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Don't forget Dutch people. I own and use four bicycles. My wife owns three.


I guess this is because they are making their money on the replacement brushes, not the toothbrush itself.


This was specifically because starting in January this year tax breaks for electric cars were changed considerably for people leasing an electric car, specifically the more expensive ones.


I have a gopro clone 'eken H9R' which does exactly this, bought it for €20 euro's from a local sort of craigslist.

If you plug it into your PC without an SD card inserted it will act as a webcam perfectly.


I know most of the KLM fleet in Europe is parked up at Schiphol airport. It was dry here the last few weeks but that stopped yesterday..

https://www.luchtvaartnieuws.nl/nieuws/categorie/2/airlines/...


same with their phones. If you know walk out of a mac store with a new laptop and a phone you can't charge the phone from the laptop...


> The Netherlands should legalize weed. They have two economic incentives (1) weed tax and (2) sustained tourism.

(3) professional agriculture can start producing high quality cannabis in greenhouses instead of the often dangerous attic setups with stolen electricity. (although people do get very creative! https://nltimes.nl/2016/07/22/cannabis-farm-found-eindhoven-...)


Which then in turn isn't really enforced and the commercial guys running multiple appartments as full time rentals find intricate ways around the rules...


There will always be people that find ways around rules, but if the rules exist and are reasonably well enforced, then that is really what is required. This assumes the rule is reasonable, which does appear to be the case here.


Thanks to eneveu's googling a copy of the comment by the original GP is here :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17046753


To my eternal shame I still couldn't figure out how to link directly to comments. So I looked for it and googled a line. To my surprise it was the first hit.

Google's ethics my seem questionable, but you sometimes can't fault the results.


I remember a guy who mounted his PSP on the handlebars of his motorbike and used it for navigation with a GPS dongle. No rerouting but turn by turn instructions to get us to follow a pre-planned route :)


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