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by bkor 8y ago
In response to you mentioning saving 1500 USD: You commented in another post that you lived out of your car ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15790455 ). There still seems to be something wrong. Maybe not Amazon, maybe a
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by bkor 8y ago
> a schedule dropping off and picking up their kids - where driving cars/ride sharing is often the most practical way of commuting This is mostly done on bike in The Netherlands. A normal bike supports 2 kids. There's also bike
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by bkor 8y ago
That opensignal report is not about coverage. 4G coverage in The Netherlands is 95%+, not 89% as per the report. When the various operators got their 4G licenses they had to provide 95%+ coverage within a certain amount of years. Belgium ha
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by bkor 8y ago
> It's not actually useful to the consumer. It is useful to the consumer. It's not useful if you want to sell it.
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by bkor 8y ago
The Netherlands exports a huge amount of food and loads of the work is fully automated. For the work which isn't there's still a lot of seasonal work. For that they do employ people, often from lower paid countries such as e.g. Po
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by bkor 8y ago
This should not be downvoted. In practice it's not the case. However, EU negotiates on behalf of EU, not individual countries. Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/us-nationals-to-be-f... Quote: &q
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by bkor 8y ago
Historically, this devaluation is pretty insignificant. It only halved in value. The current Turkish Lira is actually the second iteration. The first Turkish Lira at one point had the following value: 1995 – 1 U.S. dollar = 45,000 first
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by bkor 8y ago
> because it's overpriced to help pay their salaries That's something you assume but cannot know unless you had a look at their books. Paying security out of room service seems quite odd. I don't think that the salary of s
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by bkor 8y ago
> But is it worth the cost of forcing all EU users into not even having the option to use said service for data? Pretty much everything you stated here is completely wrong. GDPR states that personal information can only be collected on
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by bkor 8y ago
It's also telling that the chart shows tariffs in %, not in absolute numbers. From what I saw in other articles it mostly balances out. This aside from the bit which you mentioned that it's a bit more detailed than import/exp
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by bkor 8y ago
To me it seems they're living in a not so nice country (Romania) economy wise. So their country failed them. There should be enough work so they don't have to turn to something else. When a few years ago Spain had a huge unemploym
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by bkor 8y ago
In Netherlands they've been using all kinds of IT devices for 10+ years (depending on the school, etc). Recently a study was published which made clear that it doesn't benefit at all plus that books + notepad might be more benefic
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by bkor 8y ago
City council determines the areas within a city; it is NOT made up. Some areas are much more popular than others. Leaving this to random people is absurd. The areas don't suddenly change. Anyway, this is how it is like in The Netherlan
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by bkor 8y ago
Loads of people within Netherlands use an app called "Flitsmeister" which does this and more. It basically gives you traffic information by determining where you're going to. It's different from Waze/Google Maps and
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by bkor 8y ago
> However if the alternative is having to deal with the EU Commission then yep, I guess hard brexit is the next best alternative. They're currently headed towards not really exiting the EU. Once they looked into the details they det
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by bkor 8y ago
> Why don't companies just say what the code of conduct violation is? Privacy? Maybe the CEO is an exception, but why would they? They made clear what it is not about. Say it's something that a few people might despise, why mak
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by bkor 8y ago
For .nl, the whois information for individuals is hidden except for a) interested parties (manually approved) b) investigative/enforcement authorities c) CAs (need to validate ownership). It's all explained in English at https:&#
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by bkor 8y ago
> You're just twisting words here. The fact that switching costs are too high means it's superior. I don't see how high switching costs implies superior, nor how that's part of a definition for superior. For superior
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> why is it fair to let people and other providers usurp that? If you have a monopoly then there are various restrictions on what you can do. Whatsapp is pretty much the way to communicate within The Netherlands. Other companies which ha
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by bkor 8y ago
> I think that current implementations of update filters are not ready There's no one filter nor any way to do this. YouTube designed and implemented a system. Some other sites might have their own design. Most have nothing. Try to
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by bkor 8y ago
> Pro-people laws like the GDRP and this copyright I quite like the GDPR. I don't see how the current proposed law is of any benefit to people. It benefits a limited amount of companies. Good luck competing with e.g. Youtube if you
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by bkor 8y ago
> Meh. Linux itself doesn’t need Red Hat anymore. It seems you're ignoring the vast amount of work Red Hat contributes as free software. See e.g. the amount of work put into the kernel: https://lwn.net/Articles/
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by bkor 8y ago
> From a trade perspective, a rising deficit means the US pays for Chinese goods, while barely getting paid for its products. From what I understood this is not accurate. An iPhone built from China is recorded for the full value when shi
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by bkor 8y ago
> don't allow dies to be manufactured there because of the extent of IP Theft What do you mean practically with intellectual property? Trademark is out, copyright as well, maybe trade secrets or patents? In case of a trade secret, d
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by bkor 8y ago
The Netherlands had various high profile cases where the investigators focussed on one or more individuals. This despite it making no sense at all. At least two people ended up in jail for 10+ years after multiple years of being investigate
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by bkor 8y ago
> My point is that, in theory, it can be done well, and I believe that it can get there, You really mean that eventually smart contracts can be reliable, no bugs, etc? I've seen procurement sign contracts with various unclear wordin
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by bkor 8y ago
> I'm from the UK[..] I think the region you're in has a strong impact on what the police's priorities are, due to different leadership. Totally agree! The few times I compare ads on television from Netherlands vs England
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by bkor 8y ago
> Incorrect application of civil forfeiture laws is one very good reason to Those have their own drawbacks. Digital currency can often be tracked (not made to be anonymous). They might or might not have high currency fluctuations, securi
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by bkor 8y ago
> I got all fancy and hacked together a tinydb backend for transmission-daemon to automate pulling from an rss feed. Suggest looking into Flexget. It unfortunately has loads of dependencies, but on the upside it's super smart. E.g.
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by bkor 8y ago
Asia covers loads of countries. I was surprised how focussed my colleagues from Singapore are regarding advancing, salary, being materialistic. My colleagues from Philippines want to earn more to help out their family, quite different behav

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