How far should we go so as to protect consumers?
It’s hard not to see the wall of cigarettes at the service counters in supermarkets in the Netherlands. When I first came to Amsterdam, I was pretty surprised at the ‘Duty Free’-styled labelling on the cigarettes: Plain black text on a white box. I hadn’t paid so much attention to these labels in the past,
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Last summer, right after the 15 July coup attempt in Turkey, I deleted my Facebook account. The idea of deleting my account was something I had in mind for a while, long before that summer. Yet the problem was that I had a huge amount of friends and contacts on the platform; so initially, I
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[Major Major’s father’s] specialty was alfalfa, and he made a good thing out of not growing any. The government paid him well for every bushel of alfalfa he did not grow. The more alfalfa he did not grow, the more money the government gave him, and he spent every penny he didn’t earn on new
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We all heard about that magical fiat currency called bitcoin that exists without a central bank or a physical presence. Its digital existence is not particularly confusing as almost all of our banking has become electronic, especially in the Netherlands where having cash on hand is something that’s almost a rare occurrence. However, not having
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Two weeks or so ago, there was a referendum in Turkey. A referendum so significant in its items, that it could literally turn the country into a one-man dictatorship. I did not vote in it because it was too expensive to travel to the consulate in Rotterdam and get registered as a voter. I simply did
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I really enjoy eating sugary breakfast cereals every now and then, but I’m more of a fan of muesli if I’m having something filling in the morning. However, one cereal that I do like quite a bit is the Honey Pops Loops. In the Netherlands, it’s Kellogg’s that’s producing that type of ‘O’-shaped cereal; whereas
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About two and a half years ago, a video called ‘Humans Need Not Apply’ was released by YouTuber and podcaster CGP Grey. In his mini-documentary, Grey talks about the increasing usefulness of robots in the society and how they are becoming more integral and necessary in the whole economic and social structure of our society.
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