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by roel_v 5y ago
There are at least 4 crypto trading apps advertising during prime time on Dutch TV, a country of 17mm people. Insane. It just feels like it's 2000 all over, in so many respects. I look at my stock brokerage accounts every couple of day
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by roel_v 5y ago
"Sidewalks are for pedestrians." Of course they are. If you cycle on them in the Netherlands, you'll get yelled at very fast. I don't think anyone anywhere claims that people should cycle on sidewalks. Still, in many bic
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by roel_v 5y ago
Their promotions are usually time limited. And you'll have to make a separate account because the promotions are for new users only. So now you have your content spread over multiple accounts. But you can use Udeler so that you have lo
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by roel_v 5y ago
Pick up on what it means when you openly signal this sort of "tribal allegiance". I'm not making any sort of point on whether someone should own guns, or whether it should be legal, or anything like that. That's a discus
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by roel_v 5y ago
Sure you're allowed to do it, and from your tone I take it you're offended by my post, and I'm sorry for that. My point wasn't that you should or should not do something. And it's your business and you're fre
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by roel_v 5y ago
I guess I'm going to get flamed for this, but if I may offer some unsolicited advice on business growth: tone down your personal Instagram a bit, to be a bit more 'neutral'. I know you (or others reading this) will probably t
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by roel_v 5y ago
I'm cackling behind my desk here as I imagine some British bureaucrats gleefully hopping in their chairs as they drink tea with their pinkies up, round spectabled, shouting "well done chaps" to each other.
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by roel_v 5y ago
On Dutch tv, there was a show some time ago about people designing and building specific tools for people with disabilities; like there was a special floatation vest for a girl with a muscle disease for whom regular flotation jackets didn&#
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by roel_v 5y ago
But the question is - is there any indication of intent to mislead. They just don't pay much attention to how things look when photographed for online shopping, it seems to me.
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by roel_v 5y ago
"Τhe facility could be 50 feet away or it could be a 5 mile walk" Realtor associations at least in the Netherlands have guidelines (e.g. on what distances amounts to 'walkable') that prevent this sort of thing, I see no
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by roel_v 5y ago
Both photos clearly have the contents (in oz/gr) on them, and they appear perfectly standardized amounts. I don't think there's any conspiracy going on here. As to the conditioner, I quite like the trend of having multiple si
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by roel_v 5y ago
"Apparently going on shifts working 72+ hours non-stop is the norm." C'mon, that's 3 straight days , i.e. skipping 2 nights . How can that be 'the norm' anywhere? Extraordinary claims requires extraordinary e
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by roel_v 5y ago
At the time, people would endlessly complain about every new version or even small change, too. I don't remember the complaining to be worse for the (in hindsight) worse versions. Plus it's only the complaints that you hear about,
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by roel_v 5y ago
In GTD that is fixed through "contexts". E.g. you have a context "phone calls to make", and then next time you have time and are near a phone, you can start working on those tasks. Many todo apps have some sort of mechan
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by roel_v 5y ago
To me as a layman, this reads as a "water is wet" study - what am I missing here?
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by roel_v 5y ago
That's totally nuts and it's not the Dutch system.
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by roel_v 5y ago
That's not what rent seeking means
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by roel_v 5y ago
But then why not before these low rates? If people were bidding up to maximum lending capacity as a % of total income back when mortgage rates were, say, 6%; and now they do the same but at mortgage rates of 2%; then there is a ceiling to h
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by roel_v 5y ago
I knew some people who did something like that 20 years ago, "living" (having a family) in the south of France and working in Frankfurt. They only did it to give their families the chance to live near their extended families or fo
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by roel_v 5y ago
Let's not give people arguments for being more like Stephen Wolfram here...
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by roel_v 5y ago
"Nobody goes there any more, it's too crowded", right?
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by roel_v 5y ago
Everyone saying "blast from the past", here I am using teletext multiple times every day :( (Netherlands) It's great for turning subtitles on (normally meant for hearing impaired), when you for some reason don't want to
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by roel_v 5y ago
How can you construe anything I said as defending anything? I was super careful not to do so, my point wasn't even about this particular shooting at all. At some point, when writing or saying anything, you have to rely on the person re
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by roel_v 5y ago
OK, 33 14-17 years olds who were already party members then... That doesn't materially change the point I made.
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by roel_v 5y ago
I'm obviously not defending him, but those were 16-18 year olds who were already party members. My point is: it's easy to find flaws in the reasoning of extremists, and use that to show how "crazy" and "illogical&qu
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by roel_v 5y ago
Periodic reminder: if you're in the Netherlands and want to join the "class action" by the Consumentenbond against Facebook (for free), see here: https://www.consumentenbond.nl/acties/facebook .
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by roel_v 5y ago
Oh please. It's 2021. There is an entire internet full of video clips of actual fights, and none of them go down the way you say. All this waflling about 'groin strikes' and 'head butts' is just that - arm chair waf
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by roel_v 5y ago
Please show me the full contact fights Bruce Lee was in.
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by roel_v 5y ago
"Monkey steals the peach" is all you need to know to win any fight you're in! Buy my mail order course now, only $19.95!
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by roel_v 5y ago
Right, and there is nothing wrong with spectacular fighting for movies, but it did give rise to the idea that this is what actual fighting looks like. Which it doesn't. Same with aikido - it's fine when people do it as a form of e

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