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freedom2099

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    Comment #38771930

    What do they teach you at university nowadays??? When I was in university studying computer engineering (almost 20y ago) we were taught networking a very thoroughly! Not only every…

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    Comment #36826153

    I have been a home owner for roughly 20 years by now and I don’t think I spent more than 5k euros in maintenance so far…

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    Comment #36826134

    6% interest rate? Things are crazy in the US! For my house I got 0.9% fixed rate over 10 years. No yearly fees.

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    Comment #36636142

    As someone that has been living near Nice for the past 11 years I can tell you that rents outside tourists areas aren’t that high… not cheap but not 1k either

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    Comment #36604071

    He was also driving without a driving license (in France you can’t drive if you are 17)

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    Comment #36550601

    On my area my salary seems relatively above average for my role/experience… I live in Côte d’Azur. I could earn a bit more changing company but I am not that keen to change… I just…

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    Comment #36548057

    Honestly I feel poor reading your salaries… although I do live in France where you can have a good standard of living with less! In my case around 60k for 35h a week… 15 years of e…

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    Comment #36372042

    As an Italian the government can’t really take away my citizenship (there are only 2 cases in which it can and both involve working for a foreign government and refusing to cease t…

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    Comment #36193245

    You fire them… it’s harder than in other places put you can still do it. You just need a valid reason! I had at least a couple of colleagues other the years being fired! At least e…

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    Comment #36178797

    This! Vive la France!

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    Comment #36178792

    Country law state 30 days for my kind of contract… but since I work more than your normal contract (in France the work week is 35h a week whilst I work 37h) I get extra 5 days. On …

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    Comment #36175972

    I have 7 weeks plus bank holidays… but I am not in the US (mandatory days… you are obligated to take them all)

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    Comment #35703958

    I am surprised by the amount of people doing psychedelics here! I know no one… and even expanding the drug pool at best I know a guy doing weed maybe once every 2 years. Is that co…

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    Comment #35403912

    Are you sure you have been using chatgpt? In all my tests it understands logic extremely well! With version 4 it is even way better!

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    Comment #35403872

    If you ask to set it in the forgotten realms it reuses existing factions without using tokens! With gpt4 it’s amazing! It is better than my actual human dm!

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    Comment #35032682

    Or simply don’t marry someone you have just met! (And by “just met” I mean someone you haven’t been in a relationship with for at least 5 years)

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    Comment #34740184

    “” Marathon" means to run slowly for a long time.” This quote is factually false. Marathon is a place in Greece where a big battle against the Persian Empire took place. A running …

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    Comment #34582974

    It really depends where… in Europe we have good salaries but not crazy stuff like in the US

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    Comment #34454644

    I work in France… the company I work for is travel related… and we have thousands of employees. During the pandemic we did not let go a single person! We had 2 years of basically z…

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    Comment #34342623

    Or live in a country that by law paid leave for sickness (yours or your kids) and vacations (I have 35 days off a year… and I am obliged to take them all)!

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    Comment #34308844

    You mean the value system that got us the dark ages, people burned at the stakes for “heresy” (or hanged, or many other form of death), silenced people because what they were sayin…

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    Comment #34300652

    I am Italian… raised catholic… my high school was owned and managed by the church… and I am an atheist as well! An I can tell you that in my country the problem are the believers n…

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    Comment #34298322

    If you don’t see the issue with “often religious” then nothing I say can change your mind! Religion as a moral compass is horrible! Religious communities are often the most toxic o…

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    Comment #34257508

    Sadly true

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    Comment #34248578

    The possibility to have a healthy debate on any topic is the root of progress!