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seszett
3y ago
Hammers aren't a good example because there's already an established market for interoperable nails, but batteries for tools is a more appropriate comparison I think. They should absolutely get regulated, there is no good reason f
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3y ago
I think here in Belgium private schools are just a bit more common than public schools (56% private from a quick Google search) but I don't think they are very different. (although in my opinion the very existence of private schools is
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3y ago
In my place (a large city in Europe) there is no parking for schools and only a handful of parents sometimes come with cars, presumably because they drive on to their workplace afterwards. Most people by far come on foot, the rest with bicy
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3y ago
Obviously, and what I meant is that it's intentional on the part of the state, even if individual companies wouldn't do that on their own.
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3y ago
> Somewhat funnily both Airbus and their suppliers have a much harder time firing staff, due to stricter EU employment regulations, meaning that they unintentionally were better off when demand started up again, nevertheless Airbus and s
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3y ago
X window managers cannot run on Wayland and that's not something that can change in the future. There are many awesome-like Wayland compositors though, I've used sway, hyprland and river.
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3y ago
That's because management of these companies is all based in the US, and they apparently don't understand that these tactics just don't work at all in the EU.
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3y ago
> Maybe. If technology costs are lower than the costs of discarding half of the chicks, it will be successful just because it is economical. Moral outrage won't change a lot. Killing male chicks after birth has been forbidden in Fra
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3y ago
Were they illegally built without a permit? Then they should be demolished. Were they built with a permit? Then either it wasn't obvious they shouldn't have been built (and then why would the homeowners be responsible for these ki
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3y ago
I don't know, in my place (the West coast of France) it's the government's job to protect citizens property. There used to be a dike built in 1856 but it eroded away and in the 90s when I was young the broken sections were re
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3y ago
They say Approximately 10 kg of MLI covers Euclid's two science instruments, but this material can absorb 1% of its own weight in water so at most 100 grams of water. Assuming they were careful, maybe a tenth of that remains, so arou
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3y ago
> Many are using bicycles not by choice but because they're broke. And it shows when you see the kind of bicycle they ride. Maybe in your place. In my place (a big city in Belgium) people just use whatever bike they have that work
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3y ago
From what we found, no public school (Go! or gemeente) in Antwerp does that, brooddoos in all of them. All schools in West Flanders do provide lunch though, and at least some in East Flanders too (obviously we only looked up the areas that
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3y ago
> presumably to also be in sync with Germany Yes, it was changed by Germany while they were occupying France during World War 2. Most people are happy with it now though, and during the recent talks about whether to keep summer time or
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3y ago
That's not up to the parents, I can't given them a box with some kind of rougail, or a galette-saucisse or even just green peas with carrots. They don't have a microwave. It has to be cold and eaten with the hands, and "
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3y ago
Depending on the province though, kids might have little more than a lunchbox with bread slices with butter and ham, which doesn't seem very enjoyable to me (I'm French, with kids in Belgium).
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3y ago
> Or, frowning upon sodomy, considering that feces are a transmission route[0] for many common infections. Same thing with advanced promiscuity and STDs. Or the importance of sturdy couples (marriages, Confucianism) for kids's well
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3y ago
> instead of asking here for the source I pinged the esteemed GPT Which gave you a wrong answer, as it is found in Volume 6, Psychological Types (pp. 268-267) published in 1971 (not sure about that date, maybe it's just the editio
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3y ago
The only Google application (besides Play store and all the stuff that's more or less part of the system) I use is Google maps and it doesn't require being logged.
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3y ago
Well, not really. This sign is an indication that you will not encounter oncoming traffic. The other end of the road will see a "No Entry" sign (red disc with a white horizontal bar) and any side street will get a "mandatory
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3y ago
To nitpick just a bit further, white on blue means obligatory if it's a circle but just information if it's a rectangle.
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3y ago
> that the ones with the red circle but without the red slash typically mean up to what is shown is allowed and anything above is not (e.g. maximum speed, maximum width, maximum height) These number are limits on a continuous domain, whe
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3y ago
> the EU insisting they can steal money from Apple based on its global revenue, rather than EU revenue, is obscene. To be clear, fining is not stealing except in some kind of liberal dystopian fantasy. And fining based on global reve
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3y ago
That's how it works in Lille Flandre, which is depicted on this website. In Lille, in the North of France. They're just all on the same level though.
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Apernet is especially active in enabling circumventing the GFW of China, so I'm pretty sure they are aware, and have thought about the consequences of this project. In fact I assume they developed it in order to test their circumventio
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I've been reading this kind of opinion for years, but I have always found the touchpad to be annoyingly slow under macOS. On the other hand, MacBooks are basically the only laptops with a large enough touchpad to be comfortable, I don&
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3y ago
The European Commission isn't one person either, actually.
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> Francis French This is a whole other level, since Francis basically means "French".
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This is basically just an American fantasy. It's a way to make the point that "since these foreigners are so ungrateful, we will stop blessing them with our wonderful products if they don't please us, and then they will have
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> Everyone is self interested and when we see the Europeans talk about human rights on the one hand but then do big wine and dine trips in China to sell their luxury goods on the other hand you see clear evidence of that fact. I think yo
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