I can not imagine what will happen in the gulf region if global demand for oil starts going down.
Qatar won't be too concerned - if the LNG market stays stable ;)
Readit NewsJMCQ87 commented on Qatar to withdraw from OPEC as of January cnbc.com/2018/12/03/qatar... · Posted by u/bgeils
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Gonna pass on used food.
They will get you somewhere.
Grow your own food! ;)
JMCQ87 commented on Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere? · Posted by u/throwawaygoaway
> politics is moving in quite a right-wing/anti-immigrant direction
Seems to be a global phenomenon. Is there a place where this isn't happening?
Canada and New Zealand, possibly.
I always feel so conflicted about these overly specific human interest takes on this topic.
- The rent increases are choices made by landlords, not Facebook.
- Even as quoted in the article, residents seem to believe that living in a place for a long time entitles them to continue living in that place longer at a price they find agreeable. I personally have been priced out of neighborhoods I loved living in twice in my life, once after living in the same place for 8 years and feeling a huge sense that it "was my home." It's sad and upsetting, but nobody is entitled to live in some place just because their family historically has lived there a long time or they personally have lived there a long time or theyhave some cultural identity to that place. It's not a nice part of reality, but that's just how it is. Playing on sympathies by hearing people say, "but we've lived here 10 years and Facebook doesn't care" is just an ineffective way to look at it, for all parties.
- As usual, the group of people most impacted (displaced tenants) is the group least capable of financially weathering the changing circumstances or politically lobbying for their preferences to be protected.
- If I were a Facebook employee, I would feel some measure of resentment towards the property groups doing this. One reason is because the property managers know the bad press will be flung at Facebook, not them. Another reason is that the property managers are essentially looking at the wages paid by Facebook as something they (the property managers) are entitled to (by raising rents to adjust for higher salaries). The landlords are not improving their value-add in any way, just raising prices to capture more of some other productive person's wages.
- And, of course as others have pointed out, it's largely driven by lack of new housing or high-rise housing.
No one might be entitled to that, but it's definitely helpful to the social health of an area if there is policy to ensure that the community stays somewhat stable.
JMCQ87 commented on How a Pentagon Contract Became an Identity Crisis for Google nytimes.com/2018/05/30/te... · Posted by u/lego_bot
I would assume that there are also very bad "optics" to an American conglomerate announcing to its government that they are unwilling to help with defense projects of (apparently) national interest.
With the current administration, maybe it won't just be optics, but also some knee-jerk executive orders that lead to much higher costs.
JMCQ87 commented on How a Pentagon Contract Became an Identity Crisis for Google nytimes.com/2018/05/30/te... · Posted by u/lego_bot
> However, he said he thought that it was better for peace if the world’s militaries were intertwined with international organizations like Google rather than working solely with nationalistic defense contractors.
I remember when sergey said nearly the same thing about china.
I wonder what he thinks "international" means.
JMCQ87 commented on Facebook announces Clear History feature facebook.com/zuck/posts/1... · Posted by u/anigbrowl
I respectfully disagree. Very few people will ever clear their history.
The paragraph literally starts with "if"...
JMCQ87 commented on Why German companies fail at digital innovation global.handelsblatt.com/o... · Posted by u/imartin2k
Some people here seems not to realize that German salaries come with 30 days paid vacation, a year of parental leaves, first grade medical coverage in a relatively cheap country to live in.
If your life goes wrong, due to illnesses, unforeseen circumstances or unemployment, or if you plan to have a family, you're better off in Germany than in silicon valley with 160k.
30 days? I got 25 and something in the range of 25 to 28 is the most common. 30 is unusual, if you're not in a unionized job, older, negotiated hard for it etc.
JMCQ87 commented on Iceland becomes first country to legalise equal pay aljazeera.com/news/2018/0... · Posted by u/dacm
Great, more compliance.
JMCQ87 commented on German universities take on Dutch publishing giant Elsevier chemistryworld.com/news/g... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
Interesting, I'd love to know what level this has escalated to behind the scenes - governmental? EU? If Merkel did a deal could the universities be forced to back down?
The federal state is not supposed to meddle in education in Germany, policy is decided on Bundesländer-level. They frequently do anyways, but I don't think it's important enough to them to get involved in this case.