norwegianwhale

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by norwegianwhale 6y ago
> Erasmus program or interrail By which upper middle class kids get a free year of holidays abroad at the taxpayer's expense. No results expected. Finishing studies, getting a job and family formation can be postponed to early thirt
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by norwegianwhale 6y ago
If there ever is a promising project from europe (a.1) it bootstraps / gets venture capital (a.2) Leaves after 2 years for the US / gets acquired and the fiscal headquarter moves to Delaware (Stripe) (b) Gets absorbed by an old bl
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by norwegianwhale 6y ago
Why on earth a productive company would move to Europe, where your revenues are automatically slashed by 50% in taxes, and you are constantly exposed to whimsical unfettered politicians.. They could start here. Why Facebook, Google, Amazon
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by norwegianwhale 6y ago
The governments spend 45% of GDP yearly. It's very likely that at some point, every company has served the public sector. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, IBM, list goes on, weren't envisaged by a 60 year old bureaucrat sitting
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by norwegianwhale 6y ago
I find it quite off putting, that the general approach of EU institutions is to direct resources and economic activity from the top. It not only has demonstrated to be a failure economically, but it's an arrogant attitude by politician
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by norwegianwhale 6y ago
"Human right" is one of those sacred terms that are supposed to mean so much but mean nothing. "Human rights" are just superstitious conventions about what's good/bad. "No one can deprive you of housing&qu
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by norwegianwhale 6y ago
Much of the discord would be fixed by banning Twitter, where group hatred gets organized into political platforms. And on top of it, their content editors have a very particular slant, that so far has brought a lot of whining, and nothing p
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by norwegianwhale 6y ago
The funniest part is when there are accusations upon them for discriminating / not hiring women. Not only they do a selfish contribution to society for next to nothing in return, they also need to share whatever credit they earn with s
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by norwegianwhale 6y ago
I am Icelander and I grew up in a fishing town near Reykjavik. When I was a small child, my greatgranddad was still alive and my mother would call him aitona. Later I learned that it was a basque word and that he came from a basque family.
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by norwegianwhale 6y ago
Meat factories pay very well for someone with no skills. I for one I am grateful for being given the opportunity to work in meatpacking industry for a summer.
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by norwegianwhale 6y ago
I think it's more accurate to say that it will postpone the death of 130k americans by a few months.