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Not in my experience, delays of a couple of minutes are standard and 15 to 20 minute delays are not unheard of.

Mind you, commuter trains with 30 minute intervals.

Check out Swiss newspapers, plenty of complaints.

And again, I didn't say Switzerland is worse, just that all that praise is mostly a hype.

I didn't say Swiss trains are worse.

Brought to you by Switzerland Tourism?

Swiss trains are not bad and they are undoubtedly kept clean, but the punctuality is rather a myth. Especially commuter trains regularly have significant delays.

Swiss trains are not bad, but not necessarily "better" than other railways in Europe and certainly not "best".

> escape Russia

I am not sure how that disproves your bias, respectively what that is even supposed to mean. I am not aware of any travel restrictions, so there's no "escape".

I am also not quite sure why you are so dismissive of Mearsheimer. But again, there will be little point in continuing the discussion.

No offence, but the bias mentioned by verisimi earlier seems to be quite obvious at this point. I don't think continuing the discussion makes much sense.

Nobody will claim any military action is a good thing. But you equally cannot say this conflict just started a few weeks ago.

If NATO hadn't pushed further and further (and went against what was agreed), we would have never had that issue in the first place, as Ukraine wouldn't have been turned into a pawn against Russia.

This issue has been known for decades. Biden mentioned it 20 years ago already - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNgCwoaT9u4

I can only highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4 as well.

As I mentioned, I can't support Mozilla any more and hence am migrating away. I am not entirely happy supporting the Chrome universe at this point, but this is the only way if Mozilla is not an option any more.

I realise that. That is exactly my concern, however sometimes one has to make concessions.

Honest answer :)

Because I do not condone that move.

It will be difficult because I have been using Firefox for years and tried to avoid anything Chrome-based and I am not very happy with Google's Manifest v3 approach, but Mozilla just crossed a red line for me.

Have been a strong(!) advocate for Firefox for years.

Now it is time to switch. Not sure where to yet, Chrome is not any better, Palemoon is not exactly well supported. Maybe Brave, Vivaldi, or Opera, though they are all Chrome-based as well.

Difficult decision and not very happy about it, as I do think we need more than just one browser engine, but I can't support Mozilla any more.

The posting below was flagged. I leave it up to the reader if flagging this content is censorship or not. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30576754

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Not sure how much the Guardian is in a position to make objective statements on this topic, being in the Western bubble as well and regurgitating the Western propaganda.

The fact that the European Union has completely censored RT is something which most people either do not know or are simply nonchalantly ignoring.

So yes, one may ask what Russians are being told or not being told on this subject, but equally the same question applies to the Western hemisphere.

And no, I am not saying everything on RT is 100% objective and unbiased.

Especially with programs as Crosstalk you can notice and certain bias from its host. But even that bias is not worse than what appears to be standard with Western propaganda.

Plus, even Crosstalk has guests who are much more objective than the show itself. For example, Daniel Lazare.

Then, you have Going Underground, which does question the Russian narrative to a very good and surprising extent. You wouldn't have that on Western TV.

No offence, but I politely ask you not to make such broad statements (which just repeat the official Western propaganda) if you do not really have experience with the program.

I'd recommend to check out https://rumble.com/c/RTNews and focus on the programs. The Donbass reports in-between are interesting, but certainly also propagate a narrative and appeal to your emotional side.

> I checked out RT once and found it to be full of

I am sorry, but then I question your qualification on that.

RT is pretty solid. The user comments on the site are quite bad, but that's it. The content itself is of a higher journalistic standard than what you can expect in its Western counterparts.

Sorry, no offence, but you shouldn't make statements, such as those you made, when you are barely familiar with the medium.

I am pretty familiar with RT and while I am not sure I'd agree with everything they say, their content is much less biased than what you get from the BBC and alike - and that is taking into account that the Russian government will certainly have an influence.

> RT has not been banned in the UK. (YouTube is not the UK).

Yes it has. Why would Youtube censor RT in the UK but not in other places? Obviously the governments were involved.

Point is, RT has been censored in the UK and the EU.

> Assange was not imprisoned for “fake news”.

So you are saying he was imprisoned for "proper news"? Even worse.

How much do you follow RT, in order to make such a statement?

And yes, RT has been blocked in the UK as well. https://pasteboard.co/scz8JjU9VuIn.png

Plus

> will go to prison for 15 years for writing something that doesn’t fit the government’s narrative

You may want to ask Julian Assange. Incidentally imprisoned by her Majesty's government.

I do not think the OP meant to say the latter but rather express his disappointment with what is taking place in Ukraine right now.

But yes, we should not forget about Yemen where the same thing is happening

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/03/saudi-... (incidentally a Guardian link :-D)

Nobody will question that. Military conflict is always horrible. Be that in the Ukraine, be that in Yemen, be that in Iraq, be that in Afghanistan, be that in any of the other thousand examples throughout human history.

The issue here is, it's not even about the people. It's about a conflict of interest between major powers in the world, who are unable to co-operate but rather escalate their disputes on political or even warfare levels.

The whole thing goes back to the early 2010s and that only recently. The issue itself goes back far longer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4 is a talk of Prof. John Mearsheimer at the University of Chicago and provides some basic insight. If you have the hour to watch it, I highly recommend it.

Oh, so you were referring to my person?

In that case any further discussion is probably pointless as you seem to resort to personal attacks and at that point you are close to Godwin.

I'd return the compliment though, as you do not seem to have comprehended what point I - or for that matter mrfusion or the mentioned article - was trying to make but you seem to be too entrapped in your ideology.

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If you completely change your response after my reply you of course distort the context once more.

Its sole focus is on skin colour or how a person "identifies". Other factors are completely left out, e.g. the rampant ageism in the industry and that's just one factor not the only.

I think you made a lot of assumptions here which will be most likely wrong about most people.

The whole diversity thing is extremely one-sided and biased and very much undiverse in nature. mrfusion made a very valid point in this context.

So much about "diversity".

"pay" appears twice in the article, "salary" exactly once.

The author did touch the salary topic, but it is not the main point.

We are talking about average here and 80+ is not average. The whole point was the the suggestion of moving would be a pointless exercise.

> as job coders are 21st century factory workers, its not on lawyer/doctor/accountant level.

Fair enough, but this proves the author's point. Development used to be on such a level and has steadily declined.

> The salary is just so much easier to quantify

He only briefly mentioned that though and it was not the main point.

> The constant learning just to stay up to date? Isn’t that part of the other professions too?

Depends on the profession of course, but generally speaking, no. No other profession changes every five minutes (exaggerated of course), even IT did not up until 10, 15 years ago.

As I mentioned already, the OP might have simplified things, but overall I agree with him.

Still not EU and both examples are high-expense countries where wages naturally are higher too, but that does not solve the problem.

And as for Germany, it shouldn't be 60+, but rather 80+ to match the expectation of being significantly more.

The suggestion of moving simply is flawed.

Switzerland and Norway in the EU?

Germany and Ireland are the same as the UK

https://www.payscale.com/research/DE/Job=Senior_Software_Eng...

https://www.payscale.com/research/IE/Job=Senior_Software_Eng...

Denmark appears to be slightly higher but Denmark is also more expensive than the UK.

Overall far from the alleged big difference.

It's interesting how the vast majority of comments focus on the salary part when the author actually only lightly touched that subject and mostly covered a completely different subject.

Does that tell something about the readers? ;)

> much better in some EU countries

In which EU countries do you earn a lot more than EUR 64,000 on average?

"going freelance" is just as simplified as the other comment of "simply moving to the US".

Fully agree with the author.

Even if he might have over-simplified things, the bottom line is true.