romanoderoma

58 ms·

481.
by romanoderoma 6y ago
I think this debate is very interesting and must be carried on among people coming from former African colonies. It gives us European more perspectives to look at and improves the level of the discussion that, in my opinion, has no particul
482.
by romanoderoma 6y ago
> Switzerland is a successful economically prosperous country with a strong cultural identity. Who is also countinously looking for people going to work there. I got a call for a remote job for a U.N. agency two weeks ago. They are calli
483.
by romanoderoma 6y ago
French , Germans and Italians. Which, together, still make today 50% of all the "foreigners" living in Switzerland. They are called immigrants, but are actually people with a grandfather who went there 50-60 years ago who never b
484.
by romanoderoma 6y ago
> In Switzerland, about 30% of the population are foreign born Not really true, it's around 23% and on about 1,900,000 immigrants, over 85% are Europeans, 300,000 are Italians, 295,000 are Germans and 110,000 are French, which are n
485.
by romanoderoma 6y ago
> That’s one very liberal interpretation for “terrorist”. Isn't terrorism about "making enemies"? That's what you wrote. > If your skin is too thin to deal with angry customers you should not be facing them Isn&#x2
486.
by romanoderoma 6y ago
> but try making Italian food with non-standard ingredients and the pedantry comes out in full force for very good reasons :)
487.
by romanoderoma 6y ago
> Italy uses "calcio", which means "kick". Yet, for some strange reason Italians never ever get criticized for not calling the sport "football" As Italian, I can explain you why we use calcio and not footbal
488.
by romanoderoma 6y ago
> If a developer responds to me in that way for an app that I depend on, he/she would make an enemy for life. What happened to "we don't deal with terrorists"? The answer of the developer seems reasonable to me if the
489.
by romanoderoma 6y ago
> If someone boozes it up the night before and is too hung over to show I was replying to " Those without the self control to abstain or exercise moderation are quickly identified as non-management material." I will never be r
490.
by romanoderoma 6y ago
> One rationale was that being drunk excused someone who spoke their mind That's not why they do (did?) it, it is used to force management and employers to socialize, they have a very rigid social hierarchy and don't socialize
491.
by romanoderoma 6y ago
> Those without the self control to abstain or exercise moderation are quickly identified as non-management material. Why, exactly? Is management about abstinence and moderation or is it about taking difficult decision in difficult time
492.
by romanoderoma 6y ago
First though I had when I read the title
493.
by romanoderoma 6y ago
> (and playing on the "uneducated American" trope to boot That wasn't my intention I literally meant "never heard of" If you never heard of something, you're not used to how it sounds. The original poster cr
494.
by romanoderoma 6y ago
> I think this is more to do with diet and drug addiction drug addictions and diets in Italy are handled by the health care system.
495.
by romanoderoma 6y ago
That was my point: correlation is not causation. There are a lot of words that ends in oma, not all of them are cancer names. Just a few from an Italian dictionary - perizoma (thong) - policroma (multi-coloured) - genoma (genome) - diploma
496.
by romanoderoma 6y ago
It really depends on whether you are a native English speaker from the other side of the Ocean and never heard of other languages, you come from the Old Continent and etymology for you means "Greek and Latin only" or you are from
497.
by romanoderoma 6y ago
> That’s a really harsh and unfair statement I think it's unfair and harsh that life or death are in the hands of private held companies that profit from people desperation. > The doctors and nurses care tremendously and want to
498.
by romanoderoma 6y ago
the state of healthcare in US is absolutely horrifyng How is that even possible that there's a place on earth where middle level engineers are paid 6 figures salaries but as a society they don't care if someone dies in a hospital
499.
by romanoderoma 6y ago
But not many are more than a thousand years old Ponte Vecchio first appeared in 996 For comparison the new world was discovered by Columbus 5 centuries later. USA first appeard 8 hundred years later.
500.
by romanoderoma 6y ago
Because it's the name of the most popular bridge in Florence (and probably in Italy) https://www.italiandualcitizenship.net/wp-content/uploads/20...
501.
by romanoderoma 6y ago
Yep I made the same point here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23970140
502.
by romanoderoma 6y ago
> especially when part of the problem is systemic papercuts I'm sorry for slavery in US, but slavery in US is hardly the only example of slavery in history. master/slave describes more than just a hundred years of slavery in Un
503.
by romanoderoma 6y ago
IMHO the only problem is what people wanna see in words. master/slave has been with us since forever ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23969906 ) and describes a relationship between two entities where one is the co
504.
by romanoderoma 6y ago
> but its meaning and origin go back further than that master/slave goes back to Mesopotamia, 4 thousands years ago and was used to describe the relationship between men and gods > Man was believed to have been created to serve t
505.
by romanoderoma 6y ago
> I would consider it more believable if they seemed more 'congruent'. Why? Social norms were very different for regular people, imagine being the emperor, especially Nero, whose family history make GOT look like a family campi