swongel

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by swongel 2mo ago
There is a word for "love" in dutch; it's the noun "liefde" (of which lieve is an adjective). However you cannot use "liefde" as a verb, hence my question if this is the case in Deitsch as they are relate
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by swongel 2mo ago
From the article; > The contours of Pennsylvania Dutch words are harder and sharper than English ones. It’s hard to ask for a soft favor. Difficult to communicate affection, impossible to say the word love. We have no distinct word for i
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by swongel 3mo ago
When you start a journey, the time you check in at the access gate is taken as the check-in time for your whole journey with that train company. (You may have to check-in and out if you switch trains and the train you're getting on is
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by swongel 7mo ago
Regardless of the poor security guarentees and or personal disinterest in such a service. I don't think services which offer continuous services should ever have a "lifetime" price. With a lifetime subscription the incentive
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by swongel 7mo ago
Well there's this press release they would publish a report: https://www.vttresearch.com/en/news-and-ideas/donut-lab-comm... with as author the same name on the digital signature "Petri Söderena" fo
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by swongel 5y ago
These damn employees, what are they thinking that they could better their employment and lives. They're a bunch of hypocrites for wanting a better piece of the cake of the billion dollar extremely profitable company they built. Won&#x2
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by swongel 5y ago
It's an interesting topic, I think a comment could't accommodate all the differences between the labor markets. I'll say this much, our justice systems in western Europe (with the exception of the UK) are based on civil law y
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by swongel 5y ago
So? They're employees too, I can handle a bad manager, I can't handle being fired over some bullshit. That manager has a mortgage too, you know? It's nothing personal, it's business.
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by swongel 5y ago
We have a justice system based on reasonable interpretation by judges, which is a bit less "strict" literal interpretation of contracts. Mine says "Software development", some collective bargaining agreements have more s
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by swongel 5y ago
Where I'm from (western europe) we have this, but unironically. Imagine the horror not having to worry over not being able to pay your mortgage or rent whenever your boss or some power tripping middle manager decided they want you to s
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by swongel 5y ago
That's a nice way to say "Do what I tell you regardless of what we agreed your role would be or I fire you". Talk about toxic, this kind of garbage is why workers need strong labor laws and unions protecting them.
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by swongel 5y ago
They'd probably make it illegal for cars to drive without passenger in cities like Amsterdam without a taxi license to prevent traffic jams of cars driving around to avoid parking costs.
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by swongel 5y ago
It doesn't, it also doesn't account for the fact that China has a larger population. The US only has about ~23% of China's population to sustain. GDP/CO2 is a silly metric to compare (No Patrick, selling financial produc
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by swongel 5y ago
From article 4. of the GDPR: ‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular
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by swongel 5y ago
No, you can't pay with any currency like Zimbabwean dollars and expect the EU to force businesses to accept it, no. But this article isn't about legal tender or how debts can be repaid it's about anti-trust and coupling commo
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by swongel 5y ago
So Apple is forcing its customers to bundle their phone with their billing platform. Which should be illegal (as we democratically decided to have these laws), having no choice in services is not a feature it's an additional price to p
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by swongel 6y ago
Afaik after the whole PHPixie scandal, they got backlash but the PSR standards they adopted are still in use. PHPixie thread: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/php-fig/cjLBp2weYaA
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by swongel 6y ago
I hate it when companies want to track me and put a pop-up on their first page to ask my permission to do so. I don't care about cookies being placed on my system by my browser and that in and of itself isn't illegal under GDPR,
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by swongel 7y ago
"How to better waste time by using your time less efficiently." Bad: 0.0005 - Good: 0.9995
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by swongel 7y ago
Lol, our employees who have access to sensitive data cannot be citizens of: - A country the country our company is based in is currently in war with. - A communist dictatorship known for pressuring its citizens into stealing IP/corpora
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by swongel 7y ago
What does afford mean in this context? Does it mean people self-report that they can't afford to go on holiday or does it mean they did not go last time or is it a function of disposable income? Without knowing the methodology this sta
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by swongel 7y ago
U vraagt, wij draaien: https://www.consumentenbond.nl/sparen-en-beleggen/beleggings... https://www.iex.nl/Column/117156/DeGiro-en-het-risico.aspx https://www.reddit.com/r&#x2F
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by swongel 7y ago
Not only are they green washing, they're also trying to blame the consumer for using their polluting products by telling them they should fly less. Like they're being responsible, but it's just those pesky consumers who can&#
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by swongel 7y ago
As an EU citizen, language is more than just translation. Free interpreters like Google Translate are very useful but will never be a substitute for learning a foreign language. Because you're not only learning the language you study,
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by swongel 8y ago
I'm actually on the fence on article 13, I actually like the fact that commercial operators will be liable for the content on their platform under art. 13. For me, article 11 is way more important, making publishers liable for content
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by swongel 8y ago
You can use Mailinator to do this already, you can see all of their inboxes on their website and you can use all of their domains to bypass domain restrictions. For example I might use somethingsilly@bobmail.info and it will be redirected t
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by swongel 8y ago
Blocking "controversial" things is cheaper for social media companies than keeping them up (most of the times); they're not in the business of making a fair and enjoyable platform. They're in the business of selling you:
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by swongel 8y ago
Not sure if available outside the Netherlands, however there's a version on the NPO 3 website with 16:9 aspect ratio: https://www.npo3.nl/followme/22-11-2018/VPWON_1291086
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by swongel 8y ago
Try giving it some more text to work with, with 3 sentences everything is average even with profanity.
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by swongel 8y ago
Got the invite and looked around for a bit, I'm impressed with this. This actually works very well, the terminal web emulator is especially impressive compared with the things I'm used to seeing.

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