That’s how random samples work. A small number like that is enough to get a decent estimate of the entire population. Give ar take a percentage point if three. That is, if the sample is actually random. That’s actually near impossible to guarantee, as people who pick up their phones (or answer their door, or walk in the street and allow folks to ask them a question, or answer a letter) are different from those who don’t.

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The content is still visible though (at least on my end)

it emerged AfD party members had attended meetings with neo-Nazis and other extremists to discuss the mass deportation of migrants, asylum seekers and German citizens of foreign origin deemed to have failed to integrate.

Not just illegal immigrants, also everyone they don’t like. And in cahoots with self declared nazis.

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The things is you can’t just “publish to OpenStreetMap”. OSM is an integrated dataset, and he integration happens by actual humans. Bulk operations are possible, but hard to get right and usually not actually massive. So you need a decent volunteer base to get the data good enough. Some apps do merge OSM data with official data before showing it to the user, for example to offer full building or address coverage.

Nope, it’s also a community run app that works on OpenStreetMap data

220mb for “just a city”? Must be quite a large city. Brussels and surrounding province is just 70mb. You can also download entire countries BTW, which is convenient if you won’t have a data connection available. If you don’t want ofine data, but still would like to use OpenStreetMap, try Mapy.cz (like it for hitting and cycling) or Magic Earth (has some.live traffic data). (IIRC both allow downloading all the data, but don’t force it)

The difference between us and a mouse is only 50 million years. The difference between us and a smart ape is maybe only 200k years. Now imagine a civilisation that has been around for 1 billion years. And then apply the same exponential growth curve that life and technology have on earth. The distance between us and them could be absurdly huge.

Economists must think Belgium doesn’t exist. See this document explaining how automatic indexation happens for all Belgians (including those on pensions) without there being a higher inflation than in the other countries: https://www.abvv.be/sites/abvv/files/2023-01/Index_EN final.pdf A lot of it is: we simply get the raise a little quicker and without a fight, and only have to fight for real wage increases. Where in other countries they need to wait for the next wage negotiations and then fight to keep the real wage and hopefully increase it too.

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