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by wybo 13y ago
Indeed. Another likely link is that income is often interpreted as status/standing in society. So the happiness might just as well be due to respect/esteem.
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by wybo 13y ago
> I always thought that the roads would be much safer if our legal drinking age and legal driving ages were switched They are switched in many Western European countries, and imho that works fine. Also because there generally is more pu
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by wybo 14y ago
Running RescueTime is still no data, it is a claim of authority... Have you analysed it properly, was it peer-reviewed, can we see it for ourselves? I don't believe that people who put in more than 35 to 40 hours of real work will be more p
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by wybo 14y ago
Really? In the Netherlands health-insurance is around a hundred euros per month (1250 Euros per year ). The annual copay is 350 Euros (total). And if you make less than about 20k Euros a year, you get most of your insurance covered by the
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by wybo 14y ago
I would be careful with feeding chicken to chickens. Might get you kicked out of a startup for animal cruelty; if it is led by a Zuckerberg ;) (at least according to The Social Network film) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf-NRQvu1HY
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by wybo 14y ago
There are two main issues with this sleep schedule: 1) Getting home at 5 (not likely with a job in the US, especially with a startup-job like the one I had in the valley, where performance often seems to be measured mainly by the amount of
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by wybo 14y ago
Anecdotally it sucks. The ADSL people generally have in SF is terribly slow. Even my moms internet in the Dutch country-side, 8 miles from the nearest city, with cows for neighbors on all four sides of the house, had faster internet than th
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by wybo 14y ago
I think this whole system of differentiated / > 150% profit margin billing - when people are at their weakest, a.k.a. exploitation-based healthcare - is utterly unethical. I honestly don't see how anyone, and American public opinion in
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by wybo 14y ago
True to some extent. Though in many countries the government has to give planning/zoning permission at least. And notice how in all versions of Sim City most buildings do appear and 'grow' by themselves. So it is not as bad as you make it s
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by wybo 14y ago
This is not about the role of government and the individual. This is about healthcare, something fundamental that every human being needs. For which it cannot be predicted when one needs it, and where need can vary greatly through (in by fa
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by wybo 14y ago
There are many cities without a lot of cars that work very well (even if they have some). The large cities this is true for, that I have some personal experience with, are London and Amsterdam. The difference is that they are also swarming
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by wybo 14y ago
Liquid democracy (delegative democracy) might be a potential alternative. It has its problems, but it would at the very least be an interesting experiment. http://wybowiersma.net/pub/essays/Wiersma,Wybo,A_global_advi... Liquid democracy i
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by wybo 14y ago
I'd rather say in the US the problem is too much market. And especially too much of the naive belief - used to his advantage by many a shrewd businessman - that cost equates quality. Also, as already mentioned in other posts, many UK/EU uni
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by wybo 14y ago
There is a simple solution for this (even if your argument makes sense) and that is that the government also sets the legal maximum tuition fees. In the Netherlands the government subsidizes universities per student they take on, provides a
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by wybo 14y ago
I would rather say that US cities are broken because of design, not for lack of it. Sure, standardizing signs, and requiring access to parks are top-down design. But nearly all beautiful European cities weren't planned, they have evolved. W
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by wybo 14y ago
Morality has a bearing on it. Not letting die, or for that matter, enabling a minimally humane life for everyone, is as important, or more important than the dictum against (potentially unjust) taxation. I see why in the US one might be aga
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by wybo 14y ago
I assume/hope scarmig is being sarcastic here? ;) But yes historically (middle-ages and before) head-based tax systems were considered fair. Anyhow, non-progressive taxation and market-based health-care is a waste of human capital, not to m
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by wybo 14y ago
Funkenschlag (Power Grid) is a typical German board game, and great fun. It is well-balanced, and contains map-control, auctions, and resource management: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2651/power-grid
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by wybo 14y ago
I wonder why they don't have a single sized one. Because where cuddling is optional on a double bed, it pretty much is the only way to share a single bed. Also interesting to consider is that it won't fit all types of beds. As with a lattic
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by wybo 14y ago
To --- when in conversation with a nice lady --- nudge the topic towards the mattress, tickling her curiosity to try it out ;)
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by wybo 14y ago
True. Great for bringing it up. As for why facades are so narrow in Amsterdam, if people wonder (there are many more below 3 meters). It is because people used to have to pay property taxes based on the width of the facade of their house. (
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by wybo 14y ago
I think it is because her philosophy is naive in that it only considers the economic angle, and extremist in that by doing this, it takes market-thinking to it's brutal extreme. The market, and the self-care that drives it, are wonderful me
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by wybo 14y ago
There are places where social housing works. In the Netherlands social housing is often quite pleasant, especially if it is centrally/well located. A difference might be that there is much more of it in the Netherlands, so the middle-classe
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by wybo 14y ago
Completely agree. I did some Hitch-hiking as well (in Canada, France, and Australia) and only have good experiences. Canada was the best. I got a ride from a native american who smuggled me aboard the ferry he worked on, so I could cross to
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by wybo 14y ago
I did a similar post about a year ago, though the focus was on other things than best time to post: http://foundation.logilogi.org/2011/5/9/the-best-time-to-pos...
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by wybo 14y ago
I'd rather say Oxford is ;)
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Twitter map predicted outcome of US election(ox.ac.uk)
2 points by wybo 14y ago|0 comments
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by wybo 14y ago
It is a nice way to meet other people that are (somewhat) smart (in a new city, or beyond ones social circle). What is especially good about it is the relative diversity of backgrounds that members are from (and different ages). However the
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by wybo 14y ago
I created Lake a couple of years ago, which allows one to create ones makefile in C++. A header and footer are added to the makefile, and it's then compiled using ones C++ compiler. Afther that it's run, and that's the point where ones othe
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by wybo 15y ago
We also do this, but instead of flowers, we chose plants. Being a bit of a nature-geek myself, my desk is particularly green, but everyone who wants, has at least one desk-plant in our office: http://wybowiersma.net/pub/academia-desk.jpg

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