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by bkor 6y ago
That can be done using subsurfaces, see https://wayland-book.com/surfaces-in-depth/subsurfaces.html .
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by bkor 6y ago
> the purposes of France and Germany. Do you have anything more concrete than the usual "France/Germany decide everything"? UK got loads of exceptions to the standard EU rules. UK also was able to influence the EU heavily.
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by bkor 6y ago
> A big part of the justification for Brexit is because the EU is a crap bureaucracy that does arbitrary, self-harming and utterly unnecessary stuff like this all the time. I haven't seen anything of the sort as a reason for brexit.
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by bkor 6y ago
That has been noticed in Netherlands for many months (including mutation). According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fur_farming it was 25 May 2020. Denmark ignored the issue for a very long time for economical reason
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by bkor 6y ago
From what I noticed in the news is that various European countries have similar policies. Meaning, government doesn't reduce employment by (as government) creating jobs or hiring people. However, they do offer support in fining jobs or
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by bkor 6y ago
> Well, in most places in the US you literally can't go without a vehicle if you want employment and food. That's due to zoning laws being the way that they are. If you'd change the way you'd build up and zone things
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by bkor 6y ago
> In some places (eg netherlands) That's because Netherlands changed the country to not rely on cars. It used to rely on cars, just like most countries. It's still far from perfect; there's still loads of places where ther
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by bkor 6y ago
MIVD stands for (translated): Dutch Military Intelligence and Security Service. He's giving an advice to big organizations. To just dismiss this as "bureaucrat speaking mumbo jumbo security theatre" is short sighted, IMO.
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by bkor 6y ago
> Is there something I don't know about NL law (very possible!). Not sure if it already happened, but they're moving towards having the (previous) company pay for the non-compete period. Meaning: if you hire someone on a non-co
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by bkor 6y ago
Pedestrians generally have right of way. Singapore is pretty exceptional in this. Further, loads of Asian countries are pretty poor safety wise. I don't think a comparison to other Asian countries is beneficial. Singapore probably also
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by bkor 6y ago
Facebook has been used for misinformation for a significant longer amount of time. Usually I get annoyed when people say something like "but what about X", but in this case it's a case of one company often being proven to man
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by bkor 6y ago
From the article: > The court correctly mentions that Bell has filed many lawsuits over the ‘skyline’ photograph. It also notes that other judges have mentioned that his motive appears to be to extract quick and easy settlements instead
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by bkor 6y ago
> Would Germans still love the EU so much after they realize they're paying twice as much into the EU as the next country? Germans took up way more monetary responsibility during Corona. E.g. they took various patients from Netherla
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by bkor 6y ago
Differences in culture are addressed by endless amount talking, compromises, etc. Previously Europe often resorted to war. I highly prefer the current attempt at trying to keep peace. Promoting peace is listed as a goal on https:/&#x2
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by bkor 6y ago
One does not follow the other. EU can be doing badly while GDPR is fine, GDPR can be crap while EU is doing fine, etc GDPR violations are handled per country btw. Further, GDPR is a regulation which EU member countries turned into law.
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by bkor 6y ago
The additional confirmation is not from the user being removed, it's from the user doing the removal. In this example the API/oauth was enough to do this. There really should be an additional confirmation certain times. Like how G
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by bkor 6y ago
> The police are fundamentally a low paid blue collar labor force with union protections Please keep in mind that this is not true worldwide. In various countries you're only admitted after 1.5-2 years of police-specific education.
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by bkor 6y ago
UK has loads of camera surveillance, it didn't really help with the crime rates. Seems better to avoid people getting into crimes. Meaning: reduce the difference between super rich and very poor, ensure people have the ability to have
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by bkor 6y ago
I've quickly skimmed the discussion on fedora-devel regarding btrfs. I wondered mainly how they'd handle the various cases where btrfs does not work well, e.g. files that change often inline (databases, VMs, etc). Apparently an ap
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by bkor 6y ago
As mentioned elsewhere: the initial subscription was for 12 months. Extending that in NL is only allowed on a monthly basis, or a new contract. This exactly because too many companies made it purposely difficult to leave. It's fairly l
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by bkor 6y ago
That's not legal in Netherlands. You can easily cancel ages in advance (by law). The law was implemented because of too many shady behaviours by various companies.
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by bkor 6y ago
> Everybody on the net is always like "Just told my bank to block the transaction" - when I did that, in a EU country, my bank was very reluctant. Depends on what it is. Any recurring SEPA payment I can get back up to 60 days.
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by bkor 6y ago
> People just hate being told what to eat - it's as simple as that. In Netherlands in loads of restaurant the vegetarian option will taste terrible. In recent years that's slowly changing. I often wondered why someone chose the
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by bkor 6y ago
> Corporations are an easy scapegoat that also fits a political ideology on the left. Calling things 'left', 'ideology', 'fallacy' and randomly saying things are 'completely different' aren't
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by bkor 6y ago
Where do you find flour that contains sugar? I've never seen that in NL and a few countries around it.
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by bkor 6y ago
It's bullshit (I'm on a Dutch Works Council). The Works Council decides over matters within that country. So anyone in that country is (more or less) represented. Could be a bit more difficult if there's multiple legal entiti
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by bkor 6y ago
That bank is way more significantly expensive than any other bank. This while in various countries having a bank account is free. I really do not get why Bunq is popular. I also do not have any support problems with my bank, nor does anyone
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by bkor 6y ago
> If you want to fire someone on a temporary contract, you will have to pay him off. That's not "will" it is "might". You can wait until their contract ends. You can also fire the person if they severely misbehav
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by bkor 6y ago
> In particular circumstances, you have more security with a temporary contract. In which circumstances are those? If your temporary contract ends within 26 weeks you'll be selected _before_ anyone with a fulltime contract. This wil
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by bkor 6y ago
> It is painting a target, as you said. at least with many employers. also being part of a works council can massively hinder your career, even if officially there are protections in place against such things. In the company I work for s

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