nivenkos

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by nivenkos 4y ago
> I'm generally a very conservative person. But even I am for government funded healthcare. Who in the hell is against it? I'm European but there are major issues with waiting times, terribly low wages, strikes, ambulance provi
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Alternate title: Wealthy gringo discovers domestic servants.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
I'm a fan of the game but waiting for proper Linux support. I also have a lot of other games to finish beforehand.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
How is the death penalty more expensive? Maybe in the USA where it's applied poorly and has huge waiting times, etc. But an expedited death penalty for repeat violent offenders would avoid a lot of issues. I doubt it's more expens
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by nivenkos 4y ago
> If I'm playing or writing music for people... The whole point is that you won't be. Like a lot of demand for small-time live music died with the record player.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
More bureaucratic nonsense that just helps out international mega-corporations at the cost of small co-operatives and trade unions, etc. Focus on stuff that actually improves conditions like enforcing that redundant positions be shown to be
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by nivenkos 4y ago
$90k isn't too bad though. London has similar conditions to that and far fewer people are earning $90k+.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
All the NoCode and LLM stuff feels like this though - it works well for simple demos, but is useless for the complexity of the real world especially if errors are costly.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Canada has the benefit of having no bordering countries aside from the USA though. So it chooses its immigrants carefully. Whereas Europe has a much bigger issue with the refugee crisis and illegal immigration.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
I live in Sweden and there was a bombing outside my apartment last week due to gang conflicts.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
But mass immigration has huge problems - look at Sweden, Spain, France, Belgium, Germany, etc.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Outside the US, labour costs are already quite low though. Although I agree, they're going to get even lower. To quote Neal Stephenson: > the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad
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by nivenkos 4y ago
But Spotify doesn't pay the artists directly, the deals are with the record companies. The real issue here seems to be over-hiring and a lot of acquisitions for all sorts of marginal stuff like video podcasts, audiobooks, etc.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
It really depends where, outside the US pay is pretty terrible usually. In Europe for example, as a senior developer you get maybe $70-90k in FAANG and big companies, and $50-70k in smaller companies.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
It's not "lowest performers", these people aren't developers. They're literally hired as diversity leaders, etc. to write race-based PR pieces, etc.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Good, skin colour should be as irrelevant as eye colour. No room for racism.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
This. It's crazy in the UK where normal drinks have to have it, but alcoholic ones are exempt.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Or Olof Palme.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Except those in the "USA sphere" that had pro-US dictators forced upon them - like Chile, Argentina, Guatemala, Indonesia, etc. - even Spain, Portugal, South Korea, Taiwan and Brazil suffered greatly under US-supported (to varying
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by nivenkos 4y ago
How old were you though? That was similar in a lot of post-war Europe, e.g. for my grandparents in the UK. The Americans have always lived in abundance and luxury in comparison.
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The issue with Sweden is that it taxes work, not wealth. You easily hit the 56% rate on income tax and even the poorest workers pay 25% VAT, meanwhile wealthy landowners and shareholders pay no inheritance tax and minimal capital gains and
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Of course, the USA always has great support for true democratic leaders like Batista, Pinochet, Rios Montt, Suharto, Galtieri, etc. /s
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by nivenkos 4y ago
It's the same in Sweden at least though. The whole of Europe is on the verge of collapse.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Most American professionals are compared to the rest of the world though. Like almost every professional career from software engineering to law, medicine, engineering, finance, etc. pays 2-4x the same roles outside the US, and usually incl
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Is this legal? Is there no trade union negotiation either?
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Weather Underground would be hilarious.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
In Norway and Sweden you can only buy alcohol from the government monopoly, and they have a national ID system so they can monitor consumption (I don't think either of them still do this since the days of ration cards though). So you c
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by nivenkos 4y ago
It feels like every company has an Apollo, Hydra or Hermes...
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by nivenkos 4y ago
It's a company built on fraud and abusive tactics - from QDOS to Mosaic to ActivePlatform and Blackbird. God help us when they get a near monopolistic position in video gaming and large-scale AI.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Induction is great though, just replace the old stuff. It's very fast and so much easier to clean. I wouldn't want to go back to gas really.

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