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Public bathrooms are actually one of the few things that US cities are undeniably better at than European cities. You almost always have to pay in Europe and even paid ones can be hard to come by.
Yes but their job is literally to manipulate you into buying a car then and there. They play all sorts of dirty tricks to get there.
Nobody is arguing against car usage in the country side. People are arguing against car dependency in cities and suburbs.
+1 in my experience most people that criticize scrum simply have a bad experience with a half baked implementation of scrum.
If it's implemented well it's fantastic. You get to focus on the important stuff during the sprint. Issues tend to get caught early on because experienced team members chime in during planning poker. The whole team takes responsibility for the sprint together. This leads to lots of knowledge sharing and collaboration within the team.
Once the team velocity is predictable it also becomes much easier to ask for x amount of time per week for refactoring work as the impact to project timelines can be easily quantified.
Doesn't Kaohsiung have it's own card system?
Not advisable to jar your kids
Have you ever used said MacBook intensively with OSX? I guarantee you the difference in trackpad performance will be mind boggling and frustrating. Literally the only thing keeping me away from using Linux.
In terms of dollar value, not in terms of volume. Still very impressive though for such a small country.
Replace "rural" with "suburban" and their points all hold true.
Suburban developments in the US are often in food deserts. There's usually nothing within walking distance and if there is it is prohibitively dangerous and unpleasant to walk there.
Add to that minimum lot sizes, setback laws, exclusionary zoning and minimum parking requirements and it's no wonder that young people cannot buy a home these days.
Sure a 15 minute city means there will be some areas you won't be able to drive to anymore. So what? You'd be able to walk to them in <15 min. Nobody is going to stop people from driving out of town to go camping.
Not everyone has to live within 15 min of their job, just most people or at least significantly more people than now. There will always be exceptions. The exception proves the rule as they say.
You'll find plenty of people cycling in Dedemsvaart itself though. Nobody is claiming cars don't have their place. It just shouldn't be the default mode - or even worse, the only viable option - for every single trip.
Cycling is ubiquitous in the Netherlands though. Even in small towns. The only place where it's not convenient is if you're living out in the fields in say Flevoland.
Well it seems you're criticizing Americans' rosy view of Dutch public infrastructure without realizing how absurd the US is in terms of infrastructure. I challenge you to visit the US and not use a car at all. In many cities you wouldn't even be able to get out of the airport. Yet Schiphol has a massive station underneath it with trains that can take you, not only to Amsterdam, but to virtually any city and even small town in the country.
They're not. A breach of trust at that level would kill the product instantly.
Not exactly the same but pocketbase is pretty neat. It's like firebase/supabase but then using SQLite.
You can try it out here: https://pockethost.io/
For many people the main concern is not money, but maintaining visa status.
Yup, part of it is definitely that millennials have had it bashed in to them that it's super easy to get pregnant so never have sex without precautions and only stay thinking about having kids when you're "ready".
Many millenials wait until they're thirty and probably think that they should be able to get pregnant in one or two months, when it can easily take half a year. At least that was my own personal experience trying to get pregnant. It became pretty stressful after trying a few cycles with no result.
Yup this is basically how I was taught by my instructor in the Netherlands
> and many bikers aren't actually stopping at traffic lights.
It is not because of this, but because Amsterdam created entirely separate bicycle routes that have grease separated intersections with main roads for cars. So they simply don't have as many traffic lights for bikes because of that. Also, even if the are traffic lights they're much smarter at adapting to traffic and have much faster phases than in America.
> avoid any intersections with other users and flow interruptions: people should not cross streets, they should pass over them on bridges.
No, the cars should be the ones going over bridges or through tunnels. Doing it the other way around is prioritizing cars and dehumanizing pedestrians and cyclists.
Yes and we need to end the weapons race of ever increasing car sizes. It makes accidents much more deadly, uses much more energy to move people and takes up unnecessarily large amounts of space in our cities.
If there's that much traffic, a four way stop will be even worse than a roundabout. You'll need a turbo roundabout, traffic lights or grade separated intersections in that case.
Four way stops are one of the dumbest inventions of man kind that are way over used in North America. Everyone has to stop all the time and it leads to scary situations at 2 way stops because people don't expect those anymore.
Here is a great video about life without stop signs in the Netherlands: https://youtu.be/42oQN7fy_eM
And here are some infinitely better alternatives:
Low traffic + low speed: raised intersections where right goes first.
Medium traffic + medium speed: priority road with yield signs on side streets and roundabouts
High traffic + medium speed: traffic lights
High traffic + high speed: grade separated intersections
I had to scroll way to far to find this comment.
We need to drastically reduce the number of parking lots and revert the car dependency built into our cities.
Probably because you still need battery power for the non freeway portion of the trip.
Yes, land lords are quite literally rent-seeking. They don't provide any value to society and just leech off of people who are poorer than themselves. All rental housing property should be owned by non-profit organizations.
Both are definitely a factor, but don't forget that a lot of the irritate driving behavior is because in America people are forced to drive. Even if they don't want to or really shouldn't be driving, they still have to drive to get around town. Here is a video that explains it further:
https://youtu.be/d8RRE2rDw4k
Oh boy you are in for a treat. Google parking minimums and single family zoning. And watch some videos from this channel:
https://youtu.be/bnKIVX968PQ