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by xondono 8y ago
Foreign or national, the fact is that Spain suffered a housing bubble and it’s burst, but all of the legal and political conditions that gave rise to the bubble are still there. Add the negative interest rates of the BCE, and you have found
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by xondono 8y ago
Madrid, like Barcelona, has rising rent prices but blaiming them on AirBnB like some politicians have is very disingenuous. AirBnB and similar players have a small percentage of the rent stock. They can only shift prices on the margin. If y
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by xondono 8y ago
I’m not saying the’re unserviceable, just that the amount of training and safety concerns are a whole other level. Even well trained engineers get zapped sometimes with capacitors that should be discharged by actually aren’t. Power electr
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by xondono 8y ago
As someone who both tinkers with cars and bikes, and has designed and tested drives for various kinds of electric motors (brushless, AC,...): - The perception that people have of how dangerous gasoline is, is greatly over exaggerated. - The
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by xondono 8y ago
They only contain Lithium composites, that are highly reactive with oxigen (i.e. they combust spontaneously) and are fairly toxic. If your modified gas engine seems to work, you are quite safe. If your modified Tesla seems to work, it might
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by xondono 8y ago
If it were that, I’d understand. The main issue my friends had was with declaring their “official activity”. In spain you need to declare what activity your bussiness is into, and the categories available are so restrictive and ill defined
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by xondono 8y ago
The problem is that we already have regulations to avoid broadcasting on restricted/licensed bands. In general, current regulation makes the owner of the equipment responsible for the broadcast. This new regulation will just stifle dev
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by xondono 8y ago
Basically the EU has discovered SDR (Software Defined Radio) and wants to limit its use. The usual excuses are given, electrical safety, emission on protected bands...
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by xondono 8y ago
You are assuming that somehow that tax revenue is theirs in the first place. What if that tax rate makes a business non-profitable in France but a money-making machine in Ireland? Also, too much focus is centered around taxes when spurious
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by xondono 8y ago
IMHO, “deep” is just the new “smart”. People are just doing the same thing they were doing but bigger and better, but when you are building a new company you need to use the adjective of the times. We have had “smart”-everything, it already
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by xondono 8y ago
This reminds me of the infamous comment block: // // Dear maintainer: // // Once you are done trying to 'optimize' this routine, // and have realized what a terrible mistake that
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by xondono 8y ago
The main problem here is that I went for hardware engineering, which almost no one is willing to hire as remote work. I also happen to live in spain, comparing with other friends working in the same sector, I’m likely above top 10% in salar
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by xondono 8y ago
I did a similar schedule once, 7 to 9:30 30min coffee break 10 to 12 1h lunch break 13 to 15:30 30 minute break 16 to 17
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by xondono 8y ago
I would love to be in a position where 20% off my salary is not something to worry
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by xondono 8y ago
Noob here woth a doubt: “Incredible! We are exhaustively searching an uncountably infinite space in finite time” Isn’t this like a long stretch? Once lazy evaluation is introduced he is pretty much checking until a first hit happens, isn’t
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by xondono 8y ago
Switch “advocate for safety” with “defend the interest of german car manufacturers” and then I’ll buy it
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by xondono 8y ago
That’s probably because you are not an Oakland hipster who attended a liberal college }:) Jokes aside, the article does read like a buzzword soup, and looks like a low blow from someone who is getting outcompited fair and square. I would al
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by xondono 8y ago
I had come across this article before. I just wanted to add a little update. This “direct democracy” voting system has already been put to test. The citizens voted against Colau’s party proposals. The official comment is that they “will tak