- Searching for a guide on say a car infotainment system would be totally different here from someone explaining in the USA or germany. Now I see a ton of titles in my language, only to find out it's information is completely useless to me because a menu, button or whatever doesen't even exist.
This is so annoying. I can't believe they couldn't understand this, and there are many multilingual people.
If only we had something similar for Europe. Been trying to build my own trading strat here from Spain but it's an incredible uphill battle to cut through all the infra problem.
Right now I'm basically reverse engineering an API from a bank, which is not really a great idea.
I would say smaller companies such as scaleway are catching up. Slowly, but surely they are.
There are about 6-7 euro companies that seem to have this long term plan of becoming the euro AWS (including OVH) but the problem is always the capital available.
I use AWS at work and it can become insanely complex to work with, or to have estimates or what's going to cost you.
I did use scaleway in my previous work (they didn't have as many services as they have now) and it was much easier.
Anyway, there's still a long way to go because these services need to catch up with the AWS offering and pretty much everyone knows AWS, it's the default now.
If I had to start a business now I would probably go with Scaleway.
I have been also thinking of trying Scaleway, but do you think these statements from UpCloud, another alternative I am considering, sound true or is it just marketing?
Well Scaleway is actually 1.3 and not 1.4 in Trustpilot, they've anyway the essentials thing so it would be free to try so not losing anything there https://upcloud.com/solutions/essentials
The only reason you're thinking this way it's because you're thinking about problematic migrants, but there are many others you don't see. They don't need to become French, Spanish, Dutch, etc. They're perfectly fine feeling from $country in $eurocountry, going on with their lifes.
Europe is not the US, it can't be, and that doesn't mean we're at fault of everything. Many poor migrants come and do ok and have the same opportunities and challenges that others who fail.
But somehow is always the same subset we think about.
I attack the idea that someone born and raised in, say, NL whose grandparents moved in from, say, Turkey, is considered a Turk, often both by themselves and other people. In my opinion, if someone is born and raised here, they’re Dutch, or something like “Turkish-Dutch” maybe, but instead everybody talks about them like they are an immigrant.
To lock people inside their little immigrant identity groups, even when done out of some loving inclusive anti-racism vibe, has the adverse effect of what’s intended. It’s totally possible to be Dutch and Turkish and we should celebrate that, not fight it.
The economy sucks for everyone, not only a subset of poor migrants. A subset of african migrants show up in crime stats way more than plenty of other poor migrants coming from pretty much everywhere, be it asia, africa or latam.
Some poor indian has no advantage coming to Spain compared to someone from the Magreb, in fact we could argue quite the opposite as their support networks/country of origin are pretty far away.
In Europe we have inmmigrants from all over the world, but consistently there's an area in a continent that shows up in crime stats way more than others. Can you explain that? Is that we are all xenophobic or racists or can we admit that there's a cultural component into it, because similar migrants within the same continent but different culture do actually do ok?
Other times may have different outcomes because countries and cultures change. Spain for example is a completely different country from what it was in the 80s, economically and culturally.
When you live in a place, and you see the same people showing up in stats, and people see the same behavior over and over and over and over, it's about time to quit calling people things and admit that something is going on and we should do things differently.
And if you don't then someone will show up promising to deal with it.
My city is not Barcelona but it's getting a growing tourism phenomenon. This goes into few pockets and against everyone else, and people is getting pissed about it.
In "expat" groups foreigners complain we're rude and uninviting, but why wouldn't people be, we were perfectly fine before. Almost nobody here lives off tourism.
You don’t need to be directly receiving tourist dollars to benefit economically from tourism. Tourism can inject a significant amount of money into the local economy, which then circulates and supports business and employment outside of tourism.
(Of course, not all tourism is equal. Day visitors from cruise lines spend little money onshore, for example.)
We've been living without tourism fine, we have industry, big companies, etc. I only see negative externalities in exchange of filling a few big pockets.
Our quality of life worsens in exchange of nothing good for most of us.
Mmm, I already do this with LXC, but could be better integrated, I guess?
My next goal was to use Docker for this, but since I don't know docker yet, I'm not sure if that would a good idea for having a ready prod env right after a commit.
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