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walidthedream
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
I am quite annoyed by the people who don't see the issue with eSim because "they never had an issue" with it. It's like having one murder down your block and stating that you don't see the issue because nobody attempted to murder you so far. ESim are backed up as part of iCloud backups, had one dodgy carrier in Europe (Lyca) who never activated my eSim so I switched back to a new carrier but I had to get a transfer authorization from Lyca. Guess what , since I was no longer a customer I was sent to hell by their customer support. Best joke that it was impossible to remove on my iPhone. It was part of the backup, a reset attempt did not solve it so I had to drive 200km to an Apple store to get a hard reset and the Apple genius advising me against restoring my data "otherwise it would retrieve the faulty ESIM back in your phone" !!!
walidthedream
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
The crackdown and massive amount of money spent student AI cheating is a real joke. One of the last UK university courses I took was including a full week of mandatory course about plagiarism with hours of useless videos explaining that using grammarly was considered plagiarism. Guess what ? The main plagiarized content I encountered were the lecturers slides, clearly plagiarizing from other professor slides, themselves having plagiarized other slides etc. No, this is not universal knowledge sharing etc. This was just blatant copy paste. These guys should clearly clean their own house before pinpointing students who will use AI anyway. They should check if students are capable of producing an original piece of work based on acquired knowledge and not test their capacity to spit that knowledge like a parrot.
walidthedream
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
Yes by most normal countries (North and South America, Europe, Africa, Middle East ) and even broader French (outside of Paris) standards 30 meters square feet (320 sq feet) is called a tiny house, and is even illegal for families in some part of the world. The whole point is « if you’re alone »… is that a life frankly ? So you take a shitty salary because you’re alone or do you take money to progress in your personal life and build something like a family ? Oh yeah true you don’t need a car because life is so miserable driving and parking here, but public transportation is a total disaster when it comes to safety (ask pretty women how they feel there) , quality of service (summer transportation is a disaster, strikes and regular failures), cleanliness (piss, rats and bedbugs and vagabonds every where). And yeah the SNCF trains are also the preferred homeless shelter and very unreliable during every public vacation time. So you’re totally right, the car is something of the past… unless you live in a crappy suburb you can today totally forget about the less than 1000 rent.it is around 1500 minimum, and in this paradise that means earning 4500 minimum because waiting lines are in average 15 to 20 candidates per rentals . And you better be a white colored person with a European name and face. So with 3700 net salary you simply not qualify. You end up like most people looking for a partner officially and counting on your partner salary plus yours just to get a chance to live in that tiny flat. Telco is 50 euros min without Netflix and football and Disney or Spotify . If you have a family and need to dream because of the gritty environment you leave in , you can add 30 / 40 bucks and you end up with 70 to 100 bills depending on the number of persons in your household . And you didn’t pay yet the flat tv nor the smartphone. Believe people earning less than 4k net a month in the Paris region do look at the prices today.
walidthedream
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
Wake up buddy. You have well learned the French socialist propaganda lesson. Unemployment in France since our 4 latest presidents have become aligned with California (around 180 days max). Ie capped in amount and limited in time. I don’t doubt many people around you have it worse.

Heavily subsidized rent ?? Where do you live in a social housing project ? What an ambition for an engineer graduate from a so called good public school ! What has this country become frankly to be happy with heavily subsidized rents ? I guess it comes half of the time with drug dealers in the entrance hall, or am I wrong and you have an included gym and swimming pool in the building ? In that case I understand why you have zero debt for sure you don’t own the place where you live because at 15k per sq meter in Paris you can’t own anything decent for 60k salary. Social security ? Let me laugh, unless if you compare it to UK’s NHS or 3rd world system, I hope you will never experience the French hospitals Emergencies admissions. Just compare it to Spain and you’ll see how miserable things have become. And I’m not talking about medications shortages, +6months wait time to see a specialist, generalists that refuse new patients, etc. Subsidized child care ? I guess you have no clue about what a proper child care system works, ask your colleagues from Northern Europe and they’ll tell you. I guess you didn’t check the news about what’s going on inside those public creches. It’s as good as what’s happening in French retirement homes. But you’re probably cool because you were told it was cool.
walidthedream
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
Oh yeah true I would welcome the opportunity to move in a country where the Starbucks coffee costs 2 dollars and a Mercedes cost 15k USD.
walidthedream
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
Privacyonsec let me laugh so you say you make 45k net in Paris and you live very comfortably ? That means ur gross is around 60k. 3700 a month in your pocket ie 4k usd. When rents are around 2k a month let me guess you live in a 30 square meter hole or your room sharing your flat or your living in a gritty suburb or dad & mum have you covered . When any decent car would cost you 300 € a month, telco bundle 100 €, 100 € energy minimum, add 200 € minimum of property charges if you own your flat. 250 € of food if you go to low class hard discount store, 50 euros transportation if you don’t own or leade car , that makes already 3000 euros a month of spending. Add various taxes and fees if you’re landlord, say 200 euro a month. 100 min for health care. You now have 400 euros left in you bank account left, I hope you don’t have any kid like most of parisians , other you go broke in no time. And I didn’t count anything Paris has to offer : restaurant costing 20 euros per person on average, cinema at 10 euros etc. France is being destroyed by privileged people or cheap people that thing they are virtually rich while in fact they are virtually poor.
walidthedream
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
If you get satisfied with a 60k gross salary as an engineer wherever you are in Europe you should maybe question yourself unless you’re full remote in a Bulgarian country side. Cars cost the same everywhere, same goes for flight tickets , electronics, top universities tuition, major food or fashion brands, etc etc.
walidthedream
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
I read it. I think you’re talking about two things that have little in common … you re comparing middle age military conquests with 19th / 20th century colonialism. Arab conquests had no racial basis, they did not establish « colonies » in the 19th/20th century sense, they did not subdue the population, kill or banish their intellectuals except at specific and limited religious extremist times, segregate ethnies, and siphon the economy deliberately. which probably explains the arabization process and the fact that 90 percent of modern berbers consider themselves as Arabs because Arab is a culture, it’s not a race or an ethnic belonging. Maybe a fairer comparison would be with the Ottoman era imperialism and I can guarantee you there are plenty of writings and arts in the Arab world that depict it in critical ways.
walidthedream
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
New Yorks leads the pack as usual. If you want to understand why continental European salaries are mostly low , don’t only look at the social security cost, but also at the labor law which is a middle aged indentured servitude heritage wrapped with worker rights bullshit : in France, 3 months notice period, up to 8 month of trial period, non competes with ridiculous comp. are very common for startups and Mid Sized businesses, same as non sollicitation, exclusivity clauses (generally all in a combo). Plus you get shunned if you job leave your master too quickly (ie less than 1 or 2 years depending on sector). And if you get fired be prepared for the Wild West of reference checking (nothing that can legally protect you from an ex bully who wants you to pay the price of daring leaving), loosing full health cover, and so on.