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by mmarq 3y ago
But the entire world wants to go to the US, Germany is not that attractive. The population is getting older and they need more young people in order to support their standards of living and to care for the ageing population. So either they
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by mmarq 3y ago
> On the other hand, Germany is about to dramatically lower the residence permit and citizenship requirements, as it panicks about its aging population. This might further depress the wages. The immigration system in Germany is peculiarl
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by mmarq 3y ago
Mind, I’m not using the word “average” derogatorily, I’m referring to good senior developers that simply don’t follow trends, don’t do leetcode and don’t spent too much time chasing pay rises (I unfortunately had to, because of my family’s
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by mmarq 3y ago
I helped two friends in their negotiations, so I know exactly how much they make (between 140 and 160K total compensation). They were hired early this year. I also interviewed for similar companies in Berlin and Munich (I refused two offers
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by mmarq 3y ago
I’m not arguing the morality of food delivery platforms (and I’ve only mentioned one because some friends work there), I’m saying that they pay better than in London. In Delivery Hero and Hello Fresh, I know seniors making 100K, staff engin
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by mmarq 3y ago
> And people from the UK say the opposite, that engineers are not respected and paid in the UK the way they are in Germany I was referring to software developers. Before 2016-17, a software developer in London would make twice as much as
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by mmarq 3y ago
I don’t have an informed opinion, but with my limited interactions with Germans, the problem with software engineering is that it is not considered a high status profession. The smart German would rather go into law, medicine, accounting (!
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How hackers write malware and evade antivirus(youtube.com)
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by mmarq 3y ago
> Theresa May tried to sell this as part of her election campaign. It was a disaster. No one wants to be forced to give up some of their personal wealth to pay more for an NHS they've already paid into. It's not as simple as &
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by mmarq 3y ago
If you rent in the UK, you experience a form of poverty that has been unknown in continental Europe since the 60s. Regular evictions and rent hikes, pest infestations, mould, damp, etc… You would fall under the definition of a homeless per
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by mmarq 3y ago
You can find houses for 30K in Liverpool, because the UK outside of London is poorer than a random Eastern European country (which is one of the many reasons why Eastern Europeans are running away from the UK). How much do you think you are
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by mmarq 3y ago
That’s not true at all. People work much harder than in the past, especially considering what they get back. 20-30 year olds are the first generation in almost a century that give away half of their waking hours and struggle to get decent h
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by mmarq 3y ago
If I want my child to learn anything about bosses that shout, is that you don’t let anybody shout at you.
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by mmarq 3y ago
I “never worked a day in my life” until I turned 19 and found my first job. You don’t need to work in you mid teens to find a meaningful job as an adult.
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by mmarq 3y ago
I had the same person tell my girlfriend both things, complaining about our presence in the UK. He started saying that we were living in city center because, as immigrants, we were taking benefits. Then my girlfriend told him how much I was
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by mmarq 3y ago
> What's left is a very liberal echo chamber. All of the seemingly worst ideas from the left are stated as fact and voicing a dissenting opinion can quite literally get you banned. A friend of mine is moving to Canada, another to Ge
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by mmarq 3y ago
Today a dev in Barcelona makes as much as a dev in London or slightly less. Considering the cost of living and the quality of life, the dev in Barcelona gets much much more. Among my friends and acquaintances, I’m currently witnessing an ex
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by mmarq 3y ago
> I've been using it for 2 years now and I can't see any loss in productivity While I am a big fan and all my personal projects are written in Rust, introducing Rust will likely paralyse entire teams for months, until they get
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by mmarq 3y ago
It’s totally irresponsible to invest in 10 year government bonds, without hedging duration risk, especially if your clientele is SVB’s clientele. But doing so would have dampened the short term gains that paid bonuses for a few quarters.
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by mmarq 3y ago
In 50 years a new plug will be standardised and people will use that
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by mmarq 3y ago
Fine, but Diana was not just a failure in herself, she was first and foremost a failure of the so-called royal family. Again, their job is to not behave like total idiots, which includes choosing partners that don't go mad if they are
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by mmarq 3y ago
I've heard several times the argument that they run a clown shitshow that produces lots of money (which is your points 2 and 3), and usually my retort is that another Champions League would look less classist, trickle down more wealth
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by mmarq 3y ago
The issue with the British monarchy is that we pay them and their only duty is to not look like a bunch of idiots, nothing more is asked. But unfortunately all we got from the royal family is (1) somebody that gets involved in sex assaults
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by mmarq 3y ago
Berlin is still cheaper than other major European cities, is big enough to have lots of things to do, has a good nightlife, is very international (as in you can live there without knowing too much German) and, more recently, has developed a
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by mmarq 3y ago
It happened to me multiple times and to almost everybody I know. If the flat has a problem, the only solution is to leave. https://england.shelter.org.uk/media/press_release/private_r...
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by mmarq 3y ago
> By the 1940s this age-old parasite was mostly eradicated from homes and hotels in the developing world. But around 1995, the bedbug tides again turned. Infestations began flaring up with a vengeance. Pest managers and scientists aren’t
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by mmarq 3y ago
That’s how you develop silicosis while the beasts stay put in a crack in the wall.
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by mmarq 4y ago
Goroutines are the go-to of concurrent programming. A C# task without a handler or modern synchronisation mechanisms.
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by mmarq 4y ago
> For example, South Tyrol has a large German speaking population. The Italian government has historically encouraged adoption of Italian. They stopped doing that decades ago, before I was born. The language of the German minority is pro
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by mmarq 4y ago
> The “making of Italians” has usually meant imposing northern Italian norms and language upon Southerners. Italian is not a northern but rather a central Italian language. > Can you give me the names of some Italian nationalist parti

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