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by bkor 7y ago
In Netherlands a bike is a means of getting somewhere. If the argument is "getting exercise", the usage would be pretty much nothing.
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by bkor 7y ago
> BTW how many people use a bike is a useless metric, how far they travel and for how much time is more important. As a Dutch person: what you're forgetting is that often the entire design of a city accommodates using bikes. Meaning
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by bkor 7y ago
> The demographic that bikes are young, fit adults. Can't bike much of anywhere without struggling with hills. If only young/fit people use the infrastructure then the infrastructure is really poor! Note than I'm from the
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by bkor 7y ago
> Let that sink in: The Dutch are already starting to abandon their pedal bikes. Within Netherlands the number of accidents with bikes also has skyrocketed. That's due to often older people buying these bikes. They're more mobi
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by bkor 7y ago
In trains it's better to look towards the back of the train. So do it next to a window, but with your face towards the back of the train. This at least according to one person I was on a train with. I had a reserved seat looking toward
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by bkor 7y ago
Normally buses don't go on every road. Delivery vans are usually restricted which hours of the day they're allowed to deliver. I highly suggest to read up on what actually is allowed and what's not in a "car free" c
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by bkor 7y ago
Some of the most highly paid people at my office take public transport. This despite having their "VIP" parking place, living in suburbs, etc. Your example seems to be pretty unique in that it's really close to car industry.
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by bkor 7y ago
Current title doesn't match the article. The original title is pretty poor, but "going from to even more" is worse, IMO.
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by bkor 7y ago
Wired also explained that before. In the article of this post they linked to an older article ( https://www.wired.com/story/cleaner-ships-more-expensive-hol... ). It goes into detail about the scrubbers. Open, closed and
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by bkor 7y ago
You'll be fined in The Netherlands for going too slow. They're not waiting for dangerously slow, way slower than any other traffic is enough. Example (Dutch, use Google Translate): https://www.rijnmond.nl/nieuws&#x
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by bkor 7y ago
The shoulder is still not to be used for a police stop. You should only stop there if there's no alternative. A police wanting to stop you is not an emergency; the nearest exit is close enough. Same for a lot of other situations. Furth
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by bkor 7y ago
> 3 weeks container shipping on a super container ship vs. even cheapest truck shipping ? Container shipping is ridiculously cheap. See e.g. https://www.joc.com/maritime-news/capacity-cuts-keeping-asia... . Seems aro
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by bkor 7y ago
Regulation and regulation costs are different things. Further, comparing costs incurred for business vs regulation costs seems odd. Regulation should be there for a reason. Just skimping on that because some other cost changed seems arbitra
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by bkor 7y ago
It would be great to give this feedback to the Blender team. Once you're used to something it can be difficult to see the parts where it is more difficult than it could be. So Blender needs continuous feedback from people who haven&#x2
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A personal story about 10× development(nibblestew.blogspot.com)
289 points by bkor 7y ago|225 comments
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by bkor 7y ago
Interestingly the standard procedure in The Netherlands for medical emergencies (the ones where you find someone on the ground) changed to actually calling yourself over asking a random bystander. Aside from calling you should also put the
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by bkor 7y ago
> just give a random person a "uniform" (a whistle, a badge, a hat, or a vest, anything simple like that works) and tell them that when the alarm goes off, they are responsible for telling people to leave. What an absolutely st
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by bkor 7y ago
> In practise, enforcement has been focused on punishing poor security, rather than lack of privacy or freedom. That's not true in the slightest. One bank (ING) in The Netherlands implemented an opt-out for analyzing customers data.
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New flaw discovered on Boeing 737 Max, sources say(edition.cnn.com)
15 points by bkor 7y ago|0 comments
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by bkor 7y ago
If poor training was the cause the plane shouldn't have received the same type number. So this is all still on Boeing. Boeing also specifically told these planes with the benefit that only a few hours of training would be enough. I&#x2
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by bkor 7y ago
The big company I work for isn't doing what you said. They acquired a big company last year. They also have multiple business units which are being merged. Still not aggressively changing full time employees, nor changing roles into te
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by bkor 7y ago
How does your example explain how it would benefit an 80+ person that a franchise is open 24/7 or maybe 07:00-23:00? Especially as the owners themselves seem to be pretty old and in poor health because of the opening times.
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by bkor 7y ago
The article specifically states that 7/11 is preventing various stores from not being open 24/7. E.g. small store, wife is utterly ill, 7/11 doesn't care; store needs to stay open. It seems they like the owner exhausted
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by bkor 7y ago
Are you sure about that fact? Pharmacists went on strike in Netherlands this year. Another reply mentioned Poland. It seems there's no EU rule, or maybe it's more that some still need to be open. The majority of what a pharmacy pr
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by bkor 7y ago
In Netherlands they make a copy of your fingerprint for your ID card (EU-wide) or passport. The copy of that fingerprint is deleted after it's stored electronically on your ID card or passport. There's no need to store a copy of e
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by bkor 8y ago
I don't want do be influenced by advertisements and as such I opt out of any tracking ("relevant ads"). I do want relevant videos. The two are totally separate topics.
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by bkor 8y ago
> Takes too long for them to get there, and the incentive for them to abandon your request and pick up a fare they find on the way is too strong. The few times I've reserved a taxi for someone the estimation was accurate and the dri
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by bkor 8y ago
See https://www.motorists.org/issues/red-light-cameras/increase-... for various sources showing that red light cameras increase the number of accidents. Within The Netherlands there is a restriction on where such
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by bkor 8y ago
> But then again, email spam has been solved for the most part Only if you use one of the big email providers or if you pay to route it via some antispam system. If you don't and play around with e.g. Postfix and spamassassin then
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by bkor 8y ago
> Pretty much everything in the GDPR document is untested at this point, and whether government or corporation, quite a lot of cases are going to have to be argued before the courts. Why would a law be needed to be argued in court? There

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