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by bkor 6y ago
> Flexible Labour law (e.g. France would be a counter-example) That's only nice on short term. Easily being able to fire people is fun, until there's too much of a difference between top and low earning. Eventually it'll j
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by bkor 6y ago
> Nespresso do have a recycling program That they have a recycling program isn't that interesting. Nespresso creates a waste/problem, they should be ensuring the waste is minimized. Meaning, not just a recycling program (I doub
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by bkor 6y ago
> But.. I trust the 74x and the 380/350 more than I trust the 787 and the MAX because of some spectacularly bad public engineering exposure. I've followed the 737 MAX debacle quite a bit. I've also seen a video from someon
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by bkor 6y ago
> Not disagreeing with you except about the cleaning fee. Having different fees is fine. What is troublesome is that AirBNB doesn't immediately show the total price (including all surcharges). I think recently they finally were forc
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by bkor 6y ago
> If a party has fewer than 50%, they form what's called a minority government. No, that's when a political party _or_ a coalition of parties does not have the majority. Netherlands often/always has a coalition / comb
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by bkor 6y ago
To add: saying that your marketing is "technically correct" while focussing on the general audience is quite convenient (deceptive).
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by bkor 6y ago
> That violates the sterile cockpit rule and is a HUGE no no. Pilots can only read a book or talk to cabin crew if the control of the aircraft is with the other human pilot in the cockpit. Sterile cockpit does not seem to apply at cruisi
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by bkor 6y ago
> Not saying that Tesla makes bad cars The quality control within Tesla is quite poor though, especially considering the price of such cars. I've watched various Tesla videos after seeing some "tear down" videos of a Tesla
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by bkor 6y ago
> Noise actually isn't a factor. After about 20mph tire noise drowns out engine noise. I drove (passenger) in a friends electric car once. That car is significantly more quiet than a lot of cars I've been in. Some other people
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by bkor 6y ago
I tried searching for Element in the Google Play store. It suggests an app dedicated to Asian gay men. The website directs to Riot.im. From the article: > RiotX (our ground-up rewrite of Riot Android) has exited beta, and replaces Riot A
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by bkor 6y ago
> because there is no way to predict from public data what the volume of containers loaded/discharged is at a specific terminal It's doable for a competitor. AIS has the vessels depth. If you assume the weight of a container to
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by bkor 6y ago
It's not that they cannot use the GPL, they choose to not use GPL for their driver. That's a business decision.
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by bkor 6y ago
> Is this unusual - absolutely Often these claims are made while saying that it's a normal requirement and that everyone has the same requirement, thus nobody will buy it. Cost is an important factor. I think a lot of people already
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by bkor 6y ago
> 6-3 ruling represented the biggest moment for LGBT rights Why did 3 vote against? Is there an explanation for their reasoning?
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by bkor 6y ago
The UK did a study a few years ago on the most important threat. The #1 spot (on importance) was a pandemic and would have way more impact than the #2 threat. The report suggested various things, including e.g. masks, etc. The report was ig
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by bkor 6y ago
You're entirely incorrect though about 'Europe'. Though seems kind of logical if you follow US based news sources. They leave out a lot of detail and get things wrong. Various countries in Europe were heavily affected healthc
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by bkor 6y ago
Northern Italy was repeated across various big counties. I'm also wondering where you're getting your information from Sweden from. It's not easy to get a good insight into any country. E.g. Sweden's approach is quite di
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by bkor 6y ago
Europe is way too varied to day that. I noticed various countries whereby the healthcare is overwhelmed. Various things were done to ensure they could cooe. E.g. by delaying some of the medical care. But also by taking various actions to sl
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by bkor 6y ago
> I have zero expectation of privacy if you take pictures of the front of my house from a public area. That's not accurate. The expectation of privacy is a legal term related to the USA. There's quite a difference in privacy yo
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by bkor 6y ago
The lockdown is to lower the curve, not to prevent all risk. Maybe your government said something different. In Netherlands it's about ensuring that the hospitals can still cope. Loads of procedures have been postponed so that they cou
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by bkor 6y ago
The tweet was different though (and AFAIK, much earlier): "Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in
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by bkor 6y ago
WHO said that masks are very helpful for Asia. Netherlands government also mention that the usefulness of masks is questionable at best. This despite that the masks obviously do help. It seems that this was said because there's a huge
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by bkor 6y ago
This seems to be a "look over there" response. China had a big issue. In Netherlands not much was done. Italy had big issues. Netherlands ignored it. It spread to Netherlands, suddenly extreme measures had to be taken. Meanwhile,
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by bkor 6y ago
Can you reference that poll? There was a GR, which is entirely different than a poll. The outcome of that was also pretty clear, Debian as a whole is ok to depend a bit more on systemd. I don't get why you use it as an example of the o
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by bkor 6y ago
> I saw patches submitted and rejected on the grounds that the project leadership had no interest in supporting non-systemd What do you mean with project leadership. If someone submits a patch, the maintainer(s) of the git module can obv
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by bkor 6y ago
> pressured other projects to hard-depend on it (e.g. Gnome). GNOME wasn't pressured in depending on it. There deciding to depend on logind over ConsoleKit. Initially logind could be used without systemd, that changed after a system
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by bkor 6y ago
> At least 8448 people have died of COVID-19 in New York City Just to add: be very careful to compare deaths across countries. Every country seems to count deaths differently. Some only count it if you didn't have any other conditio
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by bkor 6y ago
> There is no evidence that masks are a solution. Masks are not meant to solve/prevent Corona. It's meant to slow down the spread of the virus. It needs to be used in combination with other measures such as social distancing. U
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by bkor 6y ago
> then goes and says that he wants to re-open the country by Easter From what I noticed (it's been a while) the reporting on that was a bit weird. The statement was more like "I hope it'll be fine by Easter". That&#x2
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by bkor 6y ago
Why would trains need hydrogen? Almost all are electric. If they aren't in your region, why not convert it to electric? Large ships, why hydrogen? Seems again not a good solution.

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