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by mrsuprawsm 5y ago
As someone also from the UK and now living in NL, I would say that the health system is definitely better in NL, seems like higher quality of care and somewhat smaller waiting times, but definitely not 5x better, maybe 1.3x.
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by mrsuprawsm 5y ago
The cost of healthcare in the Netherlands is however extremely affordable, which I think is the most important difference between Europe and the US. In NL, you pay ~€110/month annually, with a max out-of-pocket cost of €385 per year. S
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by mrsuprawsm 5y ago
This seems more like a symptom of the wildly broken American health-care system than anything else. In countries with a more functioning healthcare system, disruption of the status quo (especially by VC-funded private companies seeking a la
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by mrsuprawsm 5y ago
This is a case of under-investment and poor design. The London Underground, for example, the oldest underground railway in the world, manages 2-3 minute headways (29 trains per hour) on many central lines, both sub-surface and deep level. O
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by mrsuprawsm 5y ago
There's this Chrome add-on which also filters out the junk from recipes: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/recipe-filter/ahlc... It was featured in the MacOS Big Sur keynote being used with Safar
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by mrsuprawsm 5y ago
This comment is clearly silly, since in the Netherlands - a rather rainy country - approximately 25% of people commute to work by bicycle. You can wear a coat and rain trousers if you feel like it.
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by mrsuprawsm 5y ago
It also means that, often, it will be slower and/or more inconvenient to use the car. For example, in my city, for distances inside the urban core, bicycle is usually the fastest mode of transport, public transport is about 1.5x - 2x t
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by mrsuprawsm 5y ago
There are other modes of transport than trains/cars. For example: bicycles.
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by mrsuprawsm 5y ago
There’s a fair number of videos from eg the UK where they do exactly this. The usual playbook seems to be: get a few people distracting the guy from the front, and another few rush them from the back whilst distracted and hit them with bato
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by mrsuprawsm 5y ago
This comment is, with respect, wildly delusional. There are many instances of the "authorities" (the police) murdering people after issuing conflicting instructions, or even when people follow their instructions anyway. Furthermor
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by mrsuprawsm 5y ago
Seems like this is affecting Dropbox paper, at least for me.
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by mrsuprawsm 5y ago
Calling out aggressive and uninvited outreach from a vendor is extremely different from "the customer is always right" mentality. The two things are not the same.
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by mrsuprawsm 5y ago
In many European cities, at least NL where I live, there isn't such a big distinction between the downtown and the neighbourhoods where people live. Sure, if you want a big electronics store, you go to the centre of the city (10m bikin
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by mrsuprawsm 5y ago
It's a bit of a sad sacrifice, though. Nothing (significant) has changed about the US's imperialism as a result of his disclosures, it's just mildly more acknowledged.
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by mrsuprawsm 5y ago
If your statement is true, then why is the AWS status page widely considered useless, and everyone congregates on HN and/or Twitter to actually know what's broken on AWS during an outage?
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by mrsuprawsm 5y ago
I like to use Dash https://kapeli.com/dash , which makes browsing the standard library for Python really fast and smooth. One could argue that you shouldn't need a separate app for documentation, and you might be right,
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by mrsuprawsm 5y ago
This already exists for some high-end bikes, such as Van Moof ( https://9to5mac.com/2021/04/07/vanmoof-e-bikes-find-my-integ... )
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by mrsuprawsm 5y ago
>Is it supposed to create FUD around the dangerous world we live in now that we have AirTags? I think you are correct.
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by mrsuprawsm 5y ago
Crimes are also not particularly well suited to the blockchain, as the whole "immutable permanent record" thing has the side-effect of leaving a trail of transactions, meaning law enforcement can follow said trail. (Obviously thin
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by mrsuprawsm 5y ago
It seems like they now only offer this for 3 years, which isn't great, since hopefully you'd own the bike for a lot longer than 3 years. https://support.vanmoof.com/en/support/solutions/articles&#x2F
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by mrsuprawsm 5y ago
I do wonder how often Van Moof bikes get stolen, despite their tracking features. Fear of theft is the one thing that puts me off buying one.
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by mrsuprawsm 5y ago
Rental bikes such as "Swapfiets" (swap bike, https://swapfiets.nl/ ) are fairly popular in NL these days. Since they're owned by a company, there seems to be less incentive to steal them (since I suppose you c
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by mrsuprawsm 5y ago
I have seen horns being commonly used on (extremely) rural Staffordshire roads at blind corners. It's definitely a thing. The other usages you describe are indeed more typical, though.
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by mrsuprawsm 5y ago
Since the latest iOS minor version (some time in the last month or so), certain models of AirPods are integrated in the Find My network, meaning if you lose them, other (participating) iPhones in the area (~1b worldwide) will report their l
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by mrsuprawsm 5y ago
>Saying "other countries do it" isn't really an answer I mean it definitely is, since 186 other countries in the world do offer paid parental leave. The United States is a huge outlier, especially given its wealth.
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by mrsuprawsm 5y ago
Yes.
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by mrsuprawsm 5y ago
"Nobody goes there any more, it's too crowded" - Yogi Bera
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by mrsuprawsm 5y ago
Cool! Are there any pictures available of the tin plate after the year is completed?
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by mrsuprawsm 5y ago
I like the way that this site lets you compare "pleasantness" of climates, e.g. humidity + temperature etc year round. This makes me wonder, where in the world has the objectively "best" climate? Comfortable or warm all
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by mrsuprawsm 5y ago
>Even in places that don't get cold, elderly are not going to be walking to the grocery store. I don't think we are going to dial back this reality short of a world-war that decimates society everywhere and/or some event t

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