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by cr1895 2y ago
Personal experience - emigrating to the Netherlands after higher education is a well-defined and relatively easy process. After graduating you're able to apply for a "search year" residence permit which entitles you to reside
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America is sabotaging itself in the global battle for talent(economist.com)
53 points by cr1895 2y ago|69 comments
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by cr1895 2y ago
https://archive.is/zcAkj
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This Was Village Life in Britain 3k Years Ago(nytimes.com)
15 points by cr1895 3y ago|2 comments
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by cr1895 3y ago
>By requiring U.S.-built and registered ships, it guarantees high safety and quality, which is really important for complex operations like wind farms. It certainly doesn't - there are enough "cowboy" US operators who are
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by cr1895 3y ago
>is the Jones Act really the thing standing in the way? It obliges some pretty ridiculous transport and installation methodologies to construct wind farms that just don't exist anywhere else on the planet. This adds significant cost
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by cr1895 3y ago
>At some point racing tech moves on and you need a newer frame for the latest and greatest stuff to fit. Sure, but that's utterly irrelevant to daily commuter / city bikes, which Van Moof are.
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by cr1895 3y ago
Similar thing used to exist in the Netherlands. Think it's been gone for a decade now?
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by cr1895 3y ago
She also has a partner who’s working - I’m sure they live quite comfortably.
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by cr1895 3y ago
I don’t think that’s allowed in the EU - retailers must remedy or replace a broken product without cost to you. https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/dealing-with-customers...
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by cr1895 3y ago
I’m truly puzzled why “Hey Siri tell me the temperature in this room” and “Hey Siri tell me the humidity in this room” is fine but “Hey Siri tell me the temperature and humidity in this room” might as well be gibberish.
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by cr1895 4y ago
To counter your anecdote with mine, I’m always shocked whenever I return to visit the US how expensive basic things like groceries and rent are. Much more so than the Netherlands. This is complicated, and it’s insufficient just to state tha
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by cr1895 4y ago
>Being agriculturally self sufficient is essential for any country. This is nothing to do with Netherlands’ own food self-sufficiency.
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by cr1895 4y ago
> You can't claim by that stat that 90% of the fentanyl is brought in by American citizens through regulated ports of entry. They quite literally did not make that claim.
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by cr1895 4y ago
After you scan all your items and click to pay, you get a “random” check notification and can’t pay until one of the employees comes over and scans a certain number of items in your bag. It’s pretty frustrating and it used to happen quite i
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by cr1895 4y ago
Getting “gecontroleerd” in the self-checkout supermarkets in the Netherlands seems to be happening to me way more frequently than it ever did previously (sometimes every visit). I’ve never missed scanning an item, which is something as far
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by cr1895 4y ago
In the Netherlands private health insurance is obligatory but not tied to an employer, however employers can negotiate better group policy deals or compensate somehow. My last employer for example paid a bit extra for me to chose my own (wa
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by cr1895 4y ago
> Jesus Christ. Let me get this straight: you're saying the solution to medical expenses is "let old people die, they don't want to live anyway"? That’s quite an uncharitable take, and plainly not what they meant to e
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by cr1895 4y ago
>learn Danish to B2 level, just in case e.g. an accident to be able to call a police or an ambulance. I don’t think Denmark is the best example here. English competency is _extremely_ high and Danish is quite a difficult language to gras
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by cr1895 4y ago
>As a European, US colleges/universities seem more like boarding schools. Here, no university would think that they have any business interfering with students' personal lives or anything they do outside a lecture hall, because
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by cr1895 4y ago
>What happens when these people start to go home? The US can very well be home for someone born elsewhere. It would be wrong to assume that those people are somehow just temporarily staying. I’d imagine the group of foreign-born people w
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by cr1895 4y ago
It’s not really comparable to Germany. Almost everywhere in NL accepts Maestro cards (PIN) or whatever (sometimes not even accepting cash). It’s specifically credit cards that are sometimes less useful.
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by cr1895 4y ago
>tourists who otherwise have to obtain cannabis from the sometimes murky criminal underworld This 100% exists in Amsterdam, just abstracted one layer by the absurd tolerance policy where coffeeshops are allowed to sell to people but the
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by cr1895 4y ago
I like how it’s done in the Netherlands. There are vacation days (guaranteed by law!). And then there is sick leave, and there is no fixed number of days. They’re totally separate. If you’re sick, you’re sick - if you’re sick long term it’s
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by cr1895 4y ago
Gotta strongly disagree that you may as well snorkel if you’re just seeing reefs. It’s a totally different immersive experience while diving. There’s vastly more to see diving than the limited plane you see top-down in very shallow water.
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by cr1895 4y ago
That’s not quite accurate. It’s not a particular mushroom which they forgot to ban. They are sclerotia, and there are lots of varieties. I don’t know where the name truffle came about. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sc
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by cr1895 4y ago
Coriander cake? I assume you mean the seeds, and I didn’t realize people had that same reaction as they do with the herb.
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by cr1895 4y ago
>Twitter can communicate to people directly Who is Twitter?
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by cr1895 4y ago
Your last line can stand very well on its own, and the judgmental fabrication before it was totally unnecessary.
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by cr1895 4y ago
That’s why there are inspections, permits, and audits. But this is entirely orthogonal to the jones act because there are foreign vessels calling at US ports like literally all the time. They just don’t pick up cargo in one US port and take

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