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Re:What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF by lumost on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @09:17PM (#42942751)
Fair, my basis for comparison was the Amsterdam airport. I paid 35 euro for a soggy reheated sandwich and coffee. SFO has 18 dollar poke bowls.

Perhaps Amsterdam airport pricing is extensively marked up compared to local pricing (understandable). Geneva was just plain expensive.

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Re:What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF by wrl on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @09:33PM (#42942903)
airports are always a nightmare!

the other important thing to keep in mind is that in the EU in general, there's no added taxes on the bill, and tips are less of a thing here, so there's not a magical 20%+ hidden charge to factor in on everything you order.

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Re:What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF by vel0city on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @12:45PM (#42952265)
> my basis for comparison was the Amsterdam airport

Your basis for how much people pay for groceries was how expensive a sandwich was at an airport?

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Re:What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF by lumost on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @06:00PM (#42956601)
We get signal wherever we can :) Boston Logan has about a 20-30% premium on normal groceries. SFO is probably closer to 5-10%. I assumed the premium could not be greater than 50% for Amsterdam airport.
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Re:What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF by mrguyorama on Thursday February 06, 2025 @05:42PM (#42967253)
At some point you have to be willing to admit you don't have any signal
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