I'm also an Italian living in Germany and I know what you mean. But I wasn't referring to the myth of Germany productivity, which is debatable.
The argument is not anecdotal, rather it is just based on the numbers (eg. GDP per hour worked, among others).
Well, that feels like a gross oversimplification. Other countries have tax brackets not too different from Italy's (eg. Germany), and Italy is not too high in the charts of cost of labour.
Economists would argue that it's a mixture of things: high taxes, low productivity, broken justice system, slow and intricate bureaucracy that does not really work, etc.
I bet that if Italy's economy would be based on high value-added industries (like France and Germany), less people would complain about high taxes.
Linode's great support is what is preventing us to migrate to AWS or GCP.
Funny story: 2 months ago GCP blacklisted a few of Linode's IP subnets and we were cut out from using Google APIs. I was unable to get in touch with GCP support (not event complaining on social media) as they charge for support.
I asked to Linode's support if there is something that I could do even though it was not an issue created by them and they were aware of the issue and offered me to migrate our VMs to an IP subnet that was not banned.
Sure, you can even say that both France and Germany just have larger populations than Italy.
But still I would argue that being open to the international tech scene is pretty important to have a local tech scene. It's also crucial to keep up with innovation.
That is impressive. How much time do you think you spent on non-coding activities? I imagine that running a torrent tracker probably took a good chunk of your time.
Thank you! As a non-native English speaker this is actually pretty useful.
Of course I don't think this should be used as a copy/paste solution but more for finding inspiration on how to politely reply to customers when hard questions arise (eg. request for discounting)
Appreciate the explanation. We actually noticed a huge improvement since last summer with charges made with Stripe.
Still, we lost a few thousands €€ in these years because of customers' banks rejecting our transactions. I hope that one day this problem will be gone.
Nice project! I keep onboarding screenshots for most Sass/web apps I use to get inspiration later for my own projects so I definitely find this very useful (bookmarked!).
How do you monetize the project? I can't see any paid plans in the public website
Large SUVs used to be an upper-middle class distinction factor in Europe, but now everyone of every age seems to want SUVs (which eventually became cheaper). It's not a class thing anymore, you can get SUVs that cost as much as other types of car.
Honestly there are no reasons to buy one other than being part of the trend. I wish there were taxes on the volume of cars here in Europe. We're already cluttered with cars, we really don't need bigger ones.
Haha! Actually I made this because I wanted to browser other "porn" subreddits while furnishing/decorating my apartment (/r/AmateurRoomPorn and /r/RoomPorn mostly)
What do you mean with "public displays"? I researched a little bit before buying my TV and couldn't find decent options in terms of cost, size and quality of the panel.
I was much more lazy, though, and set this up on Zapier.