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by nivenkos 5y ago
Maybe outside the EU... Germany doesn't have a positive image inside the EU at all. A nation of conservative Luddite bureaucrats ruling over the EU, and a puppet for the Americans. Meanwhile they extort and damage other EU nations with
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by nivenkos 5y ago
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html - Stallman was right.
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by nivenkos 5y ago
Also the point of coinage is that it is fungible, NFTs are designed to be non-fungible (and even Bitcoin if you get down to the details). Sadly crypto-currencies still haven't really solved the currency use-case.
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by nivenkos 5y ago
Mullvad is much better with first class Linux and Wireguard support.
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People will do any job if it pays enough. The issue with the EU free movement was lots of eastern European labourers undercutting UK salaries and driving up rental prices by living 6+ to a house, etc. I find it ironic that Americans critici
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The EU is even worse sadly. I'm a dual-citizen and have worked in both.
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Wages are going up - https://www.cityam.com/booming-uk-tech-sector-now-accounts-f... I voted Remain but can see some benefits in helping to improve wages and strengthen trade unions by limiting the availability of mass unsk
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by nivenkos 5y ago
But why waste time discussing politics, climate change, etc. when we can't change anything anyway? Isn't it better to discuss wine and food and holidays and enjoy the little time we have together? Isn't that actually the most
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Electronic Dreams is a great book for a British perspective - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25663666-electronic-drea...
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Only 10? It was over 30% in Stockholm last year...
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For the younger generations, a sort of stability. House prices : salary ratios are much worse in the EU (because salaries are so much worse in general), and housing is much smaller (no room for hobbies, home gym, usually no AC, etc. - which
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by nivenkos 5y ago
- Omicron will create natural immunity to COVID and lead to the end of travel restrictions by the end of the year. - Russia will dispute eastern Ukraine, and cut gas supplies to Europe leading to extremely high energy prices in Europe and i
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The mask scandal brought it to light.
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Sad that the extremely high taxes (and price rises) on electricity in Sweden mean diesel cars are still cheaper in some parts of the country. We should push for all vehicles in cities to be electric at least. The Tesla 3, Honda E, etc. are
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by nivenkos 5y ago
And there's a huge disparity between those who own their own homes and those who rent. It's close to Feudalism. I'd note that Doctors and Engineers don't really get high salaries compared to the US though. Europe is all
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by nivenkos 5y ago
I agree, but housing is the real kicker in Europe. Lower wages and higher taxes on working people (income and sales tax are way higher than property, inheritance and capital gains taxes (if they even exist!)) make it almost impossible to sa
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by nivenkos 5y ago
I thought of this too, but with scheduling as well. So I could add "buy gloves", and it will try to fit it into the schedule and optimise it for when I'd be close to a shopping centre (e.g. for flat visits or groceries, etc.)
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If the road builder was held legally liable for everything on their roads you can be sure they would do.
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What insurance scheme exactly? Public housing is a nightmare in all of Europe, and being homeless is as much a risk as in the US.
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But driving in the US is much, much easier than most of Europe. Like a small city in Calfornia vs. Barcelona was a world of difference. The US has lots of wide, straight roads instead of the nightmare of one-way streets, bus lanes, bike lan
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This already applies for mopeds vs. motorcycles for example.
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by nivenkos 5y ago
Protectionism is good. We've been colonised by the US - shipping all the high paid jobs there and paying no taxes in Europe.
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by nivenkos 5y ago
To be fair, it has grown a lot. From Usenet groups, to some little-known thing used with Tor to buy drugs, to now having adverts for various companies in Snapchat, at the Superbowl, etc. That's a lot more potential bagholders injecting
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by nivenkos 5y ago
Spotify and Glovo too. The former if being public on the NYSE still counts as European.
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You still need a tax office to hire people as employees though. But yeah, they could easily operate in both countries if they're willing to move everything like this!
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And far more money. The US is just far wealthier than Europe.
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by nivenkos 5y ago
Yeah, I remember "learning" indices and logarithms at ~12 years old, using it for hacking video games (i.e. calculating the packet sizes, and bytes to bits, etc.) - then when we had to cover it in school it was super easy and rela
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They make money when you don't pay on time.
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by nivenkos 5y ago
Father of Ghislaine Maxwell, no less.
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by nivenkos 5y ago
AFAIK I can't really run Jupyter notebooks, R, LaTeX and Rust on a tablet though. Perhaps the JingPad.

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