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by SJSque 7y ago
Could be. I'm not an expert (I haven't even looked up the statistics), and I suspect that neither was the person who I heard crediting the kraamzorg system for the low infant mortality rate. I certainly get the impression that giv
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by SJSque 7y ago
True. In my haste, I neglected to mention that until recently the Netherlands has had one of stingiest paternity/partner leave policies in Europe. It used to be (roughly speaking) one or two days, as of this year it is one week, and ne
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by SJSque 7y ago
Here in the Netherlands, they tend to kick the mother out of hospital as soon as feasible after the birth (typically after one night, or even on the same day), but as soon as you get home, the home nurse (kraamzorg, or "cradle care&quo
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by SJSque 7y ago
Well, a Roach Motel [0] is also something that is easy to get into but hard to get out of, but the name does imply that you are a roach for getting into it... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roach_Motel
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The ‘ghost work’ powering tech magic(bbc.com)
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by SJSque 7y ago
An interesting development, and a useful contribution to the field. For those of you still looking for perceptually uniform colour maps, including rainbows, check out the work of Peter Kovesi [1]. Personally, I'm still on the lookout f
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by SJSque 7y ago
For what it's worth: I know that writing is not the same as speaking, and of course I don't know how long it took you to compose that comment, but your English is excellent.
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by SJSque 7y ago
Yeah, poor wording on my part. You're not going to be able to avoid 90-degree corners in any case when 45-degree (or any other non-axis-aligned) lines are not allowed in designs for many processes. What I should have said is that the m
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by SJSque 7y ago
I don't know about PCB level, but on smaller scales you should avoid making right-angle turns in metal lines because of electromigration [1]. Energetic electrons flowing along the line will crash into the 'wall' at the turn,
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by SJSque 7y ago
> who is paying $7/gallon for gas? Today's price for standard gasoline here in the Netherlands is 1.83 EUR/litre, which is currently equivalent to 7.75 USD/gallon.
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by SJSque 8y ago
I think that I should take inspiration from some of these and add some new possibilities to my Idea Generator: http://www.stevesque.com/ideas