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Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

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Post by rtpg »

yodsanklai wrote: post #302
superzadeh wrote: post #297

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Schooling in France is definitely not free. Public schools (the ones that are free) represent very little amount of the Masters Degree. Most are private schools and cost ~7-10k euros per year.

> Public schools (the ones that are free) represent very little amount of the Masters Degree I think you're talking about business schools. Almost all reputable engineering schools are virtually free, as well as all universities.

To add to this:

"Virtually free" can mean somewhere around 2000 Euros a year. A lot of people get aid (I didn't have to pay for my last year thanks to this). Plus most engineering schools don't really use textbooks, so you don't have much in extra expenses apart from a laptop.

Yes, taxes pay for this, but that was my out-of-pocket for schooling.

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Post by Hydraulix989 »

huhtenberg wrote: post #255
jeremy_wiebe wrote: post #200

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Agreed. You have to deal with unbelievable weather much of the year. Then there's those oppressive mountains just to the north and the incredible skiing within an hours drive. Next you have to deal with the all the beautiful scenery, awesome hiking and biking. It's just horrible. Don't move to Vancouver. Not sure about wages. I feel I'm paid a fair salary.

> You have to deal with unbelievable weather much of the year. As the saying goes - "It rains only once, but for seven months (October through April)." > oppressive mountains Actually, said mountains limit traveling northbound (there's a single road that goes to Whistler), there's an ocean to the west, farmlands to the east and the US border with few hour wait crossing times to the south. So you are basically stuck i…

It's the same climate as Seattle.

Also, the Chinese real estate situation is the same as here in SV.

Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

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Post by qadevleadgrunt »

shostack wrote: post #537
qadevleadgrunt wrote: post #519

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I can only speak for myself having lived in Copenhagen/Boston/NYC; cost of living is lower in Copenhagen, but so are salaries, expect a huge cut in pay as well as on your ability to live a comfortable life on a tech salary. In NYC I can do a normal sit down lunch at $40 multiple times a week, without really batting an eye - whereas that would be painful in Denmark - on the plus side you usually have catered lunch whi…

What is overall work/life balance like over there? And is it very different if you are not an in-demand engineer?

It's tough for me to say - I've generally been doing 40-70 hours a week in NYC, and average in Copenhagen is more like 35 (defacto); In NYC I'm expected - more or less - to be available 24/7 incase of outage / stability issues, wrt my company, whereas it in Denmark is more about the client/company adjusting to your work schedule, and them living with potential outages.

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Post by fooker »

jessaustin wrote: post #417
fooker wrote: post #257

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You do realize that the US is relevant only because of globalization?

Relevant to whom? While international friendship is great, we don't have to bomb anyone to be happy ourselves. Arguably, less international aggression would make the world in general happier as well.

Relevant at science, technology, economy, everything related. I do not mean military relevance and some nebulous definition of being a superpower.

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Post by SixSigma »

mejari wrote: post #481
SixSigma wrote: post #475

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Her Saudi backers threaten everyone. Her Soros funded protest machinery put police in hospital. The BLM anarchy, again funded by Soros, killed cops on US soil.

Dude, it's over, you won. You don't have to pretend to believe that bullshit anymore.

The Memos are attached

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/59125

Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

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Post by SixSigma »

cmrdporcupine wrote: post #494
SixSigma wrote: post #475

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Her Saudi backers threaten everyone. Her Soros funded protest machinery put police in hospital. The BLM anarchy, again funded by Soros, killed cops on US soil.

In the 30s it was the "Rothschild conspiracy". Now it's Soros, Yellen. Both narratives are barely hidden anti-Semitism.

I have nothing to hide on that score.

Read for yourself

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/59125

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Post by mattkrause »

hiram112 wrote: post #535
mattkrause wrote: post #529

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I think the ACA also introduced the out-of-pocket limits.

No the older plans mostly had out-of-pocket limits, too. At least the standard employment sponsored plans.

Hmmm...perhaps the ACA changed the limits or something.

I thought my first (awful) plan had a benefit limit, as in you're getting a maximum of $1.25M from us, regardless of what happens.

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Post by drakonandor »

r00fus wrote: post #496
privong wrote: post #358

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> You have to wonder how long 'Obamacare' is going to last now with a Republican president, congress and senate... I don't think the Republicans have enough people in the Senate to block filibusters. So I assume the Democrats will use the filibuster to block repeals of the healthcare law.

Why in the world would the GOP ever leave the filibuster in place? Mitch will remove it at the beginning of the 115th Congress. Boom. Now Obamacare can be repealed with simple majority. I bet you dollars to donuts that insurance prices , however, will not go back down to pre-Obamacare prices. Because profits.

The fact that prices went up at all shows there is a huge problem. We're already paying more than anyone else in the world, why can't we get something for our money instead of having to pay even more?

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Post by drakonandor »

gedrap wrote: post #321
peeters wrote: post #121

I don't really get the mindset of "if Trump wins I'm moving to X country." The citizens in all of those countries are much more scared of a Trump presidency than Americans seem to be. It stands to reason that the best place to weather a Trump administration is from within the U.S. I mean, when your guy is threatening to disband NATO, tear up NAFTA (and rejects free trade as a whole), reinstate torture as official pol…

As someone from a country which strongly depends on NATO (Lithuania, former Soviet state, shared border with heavily militarized Russian territory Kaliningrad), you are spot on.

Lithuania, another NATO country which contributes about half of what they're supposed to to the collective defense.
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