@HuubBellemakers de prijs die je betaalt voor een lagere woz waarde (buiten de randstad)
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Waarom zijn alle supermarkten dicht? Het is 2026.
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@Verbraak @HuubBellemakers er zijn heel veel landen zonder chips !
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Everyone is talking about the AI rally. And even though many are excited, most of them are underestimating what's happening by an order of magnitude.
This isn't a tech cycle. It's a civilisational phase transition. I've been writing about this shift for over a decade. Most recently, in a series of essays in GMI that imagines the nature of the coming post-human economy. That is, an economy built on AI agents and robots, in which everything is downstream of better and more abundant intelligence.
Scientific breakthroughs. Healthcare. Manufacturing. Logistics. Defence. In the world that is coming, everything comes down to intelligence.
Strip away the headlines and the hype, and what remains is a physics problem. The central quest of this new civilisation will be to take energy, the fundamental constraining input, and turn it into intelligence.
How efficiently can we convert joules into useful cognition? That question is what will determine which technologies, companies, and nations win in the decades ahead.
My conviction is that the economy is becoming a giant machine for the conversion of energy into intelligence. That becomes the game. And that's the real story behind this rally. Not another tech trade. A tectonic rewiring of what civilisation is and what it optimises for.
In some deep sense, capitalism was always pointing towards this. It was alway a process of intelligence optimisation. And now, we're reaching the parabolic part of the journey.
But this opens on to a question almost no one in markets is asking.
When energy becomes abundant and machine intelligence becomes cheap, what remains scarce? The answer: the things only human beings can do. Be present. Recognise one another. Know what it is to be afraid, or to have hoped for a better future. No machine can do this. Machine output is becoming a commodity.
The experience of being human is becoming the diamond in a world flooded with the cubic zirconia that is machine intelligence and simulated worlds.
And so the deepest paradox of the Exponential Age reveals itself: the more powerful AI becomes, the more precious the human becomes.
Some have been caught off guard by this rally. I've been watching for years. We're only at the beginning.
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Vijf sterren (5) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ voor ‘A Serious Man’ van de Coen broers. Onbegrijpelijk dat ik hem niet eerder zag. Pijnlijke en tevens warme humor. Hashem moet het maar goed met je voorhebben. Enorm genieten.
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Syrien 1 | Berlin 0
Open Source Intel@Osint613
Visa and Mastercard now functional in Syria after 15 years.
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@AlexanderNL Het is nog het vervelendst als ze het niet vooraf zeggen en je er halverwege achterkomt
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"Ik snap dat het soms frustrerend kan zijn om met een chatbot te praten, Alexander!" AI voor klantenservice gebruiken is zoooooooo kut
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Reminds me of that day I found out we were paying €1,500 per month for a damn cookie banner.
@levelsio@levelsio
✨ I just replaced Mapbox on all my sites with OpenFreeMap by @hyperknot and my map bill is now $0 Mapbox's pricing is getting increasingly extortionary (which is fine, it's capitalism) but at some point you have to think, $857/month for what? A map? Really? A map is that expensive? How can loading a map be that expensive? It's just some PNG tiles you host somewhere? Why? @OpenFreeMapOrg is 100% free and all you do is point your AI to openfreemap(dot)org and tell it to replace Mapbox with that 5 minutes and you save thousands $$$ per year! Apparently @Cloudflare sponsors its bandwidth which is very cool and keeps it online!
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@cremieuxrecueil Any reason you didn't choose CLEAR or SMILE procedure? Supposed to be even less invasive.
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Laser eye surgery was the best five minutes of my life.
I thoroughly recommend getting it done!
Sahil Bloom@SahilBloom
What is the single best health investment you’ve ever made?
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I don't wanna say but I told you guys
Touching receipts -> BPA enters your bloodstream
High BPA levels in adolescents -> 50% reduction in Testosterone levels
Maddie Evans@EstieMaddie
🧾 BE CAREFUL HANDLING THERMAL RECEIPTS!! 😳 DID YOU KNOW THIS???
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@floriandarroman How is it different from Revolut ? Revolut also offer multiple currencies, no fee conversion.
And they have a EU banking license/
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RIP Wise.
I lost $8,000 in fees last year.
And I had no idea.
I’m French. I live in Bali. I run a US LLC.
Every dollar I earn touches 3 countries before it reaches my pocket.
1. Stripe takes 1%–3% on every transaction.
2. Wise takes a cut on every transfer.
3. Currency conversion eats another big chunk every single time.
I thought this was just the cost of doing business internationally. I never questioned it.
Then I realized there were other options.
@airwallex. was on the top of my list but now I’ll 100% switch.
The money I’ll save in fees will make me fly business to Europe for free each year.
Jack Zhang@awxjack
We saved our customers over $1.3 Billion in 2025 alone. That value has helped @Airwallex reach $1.2 Billion in ARR, growing 85% YoY. @Deel, @McLarenF1 , @boltapp and 200,000+ other customers trust us because legacy banking wasn't meant for global businesses: • Opening a bank account in a new country takes weeks • SWIFT transfers take 3-5 days • Other platforms convert your money even when you don't want to But with Airwallex you can: 1. Open an account and get paid like a local in 70 countries Most platforms force you to convert your money into your currency and charge you a conversion fee to do it. With Airwallex, your UK client pays you in GBP and it sits in your GBP balance. Your Australian client pays in AUD and it sits in your AUD balance. When you need to pay a UK vendor or run Australian payroll, you can simply pay from the same currency in your Airwallex account which leads to zero conversion fees. 2. Send and receive money on the same day SWIFT takes 3–5 days and hits you with unpredictable fees on every transfer. But over 90% of Airwallex transactions happen on the same day. Since Airwallex uses local rails to move your money, it also happens at near-zero cost. 3. Issue multi-currency cards instantly Airwallex helps you issue multi-currency cards to your employees across the entire world. And every transaction is automatically synced to your accounting system in real-time. 4. Integrate Airwallex in your product SaaS platforms and marketplaces can also use our APIs to offer these financial services to their customers. In fact, many companies are doing it already. But this is just a glimpse of what Airwallex can do. We’re building the all-in-one financial stack your company will ever need. If you're doing $50M+ in revenue, you could save up to $500k in fees. And that's money back into your business. Sign up for a demo here: airwallex.com/offer/airwalle…
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I like this
I am "progressive right"
Pro-growth, pr-business, pro-high skilled immigration
Rik Koning@skunx_rik
What you're looking to describe is the lack of progressive right parties This image of the Dutch parties last elections shows it perfectly. Imo it's the most sensical part of the political spectrum. The ones that want economics that work while letting people be free to make their own decisions as long as it doesn't hurt others. The problem is that it's built on efficiency and freedom, which requires very little government. And political parties don't tend to want less power and less of themselves in general.
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@PunishedLuddite 'wil niet door een belg geholpen worden' was ook goeie
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One of the most overlooked sources of toxic hormone disruptors are receipts:
> Thermal receipt paper is often coated with Bisphenol-A (BPA) or its substitute, Bisphenol-S (BPS), which are endocrine-disrupting chemicals that can absorb into the skin.
> Studies suggest that even brief 10-second exposure can exceed safe thresholds, potentially harming reproductive, metabolic, and hormonal health
The thermal paper literally leaks BPA into your skin in seconds and then disrupts your hormones heavily:
> BPA (Bisphenol A) is a potent endocrine disruptor that primarily mimics or blocks estrogen (estradiol), but also interferes with androgen, thyroid, and metabolic hormones
> BPA instantly binds to estrogen receptors (ERa, ERb, GPER) and androgen receptors, causing reproductive dysfunction, decreased testosterone, altered FSH/LH levels, and metabolic issues like insulin resistance
This one was wild for me and took me awhile to fact check, because we handle so many receipts in a single day and I couldn't believe it'd be this bad
These days I try ask for a digital receipt or take a quick pic of the receipt without touching it a lot
frank@frankgoertzen
@levelsio really “Receipt paper (BPA)” … like enough to matter ?
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Ik was een paar maanden met zwangerschapsverlof en kreeg een dochter. Mijn verwachting was dat dat naast leuk, vooral ook heel zwaar zou zijn. Dat heeft alles te maken met het negatieve beeld over ouderschap dat ik afgelopen decennium kreeg uit artikelen, boeken en documentaires.
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@VandelayBTC @compliantvc income tax is 35% <75k, there is no capital gains tax, inheritance tax is 10% until 158k
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@compliantvc He pays 49.5% income tax, 21% sales tax, wealth tax and death tax if he dies, besides many other heavy taxation and extras like mandatory privare insurance [despite public healthcare].
He's just a slave in the EU farm.
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My friend works in tech in Amsterdam
He makes a top 1% income (€58k)
Leaves work at 4:15pm sharp (work end time closely enforced by government)
Commutes home via bike (only 7 minutes)
Kids walk home from free daycare a few minutes later
He never has to worry about medical bills or saving for retirement
Yet gets to work for one of the most innovative startups in the world (it's a GDPR consulting business)
Tell me again why America is the best place for tech workers?
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Don't drive a Chinese car! We need to build data centers in Europe! We need to fine X, Meta, and Google! We need more regulation! I get a little scared nowadays about the overal sentiment in Europe.
Stop acting out of fear. Let's focus on building better products. ✨
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