For one, Cities in the netherlands are already quite dense, and the dutch are focused on building family houses attachted to each other mostly (row housing).
Also, thanks to the massive agricultural sector and a lack of oversight on industry, the netherlands has a massive problem with nitrogen in its soil which prevents building because building stuff generates more nitrogen.
Speculation and the liberalisation of the housing market has also massively contributed to price increases.
also, in my experience high grades are rare in the netherlands at all education levels.
I did both mbo and hbo levels, and on both levels getting a "A" (10/10 or 9/10) was a very uncommon thing.
also, DAF was large in a very specific time in a very specific place.
Let's not forget that the dutch car industry has always being dependant on german car industry.
SLAAC is probably one of the better improvements of IPV6.
DHCP breaks down at scale. Managing many DHCP prefixes becomes a massibe pain, SLAAC is far more scalable, far more easy to make redundant if you have redundant gateway's and protocol wise is really simple.
arp simply breaks down in very large networks aswell.
Think about things like the following:
you are a datacenter and are providing connectivity to the internet for your customers. Each customer get a vlan with a specific ip prefix attached to it. You prove the gateway for each customers subnet.
ARP crosses the L2 vs L3 boundary to do succesful address resolution. The problem this creates in large (mainly datacenter) networks is that a router needs to do arp resolution for for a LOT of networks. (i am talking about 100's of networks in past, many thousands with something like an EVPN vxlan).
Why is this a problem? Layer 2 lookups are usually done in the forwarding plane, and ARP resolution is usually a routing engine task. Doing it this way is very expensive compared to the IPV6 way of doing things. (multicast based address resolution).
The router only needs to send out one multicast packet per vlan, instead of doing arp resolution for each specific host in the vlan.
In modern datacenters this is "fixed" by doing arp suppression, which is a whole other level of hackary added on top of it.
also, the knowledge about how a nuclear bomb works wasn't a secret. The way to produce one was the hard part to figure out.
Without the espionage, a industrialised country like the USSR would have figured out how to produce an atomic bomb eventually.
for everything inside the EU, i highly doubt it is.
For extraterritioral trade. The EU is large enough to trade with other countries in euros instead of dollars.
> can't decide how to tackle illegal mass migration
the mass migration caused by american wars in the middle east you mean?
Also, frontex seems to be working fine so far.
>on a single direction on defeating Russia
unlike the US, which has stopped all military aid to ukraine in 2025, and seems to be favouring russia more and more.
Lets not forget, europe is increasing its military en masse mainly because on one hand you have the russian flattening ukraine, and on other hand you have the US demanding greenland.
atleast most senses of this exceptionalism have been fading away in europe thanks to the result of two world wars. (and many, many conflicts before that)
what are you on about?
this idea of a referendum is a straw man. Member states joined the EU through mechanisms of their state. (Acts of parlements, referendum or something else).
Also, the votes you are described are all about the implementation of certain ideas/legislation inside the context of the EU, not about the organisation itself?
but the constitution is just a piece of paper with some words written on it.
Without an active civic society protection what is enshrined in the document, it is all but powerless.
it is also a very easy pathway to create controlled opposition.
When you are a totalitarian dictator without elections, opposition of any kind is hard to control. With faux elections you give people a "choice" which seems reasonable compared the usual extremes in an totalitarian state.
atleast the people's republic of china never claims to be a democracy in the liberal western, sense of the word. Politically (on paper atleast) the chinese goverment is very much a marxist state, and it is very clear about that.
> Secondly, we employ "adversarial" systems for two branches of government (legislative and judicial) because it's a hell of a lot easier to spot flaws in ideas of people you are opposed to (as opposed to some European Judiciaries that have "inquisitorial" systems, where a judge investigates activity).
if that would be the case, why is the adversarial system not working in its current practice?
Also, i think the difference between the judicial systems of parlementary/european and the american system have more to do with the difference between civil and common law.
European goverments are really the legacy of the revolutionary french idea's of a civic state, in which citizens have duties to the state, and have rights being garantueed by the state. The state itself is being granted the authority to do this by its citizens through some process.
multi-site k8s is also very "interesting" if you encounter anything like variable latency in your network paths. etcd is definitly not designed for use across large distances. (more then a 10km single mode fiber path).
For one, Cities in the netherlands are already quite dense, and the dutch are focused on building family houses attachted to each other mostly (row housing).
Also, thanks to the massive agricultural sector and a lack of oversight on industry, the netherlands has a massive problem with nitrogen in its soil which prevents building because building stuff generates more nitrogen.
Speculation and the liberalisation of the housing market has also massively contributed to price increases.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_crisis_in_the_Netherl...