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by kazen44 4y ago
also, the english used by the EU is sometimes far more easier to understand for people who are not native english speakers but have english as a second or third language. Mainly because it uses words "wrong" according to english,
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by kazen44 4y ago
also, the EU has done some quite proper laws and directives. Schengen and the entire construct of the internal market being one of the main advantages.
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by kazen44 4y ago
but people do consent to the monarchy? mind you, the netherlands is a constitutional monarchy in which the king is legally bound by the constitution. Changing the constitution to just absolve the monarchy is a possibility. One that just has
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by kazen44 4y ago
I think this kind of thinking highly depends on what field you are in. My father worked in a technical role all his live in a automotive plant. (Eventually being technically responsible for overall design and implementation of all productio
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by kazen44 4y ago
> You cannot be serious. Why would Russia blow up their own pipeline instead of just saying "no"? because it denies the non hardline faction inside the russian political sphere the option of negotiating with the west. This furt
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by kazen44 4y ago
at the same time, gas supplies are at an all time high. The main issue seems to be absolutely atrocious timing of nuclear reactor maintenance. (which is just bad luck). > I assume that once larger parts of the population start feeling th
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by kazen44 4y ago
also, does everything requires to be economically valuable? Not everything is about abstrac economic value. Humans have other needs which need to be met, like social interaction and leisure.
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by kazen44 4y ago
In historical context, this is all thanks to industrialisation and the specialisation of industry. The effects of the change of agriculture should not be understated. The industrialization of agriculte has made it possible for the majority
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by kazen44 4y ago
To add to this, decolonization of the british raj wasn't all roses and sunshine either. (the split of india and pakistan was especially)
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by kazen44 4y ago
don't forget that the Marshall aid also prevent a massive economic crisis in the US. After world war 2, employment collapsed because of the downturn of the war economy. From a realpolitik perspective, its a smart move. Using the marsha
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by kazen44 4y ago
routing tables usually aren't "cached" in the same sense that DNS caches entries. however. Inside ISP;s routes are usually distributed by an IBGP with a couple of route reflectors, and route reflectors will drop routes if no
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by kazen44 4y ago
exists in most northern and western european companies aswell.. Unions in europe also seem far less militant than those in the US.
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by kazen44 4y ago
Multicast throughput is hard to measure because it is... well, multicast. Depending on where your RP's are, and how you are transmitting multicast packets across a core, multicast performance can vary a lot. The main advantage of multi
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by kazen44 4y ago
i disagree with you on this. The problem with british parliamentarism compared to the system other constitutional monarchies and democracies in europe have, is the the cabinet does not automatically gets disbanded when the goverment looses
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by kazen44 4y ago
very large class difference has always been a thing in the UK as far as i remember. And the only period i can think of when the economy improved drastically for the working class in britain was in the late 60 and the seventies.
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by kazen44 4y ago
Thatcherism has little basis in actual sociology in my opinion. Societies do exist, and humans are not purely selfish rational beings either.
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by kazen44 4y ago
i wouldn't say the operations view is pessimistic perse. Its a different frame of mind, mainly because its the place where the rubber meets the road so to speak. Once things are production, you cannot revoke or redesign your product&#x
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by kazen44 4y ago
in my opinion, the ops folk who are good at their jobs do automate the boring stuff. (because doing grunt work is uninteresting) I highly doubt ops will ever go away considering someone has to think about maintaining stability in a producti
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by kazen44 4y ago
> Over the last ten years, the market has tried to kill off the hardware, systems, network and security people, and mostly succeeded. In my experience, people who want to do interesting work on networking and systems. (Think, building l
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by kazen44 4y ago
The barrier for learning ops is also far higher then learning devs, especially if one wants to get into the industry. Starting in development requires a laptop. Starting with operations requires a datacenter worth of hardware and applicatio
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by kazen44 4y ago
> bringing developer practices into ops: version control, testing, code reviews, continuous integration, etc In my opinion, this last subset just doesn't work well for a lot of branches of operations. Sure, it might work if you run
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by kazen44 4y ago
> I switched to just Security, and while I miss the ability to make and push changes to hundreds of thousands of machines to get things done, I don't miss any of the pressure or blame that automatically got lumped onto the sysadmin
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by kazen44 4y ago
Also, some developers do not seem to know what kind of impact a production issue can have. Having something not work during the development cycle is annoying for one person or a team. Having something break in production usually means peopl
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by kazen44 4y ago
you should see these pictures of bike storage at central train stations: [0] utrecht centraal prior to their major renovation [1] airial picture of the a different bike storage at the same train station [0] https://tondejager.fil
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by kazen44 4y ago
as a dutchman, i once stumbled across some swedes in a bar. With enough beer, im convinced we would be able to speak the same language at a certain point.
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by kazen44 4y ago
> From what I have seen of the Netherlands, the bike paths are physically separated from the driving lanes (except side residential streets) so there is much less risk of a cyclist getting run over, side swiped, or cut off by a vehicle.
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by kazen44 4y ago
most dutch cities have secondary schools which are easily bikable by most students. In my personal experience, everyone i know biked, including people who had to bike for more then an hour to get home. This was roughly 30 years ago. But i d
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by kazen44 4y ago
destroying something as vital as the poland-norway pipeline or other norwegian gas infrastructure could be seen as a trigger for article 5. Mind you, this is something russian claims it wants (the war against the west and all that), but act
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by kazen44 4y ago
> Few developers think about the cost of using the network. Developers do not seem to realise how slow the network is compared to everything else. Sure, 100gbit network itnerfaces do exist, but most servers are attached with 10gbit inter
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by kazen44 4y ago
i still dont understand why nearly all CNI's are so hell bent on implementing a dozen layers of NAT to tunnel their overlay networks, instead of implementing a proper control plane to automate it all away between routes. Calico seems t

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