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by bkor 9y ago
SEPA instant will settle transactions 10 seconds. Drawbacks: banks can opt to participate, initially limited to 15k EUR, plus not obvious what the cost is. Banks are charged 1 EUR per transaction, so it'll be at least 1 EUR charged to
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by bkor 9y ago
But the issue is lack of competition, not something that can only be solved by crypto currency. The original statement was that crypto is still looking for an actual problem to solve. Lack of competition and slow transfers isn't someth
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by bkor 9y ago
> I would argue that there are plenty of no-go areas in NL. Your username indicates you're Dutch. I do wonder if you're aware of the common definition of a no-go area? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-go_ar
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by bkor 9y ago
Don't understand why this has been downvoted. The research behind helmets is exactly why in The Netherlands helmets aren't mandatory. For one, they reduce the amount of people who cycle. Thus they take a car with higher speed, etc
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by bkor 9y ago
> How do you let the user relink Qt or replace Qt with their own version, in the field? Where in the GPL or LGPL is this stated?
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by bkor 9y ago
Don't you have enough karma to vouch/favorite that comment? I just did. Usually there's a reason why the comment is automatically flagged so don't agree with your assessment.
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by bkor 9y ago
> a housing regulation dispute That makes it seem like a minor issue. AirBNB is facilitating this. AirBNB must allow the government to check up on local regulations. Limitations on how many days you can rent out your property and seeing
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by bkor 9y ago
> But, for me, the big advantage of Spotify is I don't always need to think about what I want to listen to I haven't tried Apple Music but I do listen to Spotify. What is highly dislike is that it's so terrible about sugge
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by bkor 9y ago
> These kinds of coordinating, organizing, and choreographing tasks are more efficiently handled by machines than by humans. That's an assumption they didn't fact check. According to the terminal itself ECT Delta terminal in Ro
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by bkor 9y ago
> My Dutch teacher later explained that the Dutch are very direct – and nowhere are they so direct as they are in Amsterdam. That's weird, I always hear that people in Rotterdam are the most direct ones within Netherlands. It's
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by bkor 9y ago
> As someone in IT, they probably didn't get anything, maybe a friendly smile and a handshake. At least in one country they held a proper thank you party plus thank you gift certificates. That party was for everyone, not just IT.
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by bkor 9y ago
> For me, the most surprising thing is that Maersk was able to carry on It takes a while for one vessel to reach the next port/terminal. Once it left the previous terminal you'll get a stowage layout. Basically showing all the
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by bkor 9y ago
Loads of stores in Netherlands don't have camera's. It's super easy to find _loads_ of stores without them.
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by bkor 9y ago
> I thought that the fix even on 7th and 8th generations had a low overhead. One of the fixes slow down kernel syscalls by a significant amount. So much so that your IO will be heavily affected. Intel is mostly responding is dishonest wa
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by bkor 9y ago
> No one’s going to stop you from using an unfree, censorious system if you want to. However, we’re going to object vociferously if you try to force it on everyone else. You didn't really answer the bits where he was more or less di
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by bkor 9y ago
> This is one of the reasons I started commuting by bike. I was hit by a car as a child and I thought I'd like to reduce the chance of that happening again. I commute by bicycle in the Netherlands (good infrastructure). I've be
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by bkor 9y ago
> Subways and buses usually have schedules that don't always line up with when you happen to need it. Also, there is a mental tax in having to navigate it. There's no need for any difference between navigating by car in Google
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by bkor 9y ago
In Netherlands various cinemas have their own unlimited scheme. It's usually 19-20 EUR while still needing to pay extra for 3D/IMAX. One (Pathe) charges 28 EUR to avoid the surcharges. The price point of MoviePass is interesting a
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by bkor 9y ago
> ptt networks less infrastructure heavy That's often walkie talkies, no? Those are pretty handy in first responder situations. Nation wide networks used in Netherlands: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P2000_(ne
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by bkor 9y ago
> worth a change in regulations? Why? The regulations are there for a reason. In Netherlands the rail safety system has to be heavily improved before automation is possible. What apparently is the cause of the outdated safety system is t
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by bkor 9y ago
> I don't know about hotels since airbnb is almost always cheaper AirBNB is super annoying. You have to agree to meet at a certain time. You have to hope they accept your booking. While booking you cannot sort by price, etc. AirBNB
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by bkor 9y ago
As OTAs charge about 15-20% you should be able to get a better rate from the hotel directly. This could be via their website (recent development) or by just calling them (annoying). Further, the lowest rate at an OTA might be non-refundable
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by bkor 9y ago
> Most hotel chains guarantee the lowest rates on their websites To be clear: My response is not about OTA vs Google. It's OTA vs hotel. Various OTAs used to have clauses in their contracts prohibiting this. See e.g. https:/&#
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by bkor 9y ago
> Great, the amazon model of Apple does pretty much the same thing with its suppliers, no? They even work out what profit and costs a supplier is supposed to have (meaning: if your costs are higher it's the fault of the supplier). A
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by bkor 9y ago
> Schiphol's big problem, however, seems to have been using the gates as an excuse to cut back staff too far. From what I read it's the combination of cutting back immigration staff together with airlines (KLM) not sharing thei
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by bkor 9y ago
You're assuming the cycling is causing people to have less children. It would be nice to provide some statistically valid sources to explain why you think that's so. I live in the Netherlands and your assumption is pretty strange
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by bkor 9y ago
> Cyclists need to be trained as well. You can avoid the majority of the unsafe situations if you have the right infrastructure. Meaning: a simple line on the street or some line on the pedestrian path is really poor safety wise. A bike
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by bkor 9y ago
The behaviour differs per city. Cyclists on sidewalks isn't tolerated in my city. Eventually they'll start checking and handing out fines. What's super common is ignoring traffic lights. I also do that regularly. That's
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by bkor 9y ago
> that doesn’t actually represent my point of view at all I'm guessing he made a brief remark that was changed into an entire article. If it was an interview he could've explained exactly what he meant. He further mentions: &qu
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by bkor 9y ago
"Fake News" https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/941496174208466944 Elon: "This depressingly misleading & misanthropic article came from a very brief digression at an AI conf, not from an intervi

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