In the Netherlands there are plenty of websites which close on Sunday for religious reasons.

For example:

https://www.babypark.nl

Exceptionally well written! I was instantly hooked.

In what country do you live? I've had children in two European countries, in both it was common knowledge that natural birth is safer then cesarean and doctors/hospital strongly prefer it.

> doctors/hospital strongly prefer it.

Seems to depend a lot on the hospital. We (partner is pregnant with a high risk pregnancy) were at a level 1 prenatal care center in Germany a few weeks ago where they very much insisted that in her and the child's condition, a c-section is pretty much her only option.

We're now in a different, also level 1, prenatal care center, also in Germany (though a different state), where the prevailing medical opinion is "natural birth should work perfectly fine for you. We're not ruling out a c-section in case things go sideways, but natural birth is very much our preferred option in your case."

The first center seems to be quite keen on using as many cases as possible for training their staff in c-sections, even where it's not strictly necessary/beneficial. At least that's what we've heard from other parents in similar situations.

I wonder to what degree this is a "if you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail" type of thing.

The first place might have a strong surgical team and might be inclined to solve everything via surgery?

To add to this, C-section rates seem to be significantly higher in private hospitals, when compared to public hospitals.

Poland. Both children my sister had were cesarean.

There were no complications at all, but both were as the doc put it "large" so my sister was given a choice.

I work remotely. I drive a 8y old BMW 2 series (manual). Ran 230k KM (142k miles). Has been very good to us. Bought it outright for €11k 4 years ago.

I'll probably drive it into the ground because I drive like a maniac. A new car is wasted on me.

Con: I pay my ass of in taxes because its a diesel. Pro: I imported it for free.

> Except for thee Dodge RAM, which can be converted to a tax efficient company car (crazy)

You can no longer do that since 1st of Jan 2025. The BPM discount for company cars was removed.

Thank god, I'm so tired of seeing those things parked around Amsterdam when the original loophole was for farmers :eye roll:

HN is almost perfect as it is. I really hope it does not change.

I love that it barely has any styling. Just enough to make it work. The fact that it doesn't use any design patterns is actually one of the reasons I visit HN.

The only thing I would change is the font sizes on mobile. I find it hard to tap the `Comments` link or the upvote buttons. I sometimes end up fat fingering those. Maybe a little bigger or a bit more padding?

I love that this is funded by the French&German government. Go Europe! Wonderful to see. My only wish is that other EU governments (my own included) would invest even more into projects like this.

Hey! The Netherlands joined recently. Let’s hope more countries follow

In retrospect, I should've been more aggressive and risk taking with life decisions in my early teens and early twenties. Now with two small kids and a mortgage, I no longer have the flexibility to take massive risks.

All the risky moves that I made so far in life ended up being ok. Stressful, terrifying, but I always came out ok somehow.

Couple of examples:

- Moved to a lesser developed country at 19 to be with a girl.

- Bought two homes at the same time, was broke for a while.

- Moved back to my home country & bought a house in a crazy market.

- Joined a startup as the third employee.

Everyone here arguing that most people have no practical use for higher speeds at home have never experienced 1 GBit up+down. Once you have it, you'll never settle for less.

I have 1 GBit up+down at home, I cabled the whole house with CAT7 cables and set up the best access points money can buy for mobile devices. Everything else is wired. It's an amazing experience and internet everywhere sucks compared to home.

When I lived in Romania this costed me €10, now that I am back in the Netherlands it's a bit more pricey at €52, but it's 100% worth it.

I think that people also say that they have no practical use for it because they don't have access to it, so they don't realize all the practical uses. For instance, I've worked with a lot of engineering companies that collect a lot of lidar data. Having reasonable speeds (1Gbps up/down) would have a huge impact on how and where we can transmit and process the data.

I did the same, hoping that someday I will finally get FTTH. Currently still on the only real option here which is Comcast 1G/20M. Sometimes LTE has better upload speed (but not latency, obviously).

Netherlands. Almost every major super market chain uses them and dynamically adjusts the prices. Here's an article from 2019 about a major chain intending to change all the price tags that year (Dutch): https://www.emerce.nl/nieuws/albert-heijn-digitaliseert-prij...