vlabakje90

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by vlabakje90 3y ago
Light travels 300km in one millisecond, so I doubt that's a limitation here.
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by vlabakje90 3y ago
I'm just genuinely curious. I also live in a small country with a limited number of L1+2 speakers and I never see any machine translated content from Russian sources. It's not immediately obvious why Croatia would have Russian and
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by vlabakje90 3y ago
Can you explain? I'm curious to why this is the case. It's more evident to me in the case of Lithuania.
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by vlabakje90 3y ago
For anyone reading this who might be interested in states that have no physical infrastructure, there is the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. This is considered a sovereign entity without any territory. They do have money, assets and peop
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by vlabakje90 3y ago
There are other minor errors here and there. He mentions that it is 'literally impossible' to get a tourist visa other than by coming through the airport in Abidjan. Yet, in 2023 I did get one outside of Côte d'Ivoir, at the
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by vlabakje90 3y ago
In the Netherlands this is completely normal for most types of jobs, 48% of the workforce works less than 36 hours. Are you looking for anything specific?
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by vlabakje90 3y ago
FIY, that has been rejected: https://fortune.com/europe/2023/10/26/eu-chat-control-csam-e...
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by vlabakje90 3y ago
This is definitely not as black and white as you put it. Today, where I live (53 degrees latitude, northern hemisphere), the brightest point of the day is just about 100W/m². That converts to about 12000 lumens, but that is only at the
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by vlabakje90 3y ago
It might be, but this exchange rate is no evidence for that statement. The CHF/USD exchange rate is literally at one of it's highest points since 1985.
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by vlabakje90 3y ago
At least half of all NaCl that's used world wide is mined from salt mines. For many places in the world it's not feasible to rely on solar evaporation of sea water. Using other energy sources to evaporate sea salt is not cost effe
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by vlabakje90 3y ago
16% of personal vehicles in the Netherlands are currently diesel cars. About 20% of all vehicles sold here last year were diesel vehicles. So at least here, it's very common for people to drive a diesel car. They come in all sizes.
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by vlabakje90 3y ago
I was curious, so I calculated what this distance would be in kilometers. At 2 degrees lattitude (lattitude of Ecuador), a difference of 0.5 degrees longitude translates to 55.6 kilometers.
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by vlabakje90 3y ago
This is false. PE is made up of hydrocarbon chains. Fats are made of fatty acids esterified to a polyol backbone, commonly glycerol.
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by vlabakje90 3y ago
I'm not sure what you are referring to with 'such a thing', but mirroring libgen and zlib is really not hard. Libgen offers Torrent links as does Anna's Archive. The libgen domains are fragile, but here's a link to
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by vlabakje90 3y ago
In India, China and Japan the color associated with death is white, so it's pretty eurocentric indeed.
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by vlabakje90 3y ago
I'm connected through Ziggo so this surprises me. It's working for me without any problems.
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by vlabakje90 3y ago
It's not banned in NL, I can access it just fine.
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by vlabakje90 3y ago
You'd be wrong then, because it's (biomedical) textbook knowledge that quite a bit of processing of visual stimuli happens in the retina.
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by vlabakje90 3y ago
If we're nitpicking, that fact doesn't make the first statement untrue.
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by vlabakje90 3y ago
Try Das Kapital by Karl Marx and/or The Conquest of Bread by Piotr Kropotkin.
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by vlabakje90 4y ago
It's obviously very unrealistic, but I read Robert Service's biography about Stalin and it's interesting to see how many details in the movie are inspired by real events. I recommend the biography by the way, it's engros
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by vlabakje90 4y ago
This is due to the foaming agents used in most toothpastes. The biggest culprit is sodium lauryl (ether) sulphate (SLES/ SLS). These foaming agents are surfactants and they bind to certain taste receptors in your mouth, thus altering y
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by vlabakje90 4y ago
Revolut has single use credit cards as part of their offering. You can either choose to create a new one for each transaction (disposable card) or a virtual credit card that you can use more than once but discard if something happens to it.
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by vlabakje90 4y ago
A ranking of countries by uncertainty avoidance is part of Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstede%27s_cultural_dimens... ). There is a website where you can easily compare c
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by vlabakje90 4y ago
Never before has there been a time where billions of chickens were killed each year. The dose make the poison.
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by vlabakje90 4y ago
This rather finds its origin in religion (Abrahamic, amongst others), where the soul is regarded being as separate from the body.