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by prodmerc 11y ago
It's the opposite in countries with a hot climate - high ceilings make ventilation (without an AC) better.
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by prodmerc 11y ago
But if I work a 2400 Euro job for 1200 Euro, that is quite a difference. The employer pockets the difference, all I spend in my guest country is a bit on food and living. The supply of jobs is finite imo - a warehouse needs 20 unskilled wor
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by prodmerc 11y ago
Yes, the expertise brought back is invaluable, indeed.
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by prodmerc 11y ago
Honest question: does 1 job taken by an immigrant equal 1 job lost by a local? How else is it? I was a migrant worker myself, and while I'm grateful for the opportunity to work for a higher salary than I could get home, I still believe
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by prodmerc 11y ago
You're on the Internet, Google it :-)
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by prodmerc 11y ago
Hey, I agree with that. But the fact is that people steal and will continue stealing. Especially when they can't get a job, which is an extremely bad situation. From the top to the bottom, everybody steals, but only the pawns take the
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by prodmerc 11y ago
Except the positions for making a decent living are already taken. And please don't blame only third world citizens - most of the time they're just grunts, the masterminds are usually in the countries where cards are actually st
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by prodmerc 11y ago
You could just drop the "stop breeding" part and we're still headed towards extinction. I guess this is a no-lose movement, how convenient :-)
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by prodmerc 11y ago
Palm oil, yes.
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by prodmerc 11y ago
No, these are man made fires to clear up land. They're going the Easter Island route, apparently...
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by prodmerc 11y ago
Well, it's not close to us, so people don't really care. I mean, there's people starving everywhere, but that doesn't make problems like the refugee situation any less urgent. It's all relative...
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by prodmerc 11y ago
Better yet, put them under Belgian control. They have an unmatched history of managing colonies. /s
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by prodmerc 11y ago
He's kinda right about the capitalism thing - a small elite controlling everything is the inevitable outcome for a capitalist society without government (i.e. socialist, for the greater good of the population) oversight. Now, that&#x27
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by prodmerc 11y ago
Yeah, nothing against the article, actually, but the video is from Science Mag - you'd think they'd be more professional...
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by prodmerc 11y ago
Hell, the Devil's playground... because it looks strange. What kind of association does that make in people's minds, they already think nuclear = death...
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by prodmerc 11y ago
"Designed in Hell" - really? Goddamn, I hate modern media outlets...
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by prodmerc 11y ago
Are you kidding? Major OS updates should never be unsupervised/without notice. Every time, there's some major ckup that makes something unusable...
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by prodmerc 11y ago
I disabled Windows Updates and I still get the update to 10 notification. Cortana doesn't work in most countries (why? just why? I speak English ffs). 10 will know more about me than Facebook and Google combined (don't really care
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by prodmerc 11y ago
> They want Android users... not Windows Phone fans. Making a good Modern UI launcher could help steer people towards Windows Phone and every other software that uses that UI...
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by prodmerc 11y ago
I was excited for a new Modern UI launcher for Android... but this looks exactly the same as the other hundred or so launchers on Google Play. Wtf, Microsoft, what a wasted opportunity...
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by prodmerc 11y ago
> But often, you first become good at something, and then you become passionate about it. And I think most people can become good at almost anything. So many people don't get this. When parents send you to learn a profession, don&#x
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by prodmerc 11y ago
I wouldn't say people who expect the police to be nice are part of the problem, but the police are not your friends. They follow their instructions and protect the law, which is also not on your side. It's on the side of the abstr
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by prodmerc 11y ago
Or call them Nazis to their face if you want to go on a fun ride :-)
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by prodmerc 11y ago
> This is what it feels like to get in touch with the police? Unidirectional respect? Yes. No matter how good a police force's reputation, once you're in their hands, you better make sure you make them feel respected if you wan
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by prodmerc 11y ago
Interesting article, but why would one assume all Hungarian warriors were accomplished archers based on one unit/batallion? It's like saying English warriors were accomplished archers because they found a group of longbowmen (who
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by prodmerc 11y ago
As long as you worked within said system. Try anything outside it and you'll quickly find yourself in big trouble. I guess it's the same everywhere, but at least a capitalist system gives you more leeway to do what you want, just
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by prodmerc 11y ago
People work for all kinds of reasons. The more you can accommodate, the better. Open source software still fascinates me, and it's interesting to see how people just build stuff just to have others use it for free. This would not be po
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by prodmerc 11y ago
In a normal country, yes. In a state capitalism (aka communism as we got to know it) it is either used for military/state applications or is completely discarded. At least any DARPA/NASA/etc projects had a chance in the priva
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by prodmerc 11y ago
I guess so, but at least you'd have the choice to leave :-)
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by prodmerc 11y ago
How are you comparing two currencies that have never existed at the same time?

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