Easily my least favourite piece of infrastructure. The one on the video is alright because you have a full car's length between the road and the cycle path, so you are at a full perpendicular with good visibility over the bikes.

In plenty of other places, the space is much smaller, which puts the bike traffic almost directly in your blind spot as you cross.

For example, here: https://www.google.com/maps/@52.3911559,4.6253401,3a,75y,110...

It's really hard to anticipate as you may not have full unobstructed visibility as you drive around, especially since cyclists can come quite fast.

https://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2014/05/the-best-round...

Yes, the full car length is a key design feature. It wouldn't work without it and I understand why you would dislike ones without that.

The median salary is around 48k in the Netherlands. That's 4k gross per month, no company is paying 5 to 6k of charges per employee per month.

I don't know the exact situation in the Netherlands, but if it's anything like in Belgium the employer pays taxes on top of the employee's gross income. The total cost to the employer is therefore significantly higher than what the employee gets, even gross.

Employers pay taxes, but this calculator puts it as roughly 14k€ of costs for a 100k€ gross salary for the employee (Compared to 44k€ of costs in Belgium, which is why I left)

https://www.deel.com/employee-cost-calculator/

As someone that moved a bit through the EU, that's actually a pretty complex calculation, that's hard to distill into a single number.

My second biggest recurring expense is childcare. Having a child is something you are in control of, so the weight you might give to childcare benefits is something that wildly depends on your life plans.

Same with unemployment benefits. Would you rather a strong safety net and 8% unemployment (Like France), or a weaker net and 4% unemployment, like the Netherlands?

This article is surprisingly missing Belgium, which I expected to see at the top of the employee costs.

But that's the same as thinking "This bar is selling a cocktail for $15. I could make it at home for 30 cents. They're making $14.7 dollars of profit per cocktail, the owner must be a millionaire now!"

Everything is profitable if you ignore the costs.

Pretty much every country has a concept of benefit in kind. Some countries will allow some expenses to be covered (Part of your phone/internet subscription if you work from home, meals vouchers. Some countries codified some WFH arrangements) but you absolutely won't be able to pay for everything tax free.

You'd be far better-off jumping between countries to leverage the 30% ruling/Beckham Law/HSM tax arrangements if you can.

I feel like the title is misleading. It's not 75% of the false calls to 112 originating from eCall activation.

There's 3.5 millions calls to 112 per year. Out of these, 1 million were not transferred further to the emergency services.

There's been 37.500 calls to 112 originating from the eCall system. About 28.000 of them were not redirected to the emergency service.

So, the eCall system helped in about 10.000 cases, and contributed 2.8% of the non-emergency calls to the 112.

I'm not surprised. I bought a new car in January, and I was unaware of this feature until I read the user manual.

You're missing that the impact is not evenly distributed. It doesn't mean everyone gets 25% less petrol, tighten the belt a little bit, take one fewer trip to starbucks, and all is well.

It means rich countries get the 75% while the poor countries get nothing and starve. What happens when a nuclear power like India starts to lack food?

> What happens when a nuclear power like India starts to lack food?

Personally I think that actually seems a bit unlikely. Most of India's energy doesn't come from oil and doesn't go to agriculture. It seems plausible that the global economy will be able to overcome the food and fertiliser issues even in the short term, there is a lot of food out there.

I'm expecting the threat to be more complex economic goods like construction, manufactured goods, leisure and general logistics. I don't want to downplay the risk, famine in India is a scary thought, but I don't really see how we'd get there from closing the Strait of Hormuz without a lot of bad luck. The problem is it is going to materially impoverish a number of people and collapse complex supply chains rather than make it hard to get food to them.

Food quantity has never been the issue. The logistics are. Food is the most direct issue, but "just" the economic turmoil alone is reason enough to worry. No one was starving in the Weimar republic, yet ...

The logistics of food don't seem to be under any particular threat. The petrol required to get someone survival calories is not so much and the vast majority of traffic on the road is not about getting basic calories to people. I don't think any of the world's nuclear states would struggle to overcome that problem right now.

I cancelled my subscription two days ago. I was a customer since October last year. I could get a decent bit of work done on just the 20$ subscription, but since this monday, I can barely get two prompts in before hitting my limit.

Same codebase, same sort of prompt, same scale. I was already on the fence. Models like Qwen, Kimi, or GLM5 already go a very long way while being vastly cheaper, and the new openAI models feels equivalent but with higher limits.

This is getting to the point where the right harness makes a bigger difference than the right model. I've been experimenting with some planner-executor-reviewer setup in opencode, and I'm starting to feel like multiple smaller models working together are netting me better results.

Which would effectively make it an entirely male event. Which is why it got segregated in the first place.