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Muximizeon Banks and Credit Unions to Team Up Against Apple Pay Fees

Of course they are, passed on as increased prices for everyone, which is exactly the problem. Sure the banks here would like these fees gone, but it also hurts society in general.

Muximizeon Banks and Credit Unions to Team Up Against Apple Pay Fees

A service for whom? It has already been paid for by the users when they bought the iPhone.

Muximizeon ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026

"During a gold rush, sell shovels."

Muximizeon Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption

Farmers protesting new nitrogen emissions regulation. They are also setting hay bales on fire next to highways. The rail sabotage is relatively harmless, the tracks use block signalling so if you use a conductive metal bar or jumper cables to connect the rails, the system thinks a train is present and the preceding signal will stay red.

Muximizeon The inevitability of the borrow checker

I think this is bad api design. The opt method should not exist, and the get method should return option.

Muximizeon It's lights out at a cosmic restaurant

The Paranal Observatory in Chile has an entire (non public) hotel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESO_Hotel

Muximizeon Average distance to a supermarket in Amsterdam is 400 meter or 1300 feet

> Of course this is paid for at the till...

Not needing to own a car more than makes up for that.

Muximizeon “Autobesity”: More than 150 car models too big for regular UK parking spaces

> because my seat is higher it easier for me to see from "above" somebody been between cars ahead and running out, compared to somebody who sits in reno clio on the ground and seeing nothing till last moment

You can fit 9 kids in a row in front of an SUV without seeing them:

https://media.nbcwashington.com/2022/07/SUV-Blind-Zone-Demon...

https://www.kidsandcars.org/frontovers/must-reads

Muximizeon The Dutch 'letter' IJ (2001)

It used to be its own letter in Old English, and in Icelandic it still is: þ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)

Muximizeon Drivers locked out of their cars at Royston Tesco

Tesco seems to be using wireless price tags. Maybe their transmitter is sending a signal that is strong and continuous enough to cause this?

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/86895/how-el...

Muximizeon What can Seattle learn from Dutch street design?

Also they can be smaller and cheaper to build. Because they only carry bicycles and pedestrians, a height clearance of about 2.5 meters is enough, while a bridge needs around 5 meters to let cargo trucks pass underneath. This also results in much shorter ramps.

Muximizeon The great bicycle boom of 2020

There's usually no need to yield, traffic signals regulate that. The idea here is to create a more forgiving environment where making mistakes is less likely and less harmful. Thousands of these intersections have been build, here's some examples and some US context and research:

https://youtu.be/5HDN9fUlqU8

http://www.protectedintersection.com

https://altago.com/wp-content/uploads/Evolution-of-the-Prote...

Muximizeon The great bicycle boom of 2020

Or you could build protected intersections, as is standard in the Netherlands: https://youtu.be/FlApbxLz6pA

Muximizeon The great bicycle boom of 2020

Protected lanes should be accompanied by protected intersections as well: https://youtu.be/FlApbxLz6pA

Muximizeon Netherlands still invests millions to support cycling

I guess the title wants to say that despite already having the best bicycle infrastructure in the world, massive investments are still being made.

Muximizeon Sharrows, the bicycle infrastructure that doesn’t work and nobody wants

It's one of the things Copenhagen can learn from the Netherlands, where it's a solved problem at most intersections:

https://youtu.be/XpQMgbDJPok

https://youtu.be/FlApbxLz6pA

Also see https://youtu.be/HjzzV2Akyds from 6 minutes on for right turns in Copenhagen.

Muximizeon I can’t upgrade the firmware of my toothbrush because I once did jailbreak

Oral-B recently introduced the iO series, featuring color oled screens.

Muximizeon How to speed up the Rust compiler one last time

You might want to look into Salsa:

http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2019/01/29/sals...

http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2020/04/09/libr...

Muximizeon Boeing quietly pulls plug on the 747, closing era of jumbo jets

Even more so in this advertising livery: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EEXw14EWsAI4oAS?format=jpg

Muximizeon A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive

Fair enough, that wouldn't work indeed. I was thinking about the abstract case, not actually applied as in the article. It would work with direct democracy though.

Muximizeon A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive

Because it is a Prisoner's Dilemma.

Bob can convince Alice to spend half her tokens on proposition B but then betray her and spend all his tokens on B, resulting in 17 votes for B and only 7 for A.

When voting is anonymous there is no way to detect if voters keep their pledge or not, so this should deter them from voting in any other way than in their own interest.