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As a Greek, a) lots of people lost their jobs during the crisis, could barely make ends meet or even committed suicide; those people certainly didn't fill the taverns. B) It is tru…

Again you are extremely wrong on this. However it is clear that you hold such misanthropic views that I won't be able to make you even slightly consider a perspective based on the …

> If the treatment is expensive, then only net-productive individuals would be able to afford it, meaning we would gain the benefit of contributors contributing for longer, without…

I don't think you're right. I won't pretend to be an expert on any of this, but as a speaker of modern Greek I can confidently say that λαβύρινθος (labyrinth) is the only word in G…

> We are the world champions of strikes and yet, somehow, doctors rarely go on strike. I do not know why. When talking about public healthcare, strikes mean little. State won't car…

Autark comes from ancient greek αυτάρκης (same in modern greek) which is made up from two words αυτός (he) & αρκώ (v) which means suffice, so self-sufficient. I wasn't aware that t…

Oh yes, and when support ends it's practically impossible to use a phone. I've never understood people talking about "support", still rocking a 7 year old phone (have changed the b…

Greeks.

Let me get this straight. You're asking what's stopping people from walking everywhere? And instead of thinking for like 5 seconds and realizing someone may work 15km away from hom…

Not so in Greece. Salaries are way lower than 3,5-4k per month. Doctors, for example, in public hospitals get around 2k per month and the consultants maybe around 2,5-3k.

> President Donald Trump repeated a highly misleading claim on Friday that Germany will soon depend on Russia for 50 percent to 70 percent of its energy needs. Then the article spe…

...enter Greece.

It's because Pokémon Go was a product designed for manipulating people. One of the first attempts at mass behavioral modification. Most Google products make sense when you think in…

Turkey is in NATO, not in the EU. I believe elections are to happen next year, although democracy in Turkey is probably not going to get better for it.

Are doctors not already telling people to eat healthy & exercise? > 12 hours work/day > ads for unhealthy food > lots of cheap tasty unhealthy food products in supermarkets Have we…

Could be, it carries the same meaning in modern Greek.

Facebook, twitter, etc left-leaning in the US sense where left is right and right is near the edge of the right spectrum I get. But people-empowering? These large platforms are ver…

One roadblock for GNOME on mobile is a proper maps/navigation app. On android there exist a couple using openstreetmaps (like organic maps) but no offline maps & navigation program…

> I can’t see there being a compelling legal argument to disallow photos > that hasn’t been codified federally The world is moving faster than law, I'd even go as far as to say tha…

Thinking of myself as a parent I'd be quite angry if photos of my children ended up on Instagram (private profiles or not) or any company's servers. So in your place, knowing how b…

And it's not just the expectation of impermanence. Those photos are forever and for everyone as you say. Reachable by anyone, anytime for whatever reason.

I do understand where you're coming from, but I was growing up in the 2000s and the (primary & later secondary) school took photos that were shared first on official blogs/sites an…

I'm not entirely sure that that is the case and Germany was the primary reason for NATO forming. It surely was meant to hinder the spread of communism/Soviets. And yes, a defense a…

Obviously you are unaware of basic history of how NATO was created to halt the communist/Soviet "threat". Please, look up "History of NATO" on Wikipedia. So, for NATO there _was_ a…