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by mmarq 2y ago
> In the USA you can purchase prepaid SIM card in Wallmart with cash, put it in your phone and you have anonymous phone number, again, this is illegal in Europe in a typical stupid European way This is illegal in some European countries
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by mmarq 2y ago
The old, which have been ‘criminally’ favoured by Britain’s mistakes, have overwhelmingly voted for Brexit. While the young, who have been royally screwed, voted Remain.
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by mmarq 2y ago
It doesn't need to write new laws, they already exist and they are already enforced. Try to access an illegal online casino from Italy, for example.
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by mmarq 2y ago
> Just ask the Italians (68 governments in 76 years) For 50 years Italy was ruled by the same party. Governments changed just to allow more people from the same party to be ministers.
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by mmarq 2y ago
You are right, but you can read French words without knowing the language, because a written word has a unique correct pronunciation.
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by mmarq 2y ago
In English you have to know a word in order to pronounce it. The “ou” diphthong in “hound” and “double” or “would” is pronounced differently. Or “ieu” in “lieutenant” vs “lieu”. Or “oo” in “poor” vs “root” Or “berry” in “berry” vs “strawber
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by mmarq 2y ago
On levels.fyi there is one Atlassian P60 engineer (senior? staff?) in London making 230K+. On L60-L50, I’m not saying that everybody makes 150K+; I’m saying that it’s not impossible for a good senior engineer (or staff or principal, as we c
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by mmarq 2y ago
RSUs and bonuses are part of compensation.
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by mmarq 2y ago
Salaries in the US are much higher, but it doesn’t mean you can’t hit 150K of total compensation working for a non-FAANG company. Here’s one that advertised on this site: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/meticulous
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by mmarq 2y ago
According to levels.fyi: Personio, Deliveroo, Samsara, Atlassian, monday.com (and others, including my employer) I know many consultants that make 150K+ (which is 600£ per day)
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by mmarq 2y ago
> UK companies do not respect software engineers or reward them properly (not even stock), even interns in other places get paid 5x more than a senior engineer in the UK. In monetary terms this is not true. A good software engineer can m
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Competition to convert legacy C code to Rust automatically with GenAI(eenewseurope.com)
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by mmarq 2y ago
Often people don’t want advice, often people have stupid ideas and come to you for advice, hoping you’ll confirm their stupid idea is great. Then they have somebody to blame when the whole thing will blow up. If you contradict them, they ge
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by mmarq 2y ago
A junior/graduate dev in Germany makes €50K a year. $28K is the minimum wage for a full time employee.
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by mmarq 2y ago
How can you look after an older population that doesn’t work and whose pensions increase every year at least as much as salaries, without either increasing taxes or increasing the working population?
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by mmarq 2y ago
The person that doesn’t need modern infrastructure because they are at peace with nature is literally the noble savage
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by mmarq 2y ago
I’m not Greek, but I hear/read this kind of argument made about Italians as well. No, Southern Europeans are not noble savages, they want and, arguably, need good infrastructures, which include phone and internet connections, exactly l
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by mmarq 3y ago
Anglo-Saxons are not obsessed with home ownership, they have to own their homes because renting in English speaking countries is hell. My neighbours change every other year, sometimes every 6 months, because the landlord increases their ren
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by mmarq 3y ago
I don’t know, maybe local authorities build them or probably new apartments are exempt from rent controls. But even in London, where my neighbour pays £3500K a month to rent a 65sqm flat, the landlord is earning much less than they would if
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by mmarq 3y ago
It is extremely hard also in London, I know people that have been searching for months. Here tenants practically have no protections, it’s like renting on Airbnb, rents increase at random every year. The rest of the country is a suburban wa
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by mmarq 3y ago
If landlords are forced to follow all regulations, the ROI on renting doesn’t work anywhere. In the UK it may still be profitable because you can evict tenants for the lulz, so they have to accept that properties are not maintained and that
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by mmarq 3y ago
You can make 8-9K a year investing 200K in diversified basket of government bonds. It would pay almost the entirety of my brother’s rent.
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by mmarq 3y ago
A flat that cost 500-600K in Berlin would be rented out at 1000€ a month, that can’t increase more than the rent control allows. A mortgage would cost 3 times as much. So you’d be better off renting and investing the deposit, the stamp duty
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by mmarq 3y ago
> Most people in Germany can't afford to buy an apartment Most people in Germany don’t buy the apartments they live in, because renting in Germany gives you more or less the same rights as owning a leasehold flat in the UK. If you r
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by mmarq 3y ago
Because it is a non-argument and by making it in a foreign language you sound smarter. Imagine if agriculture was really a strategic sector in Germany, they would be back in the pre-industrial era.
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by mmarq 3y ago
Farmers are heavily subsidised everywhere in the EU, half of them won’t have a sustainable business without tax discounts and transfers from the EU or the government. They have nothing to complain about and, yes, we should help Ukraine is e
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by mmarq 3y ago
The Netherlands have been rich since at least the so-called Dutch golden age.
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by mmarq 3y ago
The average German, while nominally poorer than people from other countries, is often richer. Living in the UK and knowing people in Germany, I realized that the average Briton is significantly poorer than the German. For example renting in
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by mmarq 3y ago
Landlords are bad when the lack of tenants protections, such as in the UK, makes it so that often the only options available are living with rats and mould or being evicted for protesting. People that bought flats as an alternative to a pri
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by mmarq 3y ago
Providers, at least in Europe, are much more strongly regulated than “vpN ProVidErs” re: privacy and everything else.

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