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(TL;DR: "And although I may complain about Dutch directness, I’m grateful to live in a country that allows me to be just that." You're living in Amsterdam [1], not The Netherlands.)

I am from The Netherlands and I'd say this article paints a bit rose-tinted glasses plus anecdotal evidence so allow me to present a can of nuances.

For example, the directness phenomenon isn't as widespread as it is everywhere in The Netherlands. I'm originally from the more rural south (a Catholic area) and its very much different than where I live now (Amsterdam Area). South is more.. "Burgundian" and less direct. Both have their charms but its annoying when outsiders equal Amsterdam or (big cities in) Holland with The Netherlands.

An example where directness backfires: when I go to a restaurant in Germany or when I get my train ticket checked in Germany I feel treated more like a gentleman. Service is flat out better over there. I'd suggest to consider this to be attributed to "Deutsche Gründlichkeit" but I'm not so arrogant to assume there are no other possible reasons. Anthropology is rather complex...

Another example of rose-tinted glasses is "Many of the older houses in the Netherlands have big windows, allowing visitors – if they so wish – to peep inside." everywhere I look there's tools used to close the windows be it small or large. And they're often used. Another typical thing in The Netherlands is that gardens are walled to denote which part is who's.

Or this one: "The Netherlands is unique in the way it treats topics such as prostitution, drugs and euthanasia." Perhaps the 3 of them as a package, but Christian CDA made mushrooms illegal in the '00s, coffeeshops are getting closed and are not allowed to be too close to schools (good luck with dense areas), and the Red Light District is less red nowadays. A country like Portugal also has decriminalized drugs. Euthenasia is also getting adopted more often in other countries (let us not forget Belgium and Canada [2]), and btw it has very strict rules in The Netherlands. The Christians dislike it as well.

"Proverbs such as ‘Doe maar normaal, dan ben je al gek genoeg’ (just be normal, that’s already crazy enough) or ‘Stek je hoofd niet boven het maaiveld uit’ (don’t put your head above the ground) are there to remind us that we are all the same." These stem very much from Calvinism.

Leo Blokhuis made a 8 part series "Achter De Dijken" about Calvinism in The Netherlands [3]. I found it very good. It is in Dutch and probably geolocked to be only available for Dutch IPs, but series like these should work over VPN or be available on Usenet. Also, other public broadcast television might've bought the rights and provided translation, I don't know. Maybe it is even possible to suggest it to your public broadcast TV station? Even that series, however, is a caricature/generalisation.

[1] Or as others provided with nuance: "a big city in Holland"

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_euthanasia

[3] https://www.kro-ncrv.nl/achterdedijken
In the linked article in the quote it sounds like it's basically the same concept as Firefox Nightly. New and experimental features that may or may not make it into the other app. It's not meant to replace the old app right now, but it might do so in the future.
It is unlikely to happen. Software makes it easier to reconfigure things. It will almost always make sense to rent time on a better machines. Few people run their own public facing arm servers at home, because you can rent better performing and easier to manage servers online.

Proximity and flexibility still matters somewhat though, so there might still be a market for a pick and place machine between this type of machine and a professional one. In China there are pcb factories offering assembly for a low fee. They have a multiple pick and place machines with common components after each other.

The reason it seems like a good idea is people don't see things like the time spent tweaking as a cost. It is also to some extent true for laser cutters and 3d printers.
If it actually affected them, they’ll absolutely complain. Most people just don’t care about the headphone jack. My car has usb, and I rarely use headphones and I like the airpods just fine.
As they state that's because of lack of innovations among competitors. So they now compete internally.
Brit here — I've twice in my career encountered this, once as a youngling, once as a director — both times were broached directly and covertly with the ..er.. offending parties.

I'm from the North, if that makes any difference. I do tend to view Southerners as generally a bit less direct.
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As long as they are willing to pay three salaries it should be OK.
Taxi's don't scale in an urban environment. Their use is exactly for night or irregular use. Go to Mumbai, Jakarta, or any low income country and you'll find yourself stuck for hours in a cheap taxi. We need regulation because the market will not build railroads and metro's.

"A developed country is not where the poor drive a car, but where the rich take public transportation". Visit and compare Switzerland with Egypt/India/... and you'll see.
On the free, closs-platform video editor side of things (-open source) Da Vinci is worth a look or two as well.

Kdenlive is another foss editor based on MLT, like Shotcut.
what is paypal?

PayPal is an abstraction later for accepting payments from different sources.

Why don't people just use credit cards directly?

From the consumer's perspective, PayPal serves as a platform that stores their payment and shipping details in one place, meaning that in order to make a purchase from a new vendor they don't have to faff around with credit card numbers and shipping details on every purchase.

From the vendor's perspective, PayPal is significantly less effort to integrate with than a traditional payments gateway. It means that vendors don't store card details themselves, which means compliance is easier. I've not used it as a vendor for years, but I understand it also provides things like basic order management.

Stripe/square take care of pos

Yes, but PayPal existed before either Stripe or Square, and provides substantially the same service.

venmo/bitcoin handle peer-to-peer

Not directly – a payment processor of some kind is still needed to fulfil the same use cases. Not to mention the extensive other difficulties with those systems.

what is paypal's future?

Pretty much the same as the other options. Don't get me wrong, PayPal has lost some of its moat and the Stripe API in particular is much nicer, but it provides substantially the same services as competitors, so there's not much reason to switch unless the offering from elsewhere is more attractive.
That is not my experience at all (as someone coming from Austria).

When working with Americans we had to sugar coat so much so noone was embarassed or we didn't step on the toes of the American workers.

Maybe this was just my experience.
Paypal offers one extra thing over the top, which is the ability to easily get your money back if the seller screws up.

I use this a lot with sellers in the UK. If you ask them directly for a refund because they forget something or sent you crap (dominos are good at this), it is like getting blood out of a stone. Even being polite, some people will just jam the phone down and tell you to fuck off.

If you pay with paypal, they usually don't even respond and the money just gets returned after 2 weeks by default with paypal. If they do respond they usually just refund a portion anyway.

So what you're getting on top is arbitration.

If you use your credit card, you're pretty screwed here in the UK unless the amount is over £100.
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Telegram has a poor security record, with homegrown encryption algorithms and no end to end encryption by default.
They have had two apps (Telegram vs Telegram Desktop) on macOS too for a while. IIRC one is Electron-ish-based and the other is native Cocoa. The first one got features slightly faster but lacked Secret Chats IIRC.
Well no, because the word "magic" has a very specific meaning in this context: it means systemic dependencies, consequences, or action at a distance, that are uncontrolled, and of which you have no or limited or incorrect understanding.
Linux for example, has pretty much no such "magic", top to bottom of the stack.
From the business side, it doesn't make sense. As a consumer, I pick PayPal if it's an option. It's an additional layer of consumer protection. I also have a PayPal prepaid card that generates card numbers on the fly so I can have single purpose credit cards.
I once went for the first time to visit a Dutch acquaintance and before I entered the bathroom for a shower I was asked "not to take a long shower because of the electricity costs."

Dutch directness at its finest.
Maestro is compatible with MasterCard though so should work anywhere a credit card does?

Tbh it's only a handful of EU countries that randomly shun internationally standard debit and credit cards. I was in Turkey recently and everyone was using and accepted CCs. Even tiny coffee shops. No idea why Germany et al can't get it together so people don't have to build these ridiculous integrations. The EU has also capped fees to a very low amount. Makes no sense.
Or that repression of alt-right views is actually counterproductive.
I'd be happy if they'd sell Velvia 50 for large format outside Japan.
from the site design and vague (libertarian) claims I am going to assume this is about a cryptocurrency and click Flag. kthxbye
Some idea for other subs: Computer Science/Maths/Physics should be the most common I think

Also https://eprint.iacr.org/ is used a lot for publishing crypto preprints
The US pharmaceutical industry is also one of the leading innovators and manufacturers of life saving drugs and medicine. The profit incentive, combined with 10 year intellectual property protection, is what allows pharmaceutical companies to spend enough on R&D to produce these drugs (which the rest of the world benefits from!)
Ok, here's one with T-cells from Cambridge University: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntk8XsxVDi0
Lol, yes, I always loved working with the Finns. I am Dutch myself, so pretty direct, but the Finns take it up to a different level. I remember a business meeting for which I traveled to Helsinki. After a 1 minute intro, our customer spoke uninterrupted for 20 minutes, explaining in great detail why our product completely sucked. It was very useful actually, because the feedback was factual and demonstrated a great understanding of the problem. There was no time wasting or sugarcoating.
and where are those companies today?
Those are accidental risks, this one is voluntary. Also to die from second-hand smoking, while not impossible, it is a long journey of breathing cigar smoke.
Comment from March 2016 by "quasi-libet":

> Finally, I have found out the end of the text on page 129 of “Transactions of the Oceanographical Institute”.

“The scientific reconnaissance vessel “Slava-9” began his regular 13th cruise with the “Slava” Antarctic whaling fleet on 22 October 1958 … On 27 November she got to Bouvet Island. A group of sailors landed which couldn’t leave the island in time because of worsened weather and stayed on it about 3 days. The people were withdrawn only by helicopter on 29 November”.

The mystery is resolved. The answer turned out to be a quite prosaic one. I am even feeling kind of regret for it.
I'm curios if someone asked permissions from mice's that people make experiments.
Da Vinci just crashes for me, over and over. Its been one of the least stable apps I've ever encountered .. so, ymmv.
If there are any subs you would like to have added please let me know. Currently, I know the site is restricted to biology and a small stats section but I can easily add chemistry, physics, math, etc.
As far as I know we aren’t able to cure cancer in mice. Sure we can cure them of artificial cancers we give them in the lab, but actually curing spontaneous mouse cancer in outbred mouse populations (i.e. something like human cancer) is not something I have ever seen anyone try, let alone succeed.
If you're on Linux, this is probably caused by the graphics drivers.
It also seems to be unforgivably low quality: https://www.apple.com/shop/reviews/MMX62AM/A/lightning-to-35...
We mainly do SMT at our hackerspace, as it is really is fast and easy to do by hand using a hot-air gun (e.g. [1]). Use a syringe to deposit solder paste (we have one which uses compressed air, very convenient! Something like [2]) and a binocular to see what you're doing and you will be golden.

[1] http://www.aoyue.eu/aoyue-int998-smd-rework-station-hot-air-...
[2] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/220V-AD-982-Semi-Auto-Glue-D...
I think you've missed the point: the fact that his/her opinion is misguided and wrong doesn't change the fact that it is good that it was shared openly and bluntly.
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Many large companies will “self insure” by negotiating deals with insurance companies to isolate their risk pool to their own employees. Since employee demographics are relatively homogenous compared to the general population (younger and healthier generally), large companies can offer a “win/win” in partnership with insurance companies by capturing actuarial efficiency through more precise modeling of their risk pool.
You're right, although to a non-native speaker these might be hard to distinguish. The Dutch are often praised for their ability to speak English, but in my experience nuances like these are often missed, making the Dutch come across more blunt than they actually are.
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So, "redomesticated" is not wrong; it's merely potentially misleading.
That would be a correct word for word translation.

But the phrase "What do you want?" is the closes normal translation, not counting the politeness forms.
Well, most debit cards nowadays can be used online with Visa Debit / Mastercard
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This seems like a "solution looking for a problem" type of thing. I doubt that the mobile search experience is huge pain point (at least their arguments didn't convince me) and with Cake, it limits you too much. I still want to look at Google my self and decide which pages I want to open.

I am shocked at how investors are still pouring this money into startups with no real traction and revenue.
All of them. Some have their butts in their seats for longer than that, but very few employees are generating 7+ hours of productive work on a daily basis for any extended period of time.
You seem to have a hard time acknowledging that someone can disagree with you while fully understanding your point.
The only platform supporting all the popular operating systems now
Calligra 3.1.0 released
There is an interesting additional link between cardiovascular disease and bones: calcification (calcium deposits in arteries) also seem to have some link with heart attacks and strokes.
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Both. It's targeted by injecting into one tumour, but many different tumours can be targetted. Once targetted, this tumour is eliminated along with all "copies" in body. If you had breast cancer and colon cancer you would need two injections.
No, "willen" means "to want". The Dutch sentence is in present tense, your English translation isn't.
"A speck of ice in the middle of a freezing fastness: a few square miles of uninhabited volcanic basalt groaning under several hundred feet of glacier, scraped raw by gales, shrouded by drifts of sea-fog, and utterly devoid of trees, shelter, or landing places."

Makes me think of:

"I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts."
Here in my uni we give future engineers their first taste of data acquisition and generation using the sound card as general purpose I/O.

It's perfect because it's a very capable DAQ system (16 bit samples @ 48 kHz!) and almost every students owns one already so they can play at home.
Consumer cameras generally record video to h.264, which DaVinci Resolve doesn't read on Linux. So that's a deal breaker for me. Which is a shame as it seems like an extremely capable app (if you're not a FOSS purist).
It's interesting that the startup raised a fairly large amount of money before the key technology is successfully patented. Is that a common practice? One would think that without other moats, successful patents would be the key value proposition of the startup. What if the patenting fails (as another commenter suggests)?

>> “We believe the technology we’re in the process of patenting could have multiple applications. We believe a web browser’s a great application,” says Hulet.
OpenShot https://www.openshot.org/ is also worth a "shot" haha...
So pretty much what the author suspected - it was a soviet vessel, and the details of the adventure were most likely hidden deep in an ex-soviet archive somewhere, almost impossible to find(until someone did, obviously).
For a culture that claims to be rooted in logic and reason, the momentum to abandon a 100+ year old standard because "Apple did it" is rather illogical.
I have the same exact feelings. A standard non-expiring, ordered by recentness, threaded, forum would just work better.
Early ECC days, you 'washed' memory to fix this. On a read, a single-bit ECC error is actually repaired by the hardware. To get the most benefit from this you would want to read every allocated memory location periodically, 'washing it clean' so the accumulated errors wouldn't become double-bit errors (unrecoverable).

I'd put a wash routine in the background process, where it would string-move a block of memory to nowhere in a round-robin way. Not a terrible hit on the cache; we're idle when in the background task so not impacting the most used code. Some latency issue with interrupts and the like.
And during all this time none of the buyers did verify the applied method and operation of the detector by taking it apart or at least by doing a positive check with known substances and materials that should've "made the thing beep"?
Rotterdam? Don't you mean Amsterdam-Harbor?
> Maestro is compatible with MasterCard though so should work anywhere a credit card does?

Maestro is MasterCard. [1]

But in my experience you cannot use a Maestro everywhere you can use a MasterCard. Most online stores in Germany will use SOFORT or giroPay instead of Maestro. Sixt doesn't permit car rentals with a debit card.

> No idea why Germany et al can't get it together so people don't have to build these ridiculous integrations.

Several reasons I can think of:

1. You need to be an adult and pass SCHUFA to get a credit card. Minors can pay online with Lastschrift or SOFORT/giroPay from their account.

2. Germans are very debt averse, and when you can buy things online with SOFORT/giroPay or Lastschrift, there are very few things you really need a credit card for (e.g. certain rental car companies like Sixt)

3. Only ~35% of Germans have a credit card, so a business would be foolhardy to exclude 2/3rds of the market by only accepting credit cards. [2]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maestro_(debit_card)

[2] https://qz.com/262595/why-germans-pay-cash-for-almost-everyt...
I can agree with this. I have translated software from English to Dutch, and when doing literal translations, things get pretty bad. Even the word of "please", which gets translated to "alsjeblieft" is quite bad in the context of software. It has an emotional burden that we don't want in Dutch, it is used when begging for a cookie. We often try to have less of those strong emotions, and that can come across as direct and rude to English speakers.

It doesn't cover everything, but it does play its part.
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While I am wary of "build-your-own-crypto", saying it has a poor security record is, to my knowledge so far, incorrect. I have yet to see satisfactory cryptanalysis that shows a weakness (theoretical or real) in the protocol. If anything, it seems to withstand scrutiny so far. Even the dedicated security.se.com question[0] seems like it wraps itself in tautologies.

Until then, throwing the "homegrown encryption" argument to argue for Telegram's weakness is hand-waving and a straw man.

Telegram's security is sufficient for the threat model I have to face against now and in the future.

[0]: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/49782/is-telegr...
Do you really need so many calls to external domains, including Google, Facebook, and Twitter, just to let me copy a couple of characters? This looks like it was built and posted here just to cheaply harvest a couple of ad impressions.
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C'mon. Getting a taxi permit in Finland requires taking a bunch of mandatory courses on highly Uber-relevant topics like "how to use your taxi meter" (185 EUR) and "local navigation without a GPS" (260 EUR), then passing an exam with questions like "from memory, name all roads between random location X and random location Y", meaning you're looking at a bare minimum of 700 EUR and several weeks of full-time study to get licensed: https://taksikoulu.net/kurssit/#hinnasto

And Uber was way (as in, 30-50%) cheaper than taxis while it operated in Helsinki.
Ocean sciences would be good (oceanography, marine biology, remote sensing), but I'm not sure to what level of detail you're willing to split subjects.
I don't know if I agree with the thumbnail at all but if you want to keep it try to make it fit the content better, i.e. make it the same high as the right column and put the votes and the vote button closed to the content as well.

Here's an example where I on the top row changed the size of the thumbnail to 6em height and width in proportion to the page size and also aligned the votes and upvote button closer to the content. The 2nd and following entries are left with your style.

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Hultner/e5eb15458e70eecb4...
Cables and switches always break first. It's the same in power tools - any component that you have a 200-pound gorrilla mucking around with every day will eventually break. You can mitigate this, but you can't eliminate it. It doesn't mean they're bad design.

That said, I think a good, working bluetooth solution would be something I'd prefer. I like analog jacks, but honestly, cables are a bad solution for wearable devices.
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"U" is the equivalent of "Sie" in German, but the Germans are far more gründlich (thorough) with using Sie correct. It instantly makes you feel more a respected customer.
Can you mention something more specific, than suspicion to "homegrown encryption algorithms" that is just a yet another combination of DH-RSA-AES ?
Yes, however there are several issues in having it in a dongle instead of inside the phone

You're needlessly converting to 'lightning protocol' and back. DAC will be lower quality than an internal one (because of size and power constraints and the fact that you need one internal and one external)
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And by the way, "no end to end encryption by default" -- is intentional tradeoff for cross-device message history sharing by default, which is not possible in case of e2e, without key transferring
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This argument seems like a non-sequitur. Helsinki already has a well-developed public transport system, particularly considering its size, and nobody's about to abandon it and switch to taxis, regulated or not. Jakarta and Mumbai have crappy public transport because of a toxic mix of poverty and incompetent governance, and in both taxis are a luxury for the richest of the rich.

I always figured the primary point of taxi regulation in Finland was to ensure that the service would be available even in remote areas that couldn't otherwise sustain it -- but Uber makes it far easier to service those as well.