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by fvdessen 9y ago
If the expected benefits of the eugenic selection over the lifetime of the child are more than the cost of the medical procedure then we could expect bank/insurance/state to finance the operation.
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by fvdessen 9y ago
Unavailable in my country apparently. It must also be the reason why I don't get ads.
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by fvdessen 9y ago
Why doesn't SoundCloud want my money ? There are no ads, and no paid plans for listeners. A lot of songs in my library disappear once the artist gets big and wants some cash from iTunes. I would have no problem paying for access to the
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by fvdessen 9y ago
Used to !
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by fvdessen 9y ago
Python & JS :)
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by fvdessen 9y ago
Belgium, self-employed. Full-stack engineer. Doing consulting work for various companies & other personal projects. Job's pretty good, paperwork is hell.
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by fvdessen 9y ago
A UBI that allows citizen to surive on it is simply unfundable; Let's take Belgium, 1000eur/month per citizen; That's 120 billion eur/year. The Belgian state revenue is 227 billion eur/year, and Belgium has the high
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by fvdessen 9y ago
Some people don't have any fear; Sometimes I forget to clip when I'm lead climbing.
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by fvdessen 9y ago
Energy consumption is one of the largest costs of every human activity, there is already incredible incentives for everyone to reduce consumption. Energy efficiency has increased for every country despite the lack of a common political fram
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by fvdessen 9y ago
European countries have no intentions to ever pay the 2%. For example the Belgian Government reiterated right after the G7 that it had no intention to meet that target and plans instead for 1.3% towards 2030. [1] I work in Brussels and I ve
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by fvdessen 9y ago
USA's emissions/gdp are close to the world's average, and have been improving at the same rate as other nations. It is not doing a bad job at environment and there isn't a valid reason to single it out [1] [1] http:&#x2
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by fvdessen 9y ago
China has an extremely large expat community which stays in close contact with the mainland trough social media. Their view of the occidental left is mainly based on the gossip about it from the expat community, and such gossip is usually v
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by fvdessen 9y ago
In France an atheist activist has been recently condemned to 3 months of prison for saying 'Islam Kills' in public. And that's just one of the most recent cases.
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by fvdessen 9y ago
Frameworks have improved immensely in the last few years. With Vue, I use the cli to generate the webpack project and then it works out of the box, bugfree (so far). And then you can work with truly reusable single file components, and you
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by fvdessen 9y ago
I am sorry, but modern frameworks such as Vue or React make you an order of magnitude more productive. And instead of waiting 6 months for a dev, I would consider training new ones.
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by fvdessen 9y ago
Well, Here in Belgium poor black females would usually have a passport to visit their family in Congo/Rwanda.
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by fvdessen 9y ago
Is it really ? I have multiplied my income by 10 in the last two years and it hasn't made a huge difference in my lifestyle. I can afford nicer versions of everything, but the improvement is marginal. Like going from pressing my own fr
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by fvdessen 9y ago
There's never been a better time to be a poor black female with a 1st world passport either
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by fvdessen 10y ago
The commodity that youtube sells is not only the ability to upload a video, it is the access to a network of viewers. It can be argued that due to youtube's network size relative to other video sharing website, it has a monopoly in tha
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by fvdessen 10y ago
A sourced leak doesn't always stand on his own. A recording / email taken out of context can paint the target in a bad light. If someone with bad intentions and access to my emails and phone conversations would selectively release
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by fvdessen 10y ago
It is hard to know if the leaks are honest attempts to reveal bad governance practices, or if they are politically selected to achieve partisan motives.
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by fvdessen 10y ago
Sometimes I think that we are seeing so many conflicting dreams of utopian societies, and so many conflicting dystopian descriptions of our existing societies that it makes us think our world is much worse than it really is, without any pat
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by fvdessen 10y ago
How the hell is breitbart even remotely comparable to nazis ?
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by fvdessen 10y ago
I don't think parent poster has a problem with people having opposing views, but with media organisations affirming they are unbiased while they are not. And this criticism is not limited to the right wing -- see Chomsky.
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by fvdessen 10y ago
Not An American, but so far Trump is giving the image of someone who can get things done and tackle difficult problems with practical solutions. I don't really understand the hysteria.
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by fvdessen 10y ago
If I remember correctly, You are more or less responsible for whatever appears on your website. If your users use your service for forbidden speech, then you are liable.
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by fvdessen 10y ago
You can make meaningful and consistent groupings in a continuum . For example you can make a distinction between poor and rich citizens, even tough the income distribution is a continuum. Same goes for the rainbow, the fact that it is conti
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by fvdessen 10y ago
The articles states that at least 76% of the observed differences in the population come from their raw DNA. Epigenetics may thus affect up to 24% of the observed differences. So DNA is still the predominant factor.
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by fvdessen 10y ago
If you do a clustering analysis on a large sample of DNA data you will get different clusters corresponding to the usual definitions of races or ethnicities, depending on the number of clusters you choose. https://en.wikipedia.or
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by fvdessen 10y ago
Your pictures aren't very representative of Art Nouveau in France & Belgium. Here are other examples: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Ma... https://www.

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