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by ralfn 6y ago
>Do you have any examples of large scale corruption inside EU? It doesn't happen with the one large corruption scheme taking all of the money. Its hundreds of small corruptions like a locust. Here is a fair and neutral attempt to ca
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by ralfn 6y ago
Most competitive chips in the world are produced by machines made in the Netherlands at ASMI/ASML The US companies do what they do best: innovate business models and find ways to vendor lock in and own the market. But who's been d
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A Stochastic Derivation of Classical and Quantum Mechanics(arxiv.org)
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by ralfn 6y ago
They have a reasonable historic reason to be extra sensitive with xenophobia. I'm not saying its the correct ideological position, but it sure is understandable. If you consider the structural and institutional racism in the US, and ho
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by ralfn 6y ago
I don't have to believe any of that. I just have to find it slightly more likely Bannon isn't that smart, that well connected, that technically skilled nor planning that far ahead. They can't be idiots and evil geniuses at th
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by ralfn 6y ago
>probably spurred on by Chinese propaganda and their fake reporting. What the hell are you talking about? What propaganda or fake reporting? China initially denied there even was a virus or that it was dangerous. Just like Europe. Just l
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by ralfn 6y ago
It does tell you when though.
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by ralfn 6y ago
>It has no understanding of the world What does this mean? The world with countries, borders, celebrities, hypes, newsletters and ideologies? Because that world is as virtual and not grounded in reality as the world of data points fed in
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by ralfn 6y ago
The reality is that GDPR is not strongly enforced at the moment. This is not uncommon for Europe and may be a cultural differences with other places. Those who have the intent to comply and are at least complying in spirit are not at any le
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by ralfn 6y ago
>Ergo, it is also very expensive to run Wether thats too expensive depends on what you are doing, and how much what you are doing creates value.More disturbingly is that the whole approach seems to scale linearly in quality based on the
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by ralfn 6y ago
Apple catered to that niche crowd when it was the runner up. The addressable market of the media arts is a peanut next to the mountain of consumers they are now successfully targeting. It's like asking why Apple is making the value pro
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by ralfn 6y ago
>That's what Apple is now desperately trying to avoid happening to iOS as well. It took a court order to not cut off Epic's developer liscence, which affects many other game vendors too. That doesn't sound desparate. That
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by ralfn 6y ago
In the Netherlands we have a saying 'high trees catch a lot of wind' It's the best known country in the world. It's the most famous one. As a result chances are for a lot of people on this planet the people they admire t
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by ralfn 6y ago
>You don't pay a fix dollar tax per citizen, but a percentage of your income Yeah, the government has a monopoly on that. > I can see private companies doing the same. You must be American then. This is where all this friction co
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by ralfn 6y ago
No, in-app purchases are forced to BE proccessed by Apple. Epic would like to proccess these themselves. They dont want apple to turn on their economic output. When you charge money for the work others do -- that's like communism.
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by ralfn 6y ago
Because its the sort of above most transaction fees of most payment providers in the world. But Apple can ask whatever they want. They can't block side-loading though. That's the uncompetitive part. You can run your store and pick
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by ralfn 6y ago
> Is that because the Dutch are white and the past is the VOC and slavery? Or because the Dutch are white? As a Dutch person I will answer: the first. The great grandfather's of the black kids getting name called 'Zwarte Piet&#
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by ralfn 6y ago
You might like the language Crystal, it works this way. https://crystal-lang.org/
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by ralfn 6y ago
No the exploit was by the Dutch supporting the French because the actual physical servers were located in France, under their jurisdiction. Just like the previous time they did this we aren't getting a lot of information of how. But it
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by ralfn 6y ago
There are things like mortgage rates and spending priorities that are healthy political democratic differences that should have no impact on your professional life. There are also things that are not political. They are war. They are '
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by ralfn 6y ago
>when neither have faced this before >The fact that mistakes have been made doesn't mean there's nothing to their field and anyone can do it I was not making that claim. The premise is: should every non epidemiologist keep t
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by ralfn 6y ago
It's completely logical that engineers have professional deformation. Society is in crisis and there are metrics. How can you realistically expect engineers not to start debugging and interpreting the metrics? Yes. Engineers aren'
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by ralfn 7y ago
The quality of governance in Singapore makes even a spoiled dutch man like me jealous. Would be even cooler if they found a way to maximize personal liberties too (referring to the freedom of expression, religion and sexuality). It's h
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by ralfn 7y ago
Yeah the doubling time confuses me too. All the numbers from China, Italy and the Netherlands (where I am at) show the number of deaths doubling every 2 days upto the limit. But even our dutch government is claiming it's 4 days standin
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by ralfn 7y ago
So this outrage is in the Netherlands. Security cameras may not be pointed by businesses at public space (which we have a lot of unlike the US). The local government itself may place cameras though but private parties, what kind of nightmar
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by ralfn 7y ago
It's called Tinder. It's better for everyone to just date outside of the office. And if you can't succeed there any success within the office is a hint that maybe power dyanmics and subtle coercion is at play.
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by ralfn 7y ago
Not to mention that avoiding GRPR, laws that shouldn't need to have been written in the first place, is like walking around with a big sign 'we are evil and not to be trusted'. Because if you are to be trusted, a simple curso
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by ralfn 7y ago
Come on people. We don't have a lot of information to judge on. But if we are having a debate about the meaning of rape, then we are all side stepping the incredible high chance this is politically motivated nonsense. Nobody had ever b
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by ralfn 7y ago
>1700 demonstrators showed up this year. Were they demonstrating against or in favor of the POW's and resistence fighters?
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by ralfn 8y ago
That assumes Europeans or Chinese would have the same issue where nationalism constantly blinds their judgement.

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