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by tijl 2y ago
This reminds me of a Dutch song that was fairly popular in the '90s (loosely translated): And a child prodigy at forty, That is a sorry case. Who could have been so much, yet Will never leave a trace. (The song is based on the li
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by tijl 2y ago
I tried Heddy with my children. It worked great at first. It's really easy to get started with. Every level, the language changes slightly to introduce more concepts. That worked great for my younger son, but it confused his brother. C
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by tijl 2y ago
Looking at this from outside the US, it is quite bizarre to see how 2 extreme positions dominate the abortion debate there. Ultimately, the question is at which point the embryo should be considered a human being, who's life deserves s
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by tijl 3y ago
It's interesting to see how the perspective on this is shifting in Iran to the point that nowadays, it became controversial to call this a coup. In the royalist version of events, it is Mosaddegh who attempted a coup. Mosaddegh had lo
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by tijl 3y ago
The podcast of the WSJ might answer this for you (episode of june 29 https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/the-supreme-court-r... ) They say, some states already banned affirmative action. Universities in those
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by tijl 3y ago
The US has a huge internal market. But their reliance on international trade is small. Exports amount to less then 10% of their GDP [1]. As a comparison, France has the lowest amount of exports per GDP in the EU, and theirs is almost 30%. G
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by tijl 4y ago
That's not really what voter research shows. Yes, 18% of BBB voters come from the PVV, but also 17% come from the Prime minister's party (VVD), 14% comes from his Christian-democratic coalition partner (CDA). 9% Comes from the lef
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by tijl 4y ago
They will also have a strong position in the provinces. The government was setting a framework, but counted on the provinces to do the actual implementation. That approach will almost certainly fail since it seems likely the BBB will be abl
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by tijl 4y ago
These are separate issues. It's about the impact of nitrogen on biodiversity in protected habitats. Unlike carbon dioxide, the effects of nitrogen emissions are very local. Which is why this is mainly a problem in small, densely popula
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by tijl 4y ago
Some things I noticed as a foreigner exploring the Portuguese house market for the past 6 months: Indeed, prices in Lisbon and Porto are insane. Yet, even in those cities (especially in Porto) there are quite a lot of old buildings, often i
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by tijl 4y ago
But that's exactly what hguant explains. Flights between EU countries are international flights and are therefore tax exempt under the Chicago Convention.
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by tijl 5y ago
Unfortunately, the article doesn't mention the motives of the artist. This isn't about politicians using their phones. It's about surveillance and license plate or facial recognition. With camera systems popping up in all pub
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by tijl 5y ago
What also doesn't help, is that, at least in my experience, Americans usually mention pre-tax wages, while Europeans usually talk about their wages after tax (not sure if that is the case here, since nobody in this thread mentions taxe
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by tijl 6y ago
The beer industry would love to use plastic bottles. But beer goes stale in plastic. Plastic is not good at keeping the oxygen out and the alcohol in. There are bottles with multiple layers in different types of plastic that work reasonably
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by tijl 7y ago
A few months ago, someone tried to register her newborn in Brussels (which is officially a bilingual city: Dutch and French) with a name starting with IJ, and had a very hard time convincing the French speaking civil servants that both char
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by tijl 7y ago
> You left out the "by way of selling your personal data, violating your privacy,..... Sure, the internet mammoths of today make their profit tat way, but this legislation is probably going to be around for a very long time. Platfor
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by tijl 8y ago
I think what dnos means by vote buying, is not that somebody bribes the people who count the votes, but that somebody bribes the voters. If a politician now approaches me and promises me to pay me if I vote for him, he can't really be
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by tijl 8y ago
No there aren't. If you can check your vote, then your abusive spouse, your boss or somebody else who has power over you, can force you to show them your vote.