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I'd be on board with this idea. Australia seems to have a very worker supportive law system though.


Sounds like a really weak excuse to weasel out of it.

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I would be just as shocked as the developers, who would think using Firewatch as advertising would be a good idea?


Hardly a majority at 9% though, in most cases 9% is just as good as 0%. lol


Well written article! I always find it funny when the media claims a majority with their wording when in fact it is an extreme minority.

Like those afflicted with H1N1/Bird Flu/zika/ebola etc.. all are dwarfed by people that die every year from the common flu and yet the news portrays them as epidemics to drum up viewers for a week or two.


A relatively small island nation that is an extremely attractive destination to acquire work. Especially from the poorer countries in the EU.

Being paid in pounds, would net you even more than average (for the EU) for low skill requirement jobs.


Did you even read my post? The UK does not have all that many migrants. Switzerland has almost the double (in %).

And what matters what currency you are paid in? If you want to compare salaries you use exchange rates.


Well, to start, immigrants are not counted from within EU countries in most polls for EU countries. A lot of the immigrants England received and had no choice in the matter were from Czech, Poland etc.

(BTW Switzerland also had a referendum where they decided to no longer take migrants in 2014)

If you get paid €10 an hour and your neighbor makes £10 an hour. Who makes more money (and always has for the past 40 years)?


Why do my neighbor and I happen to make the same numeric value per hour? I live in the US, so I drink a gallon of water a day. If I move to France, does that mean I should cut back to 1 liter per day?


When I lived in Deutschland, I would almost always shop on Amazon.com in lieu of shopping at Amazon.de (Amazon.co.uk is even more heinous), because the numerical value is almost always the exact same with a different sign and my Euro paycheck would go much further. With prime, shipping was free albeit it would take longer to get to me.

Maybe that analogy will help.


Thanks, that analogy does help. I got caught up with your numbers being exactly the same, and inferred a misunderstanding on your part that you don't hold.


How did you do that? You have to pay customs if you order from germany at amazon.com and shipping is not free to germany, not even with Prime, it's rather expensive.


I am an American and so had a previously existing account with Amazon.com. I had it shipped to a friend at a military base in Frankfurt and I just popped down from Berlin to pick them up once I had a small stockpile.


While I, and probably who you are replying too, agree with you, it simply does not work that way. An easy way to see it is look at the price of computer components in USD and GBP or euro. You will see many with the same or very similar numerical values despite the fact that that the US is drastically cheaper considering the actual currency values


> same or very similar numerical values

Yeah, see my reply to your sibling comment. I was so distracted by the "same" that I didn't think about how prices of goods in other countries are often so high that the numbers do get close (i.e. a $100 widget will just happen to cost about £100 or 100€).


Regarding Switzerland, something like ~25% of the population is foreign born. While in the UK is ~13%.

Regarding the pound thing. Money does not work like that.

For example 1 ¥ (Japanese Yen) is worth £ 0.0071. Is the Yen worthless?


If you are getting paid 10¥ and your neighbor is making £10 then yes, the yen is comparatively worthless as a wage.

Money does work like that when you are talking about an actual comparable wage. The pound and euro are much more comparable because you could get the same job for the same number, just in a currency that is worth more so you can send some back to your home country.(like many Immigrants do in many host countries)

Switzerland is also a continental country, you can literally walk to it if you were so inclined from any of the EU nations (except the UK and Republic of Ireland) and not spend a penny to get there.

It is mainly common sense vs what people feel is right, really.


What force makes salaries tend to be the same number in the two different currencies?


America did this before it was mainstream.


Well said, I am not a judge, nor do I plan to pour over millions of criminal arrests to make judgment calls (which would negate the purpose of automation)... All we can work with is the data given.


It seems perfectly reasonable to station police in places which are indisputable hotspots for crime.

I mean, is it discriminatory to say that Compton has a lot of crime and police should patrol it?

Or is this just loosely using the tech community as a demographic to drum up clicks while scraping the bottom of the barrel as far as looking for topics to write about?


Hotspots for crime? Or hotspots for arrests?


Why not both? What if all races commit roughly proportional amounts of crime, but there's a higher density of crime in black neighborhoods?

There are way too many variables to say anything about whether “blacks commit more crime” OR “police arrest blacks too much”.


An external proxy for 'crime hotspots' could be looking whether an area has bars on the windows or not.


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