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I've gotta admit: hats off for this clever hack.

What else would be more important to maximize than happiness?

Means of getting happiness are a different discussion, and what happiness is might differ from person to person. But why would you e.g. accumulate more money or power if it didn't bring you any happiness?

Redis has proven to be a very flexible to use and very easily to deploy piece of software. Muchos gracias.

Why not use Varnish? POST messages of 500 bytes could easily be rewritten / proxy'd to GET requests. That might not be 100% restfull but seems like a lot less work. On our production environment Varnish always responds in less then 2 ms. Even on my development VM I never see response times > 5 ms. It has all the other requirements they state.

Perhaps I'm prejudiced because Varnish has proven to be such an awesome caching mechanism (we still use Redis as a key/value store), but this seems like NIH.

Over here in the Netherlands, that is not true. The SP (Socialist Party) is on the left end of the political spectrum and is pretty anti EU.

I'm not opposing this idea, but I'm not sure it would have helped in the VW case. There were some people (engineers? Managers?) who were cheating and they knew that what they were doing was wrong. I don't believe a license would have changed that.

Totally agree about the Mona Lisa, but I just needed an iconic piece of art that everybody knows ;)

You might want to see elephants in the wild, or the Mona Lisa or just go surfing or whatever. I really don't understand this mindset.

Don't get me wrong: I like working. But the bottomline is that I'm working to live. I'm not living to work.

WebRTC ;)

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

There are a lot of people outside of the US, and most of them aren't using either Bing nor Yahoo. Over here in europe, google is still king and I think that in Asia it's Baidu. I don't want to downplay the successes of Bing, Yahoo or Baidu, but looking globally Google is still pretty much uncontested.

The quests and the voice acting are epic too. Best RPG I've played in ages.

Over here in the Netherlands, part time working is pretty normal. I've been working four days a week for a couple of years now and I can really recommend it. Perhaps you will be a little bit less productive, but definitely not 20%.

If you can handle it financially, just do it.

http://www.webglearth.org/

How long can you go on claiming that a war is not "conventional"?

The Vietnam war started 60 years ago. The US military still struggles with the same guerilla tactics as in 1955.

A 99 euro vacuum food saver will get you a long way in sending drugs worldwide. Combine that with some clever packaging and the chances of it getting caught at customs are pretty small.

That's not surprising. The Netherlands have a long history of producing quality XTC / MDMA and are one of the biggest XTC exporting countries worldwide. Furthermore, given the relaxed weed legislation a lot of marijuana is produced here.

Why not? As a tourist in Holland, there is absolutely no reason to drive a car. If you go to Amsterdam, there are a lot of interesting cities within 45 minutes by train. Even Groningen or Maastricht are within less than 3 hours by train (which is too far to do fore one day, but if you book a hotel over there for 1 or 2 nights is perfectly feasible)

Traffic in downtown LA, NYC or even Rome is worse than Amsterdam, and I'm really glad that I never had to drive in places like Vietnam or Cambodia. Sure, driving in Amsterdam requires you to pay attention but it isn't that bad.

It works pretty well though. Giving 1 meter of clearance is just not possible in the very tight old city centers of the Netherlands, which also have a lot of biking traffic.

Do you have any experience working in a business that does a lot of international trade? My experience is that they convert to local currency ASAP.

As someone who is working for one of the travelling agencies who had people on board (and I'm 99% sure one of my previous employers also had customers on that aircraft), could we please wait with all the speculation? Querying the database to see who might have been on board was no fun. I think that our customer rep's had an even harder time to answer questions. The suffering of relatives and friends must be much worse. I'm pretty sick of all the speculation in Dutch media right now, let's wait for some kind of official investigation and in the mean time light some candles for the deceased.

As a Dutchie and a coffee addict, could you post the link?

And I'm missing fact #1: WTF is elementaryOS and why should I care?

Whenever I'm looking for something that I can't find through other channels, I fall back to soulseek and it never fails me.

People should know better. I made a nice profit last year with bitcoins which could have been a lot more if I had sold them later, but I always saw that as an experiment. It was basically fuck you money that I could affort to lose. I truly believe that cryptocurrency will have a lasting impact in the future, but right now it's just much a gamble as playing roulette. In its current state, believing bitcoin is as stable as traditional currency is very, very naive.

317/7134 = 0.044, which is indeed 4.4%

I carry around the following: 1 Debit card 1 Credit card 1 Drivers license (usually I travel with public transport, but I'm required to carry an ID by Dutch law) 1 Ov chipknip (card for public transport in the Netherlands) 1 Health insurance card 2 Loyalty cards for competing grocery stores (I attend both of them on a regular basis)

Even though Coin doesn't solve this problem, especially since it doesn't have EMV which is required in Europe, I'd love to have all off them one card. I have another boatload of cards at home that are rarely / never used because I never have them on me when I could use them.

So basically: very cool idea, needs some more thought for the european market though.

Depends on where you live. Over here in Holland (were drugs are less of an issue), most of the messages are not encrypted.

So what? The NSA is harvesting data on an unprecedented scale. It might be legal but it is definitly unethical.

Whether the initial reports were 100% accurate or not is irrelevant. What does matter is that this now out in the open and hopefully something changes.

China hasn't got free speech either. What is your point?

I live in the Netherlands, can anyone tell me what this law is about and why it is damaging to the internet?