mmarq

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by mmarq 2mo ago
As if the DNT thingy didn’t exist…
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by mmarq 2mo ago
We, as humanity, really need to stop equating democracy with direct votes and referenda. There are reasons why some bodies are nominated indirectly and through convoluted procedures. In many countries these processes exist to prevent the ri
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by mmarq 2mo ago
In one you have the head of government of each member state, in the other the relevant minister depending on what is being discussed. These are not European bureaucrats, they are the ministers of justice of each member state.
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by mmarq 2mo ago
> Upon winning, he would have his name and face be publicly known. His name is already public, it’s on Wikipedia
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by mmarq 2mo ago
> it's because they are bad at reading/writing as a skill and might make e.g. spelling mistakes. Reading and writing are part of language proficiency. If someone struggles to understand complex written texts, then their command
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by mmarq 2mo ago
C2 is better than the language proficiency of the median native speaker. A C2 speaker is comparable to a highly educated native speaker with a master degree who reads regularly.
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by mmarq 3mo ago
> The US has a guy who occasionally can screw things up for a few weeks, but who will be gone in a while. We have all just realized that the American Constitution is the jurisprudential analogue of the Albanian virus ( https://
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by mmarq 3mo ago
EU legislature is an actual corpus of laws. It’s imperfect, but it’s arguably better than having a guy that can block a model or threat companies because they crossed him.
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by mmarq 3mo ago
I’m a parent, children should be banned from social media and enforcement should include serious fines for parents who don’t monitor their children. After the first 2-3 fines, people will magically learn to use parental control and the idio
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by mmarq 3mo ago
“Expat” is how white well-off immigrants expect to be addressed to differentiate themselves from other immigrants.
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by mmarq 3mo ago
Some effects of Brexit began right after the referendum (eg a business investment flattened since 2016). 2019–2020 are the worst years to start a comparison, because the UK uses a different accounting method to measure the government's
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by mmarq 4mo ago
Do people pay income tax on capital gains in the US? Why summing this fantasy rate with income tax otherwise?
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by mmarq 4mo ago
> Some of these "tourist trap" activities are locals trying to make an honest living doing what they can. The local working in hospitality is earning minimum wage, the premium you pay goes to the landlord.
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by mmarq 4mo ago
Pinocchio was published in 1–2-page instalments in “Giornale per i bambini”, a magazine for children.
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by mmarq 5mo ago
But it’s not guaranteed that you’ll ever be as rich as a pensioner who owns a flat outright. Asset prices inflated so much that income is not completely irrelevant, but it is at best only half of the picture.
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by mmarq 5mo ago
> your politicians hate independent people so they are not gonna encourage it Your politicians are actually subsidising the rural lifestyle with direct and indirect transfers. Eg in Europe, you can buy land, leave it more or less abandon
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by mmarq 7mo ago
The problem with this is that private health insurance is very cheap because there is an NHS that takes care of emergencies and does more than 50% of the rest. So your taxes keep your health insurance premia low. Otherwise a comprehensive h
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by mmarq 8mo ago
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47342 https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Disparition_(roman)
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by mmarq 11mo ago
> A modern server can be power cycled remotely, can be reinstalled remotely over networked media, can have its console streamed remotely, can have fans etc. checked remotely without access to the OS it's running etc. It's not v
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by mmarq 11mo ago
We have a similar law in Italy, but, not having much advanced technology foreigners are willing to buy, the government uses it to prevent foreigners from buying washing machine manufacturers.
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by mmarq 11mo ago
My wife and child are regularly stopped at the border if I’m not with them, because they don’t have the same surname. I live in the UK.
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by mmarq 1y ago
These panels are heavily subsidised. My brother got it almost completely financed by the state of Berlin a few years back.
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by mmarq 1y ago
The reality is that these letters are written in a kind of pseudolegalistic language, where a phrase like “the employee was punctual” means they were usually late. If they were actually punctual, you'd see something more like “the empl
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Elfo – An asynchronous distributed actor framework in Rust(github.com)
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by mmarq 1y ago
Assuming these numbers are relevant and correct, there is a reason why qualified migrants prefer other countries. If you were a French or a German doctor or an engineer, would you spend 3 months fighting with the Home Office for the questio
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by mmarq 1y ago
> And Germany being overzealous in fiscal and monetary policy has stagnated growth and limited policy options. German fiscal discipline is a tool of strategic independence. It started in ‘49 when they knew they would eventually had to re
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by mmarq 1y ago
> The biggest issue is giving up one of the biggest instrument of control over the economy to a supra-national non-democratic organisation This is the point. Germany managed to set up a really independent central bank (which is a non- de
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by mmarq 1y ago
If I recall correctly, the UK changed the way in which they compute the government contribution to GDP (going from G being just cost to some estimate of the output). This caused both the COVID drop and recovery to look steeper.
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by mmarq 1y ago
My understanding is that when you transfer large sums (such as 30K) to an overseas account for the first time, the British bank is required to block it and ask you questions. The first time I transferred money to an overseas account in my n
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by mmarq 1y ago
They give you stuff and you give them pieces of paper. If they misbehave, you can embargo them and now they are in trouble because they depend on you to turn said pieces of paper into something of value.

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