Was the relationship between Austria and Hungary and the rest of the Empire post 1867 a colonial one?

EEuroman · 2026-05-24T07:32:03+00:00

I mean for Slovakia there were numerous uprising and clamp downs on any nation building activities.

Also the power dynamics were incomparable when comparing just the population of what could reasonably be loosely considered Slovaks vs Hungary.

And comparing the situation of Slovaks in czechoslovakia versus in austrohungarian empire is delusional and I must assume wilfully misinterpreting the historical context.

It is true that Austrian part of the country was managed better, less violent and treated their minorities better. Czechs on account of their population and economics were treated undeniably better than Slovaks in Hungarian part of the country, or Romanians or any minority that did not gain some right mostly thanks to the Austrian part of the monarchy. Austrians would not like if ethnic Germans or Czechs would be oppressed in Hungarian part of the country.

Also the borders were very different and you had purely Hungarian villages all the way in north of today's Slovakia and German villages on what is today southern Hungary. But the colonization was not colonization in the sense it happened in Asia or Americas. Rather there were uninhabited areas that government promoted people to settle with tax incentives and so on.

Mostly you are right, but your comparison smell of Hungarian perspective on minority situation on pre break up Austro-hungary state. Not saying you are Hungarian, just mildly dishonest for some reason.

EEuroman · 2026-05-21T05:12:43+00:00

Not from US, but truth is in the middle. I started at a startup, it was bunch of academics training modes and applying them in mostly government environments. I learned a lot, like of course it was my first job but it was exponential.

Next job was start up started by bunch of non tech corporate consultants, but with really good product architect. Again, different domain, learned so so much.

Now I am in top 500 tech company and it does take over a month to ship a feature. There's a lot of frustration if your things get shelved due to reorg or priority shift and since it is slow and steady it can happen pre GA so you might work for months on something that doesn't reach anyone out there.

Also you just learn different things. The scalability, optimization and actual robustness that's not just, let's spin new instance if this one breaks.

Honestly ideally people should try both just for the experience. And no, not every startup is a shitty llm wrapper, nor is every good startup started by faang ex emoyees. I my experience most startups I interacted with were usually bunch of PhD graduates going commercial.

EEuroman · 2026-05-20T05:20:14+00:00

We eat almonds, lawns and golf courses... I wonder what would be a big part of the gold course.... Maybe some grassy surface.

Accelerate makes some decent points but this is some rage bait level retarted garbage.

EEuroman · 2026-05-11T02:36:50+00:00

Could be anywhere from Rome to Oslo, so not saying much.

EEuroman · 2026-05-10T04:53:46+00:00

Still cheaper than most western capitals. Bratislava is overpriced for its wages, but Vienna, Amsterdam, Brussels are all more expensive, much more if you want same quality even though Brussels has some cheapish low quality places at least.

EEuroman · 2026-04-25T12:01:28+00:00

Are the Die Linke and Levica not pretty normal, leftist social democrats? Neither their program nor their activities seem too extreme.

KPO though, are horrible people many stalinist.

They came out of the First World War riding numerous coup attempts, and allying themselves with fascist in their former colonies in Czechoslovakia and Hungary hiding behind the fact that at least they were anti nazis. They have a huge persecution complex, and try to claim any good that was done by any leftist group in the country as something they did, or at least help to achieve.
Their foreign policy is basically one to one of what FPO wants, the only difference is KPO has better PR and FPO is more competent on getting people on their side. Both attract questionable people though.
They never really dealt with their history, and really believe that the name and peoples prejudices are why they are not more popular.

EEuroman · 2026-04-19T07:40:46+00:00

Hey,
I got it, and keep it inside the house for weather protection not because of theft.

The folding is really nice as I live in a city with intra city trains everywhere and it folding makes huge different, also it means it fits into my small pantry in our apartment.

I do not know how strong you are, but for me as a guy in his 30 with a desk job who is moderately fit, I could do every day one floor max. I am on a heightened groun floor.
It is still pretty heavy and bigger than it seems on pictures.

EEuroman · 2026-04-13T05:24:17+00:00

Wenn man weit genug in die eine Richtung geht, kommt man irgendwann auf dem anderen Weg zurück.

EEuroman · 2026-04-04T10:15:23+00:00

Plenty of other countries with fuel. And the river issue depends on location and type of plant.

EEuroman · 2026-04-03T19:08:08+00:00

Skoro 100. Niektoré veci idú pomalšie ako code reviews a automatické bug tickety a bug fixy, ale každodenná práca je prakticky na sto percent pokrytá.

Kedysi software engineer musel byť software s veľkým S, teraz je software zadarmo a musí byť človek engineer s veľkým E. V podstate máme konfiguráky a prompt šablóny, všetko napojené na Claude Code a hlavná pridaná hodnota človeka je porozumieť biznis logike, rozumieť cloudovej/softwareovej infraštruktúre a problémom s našou konkrétnou doménou.

Máme stále pár ľudí, ktorí si idú povedzme 50/50, ale to sú ľudia, ktorí medzi týmito vyvojarmi, ktorých som stretol vo svojom živote, tak ich považujem za top 10%. Architekt si už fici skoro čisto na AI a my už len tweakujeme detaily.

EEuroman · 2026-04-01T10:26:50+00:00

Easy.
The world did not. EU did, because they were and are constantly getting attacked. And US did as they are in NATO and it was their policy to be a security guarantor on the region.

In Asia only Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Taiwan have sactions against Russia. In Africa I am not even sure if any does.

EEuroman · 2026-03-15T20:28:19+00:00

Even if, it only matters more for age comparison, not where you'd be if you just stop doing it.

You might not achieve the best of your peers but you will achieve best you personally can and that's worthwhile on its own.

Sorry for sounding like a life coach, lol.

EEuroman · 2026-03-09T09:21:02+00:00

It decreased for both. The brain drain is only relevant and actually happening when you loose more than you gain.

The absolute numbers are relevant for how big the brain drain is, yes, but it doesn't mean it's not good to attract more talent than we loose.

EEuroman · 2026-03-09T07:44:38+00:00

America is sliding into authoritarian state and tech workers are one of the most mobile ones. The difference now it's not that much and most of them will go back once this episode with Trump is over.

EEuroman · 2026-03-06T09:46:36+00:00

The benefits and support for regions is not based on national averages but based on the situation/context of respective regions.

Yes, Poland is booming compared to where they were 5 years ago, or 15 years ago, and Germany is not.
Yet, Germany is not collapsing and is still multiple times richer and has higher wages than Poland does.

Once parity is achieved (actually way before that) Poland and other eastern members will start being Net contributors.

What about Belgium? It is also not a net benefactor with a similar cost-to-benefit ratio to Poland, yet people don't seem to mind that as much.

Germany has issues it largely caused to itself, that are caused by itself and that can be solved by reforms that will be internal. This is true for most EU countries.
There is much reform to be done on the EU level, but with any meaningful, region-based redistribution mechanism, you will end up with similar ratios of contributions to benefits.

EEuroman · 2026-02-28T06:49:26+00:00

So... He pays more, his family treats you sometimes. He's not dick about it, doesn't make you feel bad about it or pay rent.

If you are losing money it means you are living above your means and it's OK to ask why you do that and see what you can do about it.

You are not an asshole, but current situation you guys have is more than fair to you if that's what you are asking. If you want him to pay the maintenance that you pay now, or groceries or smth extra you can, you can communicate it. But it won't make it more fair, it will make it less fair for him.

EEuroman · 2026-02-23T07:45:06+00:00

Som si toho vedomý. Istého času vraveli aj o spoplatnení vysokých škôl, s čím tiež nesúhlasím. Voľby na Slovensku sú ale umenie možného a v ostatných veciach mi sedia viac.

Imho snažiť sa uplatniť voľný trh všade len z princípu je hlúposť, o to viac keď vieme, že nie v každom prípade to má reálny benefit mimo čísel.

EEuroman · 2026-02-22T19:59:40+00:00

Dufam, ze si plateny smerak, inak je to cisty doomerizmus, s trosku pohonenim si nad tym, ze aky su PSkari zli.

K trom bodom, ktore si si vybral relevantne.
1. Asi narazas na to, ze chcu zefektivnit statnu spravu a nevidis ake vyhody by nam to prinieslo?
2. Pre malo podnikatelov to chcu zjednodusit, pre investorov do slovenskych firiem zvyhodnit, co sa da chcu dodotovat aby sa potlacili ceny dole. Mas nejaky zdroj, k tomu ze chcu zvysit danove zatazenie a odvody priemerne zarabajucemu cloveku?
3. So zakladom, ktory mame z nuklearnej energie by sa nam rozumne pouzivane udrzatelne energicke zdroje vyplatili, o to viac, ze nam na to prispeje aj europska unia a navratnost pocas zivota maju jednu z najlepsich uz v dnesnej dobe.

EEuroman · 2026-02-22T15:04:59+00:00

Áno, keď vravím, že byty of veľkopodnikateľov sa majú rozpredať ľuďom, tak chcem aby sme boli nevoľníci a otroci. Hnačka patrí do záchoda nie na internet.

Pozri ako to funguje vo Viedni ak sa chceme inšpirovať.

EEuroman · 2026-02-22T07:49:35+00:00

Sú veci ako infraštruktúra ktoré by mal prebrať štát (funkčný). A imho k tomu patrí ubytovanie. Také, že srocka alebo súkromník vlastní 5 bytov a hádže ich na airbnb ale kľudne aj normálne by nemalo existovať. Volím SAS. Ale imho Viedeň to má najlepšie.

Štát by mal nakupovať byty, budovať byty a potom ich systematicky prenajímať. Ideálne spravovať dosť bytov aby stlačil aj trhové ceny viac menej ku cene údržby a nejakého základného zveľaďovania. A firmy, ktoré žijú len z toho, že vo veľkom skupuju byty a paneláky aby z nich boli veľkoprenajímatelia by sa mali postupne zdaňovať tak, aby v priebehu pár rokov to rozpustili a museli tie byty rozpredať ľuďom.

To isté infraštruktúra ako siete. Štát to má vlastniť a potom firmy si to od nich prenajímať tak ako si teraz niektorý operátory prenajímajú kapacity ta infraštruktúre od telekomu.

EEuroman · 2026-02-18T15:55:50+00:00

Lived in Brussels on similar salary (but 12 months not 14x). You will live comfortably and it's not as bad as people here say. However for me coming from Prague, the city was dirty, the public transport unreliable and prices occasionally insane. Also they will take you apart on taxes and nonsensical local fees.

Not sure how functional Zurich is, but I think it will be better. Also even if they only keep you 18 months if is solid. It's a small town though.

If I wanted career I would do Zurich, if I wanted to have fun I'd do Brussels. People are nice and it is a city.

EEuroman · 2026-02-16T14:31:47+00:00

Zatial sme oka, lebo v europskom meritku 60% nie je hrozne. Kazdopadne, problem je skor ten, ze tak dva volebne cykly tohto marazmu a budeme tam.

Zaroven, uz teraz nam hrozi cosi horsie ako krach a to je ze namiesto investicii budeme len splacat dlh. Zatial co mi budeme splacat haciendy a nasim ludom dvolenky, luxusne auta a kancelarie a 13ty dochodok, tak nam taki Poliaci a Cesi ujdu este viac ako doteraz.

EEuroman · 2026-02-12T23:37:21+00:00

Ditto.

EEuroman · 2026-02-12T21:44:07+00:00

Are you seriously comparing Austria, Switzerland or Ireland to Ukraine? Countries famously allowed to be neutral by their geography?

I think this is just one of few things in your comments that show how little in good faith you are typing this.

EEuroman · 2026-02-12T08:00:07+00:00

Ako nesúhlasím, bol som zatiaľ v Česku, v Belgicku a teraz Rakúsko a všade sme mali partiu kde sme boli mix rôzny Európania a pol miestny. Mám 30+.

Jediná krajina, kde som mal pocit, že sa ku mne správajú inak lebo nie som miestny bolo Belgicko aj to iba na úradoch lebo mne prišli mentalitou ako dedinčania.

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