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by BlobbleBlab 13y ago
It is absolutely wrong, ignorant and probably fascist to include Belgium and the Netherlands in the same geographic subdivision. The line between Northern and Southern Europe is somewhere between Rotterdam and Antwerp. Belgium is on the nor
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by BlobbleBlab 13y ago
I can absolutely guarantee that this is not the case in France. Try comparing Île-de-France and similarly sized Limousin for example. I spend a lot of time both in the EU and the US, and find the US remarkably culturally homogeneous compare
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by BlobbleBlab 13y ago
Every country has more and less developed regions, even super rich mini and micro states like Monaco, Lichtenstein and Luxembourg. And inside these regions, every town has more and less developed areas, and inside these towns, every street
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by BlobbleBlab 13y ago
Quote from the article: "America's school kids have historically scored low on international assessment tests compared to other countries, which is often blamed on the diversity of the population and the high number of immigrants.
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by BlobbleBlab 13y ago
Fascinating, but it doesn't stand up to a few minutes of googling: http://www.editors-wastebasket.org/nexx/pro/vinland.html "What drove the two groups apart was a killing. Some of the Norse men killed a
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by BlobbleBlab 13y ago
I can tell you from experience that joins are also slow in Oracle Database Enterprise Edition. Joins are slow. A nicely normalized relational data model has many advantages, but speed is not one of them.
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by BlobbleBlab 13y ago
What it changes is that it requires (non-US) banks to keep track of which of their accounts are owned or co-owned by someone who may have a (dual) US citizenship, and may have made an error in their tax returns, or risk having some of thei
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by BlobbleBlab 13y ago
For most programmers, the C notation is probably easier to read / understand than the English gibberish derived from it with this tool
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by BlobbleBlab 13y ago
The funny thing about the Netherlands, (or at least 90% of it) is that there is no natural stone to build with. No rocks, no pebbles, no stones, nothing. Just sand, clay and peat. In most places, the bedrock is hundreds of feet below the su
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by BlobbleBlab 13y ago
That is very easy to answer: Other than churches and castles, pretty much all buildings up to the 17th century were made of wood, and did not survive. Only a few buildings predate 1800.
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by BlobbleBlab 13y ago
There are two factors that determine how much money you can make in a job such as programming: - How much money are you making for your employer - What are the costs your employer needs to make to allow you to make that money for him If the
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by BlobbleBlab 13y ago
this was news at 1:23 AM
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by BlobbleBlab 13y ago
Does racial diversity matter a great deal to you Americans? I find cultural diversity far more significant. Whether you can understand someone, or whether a thumbs up is a positive gesture or a grave insult to them. These things matter a gr
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by BlobbleBlab 13y ago
Not true. Vast yes, but diverse, not so much, unless you're specifically referring to wildlife and not to people. Coast to coast you'll find the same language, the same religion, the same sports, chains, food, traditions, holidays