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by sveme 6y ago
Firing laws are not dependent on nationality, but the location of the employer. If you are based in France, you have to adhere to French laws, simple as that. If you hire a French in the UK, the UK rules apply. But I guess that's clear
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by sveme 6y ago
People aren‘t paid by companies during parental leave, so I call bullshit here. And hiring laws aren‘t determined by the employee‘s nationality.
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by sveme 6y ago
I believe it‘s rather an issue with the size of the market. It‘s just so much easier to internationalize when you are already the dominant player in the world‘s largest market, the US. Scales matter, see China.
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by sveme 6y ago
Last year I was swimming in Corsica and every evening when the tide rolled in, the plastic rolled in as well. This is an island in the mediterranean, so lots of the plastic will probably come from first world, European countries, not Asia.
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by sveme 6y ago
Probably correct estimate considering all the American wars in the middle east. Still annoying comparison and whataboutism.
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by sveme 6y ago
Thanks, doing the gods' work here.
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by sveme 6y ago
They must have the most atrocious, darkest, GDPR confirmation dialog. It's absolutely impossible to understand what you opt-in to.
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by sveme 6y ago
Influenza is no Corona virus.
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by sveme 6y ago
Most ads are related to previous searches or visits on the web. I once searched for a new car mirror - now I get car parts ads everywhere. Wouldn‘t it be smarter to have context-dependent ads? If I‘m reading a blog on hexagonal architectur
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by sveme 6y ago
80 - 180 US$ for the removal of a ton of CO2 is far more than the cost of adding a ton of CO2 to the atmosphere (in Germany, currently around 10€/ton, I believe). In principle, removing a ton of CO2 needs to be cheaper than the cost of
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by sveme 6y ago
> didn't really help anything at all in regard to the health (best example is France/Spain vs. Germany) I believe France and Spain were simply already much further on the wave than Germany when they enacted the lockdown. Withou
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by sveme 6y ago
It‘s not paying into NATO; it‘s spending this percentage of its GDP on its own military.
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by sveme 6y ago
Biggest by market value - and that‘s because it was considered a tech company rather than a bank.
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by sveme 6y ago
All the optics come from Zeiss, the laser from Trumpf.
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by sveme 6y ago
You misunderstand policy making. A lawmaker is not (and should not be) interested in providing a way of how to implement things, but how things should be , they are only providing the normative side. The executive and judicative branch
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by sveme 6y ago
Not that it means anything, but are you using Mars or Earth days for Mars?
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by sveme 6y ago
Preliminary results of representative sampling in Munich indicates that a low single digit percentage of thw population had it so far. Nothing close to 90%.
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by sveme 6y ago
AC has the unfortunate side effect of accelerating climate change.
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by sveme 6y ago
Or maybe the US needs a real social security system.
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by sveme 7y ago
There‘s bound to be a high number of Covid-19 deaths that will only be obvious by looking at excess mortalities. At least preliminary data from the Netherlands and Spain indicates that.
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by sveme 7y ago
Though that study has been criticized for the use of antibodies with cross-reaction with other Coronaviruses, so the numbers aren‘t necessarily to be trusted.
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by sveme 7y ago
We don‘t talk to our grandparents anymore.
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by sveme 7y ago
There are also far more old people living with young people in Italy and Spain than in Germany.
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by sveme 7y ago
If that‘s the operation mode of your foe, it‘s not going to end very well for you anyways.
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by sveme 7y ago
Can‘t imagine that Munich would ever decide to cancel. I would expect that by then, all containment measures have failed and we have widespread infections all over the place and people will let it run.
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by sveme 7y ago
The Milan fashion show was basically cancelled and whole cities in Italy have been cordoned off under the threat of military action if the quarantine isn't followed. >Will the governments ban conventions? Close restaurants and bars?
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by sveme 7y ago
I currently act as a lead whatever: I program, architect and coordinate a team of seven. Works quite well and is pretty enjoyable. Though I obviously program less than I would like to.
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by sveme 7y ago
There were two referenda on EU membership in the UK in the last fifty years.
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by sveme 7y ago
Sweden is in no way homogeneous.
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by sveme 7y ago
Maybe it‘s like acid rain - the scare is keeping it from becoming what it could potentially be. And at some point there will definitely be a major pandemic.

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