Come if you want
- 56% income tax
- housing shortage which is leading to landlords charging 1.5k eur for just a room
- ever increase in public transport (train) unreliability and degrading conditions (shorter carriages during peak times)
- increasing health insurance costs with fewer benefits
- diversity, inclusion and acceptance by the community
- directness (although it's a fine line between being direct and rude so YMMV)
- poldermodel (things may take a few iterations to get done)
California has 45% (marginal effective combined federal/state, for any nitpickers) tax rate, even higher cost of living, and no health insurance at all by default.
>"Additionally, the study was conducted at a single center in China, which may limit generalizability to other populations. The researchers also acknowledged that factors such as reinfection risk, vaccination status, and behavioral differences (e.g., medication adherence) could not be fully accounted for."
With no mention if the subjects were smokers, had diabetes, overweight or sedentary lifestyles seems to me like a wholelotta nothing burger.
After 17 years since joining EU and 14 years since Romania met all the technical accession they were all able to join.
Since 2011 Romania was blocked by The Netherlands and Austria from joining. When one country didn't contest, the other did, and so here we are 14 years later.
And what if the government does eventually get its hands on aliens and their flying saucers? “It’s not their job [to keep it secret],” he says. “It would immediately get turned over to Nasa, and Nasa would immediately disclose it to everybody. That’s their job.”
Oh OK, NASA will disclose it like they did with the footage of a UFO entering earth(1)?
For those who are interested, these two podcasts are insightful (2) and (3).
Are you that engineer that fixed that AS400? Back in the early 2010s, there were like 5 people across, the whole UK who could work on those mainframes.
Not me :) - but that's the sort of thing I have in mind. I remember mainframe folks in the run up to y2k getting literal "blank cheques" to work on stuff.
>I tried to join Google in that era, unsuccessfully. (I got surprised by a weird whiteboard interview, with an interviewer who seemed to implicitly assume they were better than me, and came off as dismissive.)
>In hindsight, I wonder whether I would've 100% liked a company driven by software engineers (other than the apparent aspect of recent grads with senior-sized egos).
The same thing happened to me and left feeling the same in the early 2010s.
(Great experience however and any interview after that was a walk in the park)
