Regarding "match". You would be surprised how much fraud exits in the dating industry. How many people get payed to keep paying customers engaged with the app. Also, just wait until your Tinder gold expries. You will get tons of (hidden) likes.

There is a saying: "Hungarian... the only tongue in the world the devil respects."

Volkshochschule are "low level" community training courses. Yet many people successfully learned Languages there. It is far below a University or a poly-technical college. It has nothing do do with a real degree.

FUN FACT: I read once a Serbian guy took a course there in Economics, had the certificate translated into Serbian and the translator translated "Volkshochschule", to "Peoples University" and became an Economics professor with this certifica in Serbia until the whole scam became public.

To give you the perspective: Basically every guy here on Hackernews could give a "Python course" there or something. for 2 hours every week for 6 months and one of the attendees would manage to become a CS professor with this.

They have also several other niches. E.g patent lawyers are getting trained there after their STEM degrees.

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"conservative liberal" Not sure that the Economist is conservative. Sure, it is pro-market and pro "west" in the sense of Open Society and Democracy.

"The British should by all means do another referendum or the politicians should mimic the 2015 Greek PM and revert the result the of the referendum because "people don't know"."

This may have indeed the best solution since nobody really know what "Brexit" means since there are several options of Brexit. But I also remember the issue where they wrote: Now, as Brexit has happened, lets try to make the best out of it.

"Respect democracy or overturn it? ;-)" Well, currently the majority of the British people are against Brexit. So it is the uttermost democratic principle, that opinions can change.

"When I was a subscriber I was getting informed for various matters all over the world, so if it's the economist vs nothing, I would prefer the economist. If it's the economist vs something else, well... I don't know."

Is is unlikely that there is a magazine that can afford the intelligence service of the economist. Maybe Bloomberg.

Would you mind to elaborate where the Economist delivers "wrong" information? Preferably give some specific examples.

The only annoying things is the double Christmas issue and the "New Year outlook". They always write the same. The world has never been better and everything becomes better and next year will be better than the last.

I never subscribed, but like/liked to read (e.g. at B&N)

THE NEW YORKER 2600 FOREIGN POLICY HARPER'S THE ATLANTIC Even the Rolling Stone can have good articles. E.g.: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/how-amer...

I work on a medical consumer device. Would be madness to market this ourself. A big company has the resources for distribution and marketing.

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https://www.thestreet.com/mishtalk/economics/illinois-demogr...

Illinois News Network reports "A Southern Illinois University at Carbondale poll from 2015 showed that half of the Illinois residents polled would leave the state if they could. The No. 1 reason: Taxes."

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They are much more diverse and have interacted much more with the outside world. You can not compare Sweden with Iceland.

Sweden is a very progressive country and always have been in the modern age. Not being condescending but I perceived the people in Iceland very bold and and often interacting and dressing in a way that would be considered "low class". I also must say (downvote expected) that the Icelandic women by far do not live up to their reputation (looks).

Sweden had mining, coal, the industrial revolution etc. Iceland did not have mining, did not have coal, did not have gas, did not have an industrial revolution due to lack of natural resources. They were a poor area and stayed poor until recently when they were able to harvest energy from their volcanoes. In fact, it is now a society with one of the highest energy consumption in the world. Well set for the future due to cheap energy and easy cooling of servers.

It is true that the Icelandic society is much more coherent than others. In general I observed that if you look for a second passport, look in a small country. The smaller the better. (Incredibly difficult to get a passport in Liechtenstein, Andorra or Monaco). In big countries like Russia, USA, Brazil or China a citizen is mostly expendable.