China's unprecedented generational explosion into the middle class happened only after Deng Xiaoping instituted market reforms. Economically, China is certainly more socialist than the west, but far more capitalist than it was in the 1970's.
There was a massive drop in living standards in the former Soviet Union after the introduction of capitalism in the 90es. Average life expectancy dropped something like 10 years, corresponding to millions of dead.
Most communists and socialists will refer to both the USSR and China as capitalist projects on accelerated timelines. They were trying to speed-run from feudalism, through capitalism, to communism.
At least that's what comes up when you mention the problems that these countries have.
I find the concept that my ideas are not flawed (and how dare anyone suggest they are) and success is a matter of connections and existing wealth more self pleasing.
You see "people succeeding too much", i see "amazon workers peeing in bottles", which I suspect is a fundamental difference between Europe and the States (in point of view, i'm not claiming this is a black and white issue). I'd rather keep the safety nets and succeed a normal amount, as far as the society I live in is concerned.
For longer stays, hell even for short-term stays on weekends, I have found to like construction worker homes - usually these are rented out during the week for tradespeople and construction workers and during the weekend for tourists on a budget.
In my defence, "decent flat reproduction" is at least measurable. However I should have actually been much more precise in my language. It should have read something like "the frequency response across the full spectrum is flat, which means that what you put in is what comes out, there is no extra base or treble, despite the shape and sound performance of the room"
Should be qualified by
"since the mic is on the receiver, if you were to situate your head at the receiver's mic position and accounting for the mic's ADC circuit there is a chance that your human ears would hear something like a flat response."
But of course that can't be generalized across the room, different points in the room will have different acoustic response because of the unique positioning wrt other reflective surfaces.
The closest you can actually get is to use something like miniDSP and a umik, position the umik where you would usually sit, and then let the DSP run and calibrate.
Anyhow--I'm not knocking you. I'm all about better audio through such tricks as well. It's just we can't probably say absolute things having a flat response, because at the end of the day people hear different things (both physiologically but also psychologically). One of the things I do for fun sometimes is run a flat signal that sweeps through the frequency range and edit the equalizer until I _perceive it_ to be a flat response, then compare the EQ to the FR chart on audiosciencereview if they have reviewed it or if the product has included it in their marketing :)
Previously Londoner for ~8 years here. I can confirm the six month unfilled position period has been going on for at least a few years now.
If anything else, and at least on the high(ish) end of skill and seniority there's an artificial reverse bubble that I can only attribute to the almost pathological and almost allergic insistence of UK employers to have as few well paid employees as possible.
Hmm - I've moved from London to Helsinki. I've been the hiring manager for several (Software Engineer) positions in Finland and it's been quite interesting.
The supply of CVs for any position we open there for mid/senior positions is a trickle compared to the UK, and it's not really been like they're all perfectly qualified, there's a lot of 'noise' too. We let go of any geographical constraint, as long as you're willing to work close to our time zone and in a nation that we're legally allowed to do business with, then we'd consider it.
In short - if you're an established engineer who's easy to work with and has some initiative, I would not be worried. Salaries/raises might slow down, inflation is here and is going to bite you, but such is life.
All the UK folks I know fled to the EU and work on visas. Germany, France, Norway, Denmark. Remote roles. All the multinationals who moved IT out of UK after Brexit..
UK just can’t compete. EU is bigger, and have more money.
They didn't always call themselves Hellenes, at one point the more common names were Achaeans (hence Egyptian "Ekwesh"), Danaans and Argives. The word "Hellenes" is only found once in Homer. Or often people called them by their specific tribe, such as Ionians or Dorians. Some languages use older names because that's what they are used to. It seems that country borders, politics, self-identity etc. change faster than language.
You're right in that the term Hellenes appears later, however it is worth noting that there was still some sense of collective identity, even that far back, as evidenced by the tribes coming together when facing external threats (e.g. the Persians, or even against Troy in the Iliad), common language, culture, competitions that everyone participated in, etc. etc.
The nudge unit tactics that were used are some of the least insidious nudges I can imagine. Texting me that I’m due to pay a bill, and before it becomes an offence? Thank you! Advertising is never this good. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioural_Insights_Team
Sanctioning disability benefit recipients (causing many to commit suicide!) Thank you UK PLC !!11!
> Tasked by the Department of Work and Pensions to investigate the effectiveness of "sanctioning" recipients of disability benefits (punishing them with fines of up to three years ineligibility to benefits for supposed bad attitudes or non-compliance), the nudge unit noted that these methods were ineffective, but rather than recommending they be withdrawn, proposed changes which might make sanctions and benefit conditionality more effective
Of course they can be used for good or bad. So does heroin (which is fundamentally diamorphine and used medically). The issue is that nudge techniques as they are implemented on the web are overwhelmingly abusive.
I don't think banning all advertising is a good idea, there is some of it which is actually honest and useful.
A good 95%+ of them are a cancer upon society and even our planet though. I find it insane that we are told to behave as responsible consumers while there is a multibillion dollar industry which sole purpose is to change consumer's behavior.
Yes, 100%. Advertising is nothing but an unproductive arms race for who can deliver the biggest assault on your mind and your attention. Your life would be better, and all your products cheaper too.
