nivenkos

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   by nivenkos 5y ago

   The EU has long been run by neo-liberals, so they actually choose the policies deliberately.
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   by nivenkos 5y ago

   I'm not American, yet almost all Tech companies have inherited this Identity Politics culture. It feels like such a huge step backwards to have scholarships, fast track programmes, etc. rule out great applicants solely based on their s
3. 663.▲
   by nivenkos 5y ago

   My entry level software job was $35k in 2015 in London! Outside the US, jobs across the board paid a lot more before 2008.
4. 664.▲
   by nivenkos 5y ago

   Exactly, it's like saying "wealthy homeowners are fine"... no shit?
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   by nivenkos 5y ago

   And then brings in legislation like the Cookie notices and Link Tax, but does absolutely nothing to protect and drive the European Tech industry (where is the European FAANG?), allowing monopolistic American corporations to ship all the hig
6. 666.▲
   by nivenkos 5y ago

   '91 would be better though - better salaries in a lot of jobs, and lower house prices. GPS on the phone is awesome, but I'd still prefer financial security.
7. 667.▲
   by nivenkos 5y ago

   You'll still get like 10% of a US salary though.
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   by nivenkos 5y ago

   Bear in mind Sweden was forced (i.e. no referendum, etc.) to accept over 5% of its population as asylum seekers, etc. It's a huge shock to society and will change the nation forever.
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   by nivenkos 5y ago

   150k+ starting salaries when the rest of the world never reaches that even for senior engineers.... right. The US is the most privileged country on the planet, just look at the per capita CO2 emissions with their private AC and swimming poo
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    by nivenkos 5y ago

    Just like we saw with the lockdown policies. Heavily tax mass transit but allow private jets, etc.
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    by nivenkos 5y ago

    Yeah, it seems so awesome. And using the Personnummer / BankID to allow all the registration online, etc. Lightyears ahead of the rest of Europe.
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    by nivenkos 5y ago

    With 23 years in industry, you were joining back when CS degrees were less common. This is like the "boomer handshake" meme. Nowadays you need a degree.
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    by nivenkos 5y ago

    Nand2Tetris and Roughgarden, looks like an excellent syllabus tbh. Unfortunately it's pretty worthless without a paper degree. It's cool that Finland is now having open online registration for Finnish citizens to do online courses
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    by nivenkos 5y ago

    I guess his point is that the we haven't seen a big community fork of the code with FOSS games being released, etc. There's been a handful, but nothing like the flurry of Unity games, etc.
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    by nivenkos 5y ago

    How close is the Pinephone though? The Raspberry Pi is "usable" as a desktop, so I can't imagine the PinePhone being too different?
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    by nivenkos 5y ago

    It sucks when you need to buy / move furniture though. I really miss that side of the freedom in the US. It's also much easier to drive in the US due to the huge, straight roads.
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    by nivenkos 5y ago

    But the issue is when you can't afford a home. Here in Sweden the average price for a flat is like 400k euros. And then those are usually in a shared building so you can't "just" install air conditioning even then. The h
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    by nivenkos 5y ago

    Yeah, I also live in Sweden now :) being able to walk everywhere, take a proper break at lunch is really nice I can't afford a car here though (no parking in Stockholm!)
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    by nivenkos 5y ago

    Yeah, in Europe your only real options are moving to the US, working remotely in a cheaper location in Europe (perhaps even as a contractor to the US), or working for a company/country with a better work balance and just fitting your l
20. 680.▲
    by nivenkos 5y ago

    Literally anywhere that isn't the US really. Being the world's greatest empire has its benefits.
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    by nivenkos 5y ago

    So you think that Marxists are now promoting race war, not class war, and this is somehow a "leftist" idea? Seems more that the US deliberately focussed on creating these divisions to destroy working-class movements with COINTELPR
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    by nivenkos 5y ago

    Cue supporting taxing Tech companies and protectionism from US Big Tech becoming "extremist".
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    by nivenkos 5y ago

    > Meanwhile Europe has become the place in the world with the higher standards of living Umm what? Have you seen the salaries and house prices in the EU. Their average salary is about $150k for software engineers, in the EU it's abo
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    by nivenkos 5y ago

    Duolingo Plus is great value, but I feel like they need more advanced content to help build you up to watching TV series, etc. in your target language. Also the divergence between the mobile and web content is strange, the mobile app misses
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    by nivenkos 5y ago

    Great news, now just ban all the fiat-crypto exchanges.
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    by nivenkos 5y ago

    Here in Europe you're unlikely to break $100k in that time.
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    by nivenkos 5y ago

    I'm sure it'll be at least 10x the cost of flights. Train travel is just too expensive.
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    by nivenkos 5y ago

    You can disable the fixes: https://make-linux-fast-again.com/
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    by nivenkos 5y ago

    I don't miss having to use Word and Outlook.
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    by nivenkos 5y ago

    Sweden also has Uber and Bolt though, and is lightyears ahead of Germany technologically (high usage of cards, Swish, etc.)