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As someone also living in NL (Amsterdam though, may be different in other parts of NL), I have to partially disagree with you. It's not at the US level yet, but, my experience is that many if not most cafes/restaurants I go to now display a "Choose your tip %" screen on the payment terminal before paying, and anecdotally it feels like this is becoming more common over time with the newer payment terminals.


I'm in the UK and we have this system too, although half the time the servers will just press 0% for you before they even hand over the terminal just because tipping isn't really a big cultural thing over here (at least compared to the states).


Uks a bit odd since Service charge is a thing as well and sometimes it's always added (at bill calculation) and other places only add it when it's a large group.


Is Square popular and/or growing? This is the biggest change I've seen in Canada and the US


Same. But I always just chose 0%


it's not mentioned on the list, but wetransfer.com (file sharing tech company) is a B Corp.


That also doesn't look like enough almonds for 15 grams worth of protein. 10 almonds have approx 3g of protein, requiring 50 almonds for 15 grams of protein, I don't think there's that many in the video.

Makes you wonder about the veracity of the AI (or the accuracy of the demo). Looks like a cool product either way.


Booking.com, TomTom GPS are both from Amsterdam. As is Adyen, the payments provider used Linkedin, Uber, Spotify, Microsoft. Philips is also from the Netherlands.


Booking.com - sold in 2005. TomTom - dying since smartphones. Philips - an old appliance company. Ayden - hadn't heard of it, but granted.

I hear of new companies from China all the time.


Philips is succesful in pivoting into medical.


Are any of them on 4-day work week?


Most likely not. Contrary to what was being said, 40 hours is still very much the norm in The Netherlands. Some people choose to work less (36 or 32 hours is common), but that obviously also means less income.

Source: I'm from The Netherlands.


In addition to this I've found disabling Safari on iPhone (Settings -> General -> Restrictions) has been the final step from turning my phone from a distraction device into a smart tool.


Spain has an interesting system here, a person born into a Spanish-speaking family is given a first name followed by two surnames, the first being the father's family name (or, more precisely, the surname he gained from his father) followed by the mother's family name (or, again more precisely, the surname she gained from her father).

Or in your example:

Gen X: FirstName P1-First-LastName P2-Second-LastName


CircleCI is also having issues viewing and running tests, viewing from Amsterdam: https://status.circleci.com/


They mentioned in the keynote that you can use just one earpod (eg for a call) and it will route full stereo audio through only that earpod automatically.


You mean mono, right? Or did they really say "full" stereo (whatever non-full stereo is) through one earbud?


I think he means both the left and the right channels will go to that earpod.


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