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Are you sure it wasn't because of all the trouble caused by people on bicycles?
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I sit reading this in a village in central Portugal, and I have a very different perspective than the OP. What I see are vast numbers of uninhabited, decaying or wholly uninhabitable structures. I see 50+ age men loitering around the town,
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Oh there’s a lot of fun concepts to muse about. But one is brakes. That aside, at least it wouldn’t get stolen in Amsterdam. Which reminds me of something a friend did. He lived in a neighborhood where anything visible would be stolen. So h
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> We ask “How long will it take?” That is the first problem. We should be asking several questions, and the value of their answers would be weighted against business goals. How long will it take? How will it affect future development (pa
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> legislation which is going to make it mandatory for farmers to dedicate x% of land to nature Considering how badly the Dutch farmers have behaved thus far on any issue which “threatens” their way of life (profit maximization), I can on
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This branch of research and technology is going to have immense impact. It is basically visualization of words and expressions, and I expect we will see it woven into many parts of our daily life in the near future. It will not put artists
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Sorry to make two posts, but also... In commercial farmlands, even in "progressive" countries like the Netherlands, the insect friendly unmowed zones are present but very minimal compared to the commercial farmlands. By my estimat
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There is a concept of zones. You make zones 0 and 1 very human friendly. Beyond that you gradually transition from aesthetic and food growing toward wild nature. I'm not suggesting you wade through waist high weeds as you walk out yo
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That's the thing about nature. It has immensely complex programming that we don't understand. Often a "plague" of one thing exists to rebalance another thing. If unmanaged nature does run wild with one or a few species
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Cool project, but why mow it all in the first place? Do yourself and absolutely nature a favor and let it grow. We need every patch of natural land we can get, as biodiversity and insect populations are continually decreasing. Mow some pa
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I love it! I had forgotten about the fun we used to have with simple things like this. Another thing I miss is the vast array of really awesome graphic visualizations for WinAMP MP3 player. iTunes never had a fraction of the visual goodnes
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I'm curious; what external devices are you always needing connected to your laptop? What is this "extra hardware" and "accessories" that you need (and which you seem to think most people also need)? In my case, the
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With the hub, you have many more ports - when you need them. My little Anker has two USB-A, two USB-C (one may be thunderbolt I think), HDMI, and SD card slot. You're not going to find a laptop with more than those ports. So I stand b
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It's Dell's fault. They are the ones designing the internals of the laptop and choosing the power levels. I use a top of the line XPS for several years, and there were two common user-fixes that really improved this heat issue: a
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It's a tradeoff for reduced laptop size (portability). If you're at home and need to connect to many things, you usually have a dock or expansion dongle. On the road, you often only need 2 ports - one for charging and one for wh
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This can happen to any device if there's a one-off manufacturing problem somewhere (esp in the battery). I don't see it very often, but I've seen it on a Surface Pro (the store display model!... I had to point it out to the s
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I used a visual data analytics toolkit for several years to help big telcos reconcile switch vs billing data. The tool was very dated looking, but it was ideal for the specific tasks we were performing. I found the best use was as a discov
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1 - I ran a bitcoin node, and I had a script which would poll the node every few seconds to get the status of the addresses which I knew had open orders. Any that had received a payment would get marked accordingly so I could show on the o
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The real difficulties in providing crypto payment options is that users are generally not educated enough to use it properly. I built Bitcoin and Stellar payment systems for a client. In both cases, I generated an address for each customer
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Networking and human connections absolutely 100% matter. If you know the right people, you know about the need even before HR knows. You get recommended internally. Maybe you even have a meeting with an exec before the position officially
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> if I set it up late one night to cause trouble Hehe, I might have done a thing like this late at night and not remembered the next day (for matters of simple tiredness to some level of inebriation). Personally it frustrates me when I g
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But if a company selects one of your resumes, and you sent many similar ones to each company, then the companies may wonder about remarkably similar resumes and then toss the batch out assuming it's BS. Of course it would also just mak
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There's a lot to this question, and there are a lot of suggestions I can make. First, we all have a choice which thoughts we will entertain and which ones we will shut down. We can intentionally choose to think about something, such a
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This low-quality shotgun approach (that these kitchens are using) remind me of the recruiting and offshoring plagues of the early 2000s. Recruiters were onced skilled professionals, but they got replaced by people who spoke almost unrecogni
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If you come to NL recruited by a company (as an employee), you'll probably be a "highly skilled migrant" and have the benefit of the 30% ruling - https://www.belastingdienst.nl/wps/wcm/connect/e
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The tax difference is WAY more than 10k a year. I'm not even a FAANG level income person, and my taxes are almost double in NL. But as the original question was just about paying taxes, I didn't provide pro/con reasons for l
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I chose to stay in NL despite the high taxes because I found it to be a better quality of life compared to the US (or at least the places I had lived in the US). The question wasn't about quality of life, it was about paying taxes. Th
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I find Madurodam to be far less impressive. It's nice, and many of the models are quite impressive, but overall it's a fraction of the complexity of Miniatur Wunderland. I think also the way the sections are broken up with concr
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That's cool, but most HN readers should not try that. We want this place to stay well operational, and the entrance fee is not exorbitant.
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This place is absolutely worth a visit if you get anywhere near Hamburg. The scale, no pun intended, of the system is mind-boggling. Over 700,000 individually painted human figures carefully arranged around excellent models, with all the b

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