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I onve saw a €500 note when I was exchanging guilders at the fentral bank and asked if I could see one. They showed me, from behind the glass. It's big

> over-protecting from a risk is as bad as under-protecting How would protecting ourselves against 50 °C summer heat (122 °F) ever be as bad as keeping 40° heatwaves or better yet,…

Doesn't your argument hinge on the fact that roads and sidewalks are public works anyway? The fact that compliance costs outprices some smaller companies rather shows that we as a …

I believe I read somewhere that WhatsApp gets awoken by a silent notification with the cyphertext from the Notification Service, which it then needs to decrypt before generating a …

If not reimbursed 100% (like my public transport costs are), your public transport costs are tax-deductible at a staggered rate up to €0.29 per km. https://www.belastingdienst.nl/w…

Well, I'd like to tell security that

You know that's not a good thing, right?

Famously not including drivers. Expanding on just a snarky comment, Uber stated to have north of 7M monthly drivers ([1], OP mentions 10M, but with no qualification), so 32k/7M = 4…

Interstingly, since 2008 Dutch bankers need to take an oath and whilst I don't think that in itself deters fraud, being fired for fraud would preclude going back to work for anothe…

The very light it emits, the liquid glass lensing animations, etc

I looked at Luma, but the website shows that for the part of Western Europe I'm in, it only supports Amsterdam or Brussels. Not even Cologne. Or am I using their website wrong?

I've only ever had `first.last@company` as a username or email address, so this `last[:5]initials#` scheme is bewildering. Must lead to strange looking usernames.

My CarPlay with Apple Music shows a QR-code so others may add to the car's playlist. Never used it, coz why wouldn't you trust friends to just open the Music app and add something,…

"That password's already been taken by user 'mekdoonggi'"

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In the Netherlands, its over €2,50

Honestly, ceteris paribus for the US

XSLT 3.0 does JSON https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-30/#json

I dislike MS as much as the next guy, but it's the Office mobile app that was renamed to Copilot 365. They haven't yet thrown away the entire Office brand

Metros may have electrified third rail, but the ones next to DB train tracks are all with a top covered third rail. Usualy power deliviery is via catenaries.

I require the VNet integration, but my region (Europe West) isn't supported (yet, over a year since I requested it) https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/admin/con...

1. Because fonts are works of art and any artist deserves to be paid. 2. Because there may not be a freely licensed font with the right aesthetics 3. Especially because Japanese fo…

Because Omarchy is a Linux distro by DHH and therefore you can also call it a "fascist and openly racist" Linux distro. DHH was someone I kinda read him online, but he's been going…

tbf, SEPA direct debit is across the Eurozone a both common as well as easy way of transfering funds.

Thanks, related to Safari and privacy: on my iPhone I couldn’t load HN comment pages, unless I turned off”hide ip from trackers and webistes”.