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The country of Google, Apple, and Silicon Valley, where the only way to apply for unemployment benefits is by fax
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To fix the 40-year-old computer system used to manage unemployment assistance, "Connecticut has had to resort to recruiting retirees who knew how to program in COBOL, a nearly extinct computer language"
In Switzerland, new Covid cases also have to be reported by fax... swissinfo.ch/eng/crunching-…
...one day that the number of reports by fax was too big to process on time, they put the forms ON A SCALE to estimate the number of new cases.
republik.ch/2020/03/20/die…
COBOL was invented by Grace Hopper in 1959 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hop…
*invented by a team led by Admiral Grace Hopper in 1959*
On what happened to women in computer science:
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In Southern Europe, Portugal really stands out in gender roles in the labour market: women in Portugal were (and still are now) more likely to hold a job or be looking for one than in Spain, Italy or Greece (OECD data) Image
What is interesting is that high employment rates for women in Portugal are - unlike Northern Europe, esp. the Netherlands - associated with a low share of part-time employment. Women work more often, and more often full-time.
See this paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… Image
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A statistic for the North-South debate over Eurobonds: if you look at the cyclically adjusted primary balance 2008-2019 (revenue - spending excluding interest payments), the Netherlands has run a deficit on average while Italy, Greece and Portugal have run a surplus (IMF)
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Because the whole discussion was about why Southern Europe didn't build a buffer to face this crisis: they did a lot more austerity than the Netherlands, but had to pay a lot more in interest payments.
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The most-read article on @elespanolcom says that "The Netherlands accuses Spain and Italy of admitting patients that are too old for intensive care". It is a shameful piece of misreporting and bad translation (thread)
The article misquotes Frits Rosendaal, a Professor at Leiden University. The article in Spanish reads "Rosendaal believes they (the elderly) shouldn't be taken to hospital". He never said that.
Here is the original Dutch, from an article on how corona statistics are difficult to compare between countries. He says that in Italy "they take people (to intensive care) that we (in the Netherlands) wouldn't take to hospital because they'd be too old"
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