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codfrantic
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Comment #41729077
Don't forget Dutch people. I own and use four bicycles. My wife owns three.
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Comment #32396495
I guess this is because they are making their money on the replacement brushes, not the toothbrush itself.
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Comment #23965039
This was specifically because starting in January this year tax breaks for electric cars were changed considerably for people leasing an electric car, specifically the more expensi…
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Comment #23767895
I have a gopro clone 'eken H9R' which does exactly this, bought it for €20 euro's from a local sort of craigslist. If you plug it into your PC without an SD card inserted it will a…
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Comment #23016710
I know most of the KLM fleet in Europe is parked up at Schiphol airport. It was dry here the last few weeks but that stopped yesterday.. https://www.luchtvaartnieuws.nl/nieuws/cate…
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Comment #21544616
same with their phones. If you know walk out of a mac store with a new laptop and a phone you can't charge the phone from the laptop...
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Comment #20644906
> The Netherlands should legalize weed. They have two economic incentives (1) weed tax and (2) sustained tourism. (3) professional agriculture can start producing high quality cann…
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Comment #20458164
Which then in turn isn't really enforced and the commercial guys running multiple appartments as full time rentals find intricate ways around the rules...
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Comment #20326126
Thanks to eneveu's googling a copy of the comment by the original GP is here :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17046753
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Comment #20263084
I remember a guy who mounted his PSP on the handlebars of his motorbike and used it for navigation with a GPS dongle. No rerouting but turn by turn instructions to get us to follow…
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Comment #19936985
I was really curious to read about this type of heating, then I read your comment. Quickly imagegoogled the term and found that this is the standard in most of north/west Europe.
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Comment #19582067
Here in the Netherlands 1 liter of gasoline was very low a few months ago at about €1,55. Now back up to €1,60 if you do your best or €1,78 on the highways. Portugal is not that ba…
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Comment #19541131
Google Tulip (aimed at the Netherlands but in English.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsPQvZm_rgM
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Comment #17679189
I use the Sony WH-H900N (h.ear 2) and absolutely love them, since I bought them (and a second set for my wife recently) three different colleagues ordered one after trying mine for…
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Comment #17661101
The UK is the champion at this. Hoover Biro Transit van
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Comment #16956670
It's even worse. france.com forwards to france.fr at the moment..
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Comment #16679380
close: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Speedup-Loop
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Comment #15765064
Same in the Netherlands, more and more shops are electronic payment only. Cash is a cost and a risk to them.
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Comment #14864415
You must be Danish, I though us Dutch had it bad (320 max) I guess we do go below sea level more which also makes this calculation more difficult :) I do agree on the utter amazeme…
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Comment #14786582
'Podcastaddict' also has google Cast functionality.
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Comment #14635364
I recently helped a shop connect their terminal to the wired connection instead of the POTS one. The time it takes for a payment to go through went from 25 seconds to 2 seconds :) …
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Comment #14592615
I think there is a lot of bike theft, but people also keep this alive by buying a 3 AM Special from a junky in the center of town. I've lived in Amsterdam for the last 9 years and …
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Comment #14271717
> was the rest. Your Dutch skills are shining trough :)
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Comment #13855954
In the Netherlands it is similar, most information is combined for you by the government, they even introduced an app to file your taxes last year. It probably is still a lot of wo…
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Comment #13317570
To make things even more complicated, I have a Sony Xperia Z2 which uses a 5 point jack plug TRRRS, as far as I know the extra connection is only used to receive microphone signal …