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kazen44
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> No one gets rich working in healthcare in Germany, but no one goes bankrupt using it. the notion that one should get rich working in healthcare is a strange one to me? You work in healthcare because you want to help other people in get
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> Right now it has very little incentive to do that because Americans being fat and sick is "not the government's problem". It's the people's and insurance companies' problem, which is why insurance companie
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what might also add to the difference is the focus on a healthy lifestyle and assistance on maintaining it for the less fortunate in society. For instance, giving someone who is poor benefits so they can afford healthy food (or even better,
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9y ago
This is my experience aswell. (in the dutch healthcare system). i was also born prematurely, and as a result of that had to have some pretty major surgery done as a child. All of these surgeries where done rapidly aswell to keep the impact
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9y ago
As far as i know, isn't this basically global? atleast in civil law systems, i yet have to find a country where this isn't the case.
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The GDPR does not state that it needs to be automated. I assume SME's will also not automate this unless they get a lot of request. Basically all features that are required by the GDPR are already in most common SME software.
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Also, spotify makes money by offering you a service, instead of data mining your information and making money that way. Spotify is also insanely cheap in terms of getting basically all the music you would want in the world for around 10 eur
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> But I think there's a lot of value in optimising for distance. i definetly agree to this, spending time on travel is pure waste. One of the best decisions for my personal health and my career was getting a job which is located 10
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9y ago
> If that chain stays out of EU data protection agency reach, enforcement is a non-issue. But if Germany and China were to enter a bilateral agreement (as the US will). this is a very good point actually, GDPR will probably also be used
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9y ago
Heck, a car in the netherlands is also very, very expensive. Especially if you live in the inner core of a relatively old city, which are not designed for cars and where parking space is at a premium. I'm fairly sure most people workin
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9y ago
> Regardless of exporting a lot of electricity, they are also now completely dependent on French nuclear power for energy security. most western european nations have a very interdependent energy grid. (more so then the post-warsaw pact
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9y ago
I think (not OP btw) that it is more a problem of being in a highly competitive enviroment? These people are all trying to one up each other, which will eventually leads to finding substances to getting an edge over others? (otherwise they
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as someone in his late twenties from the netherlands, i roughly have the same experience. The recreational drug use has more to do with age in my experience then workfields. Most people i know who did softdrugs casually stopped doing so onc
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> Because of the undertone possibly hinting at nationalistic motives (i. e. Europe harming a foreign competitor for its own business' benefit), to add to this, most of the european fines don't make the news because they either
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>Obesity is a particularly tough one, though. Generally, populations that eat less (and less unhealthy simple-carb-based-stuff) and walk more appear to have less obesity, but politically this isn't a big winner. The reason people ar
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9y ago
the major difference between fiat and bitcoin in this case seems to be that the whales in case of fiat currency are either the central banks (like the FED and ECB) or large international banks who own a lot of currency?
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9y ago
>It's not important everyone becomes a proficient programmer programming is a tiny subsection of a far larger and more useful skill that should be thought more, analytical thinking. learning kids how to break down problems into smal
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Also, i think one also has to look at historical relevance and technology. Fighting battles on the eastern front in WW2 is significantly different then warfare during ancient times or even the 18th century. For one, warfare is far more dete
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Heck, if amd released raven ridge with this option my next laptop might actually be a A model thinkpad.
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what is even more important is that your infrastructure should be consistent and self documenting (thanks to Configuration Management this is really easy). Having a solid infrastructure with failure mode and behaviour that is expected saves
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For a non US citizen however, Not having your mail hosted in the US atleast makes spying not completely automatic. Because in the US, the NSA has the legal right to wiretap all foreigh communications.
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9y ago
But then it becomes more a question of politics instead of (inter)national law. Heck, the EU and US are already not on good terms on the subject of privacy/intelligence gathering, so i doubt this would be done so easily. Especially wit
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but the cloud should have been far more redundant and easier to maintain!
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probably the most important invention of the industrial revolution is the screw-cutting lathe by Henry Maudslay[1] Without the screw cutting lathe, precision parts where impossible to make. Without machine tools, creating basically any othe
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what is a far larger problem is the fact that employers basically demand college and university degrees for jobs which require neither. I am not american, but i wonder why the US seems to lack a tiered tertiary education system? In the neth
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> I mean, a bike has two wheels, if you stop holding the handlebars, you kinda...topple over? the trick to driving without using your hands on the handlebars is to simply keep enough speed to not fall over. This way you can steer a bit b
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You should most high school kids in the netherlands when they go to school every morning, most of them bike without having their hands touching the steering bar. texting with their phone in one hand, and either breakfast with the other. A m
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>That's a ridiculous notion anyway. If you put in time and effort, you can learn pretty much anything, and computers and programming are no different, no matter the age. And if you do not put in time and effort, you always remain ig
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most IoT devices do not really need to be scalable themselves. The backend/processing side of IOT needs to be scalable. And it already mostly is doing that on both network side (ipv6) and datastore side (TSDB?).
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> However, I believe relational databases (Postgres is what I have experience with) has defaults that are basically correct, and unlikely to cause significant issues, whereas in my experience MongoDB did not have this. MongoDB might be e
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