ipatec

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by ipatec 3y ago
is their business showing porn to minors? that's their market?
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by ipatec 3y ago
Microsoft Office suite
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by ipatec 3y ago
people can talk to chatGPT
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by ipatec 3y ago
I think the Youtube comparison is a good one up to a point. It's a niche product. Everyone wants to be part of it, competing for a very very limited resource which is our attention. While with technologies like GPT or whatever comes ne
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by ipatec 3y ago
Most of our ancestors actually had less stressful jobs and worked less than we do today. The average agricultural worker 100 years ago was not even doing a part-time in terms of time spent doing actual work. More like 2h/day on average
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by ipatec 3y ago
is not accounting differences at all: - Europeans (and I am one) live in tiny housing even compared to people in NYC. - we have less cars (you can claim it's due to public transport but if public transport is not available most people
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by ipatec 4y ago
really? where were you during covid?
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by ipatec 5y ago
last time I checked countries like Romania (E Europe) had the smallest pay gap in Europe. the issue is usually in countries like Germany, Switzerland or Netherlands.
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by ipatec 5y ago
then take care of your diet, do some sports, make sure you have a strong immune system. the vaccine is just a weak patch to a bad health.
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by ipatec 5y ago
not if you're below 30
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by ipatec 5y ago
depending on your age
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by ipatec 5y ago
why pay more taxes when there's no accountability and responsibility regarding spending? spending needs to get under control before raising taxes is even a thing.
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by ipatec 5y ago
Not really. Even an unorganized small group of armed people can create enough damage to the Police/Government forces that it's not worth the fight.
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by ipatec 5y ago
where are the profits going? if a German company opens a factory in Hungary where it produces let's sau Automotive parts of course Hungary develops a trade surplus. they sell automotive parts to Germany. however the profits of the Germ
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by ipatec 5y ago
Of course. Check the largest exporters... yea... mainly German companies. That surplus ain't staying in Hungary
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by ipatec 5y ago
>Western companies come to Hungary because its cheap force, despite being generally lower quality than west I doubt the average Hungarian is of "lower quality" than the average Belgian (I live in Belgium and I lived in Romania
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by ipatec 5y ago
Those 3b are such a simplistic narrative. How much money do Western companies make in Hungary due to EU? The reality is that EU is mostly a neo-colonial project where the East Europe is depleted of resources (especially human capital) and t
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by ipatec 5y ago
Between the power/control being taken over by someone elected and supported by most of his country or being taken over by some bigger organization like EU with very twisted interests... well.. I thing the first is preferred.
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by ipatec 5y ago
I agree the burden of switching countries is too big. But as a share of that burden the beaurocracy of getting a new residence would be somewhere at the bottom. The biggest burden of switching to a new country within the EU would be languag
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by ipatec 5y ago
do people want that? whenever there was a referendum on an EU constitution or anything of that sort, it got rejected.
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by ipatec 5y ago
It will be super easy to fake regardless. Based on how I've seen their system just a scan from the screen of another friend will do the job. There is no biometric crosscheck and I think we should never get to that. We don't need s
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by ipatec 5y ago
only 17/448 (~4%) million EU citizens work in other country than their birth one. expatriating is not as common as you'd think living in a major EU city.
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by ipatec 5y ago
We're far from that. The gap between countries is big. Just to mention Belgium's example despite having an eID, you can't even change your address online in most communes and you need to physically present yourself and demand
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by ipatec 5y ago
Why would you need an unified solution? Why not leave it to the national governments and Youtube or whomever can personalise their checks based on your location.
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by ipatec 5y ago
I think this is the biggest worry. With the vaccine passport system soon to be revealed and now an universal SSO tracking a variety of EU wide actions... I feel the risk of getting to a social credit score system as China is high.
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by ipatec 5y ago
that's why I said "okish". I think "itsme" works fine for most people. But yes, the system is far from perfect. However, do you have trust that the EU Commission will design something better?
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by ipatec 5y ago
I live in Belgium where we already have eID and SSO apps that work okish. But I fail to see the need for an EU wide ID. I don't think most EU citizens use services from other EU countries than the one they live in. Not services where t
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by ipatec 6y ago
I don't believe Japan is a good example. Having worked for a Japanese company for about 4.5 years I was really wondering how they handle the WFH. Japanese companies are very hierarchical and permanent reviews and monitoring are require