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by reinout 14y ago
He probably loves itunes for what it accomplished. Remember the music industry before itunes? The way in which it made a lot of things possible and easier? And the whole app store mechanism? Whether it is itunes or android's or whatever's
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by reinout 14y ago
Helmets better than no helmets is not necessarily true, strangely. Perhaps on an individual right-now level, but not long term. The reason: the biggest protection you can have as a cyclist is lots of cyclists on the road. Helmets lower bike
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by reinout 14y ago
The Dutch think-of-the-children 1970's campaign resulted in the great cycling infrastructure we have now.... A far cry from such a here's-some-body-armour-if-you-want-to-commit-suicide law. My kids are 8 and 10 and cycle 1km to school each
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by reinout 14y ago
Big difference with motorbike helmets: those are integral helmets, protecting your entire head. Cycle helmets only help against direct hits on the top of your head. Crashing head-first into a car or tree (or getting a tree branch on your he
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by reinout 14y ago
The number of people killed in traffic accidents in the Netherlands has dropped 80% since the 1972 high of 3000+/year. It is now at 640/year. The main reason being given is seat belts for drivers and helmets for moped users. Info in Dutch f
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by reinout 14y ago
Depend on the country, or more likely on the amount of cyclists. In the Netherlands, they consider the 1000kg steel cars to be the real dangerous threat, not the cyclists. It may sound like a play of words, but it isn't. Everyone cycles, so
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by reinout 14y ago
What do you do more often? Fall exactly on the top of your head or on your side? In the latter case, the helmet makes your head bigger and can cause your head to rotate. And swift rotation is worse for your brains than a head-on hit. So onl
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by reinout 14y ago
The benefit? You're not sending out the message that biking is dangerous. Would you send your kid out cycling if everyone is wearing helmets? When cyclists are called "road warriors"? A helmet is necessary when road racing where there is a
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by reinout 14y ago
Hi, I'm the Reinout that made the notes. Yes, it was a live summary and his slides went by very fast. I'm surprised how much I got written down. So I had to leave stuff out, for instance the >32GB comment (which I did as it seemed appli
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by reinout 14y ago
I made a summary of Kenneth's talk at http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2012/06/06/flask-django-su... , for some this might be nicer to read/scan than slides. The slides are more complete, though :-)