UK is in a recession so James Bond needs to tighten the belt. Also, only Tesco gin and tonic for him from now on.
This vehicle doesn't fit the rules.
Get on the bus mr bond.
Readit Newsmodo_mario commented on Mazda suitcase car, a portable three-wheeled vehicle that fits in the luggage designboom.com/technology... · Posted by u/tlyleung
This is awesome! I wish there was sth similar for Europe! In Germany you have to go to a morgage broker and trust that his self-interest is aligned with yours :D
I pay a below 1% fixed rate for a 20 years mortgage since 4 years ago here in Belgium
I went to a mortgage broker first who offered me worse tho not necessarily bad rates with other banks as an option. The 2 best options I found were not on his roster. The mortgage broker did say he preferred not taking insurance discounts as those insurance cost could go up up to a maximum and couldn't then be renegotiated separately. But so far it's been better for me and of course that broker would also have negotiated the separate insurance and gotten his cut.
I assume that almost everyone in the UK who is able to work has a smartphone already.
If they were to require digital ID for pensions or disability benefits there would be more problems.
And if you have a pinephone or so?
modo_mario commented on Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff? economist.com/finance-and... · Posted by u/harambae
how the tech world is becoming trumpian-like is a funny thing to witness - try to unionize next time
>try to unionize next time
Amazon had a whole paper about how bringing migrants and diversity makes unionization less likely and successful. It's part of the point.
Also it's not just the US. Here in Europe it's the same. Hell the government spent it's money trough the employers org training Moroccans to become programmers to then bring em in. I knew a fair few programmers who believe this is all just for low skill low paying jobs as if paying better wages for those is impossible and as if those deserve to be undercut. The weird thing is how this kind of plainly rightwing economic rhetoric is often masquerading as left wing.
modo_mario commented on Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff? economist.com/finance-and... · Posted by u/harambae
The number of just straight out NO's I've gotten has been surprising and disheartening. I've been a developer for 20 years and genuinely don't think I've gotten an outright "no" before this year. Usually just no response. I've gotten maybe eight or nine actual rejections this year. It's honestly worse, emotionally.
Ideally I want a job outside my wheelhouse to learn and move forward, but it seems like no one these days is interested in any sort of training.
There have been two gigs I was really excited about that seemed more-or-less exactly what I have spent the past decade doing and they've BOTH actually replied that they didn't think my skills were a good fit. I genuinely have zero idea what you're looking for if the literal perfect fit isn't it.
Before COVID I would regularly apply for jobs, almost always get them, and decline largely to keep my interview skills fresh.
This last year of looking has been the total opposite. I've applied for umpteen places, and gotten a little bit of email back and forth, and a single interview (it's in a couple days, wish me luck).
>I genuinely have zero idea what you're looking for if the literal perfect fit isn't it.
Maybe someone on a visa that can't leave and will take peanuts.
modo_mario commented on How long can it take to become a US citizen? usafacts.org/articles/how... · Posted by u/speckx
Why do you believe that it hasn't been a net positive? Talking about regular migration, not refugees, and it's quite difficult to migrate to Germany, the country makes sure that you are a net positive to at least the economics (everything else can't be measured on an individual basis).
Because it hasn't been in the places where it was measured adequately with a similar makeup.
And typically it's not even close.
You can find papers on this from the netherlands (look up borderless welfare state, university of amsterdam), denmark, etc
Certain demographic historically brought in to work(morocco, etc) cost on average few hundreds of thousands.
This mostly trough abysmal employment statistics (the majority of non eu migrant women here in brussels is neither working nor looking for work, among men it's still >30%) and lower income employment which also costs the country on average.
And this is despite a whole hosts of internationals that come in for the higher paying jobs at the international companies, etc.
modo_mario commented on UK intends to scrap jury trials for majority of court cases gbnews.com/politics/uk/da... · Posted by u/cbeach
Nonsense.
- voting population? What are you on about? It's everyone older than 18.
- you are not allowed to say "let's go and kill xxxyyy" or "burn hotel xxxyyy" but more or less you can say anything else. You might get sued if you say "Kier Starmer is an XXXYYY" but possibly not.
- this is using a system such as the one that operates in many countries - like France. But note: Germany ditched jury trials in 1924...
- voting population? What are you on about? It's everyone older than 18.
It'll likely be 16. And I believe bringing in more population that is a lot more likely to vote for your is also part of that.
modo_mario commented on Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub bbc.com/news/articles/c86... · Posted by u/1659447091
Imagine a government that considers its people more than tools for the wealthy to use and discard as they see fit! So many regulations meant to protect the plebes!
Universal healthcare? Vacation time you can actually use? Data privacy laws?
What a bunch of losers! Next you’ll tell me they actually give parents time off to raise their kids instead of dumping them into daycare after a month of drudgery and try to call it bonding !
>Imagine a government that considers its people more than tools for the wealthy to use and discard as they see fit!
Most European governments are for a long time now pushing migration hard overtly or subversively(since it's unpopular) arguing as if they're importing tools for the economy.
modo_mario commented on How long can it take to become a US citizen? usafacts.org/articles/how... · Posted by u/speckx
Idk about US, but in Europe we are in dire need of migration. The shortage in for example health care is acute and alarming, at least in Germany.
Our cleaning women is just about to finish her three year training program. However she failed the final exam because of the complicated wording of the test. Her German is good enough but formal German is a different beast. She is allowed to redo the test a single time next week. If she passes, she will have an official German degree but has to leave the country because her visa is based on the training program. She then has to reapply for another visa to be allowed to reenter Germany.
Completely dysfunctional in my opinion. The system should bring people in that will be a net positive for the country while filtering out criminals.
I think you just don't want to pay those professions adequately.
Additionally I believe non eu migration on average hasn't been a net positive in various western european without even taking into account a load of externalities.
modo_mario commented on I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon blog.joinmastodon.org/202... · Posted by u/Tomte
You'd have to be around Mastodon to know what that means, but basically there was an effort by some Black folks there to not just create their own server but to also flag and identify racist/toxic servers etc, and anyone who fit that as they saw was put on their thing called "The Bad Space."
Was it well meaning? Yes. Did it end up being childish, overblown and power-trippy? Also yes.
I find that most everyone on Mastodon focuses properly, but too much on "Black people aren't much into Mastodon because of the racism," and not "Black people aren't much into Mastodon because it's boring as hell."
I don't consider those types of efforts well meaning anymore.
Rather than changing minds they without fail seem to attract narcissists and people utilizing victimhood like a status item or the like and that and purity spirals like a cudgel.
>I find that most everyone on Mastodon focuses properly, but too much on "Black people aren't much into Mastodon because of the racism," and not "Black people aren't much into Mastodon because it's boring as hell."
It's sad to say but I think black people aren't big in the tech space or similar spaces in general and not just in the US. Fosdem is one of the most pasty conventions out there in a rather international city.
As an outsider looking in I think just like with the lack of women in tech it's not primarily a barrier problem. And this is a different subject but I in factthink some of the weird campaigning towards women to join has had the opposite effect (Think 'barbie and her pink laptop entering the male dominated field' type stuff just reinforcing pointlessly gendered preconceptions.)