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by BDPW 1y ago
>In most of Europe, and in the UK, you can't express certain ideas. This is total BS. In many European countries (the ones I know personally) this is not at all the case.
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by BDPW 1y ago
What I took away from the book was that all these people were very eager to say variants of 'das haben wir nicht gewusst' when at the same time they also describe how the jews were systematically removed from their society and eve
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by BDPW 1y ago
Many many restaurants and stores never accept cash here. This would be a huge problem if cash suddenly becomes the only way of paying for everyone at the same time.
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by BDPW 1y ago
This is a ridiculous take, the EU has a budget of 180 billion a year. People keep repeating this but its just idiotic.
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by BDPW 1y ago
Denmark, Sweden and Netherlands have the same system and it works reasonably well actually.
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by BDPW 1y ago
Like the German diplomats recently speaking out against their governments policy on Gaza and Israel? Or Dutch professors openly criticizing the plans by the right-wing government (which just fell) as being damaging, unproductive amd sometim
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by BDPW 1y ago
Its a little disingenuous to say that, most of us would have never gotten by with literally just a library catalog and encyclopedia. Needing a community to learn something in is needed to learn almost anything difficult and this has always
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by BDPW 1y ago
That's literally all language.
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by BDPW 1y ago
I've had a similar experience from the opposite side. I've had quite a few years of experience in Python and had to work in R for an internship during my masters. My impression was that it's pretty easy to do straightforward
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by BDPW 1y ago
Often reviewing is executed double blind for exactly this reason. This can be difficult in small fields where you can more-or-less guess who's working on what, but the intent is definitely there.
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by BDPW 1y ago
There is a deluge of experts in economics and other fields who clearly state this is not the right approach to bringing manufacturing to the US. Why wouldn't we trust experts in their fields?
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by BDPW 2y ago
Do they list the models of the brands they are talking about anywhere? For example, they mention Garmin but there is a huge variety of Garmin models with varying accuracy. I'm surprised I can't find it anywhere. They mention gathe
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by BDPW 2y ago
In the upcoming election you can vote exactly what you want, is there anything I'm missing?
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by BDPW 2y ago
Can you elaborate specifically what you think makes this law so detrimental? And to who?
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by BDPW 2y ago
Educated by Tara Westover. A really wild story I couldn't put down after the first 3 pages. A must-read, esp. For HN readers.