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by grardb 3y ago
Before tax. Typically, European prices include VAT. If you remove the VAT from the Dutch price, you'd end up with about €561. Especially when taking into account the currency conversion, it's still definitely cheaper in the US, bu
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by grardb 3y ago
> if you say "latinx" you likely grew up in a mansion I'm not a fan of the term either, but this is a wildly inaccurate generalization.
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by grardb 4y ago
As a Rutgers alumnus who was involved in the scene when college hackathons started really taking off (2009-2013, attended 40+ hackathons), I can say that this anecdote doesn't reflect my experience at all. Had you attended HackRU inste
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by grardb 4y ago
Pardon if this is a stupid question, but I think I must be missing something. How is all of this different from turning WiFi off?
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by grardb 4y ago
This is correct. Veganism is not a requirement in Jainism, and the vast majority of Jains are not vegan.
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by grardb 4y ago
Figs are not even remotely controversial in the vegan community. As far as I can tell, it's a fringe topic and the vast majority of vegans don't consider figs to be non-vegan. As others have stated, the common fig does not require
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by grardb 4y ago
I deleted my LinkedIn account a while ago, largely because I set my email to not be visible, but was still getting recruiter spam on a daily basis, and they all said they got my email address from LinkedIn. Since deleting it, I almost nev
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by grardb 4y ago
This isn't necessarily true. I recently met someone from Brazil who used the word "soccer" when speaking English. As an American living in Europe who's met people from all over the world, I've noticed that it's
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by grardb 4y ago
Actually, upon rereading the parent comment, I think I'm the one who misunderstood! That's my bad, hah.
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by grardb 4y ago
What makes you think that? I'm a vegan who's been involved in animal rights activism for four years, and I've never met another vegan who opposes cultured meat on ethical grounds (or for any other reason). There are plenty wh
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by grardb 4y ago
I might be missing something, but what's the difference between those two statements? I suppose that given the first sentence, you could argue that the number of would-be quitters would be different if they learned their coworkers earn
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by grardb 4y ago
There is a list of components in the sidebar on the left. If you click those, you will see those components instead of the alerts.
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by grardb 4y ago
Do you get too drunk to ride a bicycle every time you go out for drinks?
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by grardb 4y ago
Here you go: https://youtu.be/-5wpm-gesOY?t=368 I'd highly recommend watching the whole video, by the way. It's really good.
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by grardb 4y ago
I don't understand how you're confused. Someone asks: > I still don't get why people use SMS/MMS anyway? Someone responds: > [I use SMS/MMS because] Almost nobody I know uses WhatsApp. You respond: > Your b
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by grardb 4y ago
If you're able to work as a freelancer, consider looking into the Dutch-American Friendship Treaty (DAFT). Basically, you start a company in the Netherlands with €4500 set aside for it, and you get residency for two years. You can cont
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by grardb 4y ago
SEEKING WORK - Netherlands - Remote-only I'm a full-stack engineer looking for contract work*. I'm most experienced in PHP/Laravel and Javascript/Typescript/React, but am pretty tech-fluid. I'm also comfortable
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by grardb 4y ago
I'm not sure that "hundreds of requests per hour" meets the criteria for a DDOS. Assuming 999 requests per hour, that's about one request every four seconds, which the vast majority of websites should be able to handle w
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by grardb 5y ago
Assuming the word "hybrid" is being used to mean that an individual employee has to go into the office for at least some amount of time per week/month/whatever: Here's the issue I have with the main argument I see a
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by grardb 5y ago
I lived in LA from 2016 to 2021. There were improvements made, but as far as I could tell, most of it was in Downtown LA, which is already fairly walkable and the place with the most transit. Outside of Downtown, it's mostly a nightmar
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by grardb 5y ago
That's only true if you have no issue with habitat destruction to make more room for farmland, which is happening all the time.
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by grardb 5y ago
This is such a tired argument. First, emissions are not the only issue related to climate change. Second (and someone please correct me if I'm wrong), the common article[1] that people cite for this statistic indicates that this is &qu
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by grardb 5y ago
> and may possibly be important to people eating vegan diets I just wanted to chime in and say that it's not important, at least not for the vast majority of vegans or others following vegan diets. Most of us are aware that plant fo
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by grardb 5y ago
I don't have an answer to that question, but it's worth noting that lactose intolerance isn't a problem that needs solving, but rather the natural state of things for most humans on the planet and most (if not all) other mamm
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by grardb 5y ago
I don't understand why people say things like this. According to a quick search, it's 8°C right now and is forecasted to be as low as 3°C later this week. I know that it's not Montana, but the vast majority of people aren&#x2
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by grardb 5y ago
Technically, but GP is allocating over 95% of post-tax revenue to everything other than engineer salaries, which is probably extremely generous. WhatsApp had 200M users in February 2013[1], which was a year before they were acquired by Face
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by grardb 5y ago
Heh, from what I've been able to tell, they get their own bikes much younger than that!
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by grardb 5y ago
This is a common viewpoint in the US, mostly because we're brought up not knowing alternatives. It might be worthwhile to check out how cities are planned elsewhere. My wife and I recently moved to the Netherlands because we think the
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by grardb 5y ago
Shameless plug: I have given a talk about this a couple of times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfKhY3sAQ9E But also, such a list does exist! https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-
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by grardb 5y ago
I'm not following how that's a stronger rebuttal than the one in the article: > But white students are also underrepresented, if only ever so slightly, at the UC: They make up 21 percent of the undergraduate population and 22 p

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