nivenkos

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by nivenkos 4y ago
As a non-American I really don't see how it's different to Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp. And those are all owned by one American corporation.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
But government naturally has a monopoly. Like the US already forces publishers to send books to the Library of Congress with the mandatory deposit.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
The American Empire strikes again. You'd think they would have seen this coming though. I think a long-term solution is a universal revenue-sharing programme - so like some portion of taxes is allocated to a universal repository, and t
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by nivenkos 4y ago
https://nitter.net/echetus/status/1579776106034757633 - that's all you need to read. They're funneling tens of millions of dollars of donations into the US culture war.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Ukraine is not a member of the EU nor NATO, there were no obligations to intervene or introduce the self-destructive sanctions, etc. We haven't intervened in Armenia or Ethiopia for example.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
What I find bizarre about that quote is that the EU itself has been a huge proponent of becoming a refugee centre for the aftermath of American wars. Even now they still punish member countries for trying to enforce their borders.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
This. But it's the same with everything in Europe - sky-high income tax and VAT, but zero to little inheritance tax, property tax, land value tax, capital gains tax, etc. Like the idea is to punish workers (skilled and unskilled) and k
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Do you think the same about the US states?
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Yeah, and you can bet the audits will just be some box-ticking nonsense like always.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Nand2Tetris - https://www.nand2tetris.org/
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by nivenkos 4y ago
And if it gets stopped in customs, the handling fees, etc. will wipe out any saving.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
I used Glasses Direct - https://www.glassesdirect.co.uk/ a few years ago and they were pretty good for the price. I bought them temporarily but ended up using one pair for 3 years.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
But in London you have to pay those employees more if they're paying to commute (and wasting hours of their day on the packed trains every day), buy food in the city, etc. I really can't see it being worth it in massive, overprice
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by nivenkos 4y ago
The US has it easy, since the inflation was largely caused by lockdown stimulus, and also benefits from being the global reserve currency so it can leverage cheap imports as the interest rate rises increase the value of USD. I wouldn't
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by nivenkos 4y ago
And salaries in healthcare are far, far lower outside the US. Like the UK and Europe pay absolute peanuts in comparison, just like in Tech, Law, etc. too.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
The Kindle too.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
The US is far wealthier though, like just compare the developer salaries for a start.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
I find it hilarious they still call us allies. The US is pushing Europe into complete destitution. it's the furthest from an ally imaginable, just by subtle economic warfare.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
I mean you can just look at practical, realist governments like in Singapore, and even China to some extent. The problem is once you're deep in the problem, how do you get out? If you let prices collapse then a lot of homeowners will f
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by nivenkos 4y ago
European workers face the same threat in the USA...
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by nivenkos 4y ago
All I could find was https://www.tagesspiegel.de/die-patienten-stapeln-sich-in-de... Which is far from convincing. You can bet the government will jump on it to suppress the growing energy crisis, anti-war and cost-of-livin
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by nivenkos 4y ago
They should just ban all ICE vehicles in cities. Problem solved, and far less air pollution too.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
To quote Keynes, in the long run we're all dead.
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Yeah, but good luck enforcing that with no trade union, nevermind if you're aiming for a promotion, etc. Like real worker power comes from having good economic conditions and strong trade unions - the American engineers have far more b
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Same for us Europoors. Joining meetings at Seattle time (like 7-8pm CET), meanwhile you're being paid less than half of what the American engineers earn at the same level. But they know there's so few options in Europe so they set
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Americans love war. From Vietnam to Iraq to Ukraine to Taiwan. It's all a spectator sport for them. The USA has never been invaded by a foreign power since 1812.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Surprised they don't mention the "occupation" of Königsberg too - try to get Germany on-side in their nuclear war as well.
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Isn't this illegal? Like redundancies are treated differently from firing due to failing job duties normally.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
They hire the best people and then have them do effectively "menial" work - metrics reporting, etc. whilst strategy is decided by executives alone. This makes them disillusioned. I'm not sure what the solution is in big compa
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by nivenkos 4y ago
It'd be much less so if the developers actually used the AGPL and GPLv3+ etc. Adding payment makes things complicated internationally, etc. though.

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