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by piva00 1y ago
Refugees per capita is a more interesting metric to look at though, it wouldn't change the sadness of it all but as a metric it's much more relevant than just total amounts.
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by piva00 1y ago
It can be both, they're taking it easy meaning they aren't on a hiring spree of "top talent" (like Meta paying 8-9 figures for such) which in turn becomes ineptitude since they aren't betting on it. Even the labour
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by piva00 1y ago
The Nifty Fifty concept from the 70s sound almost sensible compared to the bullshit of Magnificent Seven of now. The same cycle just goes around and around...
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by piva00 1y ago
Same, I hate this last weekend of October when sunset suddenly shifts from 17.00 to 16.00, it makes the winter darkness so much worse... It'll be dark before I start and end work anyway (on solstice it's 8.30-14.30), at least let
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by piva00 1y ago
Similar to what happened to the Brazilian Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes, presiding over the case for the coup attempt by Bolsonaro. Trump used the Magnitsky Act against him [0] simply to support Bolsonaro. The USA as we knew is lo
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by piva00 1y ago
Don't you think that a few hundred instances of articles like this could have a chilling effect? If you keep reading articles over a few months about different people being visited/interviewed by the FBI, you'll at some point
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by piva00 1y ago
Ah, yes, for PPP you're absolutely correct, also: > The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) is a $953-billion business loan program established by the United States federal government during the Trump administration in 2020
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by piva00 1y ago
> Honestly, the billionaire is less corrupt-able than the DNC nexus This is satire, right?
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by piva00 1y ago
Another option is the modern authoritarian model, Competitive Authoritarianism [0] as deployed by Órban, Putin, etc. You castrate the media, and take control of major vehicles to tilt the balance in your favour in quasi-sham elections; accu
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by piva00 1y ago
It's be unprecedented for the foundation of the contemporary financial system. Argentina defaulting on their debt is very different than a country which every other country, and their banks hold bonds from since it's deemed the sa
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by piva00 1y ago
Are there any things you are leaving out in 2008 and 2020-2021 in this analysis though? One self-inflicted from deregulating the finance industry, another a black swan event. Running wars is a choice, a pandemic hitting not so much.
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by piva00 1y ago
I haven't encountered issues with airports' WiFi in many years, at least not the ones I fly from in Europe. What airports have you seen issues lately? It's one thing I haven't thought about in a long time.
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by piva00 1y ago
Unfortunately it looks like the Aedes aegypti has started to show up in Finland the past year, and this year in Sweden. It's the species that carries Dengue, Chikungunya, and many other diseases.
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by piva00 1y ago
This kind of legal loophole might be common in the USA but in the EU is much harder to weasel out of obligations from the spirit of the law with legalese. They can wrap as in many disclaimers as they want, if the law is clear that consumers
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by piva00 1y ago
It will be damn hard to get Bessent or close sources to him to confirm it. Sometimes you have to go by circumstantial evidence which, in this case, is quite clear: Rob Citrone helped Bessent to make a lot of money, Citrone is deeply investe
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by piva00 1y ago
I use a mix of tools, depending on needs: `curl` scripts for things I might need to automate on barebones OS installations (Linux/macOS), HTTPie on my local CLI env if I'm debugging something where I need to mutate parameters quic
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by piva00 1y ago
Bessent's friend Rob Citrone is heavily invested in Argentinian bonds, and companies [0]. [0] https://www.bloomberglinea.com/2024/10/18/exclusive-rob-citr...
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by piva00 1y ago
It's a simple metric to calculate, it's also gamed a lot exactly because of this assumption. It's extremely faulty to measure general living standards, a country with expensive healthcare will generate higher GDP while having
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by piva00 1y ago
Apple's official refurbs aren't available in every country though. Seems to be available in the UK but not here in Sweden, don't really know the reasoning since it's available in Germany.
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by piva00 1y ago
Almost the exact thing to me, 20+ years of tinnitus which sits calmly in the background most of the time except when I read the word tinnitus, or I'm feeling anxious for some reason: when I can't fall asleep when I need a good res
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by piva00 1y ago
The same 2nd amendment from 1791 when the most firepower a government could have were cannons shooting round cannonballs? Surely in 2025 a ragtag group of people with some revolvers, pistols, hunting rifles, and a small minority owning assa
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by piva00 1y ago
> Also, OP doesn’t live in Europe and clearly doesn’t care. My point was to what I stated about European cities, not sure why you felt the need to state the obvious, refrain from strawman-ing, please. > I literally don’t understand th
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by piva00 1y ago
This attitude when you are already on your 30s would definitely put me off from hiring you. Best of luck.
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by piva00 1y ago
US$150k is not only "decent" in high-income Western European cities (Paris, London, Amsterdam, etc.), it's a huge salary, usually in the top 5% of earners. This expectation is why software development has become the neo-yuppi
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by piva00 1y ago
> Out of curiosity, why don't we see the same degree of Brazilian immigration to the EU then versus the US? There are a lot of Brazilians in the EU, most have legal residency through heritage (Spanish, Portuguese, Italian are quite
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by piva00 1y ago
Brazilians have visa on arrival in Schengen, so Europeans get visa on arrival in Brazil in reciprocity.
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by piva00 1y ago
It's the same breed of people, bred from the same system, not literally the same people but the people following on the footsteps. Greed is the constant. Hell, it has been going much longer than only 40 years ago, on "In Praise of
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by piva00 1y ago
Feel bad because you have empathy? Or perhaps that's the problem, lacking it.
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by piva00 1y ago
On the same boat, I've learnt to leave breadcrumbs for the future quite a long time ago, and it's paid off many, many times. After it becomes second-nature is really relaxing to know I have left all the context I could muster ar
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by piva00 1y ago
That doesn't explain how Denmark and Sweden can have quite high economic dynamism while the tax burden is higher than Germany. It's not that simple, it's never that simple...

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