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Early Retirement Plan as an Expat in Amsterdam
The idea:

Once you have a permanent contract, getting a mortgage is pretty easy and renting is significantly higher than the mortgage payments. So, a person can get an apartment, rent it out, and let it pay for itself, while still having money to spare.

So, my question is: what's the catch? It seems easy, but yet I don't see everyone doing it! Am I missing something?

A few details about me:

- Earning 60k, permanent contract, have 30% ruling

- I have savings (more than enough for down-payment and costs) and am left with some money at the end of each month

- I don't want to slave for money for the rest of my life

- I don't like the Dutch weather

- I don't like the Dutch food

- I don't like the Dutch culture

- Needless to say, I'm not seeing myself here in the future, but would tolerate a few more years.

Bonus points:

I know at least 10 people who own residential properties and rent them out. This would be even better than a buy-to-let property, as the interest is significantly lower for residential properties. However, the banks don't want you to rent it out.

I'd get a linear mortgage, because in case I want to sell the house for some reason, I want to own a bigger portion of it. I can also afford putting more money in it on monthly basis currently. If you're into talking details, give some input on this as well.

Goal:

Spending less on rent while here and leaving with an asset, while investing everything I own above my emergency limit in the following years. At the moment when I have my assets net me 1k per month, I'm on my way to Thailand.

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TLDR:

I plan to get a mortgage, buy a property in The Netherlands, live in it for 2-3 years while heavily invest my earnings in index funds, and once I'd have 1k in passive income, rent the property out and move to a place with low cost of living. Is there a catch? Why isn't everyone who has FI/RE ambitions as an expat in Amsterdam doing this (or thinking about it)?
If my grandfather did that, he wouldn't do it a second time (at least, he'd know he'd better not do it within my hearing). Not that either of my grandfathers would have done that (I think).

Yes, I know, grandfathers with thicker heads than mine exist. Even if they can't get it through their heads that such views are wrong, maybe they can understand that people get in their grill every time they say it, and the whole family turns against them. After a few times, they may start to get the idea that they shouldn't say such things. (Or maybe they never will. Either way, I don't think I'm going to let racist comments about individuals slide in my family.)
Cool! Can you elaborate on what easier to manage and more secure might look like?
That's me!

I was incredibly salty about this. I didn't name the CA, because they're actually nice to have reduced price for Open Source projects, but Microsoft really needs to drag the whole process into the 21st century.

The process and infrastructure reminds me very much of TLS before Let's Encrypt. If this is something that every developer needs to do for every exe, it can't be like getting an EV certificate for a Netscape Server. I thought Apple's often-buggy signing was bad, but at least they've tried to make it a one checkbox paid for in a straightforward transaction.

I would have signed with SHA-2, which for inexplicable reason is not the default despite deprecation, but my signtool crashed when I enabled it.
(I'm sure @mgirdley will show up here in a moment)

I used to live and work in San Antonio. Five years ago it was beginning to show signs of a tech scene. Geekdom had been around for a couple of years and acted as the hub of the community. TechStars had a program there (though no more).

I left four years ago for Boulder so I've been watching it grow at a distance. From what I see, deal flow has picked up and Houston Street in downtown has turned into the epicenter, anchored by Geekdom on one end and Codeup on the other.

It's a great place to live and I'm constantly tempted to move back, though I expect that I'd need to find remote work to maintain the pay I currently make up here in Colorado. Excellent food and low cost of living in a city that's rapidly growing up.
i just happened to be at a salon at ucla a couple weeks ago where keith chen spoke about this research. the data comes from about 30 million phones for which they can reliably get the data, not every phone in the US.
I kind of hate this. Taking a decentralised service, and replacing it with a service provided by a small handful of tech giants.

"But this doesn’t mean you have to use Cloudflare. Users can configure Firefox to use whichever DoH-supporting recursive resolver they want. As more offerings crop up, we plan to make it easy to discover and switch to them."

Only defaults matter. Your average web user wont be interested in knowing about or configuring this, no matter how simple the explanation/choice is made.
Why Seattle?

When I think Seattle I instantly think Amazon, which isn't particularly well-regarded around here from a work-life balance perspective.

The sheer number of Amazon employees would lower the average, correct?
Possibly a counter example: Public schools can expel students. But, I’m not sure: can other schools (other school districts?) generally find out whether you’ve been previously expelled?
If the universe is just the wave function of the universe, then nothing is really a thing with the naive interpretation of a material thing. But that is essentially the distinction I meant, there must be a fundamental thing that we can then chop up into pieces to get the things we are talking about in everyday life. And there would probably still be good reasons to distinguish between fundamental particles and humans because fundamental particles would still be atomic things emerging from the wave function while I would be a certain, slowly changing over time, arrangement of fundamental particles.

What I am not really sure about is whether it is consistent with our understanding to say that an electron is just its wave function. We usually use the wave function to describe the state of the electron but we think about the electron as a separate entity with different possible states and the wave function only describes the state the electron is in at a specific point in time. More importantly the wave function of an electron is not a unique thing, if an electron really was just its wave function, which one is it, the one in location space or the one in momentum space or yet another one?
There's also some reasoning on their page:
https://wamp-proto.org/faq/index.html#naming
How much i hate this error message. "Windows protected your PC" - no, it didn't, it just assumed there would be something to protect from because it was unknown. It is pure scaremongering.
Dogs were bred with this friendliness to be willing laborers with their own safety being a secondary concern to doing a job given to them. Think of how quickly and eagerly this would be used by those who want exploitable labor from humans.
I guess that makes sense on the national level, but couldn't you say that same thing about citizens voting in local politics? They can just move to a different city or state. I don't see a difference right away, but I'm interested in another take on it as far as where the line should be drawn on who gets to vote or not.
> it's accepted that it is a bad thing.

I believe the recent presidential election has proven otherwise.
AKA, industrial policy is not a Chinese invention.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_policy

Japan is the master of modern industrial policy. Then South Korea/Taiwan, then China, faithfully adapt the Japanese model.
The phone in San Bernardino case did not yet have the secure enclave.
Because, even if we're in favor of the result, the idea that a big company can just muscle in and do what it wants is awful for everything else.
Sources? Copyright issues back then were a bit tricky. 28 years with mandatory registration, and so Stravinsky's Rite Of Spring (1913) is around the line of 27 years to Disney's Fantasia (1940), and if Stravinsky didn't register it, then the only organization they'd have to pay is the Philadelphia Orchestra, depending on when it was recorded...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright_law_of_th...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032455/soundtrack?ref_=tt_trv_...
I mean like

try
if not x() then error end
if not y() then error end
else
// which error happened?
end
Does it still provide a list of user access rights for single files and directories on Team Drives?
If I attempt to build an apartment building on your block, on land I own, the police will eventually arrest me and take me away.

Damn right you're using violence to gain a profit.
The a9 falls down when zooming and focusing at the same time though. That's fairly important for sports and a few other parts of other types of photography.

The Nikon D5 still has the crown when you add in that test and percentage wise will beat Canon/Sony. In absolute numbers, because the Sony shoots so fast it can bring home more 'keepers' in terms of numbers of photos though.

And the focus point coverage is WAY bigger on the a9, so overall I would call it a tie depending on what you are shooting.
It has nothing to do with iMessage. The Messages app handles SMS text messages and iMessages, the former being green bubbles, and iMessages appearing blue. The both coexist.
The difference is that the attacker can make budget.pdf start with #!/bin/bash and immidietly have arbitrary code execution when I do "./budget.pdf"

When I do "evince budget.pdf" the attacker is required to find an exploit of evince.
This is funny but has nothing to do with HN
Republican Lee Atwater discusses how his party achieves the goals of racism while avoiding explicitly racist rhetoric:

"You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”"

https://www.thenation.com/article/exclusive-lee-atwaters-inf...
In SF the homeless problem that I perceived was individuals living on the main street, sleeping on boxes, smelling of alcohol, only partially dressed, walking through traffic, screaming randomly (schizophrenia?), or setting up tents in Soma.

I have no doubt these problem-individuals are absolutely unemployable. I'm not sure how building more million-dollar houses relates to fixing the homelessness problem.

Is somebody debating giving million-dollar houses to the homeless?
A protocol for RPC and pub/sub over eg. WebSockets
I just noticed that I submitted an imdb comment/review in March of this year. The boards still look up. Did something change?
> Look, my name is Anton Chuvakin (oh, no, nooo, nooo…this is “pee-ai-ai” leak … nooo!!!) , and I had my main email on my website

The key here being you voluntarily disclosed this.

> For god’s sake, have these privacy crusaders heard of phone books?

You can have an unlisted number.

>Similarly, if my hospital wants to share my health data with a pharma company and they pool it and then use it to develop cancer cure and make billions – you know, I am OK with that.

Great. Then the hospital can ask you for permission before they use your data.

> I am OK with being profiled online and seeing well-targeted ads.

I'm not

> some of it may feel creepy (uncommon, unexpected, weird, etc), but there is no harm to you and there is definitely value for you.

The value is "more relevant ads." You know what? I hate all ads. I don't care if they're relevant.

The harm is, some company has a list of everywhere I go on the internet. They say it's anonymized, but it's not really. They say it won't be shared with anyone, but they have crappy security so someone could steal that information. They say it will only be used to help target ads, but how can they prevent an abusive government from accessing all that data? The best thing to do is just not collect the data in the first place. (Unless it's absolutely necessary for the service, and you consent to it in an obvious way.)

This shouldn't be on gartner, and shouldn't be on hacker news. This guy's argument is a joke. He completely misunderstands, or is ignorant of, the privacy issues that led to the creation of the GDPR.
I would hesitate to say tech companies unduly influencing local elections is anywhere near "good corporate citizenship".
No, the project was to prevent humans from having to slog through hours of footage to find vehicle tracks. This makes it easier, faster and cheaper to kill them. Not a super good use of our greatest technology. Let's keep it manual, expensive and slow. The alternative is terrifying efficient killing machines.
Exactly. Putting the Post in the same basket as the National Enquirer is an insult to Alexander Hamilton.
Mary Meeker was a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley way back when that investment bank did the IPO's of the first internet generation including Netscape and Google ... She has been in the know since before the beginning ;-)
You don't realize it, but by saying this you are rejecting the modern Web (insert horror screams here). So maybe try the old passive web: Gopher.
The image of Chicago has in that regard been tainted by innumeracy.
Of the last 5 flights I took on Delta out of Hartsfield, zero had that capability. The same goes for Southwest, Britsh Airways, Alitalia, Aerlingus and United.

Oh and the Alitalia flight I was on just last Friday still had those dual mono jack atrocities while the flight attendants only had those crappy stereo ear buds. I think one guy on the whole flight had an adapter while the rest of us got one channel of audio from a stereo signal for 8 hours. The meal was decent though.
Which one? V3 or V4?
Generally the file managers on Linux use "magic" to determine file type rather than extensions, so even if it would run you should know it's really a Python script.
>This alert would not show if you used SHA256 instead of SHA1, which was deprecated

apparently sha2 signing wasn't working for him

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17200491

>I would have signed with SHA-2, which for inexplicable reason is not default despite deprecation, but my signtool crashed when I enabled it.
Hiring notices, by Ycombinator projects.
You are being held against your will in SF and can't leave?

It's the other way around. A foreigner living in SF shouldn't be able to vote where they came from. They should in SF.
For some more details: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/meetings/2...
You suppose that some beliefs are denigrating others. I will guess you are a liberal that sees the world as 'Oppressors vs Oppressed' ?

I believe on the contrary that you can have political beliefs that are philosophical and ethical and way above some group-politics that sees some groups oppressing others.

what I'm saying is that if you believe in universal Healthcare or into the free market, it shouldn't change relationships.
I've downvoted you because parroting the phrases of people we disagree with as a form of mocking doesn't contribute to the conversation.
> It cannot reasonably be interpreted that way.

Well, I do, and I hope this answers your question of why I replied to your post and not the the one above (which did not add much to the discussion to begin with).
> Objective-C is somewhere in the middle: you don't get undefined behaviour, but neither does the system tell you when you've got a null-dereference bug. It just silently carries on, and you're left assuming that your code is working fine.

And the program often keeps running and generally working despite some potentially rare-null related bug occurs.

For a contrived example, imagine a user tries to paste a text field into a table and the text has an emoji in it. Let's further imagine the code doesn't handle full unicode properly, and the internal function handler returns a NULL, breaking the data model. In the die-on-null case the entire app often dies since the devs didn't think to add a try/catch around this case, thinking user strings from the UI object could never be null. Now the user has lost an entire table of data they've entered and don't know why for sure. The app just died when they pasted a bunch of data.

In the case of Obj-C with "ignore-null" behavior the data model would effectively ignore the field and likely result in an empty field. The user would still be able to save the rest of their data, with the curious exception of this field. They try pasting just that field and realize it has an emoji. Maybe they'd file a bug that emoji's don't work but they work around and enter a text smiley face. Of course many other things can/could happen like weird data corruption. But I've experienced very similar occurrences in apps and worked around them without data corruption.

Now as a developer, it's harder to find the reason as you don't have a nice log with "app crashed on NPE", but your users can still find a work around and often still find the app useable.

This scenario still requires defensive programming around sub-system interfaces to prevent said errors from reaching, say the internal embedded db, though that's already usually the case in a well designed code base.

> There's nothing at all special about GUI code. Fail-fast is still what you want. There could be any number of technical or non-technical reasons you've found OS X GUI applications to be more stable. Null handling is just a tiny piece of the picture.

For general systems code, I'd agree with you on null detection and fail-fast behavior. As a developer it's much better to know sooner when an error occurs. Granted null handling is just a small component of an overall system, it is an important component and NPE's are some of the most common errors and are most likely to cause an entire app to die due to unhandled/unexpected nulls.

However, from a simple analysis as an end-user of various GUI systems I prefer that some random probably unused feature silently fails or does weird stuff but that the main program keeps running, rather than an entire application (or worse the whole DE) fail due to an un-handled NPE.

And I disagree that there isn't anything unique about GUI code. It's a very different domain than systems / server applications. It should therefore utilize coding patterns which produce better results for that target domain.
Am I the only person getting progressively more creeped out by the series of bizarre, unsourced, pseudo-scientific ads TripleByte has been running?

On Reddit right now they're running this weird faux-linear-algebra thing where they imply that they can build a vector of your skills vs. a vector of job requirements and get a meaningful answer via the dot product.

Which is a bit like saying you can predict the weather by taking the dot product of a vector of ocean and air. What even are the units? What does any of this even mean?

Hiring is a challenging, multi-dimensional thing. It involves a high-risk and ideally informed decision by multiple parties. Doing it effectively is hard. Doing it effectively and respectfully is harder still. And yet TripleByte comes in and says, "We sound vaguely like machine learning. We got this."

Honestly, they make HackerRank, which was another extremely sketchy organization making a lot of very questionable decisions, look reasonable by comparison.
Just my $0.02 about triplebyte - I went through all interviews, seemingly doing fine, but after the last informal talk (which also seemed ok to me), there was about 10 days of total silence. Finally, I emailed to enquire and immediately received an 'Unfortunately, ...' letter.

So, in the end, I've had 4 hangouts sessions over 3 weeks, plus time spent preparing, and was rejected with no feedback at all. I'm still curious, was it the bloom filter?
I am not sure a scraper job site is a good source of data those sort of sites don't tend to have very good inventory.
Archimedes' “Hat-Box” Theorem
SF has a lot of bodies with veto powers over any building project (like neighborhood councils) and there's a lot of legal levers to pull. There's a lot more to it than just the city's planning commission.
That was a very interesting read, thanks for sharing.
Another 6 months!
Envion said it would use the money collected from investors to build mobile rigs, filled with computers designed to “mine” or digitally create new Bitcoin. The rigs could be moved between sources of renewable electricity, which would power the mining computers

Good project?? Sounds absolutely pie-in-the-sky. Another ridiculous idea that raised an insane amount of money from extremely naive investors. In other words, just another ICO.
Picture yourself on the receiving end. You don't want fast, efficient, perfect targeting. That's the stuff of nightmares.
The Italian fascists were every bit as ideologically scary as the German ones, but the German ones were ruthlessly efficient and capable. Let's not make the weapons the Nazis would have wanted.
I don't get the irony. Does nationality matter for open source project with a clear license?
< SF needs its own Rudy Giuliani and its own Broken Windows policy[1].

New Yorker here. You want the pre-lunacy Giuliani. Just thought it's worth clarifying.
>Why can't tech companies out-muscle

Haven't SF tech companies, their employees and their voting habits done enough damage to SF as it is?
One can only hope other cities with emerging tech industries act proactively to prevent current-Californian tech residents flocking from the problems they've caused to cause the same problems in these new cities.
> I rate your idea zero stars.

You might want to but you are forced to provide a one star rating instead. :)
Same.

I've had a handful of nodes on their $20 tier for 10+ years, and I think I've had two or three unannounced reboots in that time.
A Wave of Resurgent Epidemics Has Hit the U.S
Tracking of 10M smartphones reveals 2016 election spoiled Thanksgiving
The checkpoints on the other hand (and not escapes across the border) were rather intimidating and slow, but didn't kill visitors who went through orderly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_inner_German_bord...
No, not at truly large companies -- Amazon could never fill its halls with just references and such.

Even at smaller companies, however, there's some pushback to network hiring because it isn't particularly great for getting a diverse pool of talent.

To be honest, though there are a lot of dangers with this sort of thing, I am a fan. End of the day, engineers should be great engineers, not great at hacking the job finding process.
Why would you give them all that data for free?
I tried DNS over TLS (somewhat similar) and it has some potential. But not with those strict timeouts. 1.1.1.1 closes the TCP connection almost instantly after the query response, 9.9.9.9 waits a bit longer, about 10 seconds (need to check again).

So everytime you want to make a query, you have to wait several RTTs before getting a response.

The connection need to be open for as long as possible, at least 5 minutes.

I used stubby as forwarder with idle_timeout: 6500000, the idle timeout in ms. The connection gets closed by the remote party, not by stubby.
You can also use AMQP 1.0, an ISO and OASIS standard protocol, over websockets.

It supports RPC and pub/sub semantics and has client libraries in many languages. It’s implemented by many messaging components as well as Azure Service Bus.