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by retired 9mo ago
Because I was able to get a better QoL elsewhere in the EU. The average worker in The Netherlands has one of the best QoL compared to average workers in other countries. But the Dutch income leveling and benefit system makes it so a high ea
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by retired 9mo ago
Yes. Say you have €80k in investments. Markets go up, in one year time your investments are worth €90k. You did not sell. That means you had €10k in unrealized capital gains. Subtract the €1800 per person threshold. €8200, 36% tax is €2952
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by retired 9mo ago
I left mainly because of housing prices, the difficulty of being a freelancer, the 49.5% income tax after €78k, the 36% unrealized capital gains tax and just everything in life like supermarkets or public transport being so much more expens
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by retired 9mo ago
The Netherlands is taking action against the brain drain by rapidly importing highly skilled migrants through various tax lowering schemes in the first five years of living here. However plenty of those people leave after that period. Espec
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by retired 9mo ago
I’m not a PhD, just an engineer and I moved out of The Netherlands. It was no longer economical feasible to live there. I am very pessimistic about the future Western Europe. Right now it offers the one of the best QoL in the world for the
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by retired 9mo ago
We are seeing the same in The Netherlands: https://delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/fewer-phd-positions-and-... https://www.sciencelink.net/features/its-not-just-about-mone...
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by retired 9mo ago
Don't give RyanAir any ideas please.
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by retired 9mo ago
Schiphol has been very relaxed. I once had a water bottle with probably 200ml of water still in it in my bag. I was told to not do that again and they gave me the bottle back.
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by retired 9mo ago
I have to take my sneakers off about three to four times a year while traveling around Europe.
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by retired 9mo ago
If you sell products to all 27 EU members and sell above a certain threshold you will have to work with all 27 tax offices in regard to VAT. There is OSS for B2C but that comes with significant downsides. The US does not have that.
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by retired 9mo ago
At the risk of doing a "you participate in society", would that include HN?
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by retired 9mo ago
Does that mean that VPN providers now need identification before you can open an account?
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by retired 9mo ago
Batteries in the trash are also a fire hazard. It's not just for the environment.
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by retired 9mo ago
Makes sense. Would be pretty cool if Apple could find a way to correct GPS jamming using accelerometers and some logic. If your GPS location jump 50 kilometers in 2 minutes, ignore GPS and use cell tower + accelerometer. Maybe create some s
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by retired 9mo ago
Please don't put your CR2032 in the garbage. Use battery disposal points for that.
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by retired 9mo ago
In addition to your first use case, multiple airlines are now supporting AirTag for bag tracking.
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by retired 9mo ago
The Pencil is covered through the Apple Care of your iPad, even when purchased separately. Using a Pencil without an iPad and wanting Apple Care on it is a bit of a niche use case. And do you really need Apple Care on a $79/$99/$1
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by retired 9mo ago
I should not have gone down that rabbit hole. Why is Apple selling three variants of the Apple Pencil and then the Apple Pencil Pro as well. The first generation comes with a Lightning adapter and a USB-C to Apple Pencil Adapter (required t
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by retired 9mo ago
Had to use an LLM to generate this list: Windows Vista was available in Starter (32-bit only, Retail and OEM), Home Basic (32-bit and 64-bit, Retail, OEM, and Volume License, plus Home Basic N 32/64-bit, Retail/OEM/Volume, in
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by retired 9mo ago
Apple needs a new CEO. Someone more visionary than Cook. The software needs more focus on making it "just work" and having significantly less bugs. The line-up needs to be cleaned up as well. Right now you have the MacBook Air 13&
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by retired 9mo ago
> The $15 price point is genuinely impressive That $15 price is only possible because AliExpress operates within a Chinese export system that is indirectly subsidised by the state. AliExpress benefits from significant Chinese government
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by retired 9mo ago
I looked it up and it will cost you €66 per year for unlimited book lending, e-books, audio books and magazines. For low-income families and people up to 25 years old this drops to €48 per year.
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by retired 9mo ago
Correct, Germany also has the subscription model for taking books home.
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by retired 9mo ago
> Rather, the leader of the party that wins control of the House becomes Prime Minister. That is literally how Adolf Hitler became Chancellor (Prime Minister), as leader of the NSDAP.
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by retired 9mo ago
Canada must first join Eurovision before even thinking about the EU
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by retired 9mo ago
Being Dutch* it's such a strange concept that you don't have to pay to bring books to your home. I hope that we will see that over here as well in my lifetime. It would do wonders to increase literacy in the population.
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by retired 9mo ago
A better solution is guaranteed broadband internet for all people living in Germany. With heavy fines if ISPs can't deliver that.
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by retired 9mo ago
KPN MXstream! Thanks for making me feel old. I got flashbacks of spending multiple evenings configuring PPTP in Linux without being able to access the internet just to get internet access. I remember having to walk to a buddies home just to
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by retired 9mo ago
This person just wants internet that doesn't frequently cut out. Don't blame them for their choices. Blame Telekom and its shareholders for not being able to reliably supply broadband internet in 2026. Blame the government for not
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by retired 9mo ago
Question out of curiosity. I once swapped a TPLink media converter between two homes, both using the same ISP, to debug internet issues and to see if that would improve the situation. Did I do something incredibly illegal? And did my ISP ge

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