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by jochem9 3y ago
Blendle in the Netherlands tried it for 5 years (2014-2019), but stopped because they couldn't make it profitable. I don't think it was the news outlets complaining, but just not enough articles sold to make the margin they needed
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by jochem9 3y ago
If you build cycling infrastructure, you get more cyclists. 'Build it and they will come' turned out to be true in the examples I gave (and there are many other examples out there). The question is if you want increase that 3%. Fo
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by jochem9 3y ago
What's the difference? In the Netherlands you have supermarkets, some big, some small and sometimes smaller mom and pop stores that sell the basics. They are outcompeted by supermarkets that tend to be very close as well. There are no
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by jochem9 3y ago
Cycling infrastructure is much cheaper than car infrastructure. Way less material needed (narrower paths, less foundation) and much lower maintenance costs. Initial investment per cyclist might seem high, but you need to build it before the
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by jochem9 3y ago
Pretty much all of Amsterdam is pre-WW2 or older. Only the parts outside the A10 ringroad tend to be post war and more car friendly. There were indeed plans to bulldoze large parts of the old city and build highways and high rises, but afte
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by jochem9 3y ago
Wtf, wishing dead upon people while proclaiming to be a pacifist and believing in love and kindness?! You could also just wish that their bike gets crushed and that they loose their licence. Or maybe that they get an itch they just can&#x27
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by jochem9 3y ago
Sounds like a great business model if you're able to pull off the reduction in support load the article also mentions.
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by jochem9 3y ago
Part of the renovation is increasing the capacity of the Eurostar terminal. From 250 to 600 (a Eurostar train has a capacity of ~800, but the train is rarely full at Amsterdam, as passengers also board at other train stations).
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by jochem9 3y ago
One of the things that needs to change is that the pricing becomes more reasonable. I believe that the US has terrible passenger rail, so it makes sense for things to be overly expensive, but in Europe this is a major problem too. One fair
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by jochem9 3y ago
I naturally take the lead and often end up in a similar situation where I spent a lot of time on leading, instead of tech. Early this year I joined a new team and expected the same to happen, but there were also a few other people who wante
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by jochem9 3y ago
I have rats walking in my sealing. It's an old house with many gaps and many people living close with similar gappy homes. It smells, I cannot sleep and just in general makes me feel uneasy at home. Damn right I'm killing these in
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by jochem9 3y ago
I visited Japan in 2019 and Shikoku was the highlight. The Iya valley has beautiful nature. Kochi amazing food. Read Alex Kerr's Lost Japan to get a good perspective on the Iya valley and Japan in general.
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by jochem9 3y ago
If you want to literally program music, I can recommend Sonic Pi. The current top comment describes the typical psy bass line in technical terms, which is enough to recreate it in code.
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by jochem9 3y ago
There are also plans to change the road designs. First some new painted lines, later, when the road is up for renovation, a redesign to make it more obviously 30km/h. People in Amsterdam tend to behave the same as how you describe the
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by jochem9 3y ago
Who only logs in on websites? So many apps also require logging in. I'm also not sure if those built-in password managers sync to other devices and if you want to trust them with it.
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by jochem9 3y ago
That's not my experience. Sometimes I don't use cannabis for a while and feel fine. Then, while still feeling fine I unexpectedly end up in a situation where I can smoke a joint. Maybe it shows up at a birthday party. The days aft
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by jochem9 3y ago
To manipulate digital votes you only need to hack one piece of software or bribe/social engineer someone involved close enough with it. To manipulate paper votes you need to have presence in enough voting booths and influence the votes
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by jochem9 3y ago
3g came in the second gen iPhone (called iPhone 3G; afaik there has never been an iPhone 2). Only edge when outside wifi range was actually a huge downside of the first gen. It was sub par to the phone I had back then (Nokia N95). I only ad
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by jochem9 3y ago
Didn't the iPhone OS also pioneer zooming in to website elements? I.e. double tapping on for instance the content of an article would zoom to the size of the div holding that content. I think that feature made a huge impact on usabilit
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by jochem9 3y ago
Het Schip is Amsterdamse School, which uses a lot of elements of art deco (e.g. rounded brick stone walls), but also tries to keep things simple, yet quality, which feels more Bauhaus. I recently bought a house from 1918 in Amsterdamse Scho
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by jochem9 3y ago
Sounds a lot more plausible than the theory that upper management is conspiring to protect their commercial real estate investments. It does require that people need to be laid off. Not sure if that's still the case? Overhere in the Ne
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by jochem9 3y ago
So you think Nature, the scientists and/or even some even more nefarious party are in cahoots with.. idk, politicians? to influence the elections by creating a new variant, creating noise around a new variant or simply spreading misin
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by jochem9 3y ago
They also say the property was left empty for 'various reasons' amids a housing crisis. You can argue that the right to have a home prevails over the right to let a property sit empty and rot away. This is the case in the Netherla
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by jochem9 3y ago
As the other commenter said, there are bulbs that mimic the filament of an incandescent bulb. On top of that there are designs that go beyond that. E.g. I have a bulb that has LEDs shine light through sculpted plexiglass, creating a beautif
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by jochem9 3y ago
It's even an EU directive gone in effect more than a decade ago. Kinda weird to read about the LED revolution, when here it's already so commonplace. LED is pretty cool btw. So many cool designs and they do last much longer, contr
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by jochem9 3y ago
Afaik an EU regulation to prevent house fires (people who fall asleep with a burning cigarette). I think it changed somewhere around 2010.
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by jochem9 3y ago
Same happening at the version that Microsoft is hosting in their cloud. You can get on the waiting list, but it's heavily implied that if you don't have a good use case (aka lots of prompts/money coming in), you won't ge
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by jochem9 3y ago
Maybe I shouldn't give them any ideas, but cannabis is still technically illegal in the Netherlands to the point that coffeeshops (euphemism for cannabis dispensaries) cannot buy their stock legally (growing is prosecuted) or charge ce
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by jochem9 3y ago
Absolutely true for short distances (e.g. a daily commute), but not when you travel a long distance. If you want to cover say 1000km in a day, you probably need to charge twice along the way. Fast chargers along the highway are perfect for
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by jochem9 3y ago
This is exactly what markdown achieves: comprehensible even when it is not rendered. Yet the author completely ignores that feature.

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