Tag: netherlands
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making money, taking care of people
The counter-point to all those Europe is decadent economic charts people put out: After roaming the Earth for 35 years, my conclusion is the U.S. is the best place to make money and Europe is the best place to spend it.” … In terms of moving bits, the Netherlands is one of Europe’s key connection…
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Where to stay in Amsterdam
People often ask me where to stay in Amsterdam that’s fun, but not full of tourists and drunk people. Here’s what I tell them. You should stay in De Pijp or the Jordaan. These are the neighborhoods just outside of the touristy part of city center that still have all the things you’re thinking of…
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Recently in the Netherlands: The group of people experiencing anxiety or depression has grown over the past ten years. In 2014, it was 36 percent, and last year almost 44 percent. The increase is particularly noticeable among young people and women. Related More than half of Dutch renters ages 18 to 34 fear they will…
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Netherlands enables contactless payments on entire public transport network – Yup, it’s pretty great.
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Slip, Slap, Slop – and more found delights
New at the Rijksmuseum room at Schipol Airport Boomgaard te Eemnes, by Richard Roland Holst, c. 1888-1895 One of the delights in the international part of the Amsterdam airport, Schipol, is a large room that the Rijksmuseum fills with paintings and other art works. There’s usually, say, six or eight paintings in there. There’s a…
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🗂 Link: Uitsmijter
In the south of Holland, where I grew up, uitsmijters would be served as the last “one for the road before we get thrown out” meal after a night of partying. Groups of friends would usually end up at someone’s house late at night (or early in the morning) after the bars closed to wrap…
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While 94% of the 14,000 people in the survey said they used internet banking and 66% used mobile banking apps, ING customers were unhappy about the decision to phase out the use of ‘tan’ codes for approving payments and require mobile approvals instead. Read more at DutchNews.nl: Source: Thousands of rejected migrants unable to return…
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Link: Police wasted €400,000 on ‘redundant’ emergency app: report
Due to delays and setbacks, the deadline to launch the app in the spring of 2017 was never reached. Construction of the app only started in February 2018. In that period the current Minister of Justice and Security, Ferdinand Grapperhaus, suddenly announced that – contrary to all previous decisions – he is giving priority to…
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Link: Dutch now pay more on housing, healthcare and energy than before the crisis: ING
In 2017 basic needs such as housing, healthcare, food and energy accounted for 41 percent of household spending, compared to 36 percent in 2008. Housing and maintenance in particular became a relatively larger cost item, increasing from 19.5 percent in 2008 to 23.7 percent in 2017. Healthcare accounted for 3.8 percent of household spending in…
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Link: Language barrier won’t hold back chatbots in the Netherlands
“BB lives on Facebook Messenger, where it helps travellers find and book flights, as well as remind them to check in. BB is connected to KLM’s API’s – but also to the company’s Salesforce CRM system so that webcare employees can easily take over the conversation when BB doesn’t know what to say…. For KLM,…
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