romanoderoma

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by romanoderoma 6y ago
They definitely did not escape any recent war. The WWII in Scandinavia was particularly bad, including the occupation of Norway and Denmark. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Weserübung They did escape the cont
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
> I find it hard to take sweeping statements like this seriously. They are hard to take seriously because they are not earnest, it's cherry picking to prove a point, based on false premises. Scandinavia is not even a country, it&#x2
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
Why is dang allowing this person to bully everyone? Is this the new normal on HN?
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
Have you ever heard of anger management? Can you disprove the data without spewing all that bile? I'm honestly worried about your health. Here's a WSJ article about the topic https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-i
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
On the other hand, people using cheap devices usually don't rely on them so much, so the higher consumption is compensated by the lower overall usage, or have made the real environmental savy choice. I've never encountered an iP
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
If that was even possible, you would have to wait at least 10 years. At that point who knows if tablets as a form factor survived. To be clear, I think that a tablet (not specifically iPads which are expensive in their segment as any other
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
What does this have to do with the fact that the majority of old people in USA live alone because they are left alone? Are you saying that most elderly have no family or kids? And why people with no family or kids should live in solitude? I
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
Coming from a family where I am the first generation who could afford going to college, I disagree. OP was talking about Vietnam, my experience is in rural Italy and matches the idea of people helping each other, not of the exploitation of
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
China is the largest producer of cultural products in the World right now, Hollywood itself made blockbusters there, financed and co produced by China. It has already changed, before Brexit was even a thing. From 2013 China is now the lead
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
Yes and no. First of all, I'm European. Use of English as a second language, it might surprise you, dropped in the past 10 years, it was spoken by 52% of the population in 2012, now it dropped to 44%. Not native speakers, English is th
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
> Apple -- at 20% or so in most of the world's economies Apple has 17% (and dropping) of the mobile market share in Europe and around 9% in computing. There aren't many other richer economies in the World. Ferrari is worth now
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
> English is not about moving to another place but doing business beyond local. There are "only" 379 million people speaking English as a native language. But there are 1.2 billion people speaking English as a second language,
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
Welfare plays a big role as well.
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
> they want to get the f--- out the EU as soon as they can. Not in the EU I was born and raised.
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
English isn't an official EU language anymore, the only country that chose it was UK. https://www.politico.eu/article/english-will-not-be-an-offic...
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
Thanks for the question. I'm saying it should be easy to solve for the richest country in the World given the sheer amount of resources it possess. It looks impossible for the same exact country, because the society there doesn't
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
Homelessness as "a problem to deal with" means society is selfish, means exactly what you wrote. A society where people refuse to see it as a social issue, like sickness, and one that requires a lot of thought because you have to
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
Wow. Thanks so much for teaching me how to live. I'm sorry that the city where you live is such a terrible place, I come from a poor country in Europe and homeless people here are treated freely by the State, because people taxes pay f
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
I think you meant Muwekma Ohlone. If we are trying to be precise it was the Spanish who stole their land. Not all Europeans are made equal.
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
Not lacking, it simply didn't work as expected. I'm on Debian + KDE Plasma 5 and the tray icon disappeared, the UI froze for no obvious reason, sometimes only the frame of the windows was visible while the rest was a black square,
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
> Perhaps it's a contributing factor to the long stagnation of the Italian economy Perhaps. But doesn't explain stagnation in Japanese economy where there are no Italian unions. Or why France did much better despite having even
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
But can you or can't you be fired for that? Because in my country you can't be fired for using the work email for that. Communicating with other workers using their work email is absolutely allowed, courts ruled about it several
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
That's not true. You can as an employer walk away whenever you want, you just don't get the salary for the difference between the notice and when you left. Example: if you have to give 30 days notice (very common in Italy) and lea
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
> they could claim wrongful termination in this scenario and likely be awarded the pay they would have received for the missing notice period. Correct. That's what happens in Italy for example and I believe in large parts of Europe
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
> with extremly strong worker protection law Serious question: what makes them strong if employers can't organize a simple strike?
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
Do Google employers work in barracks?
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
Unpopular opinion: I never loved Slack and the Linux client wasn't working really well for me so I had to use the web one I work for a company with thousands of employees and we used Slack in our small team, we chose it because the maj
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
Reddit.
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
64GB of ram cost < 300 euros A lot of studios sell their old GPU (as in a generation ago) for cheap If you stay out of vertical integrated supply chains you can buy the best your budget allows If you are saying that you cannot assemble a
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by romanoderoma 6y ago
Or a desktop with 64 GB of RAM and two previous generation GPUs

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