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If anybody wants to know the truth, you can just go to the official Catalan Goverment education page: http://xtec.gencat.cat/ca/inici/

The page itself it's only in Catalan, with no translation into Spanish available. If you as a parent only speak Spanish, tough luck, you don't have the right to get to know official information about the education of your child in the official language of your country.

If you are curious, you can see the obligatory contents of any course (called Seqüències didàctiques). For instance, 1r ESO (roughly first high school year): http://xtec.gencat.cat/ca/curriculum/eso/sequencies/

The only subjects that are not in Catalan are "Llengua castellana i literatura" (Spanish language) and "Llengua anglesa" (English language).

Both would be having an illegal referendum.

Make it some major of a southern village, or even the whole State of Alabama, if you prefer. It would't make the question about Jim Crow laws more legitimate.

The problem here is that a court has determined that the referendum is illegal. So helping to do an illegal act is not allowed, and preventing it is one of the exceptions of free speech. I think advertising for drug dealers in the USA also wouldn't be covered by free speech.

The other problem is using public funds for something illegal. The use of public money is very restricted in Spain. There is a body of civil servants (interventores) whose only job is approving and supervising every euro spent by any gobernment entity. If there is public spending involved in the development or promotion of this app this is a big problem.

What do you think would happen if some racist group would held a referendum in USA about restoring Jim Crow laws?

Will the majority of voters would go out to vote No? Or would they just ignore the loonies?

A couple of thing you get wrong.

- Catalonia has never been an independent country. It was part of the Aragon Kingdom.

- The only mother tongue that students are limited to use in Catalonia is Spanish. All public schools use only catalan, except for Spanish language classes, which are treated as a foreign language, like English.

"more than I need, less than I deserve"

But seriously, I think that it's better to not answer this question, at least not with a hard number. The only reason they ask you is because they are trying to gauge if they can get away with paying you [current salary]+x%, where this number is less than their standard salary for the position. Instead, say something like "it's not directly comparable because [reasons], so let's focus on what will be my responsabilities and what will be an adecuate compensation for them".

It's mostly the same in Spain. Our IRS equivalent sends you a draft that you can approve digitally. If you have something to add or change, there is an online form that you can pre-load with the government data and then edit anything you need. You sing it digitally and you're done.

Before that, there was a market for tax advisors that filled taxes for ordinary people, but it's gone. Only rich people or people who own complex business or investments need an advisor to fill their taxes now.

I think it wouldn't, at least in Spain, if those receiving the emails are acting not as individuals (final customers) but as company representatives. So it's OK to send an email to Jane at jane@somecompany.com but not to send another email to the same Jane at jane@gmail.com.

Just yesterday:

Tourist couple arrested in Abu Dhabi for sex before marriage after police discover woman is pregnant

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tourist-couple-arrested...

Neither the universe or the planet has finite resources... in a practical sense.

100K years ago, all resources of Europe were barely enough to sustain a few tens of thousands of humans. With agriculture and metal technologies, it went up to a few millions, just because metals, wood or fields were new resources. Industrial revolution meant lots more people could live in cities, because coal were a new resource. Same happened with petrol or uranium in the XXth century: new resources, more people could live better where previous resources were scarce.

We have no reason to think it will be different in the future and we will stop uncovering new resources that will let us live better. In any case, the rate of discovering new resources has done nothing but increase its pace all through history.

It is if you care about the poorest.

It isn't if you care about your message and narrative.

Google Maps works offline. You can select a zone in a map and download it. Although it's not perfect and has quirks like not being able to plan a walking route offline.

The oldest maybe, unless there is other code written previously by Simony on the wild. It's called hungarian notation because Charles Simony is hungarian and he was the father of both hungarian notation and Word's source code.

unprecedented equality != perfect equality

Unprecedented equality means that in a capitalistic (Western) society almost everybody eats a hot meal everyday day, has free time to enjoy, has an assortment of clothes, furniture and things, has a place to live with running water and electricity and appliances that run with said electricity.

All things that only the richest people could dream of enjoying just a couple of centuries ago.

1957 Fords were made in a capitalist society under less regulations than todays cars. Cold War era Trabants, Skodas or Ladas that were made under a socialist economy were neither as durable nor as desirable as those capitalist cars made in the West.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb has an interesting point that for human creations the expected lifespan is the same as their previous life[1]. If a book is read 10 years after it's published, you can expect that it will be read for another 10 years.

So for C this would be 44 more years from now, but it gets another extra year for every year it survives, so it isn't far fetched to think C will be around in 2100.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

Smoking weed in Spain is legal since a couple of decades. Selling a small bag is illegal, but this isn't really enforced as it's hard to prove that the bag was for selling and not for self consuming.

Usually police will turn a blind eye both for selling pot and selling beer, unless anything goes wrong and somebody complains.

In Spain 20 euros buys you a liter of the best specialty extra virgin olive oil. This is why good olive oil poured over a toast covered with pureed tomatoes is such a popular breakfast.

Try spanish olive oil. I'm spanish, so I probably have a bias. You can have pretty decent olive oil for less than 4 euros / litre here so olive oil is the only oil I use.

If you buy oil bottled in Spain look for the "extra virgin olive oil" label: Aceite de oliva virgen extra. We are pretty serious with labeling around here, so you won't be fooled.

There are varieties like picual, hojiblanca, arbequina or cornicabra which are different in color and taste, and are named after the olives they are made from.

It isn't. It's a sugary contraption that makes your salad sweet and brownish, which is attractive to the eye.

Don't know about watches, but my wife has needed a new pair of shoes just because she had nothing that matched a new dress, and then a new purse and belt to go with the shoes, and then a jacket or a coat...

Yes, sustainability is possible. No, we are not living beyond the capacity of the earth. Yes, it's possible to sustain this many people, and some billions more.

Because the very concept of "resources" is not fixed. In the Paleolythic, all of Eurasia and Africa only had resources to sustain a few hundred of thousands of humans. Petrol wasn't a resource, coal wasn't a resource, even land wasn't a resource.

When we learnt to grow crops and tame animals the resources grew to let the same land sustain some millions of people.

And in the past 50 years, Borlaug's Green Revolution [1] turned all of 70's predictions of doom like The Population Bomb false. We have now more food than ever, and more resources than ever. And that's if we call "resources" just the things that we can use now.

In 50 years, people will be worrying about running out of X, where X will be a thing that we now don't think about as a resource.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug

Arrington nails it.

If Buffett was really willing to pay more taxes, he could just stop using loopholes to avoid paying hundreds of millions every year. Or stop litigating with the IRS to get to pay less. He doesn't want "the rich" to pay more taxes. He wants other (less) rich people to pay more taxes.

Yes, you do. Please read this: http://www.sethgodin.com/sg/docs/brainwash.pdf

Maybe "training to be slaves" is hiperbole, but as Seth Godin puts it, training to be "cogs in a machine" is quite right.

My son has a BQ smartphone, and battery life is much better than his previous Samsung's.

Except for the Kuwait invasion and Gulf War, and between 500.000 and 1.5M people dead in the 9 years of Iran-Irak war in the 80s, and tens of thousand palestinians killed by jordanians in the 70s, and several Israel-Arab wars since 1947, and Lebanon civil war.

I agree that a private company should be free to choose to not deal with some people because of their political positions. But I also think a private company should be free to choose to not deal with some people for their sexual choices. So a bakery can do whatever the fuck they want if a gay couple ask for a wedding cacke.

Personally, I would never do business with a company that is racist, sexist or discriminatory in any way, but I defend the right to be racist, sexist, discriminatory or a general asshole in your private endeavours. I value freedom over feelings.

I think he meant larger in the sense that 24 bits is larger than 8 bits

I have taken my children to the Prado several times, and also to the Thyssen and Reina Sofia. They enjoyed their visits, mostly because there were specially made for kids: they had a guide for a group of 10-12 kids, the visits had a theme like Greek mythology, and they only stopped in front of a few paintings.

I liked the Thyssen visits the most: only 5-6 paintings with a common theme like music, cities, people... and at the end the kids would do a craft based on what they just saw. The guides took a socratic approach to the visits, so instead of explaining they asked questions like What do you see here? Why did the artist did that? Who is this person in the painting? Was he rich? Is she happy?

We parents were with them but weren't allowed to speak before the kids, only to help when they struggled with a question. It was delightful to see the children's imagination run wild with their interpretation of the paintings.

Seeing only a few paintings but really being in front of them for a while was a new experience for me, used to the common mindset of having to see all paintings in a museum even if only for a few seconds.

Facebook pays for the NHS healthcare and pensions of all its workers. It's separate from corporation tax, wich goes to fund the UK government.

Facebook also collects VAT and pays VAT in every country where it is generated, including UK.

And I don't know about UK corporate building taxes, but in Spain every company pays local taxes depending on the size of their buildings.

So little corporation tax is quite different from no tax.