. Croatia has lost almost a quarter of its people (an existential meltdown, one premier dared to moan). Romania, B
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No one wants to be a code monkey(world.hey.com)
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Scrums Alliance(scrumsalliance.org)
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Japan bends Apple another inch on the App Store(world.hey.com)
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by mmarq 5y ago
The first few lines: > It’s as silly for me to write about economics as it would be for most economists to write about the use of enjambment in iambic pentameter. But they don’t live in a library, and I do live in an economy. Their life
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by mmarq 5y ago
You are mistaken, Italy and Germany do require all residents to register with local authorities (respectively “comune” and “bürgeramt”, which are roughly equivalent to the British local council) and not just foreigners. So it is the exact s
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by mmarq 5y ago
> Note that some EU countries also require EU/EEA nationals to register with the police/local authorities, which the UK did not and so actually made life for EU citizens simpler that quite a few other EU countries. Also in the
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by mmarq 5y ago
I should remind you that this started with you saying I was making up anecdotes because I had an ideological axe to grind. Now you are moving the target. Before we go there, would you admit that the Brexit referendum caused an increase of x
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by mmarq 5y ago
No, it’s not a standard procedure in any EU country I’m aware of. I’ve never heard of anybody outside of the UK sending payslips and doctor notes and reference letters and mobile phone bills to prove their residence status. If hundreds of t
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by mmarq 5y ago
It is not clear what “ideological axe to grind” I or my friend may have nor why we should make up anecdotes. Convincing you or anybody on this site of anything doesn’t advance any item on my agenda. Said that, is police data enough evidence
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by mmarq 5y ago
Windrush is not besides the point, because the UK government tried to repeat the same exercise with EU citizens. They even went as far as sending deportation letters to hundreds of random EU citizens, including doctors, university researche
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by mmarq 5y ago
The lack of lorry drivers is more likely to be caused by the changes to IR35. Lorry drivers would set up companies to use a tax loophole and not pay NI and income tax. Now they can’t, take home pay went down and drivers are harder to find.
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by mmarq 5y ago
> The UK is easily among the most tolerant and least racist of European countries. In international studies, the UK scores very highly on all such measures, usually much better than continental European countries. The point is not that t
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by mmarq 5y ago
The majority of Europeans do not work on lorries or in supermarkets. EU citizens in the UK earn significantly more than locals and are significantly better educated. The real problem here is not lack of undereducated supermarket clerks (we
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by mmarq 5y ago
> I still think Banksy is not a real "person". It's just a team I wouldn’t be surprised if this were true > of marketers who started a prank or dare and it turned into this internationally beloved money printing scam. H
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by mmarq 5y ago
Yet again another person with no background in economics that argues against growth. Deploying the latest build to prod in 5 minutes, while I write a comment here, instead of spending 8 hours typing commands and hoping the DB doesn’t explod
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by mmarq 5y ago
I struggle speaking about programming, IT, mathematics and economics in my native language, because I studied and worked in the UK. I always end up using English technical words and expressions.

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