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by em500 5y ago
Primary school in the Netherlands lasts 8 years, typically from age 4 to 12. The first 2 years used to be to be separate and non-mandatory until the 1980s, when they were merged into a single 8 year track. Homework typically doesn't st
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by em500 5y ago
I'm sure nobody would argue against that in principle, but the reality in most countries is that society is willing to pay for 1 to 1.5 FTE per 30 children. And even with such numbers, education is typically already one of the top publ
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by em500 5y ago
AFAIK none of the primary schools here in the Netherlands give kids any homework until the last 2 or 3 years of primary school, when the kids are 9 or 10 at least.
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by em500 5y ago
From the Chinese perspective, of the USA has their Saudi, why can't they have their Russia? For the Russian commoners it will be a bad deal, but if the deal can be made attractive enough for the Russian leadership there seems to littl
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by em500 5y ago
How do laptops without screens make any sense in schools, which are largely already deploying cheap laptops with screens?
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by em500 5y ago
You won't be able to do that with RAR files either. The only archive/compression format that you can send anyone is ZIP, since both Windows and macOS can open them ootb.
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by em500 5y ago
Why did you write "2022" instead of "two thousand twenty two", and "$5" instead of "five dollars"?
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by em500 5y ago
The online travel industry is now mostly Booking Holdings, Expedia Group (both of which own many sub-brands) and AirBnB.
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by em500 5y ago
It's not weird at all, most forum threads involving huge companies attract largely negative comments (Google, Amazon, even Apple). By and large I'm happy with the services of these companies, but if you go by HN I can get my gmail
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by em500 5y ago
It's not illegal to fire people in Germany. But just like most of Europe they need to provide some "just cause [1]", unlike in the US where there are a lot more "at-will [2]" employment contracts. Left wing economis
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by em500 5y ago
Most of the online hotel platforms are owned by either Booking Holdings, Expedia Group or AirBnB. So choose your own poison, as the saying goes.
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by em500 5y ago
They're not firing thousands of engineers. They're transferring most of their thousands of call centre workers to a different company. Are you hiring lots of call center workers? Q. to all you off the cuff commenters: did you even
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by em500 5y ago
Don't be depressed. In due time, our kids will complain about their kids zombie-ing out in the metaverse all day, whereas back in their days, they were actively creating memes and dance videos, modding minecraft worlds, and occasional
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by em500 5y ago
I think this is a lost cause. Other have already mentioned this, but I'll state it again. The computers themselves are the trivial part, both the hardware and the software. You can buy a budget 11- or 13-inch laptop, new for $300 or us
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by em500 5y ago
I wouldn't call it a non-issue. Lead pipes in new buildings were not forbidden in the Netherlands until 1960, and there are still plenty of older buildings in use (including housing daycares, where drinking tap water is the norm). The
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by em500 5y ago
Of course, LC-only won't get you there, and all companies with LC use the whole arsenal. But I don't doubt that LC will filter out a very large fraction of applicants (hence the incessant whining on HN). The point is though, with
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by em500 5y ago
It's hilarious reading these anonymous hiring managers discussing how they'd hypothetically snub people like Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, Andrew Morton, James Gosling or John Carmack for lack of morals and values.
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by em500 5y ago
Indeed, all those complainers about the process should maybe try to answer this as their first business case interview question: You have 10 dev positions in your team. You receive 5000 applications, where 3000 look like a suitable match ba
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by em500 5y ago
Google receives about 3 million applications per year, and hires less than 1% of them. Not all of them for dev positions, but still probably at least a million. Google is probably the most popular, but even the maligned Facebook gets a few
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by em500 5y ago
Not a snark, but why would you search for youtube videos on google, rather than on youtube?
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by em500 5y ago
Note that the model is implemented in GAMS[1], a proprietary language focused at constrained optimization problems (think Matlab, but more niche). This makes it a non-starter for most interested outsiders. [1] https://en.wikipedi
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by em500 5y ago
Most of the end-user energy prices differences are due to local tax differences.
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Now I'm wondering how many EU government sites are currently using GA.
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I have no special insight in pandas development, so this is just my guess. I believe this was because Pandas' initial primary use case was manipulating time series (datetime-indexed numerical vectors), which are used extensively in fin
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by em500 5y ago
I think the biggest learning from covid is that everybody can choose their own truths and facts, and the internet can provide a limitless amount of support for any theory, hypothesis and conjecture about all of them (even when they're
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by em500 5y ago
Every job related thread on HN devolves into a bitch fest about interview questions. I don't know how it works at non-FAANGS, but Google gets literally millions of applications per year, and even the maligned FB gets a few hundred thou
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by em500 5y ago
> And yet we live in a world where the Linus Tovalds, or John Resig's and literally a million others happily created enormous social value, and got nothing (directly) out of it. Linus Torvalds reportedly got $20M stock from the Red
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by em500 5y ago
If you don't have descendants/heirs, an increase allows you to withdraw a massive amount of equity. If you do have heirs, a value increase will do tons for them (further increase inequality in the next generation) if it does nothi
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I'm wondering how you/he was able to determine that he got infected during, rather than before or after the flight.
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by em500 5y ago
> I wonder: does this mean I can embed ClickHouse in arbitrary software as a library? I'd be curious to provide that as an option in dsq. Not sure, but it's Apache licensed, so you likely can make it work if you want to. But re

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