My strategy for this class of issue is paying Google. I pay for Google Apps (now rebranded to workspace). I have so much of my life tied up into the Google Ecosystem I see no problem paying per month for their services. This also provides me a number to call when shit doesn't work.
> And I directly pay Google by subscribing to Google One, YouTube Premium, and Google Workspace (just for my custom domain email).
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> I subscribe to a Google One plan. I knew that one of the more understated benefits is the ability to get live support from an actual person, [...] When I brought the conversation back to the Google Voice suspension, they were unable to access the ticket that was created when I submitted my appeal.
this is frustrating because I have diplopia and so my life looks like: https://i.imgur.com/IHWBflS.png when you have white text on a black background. This affect doesn't happen on "light" mode systems...
I just switched back and forth from vi in my terminal to that image a couple of times. I see the blurring on that image immediately, every time. I don't see anything like that on the terminal.
at some point there is going to be cars stopped in the road right? or is every car on the freeway behind the car accident suppose to pull off the road?
they clearly said in dutch to wait and see what the traffic behind is doing.
I still think they should have tried to safely move to the shoulder like the other vehicles, although in their position they can keep their hazards on -- and traffic has already jammed behind them so they'll be visible. The best option would be to move and then go back with road flares, but very few people just carry those in their cars.
In the Netherlands road flares are not allowed. Only police or rescue-workers are allowed to use these in only certain situations.
Here, when accidents like these occur, our automated road information system directly displays how fast you may drive there (it has sensors to monitor traffic speed). And, within minutes, a traffic monitoring group will close down the affected roads fully and signal to which lanes people have to switch to by using arrows pointing towards the lane next to it.
I've worked in NL for three years, I had zero problems with lack of formal degree. It isn't even required here in NL for a 'highly skilled migrant' visa.
I have only worked for a single company, and it's a very international. Everyone speaks English. There is close to zero written or spoken Dutch.
This is in Amsterdam though, where a lot of people both within my company and outside speak English. If you go else where in the country, outside of North Holland, people defiantly speak less English and it's more advantageous to know Dutch.
I personally learned Dutch because I didn't feel like I could really assimilate without it.
Most companies don't care that you don't know the language (and aren't planning to). But you will need to learn it to fully integrate in the country (though many haven't and do fine).
I've lived and worked in the NL for 6 years. It depends on the company. Most companies I've worked for have not minded at all that I wasn't fluent. Some companies will be happy to offer to pay for language courses.
I think you'll find that most tech companies in the west of the country won't mind at all, but in other parts of the Netherlands it can vary.
* white sheets of printer paper for drawings and sketching out ideas
* evernote for storing everything long term. from photos of notes, typed notes, and drawing made with iPad. (i have about 3000 notes going back to 2008)
* omnifocus for todos
* google calendar for events/meetings
* simplenote/notational velocity for anything which doesn't need to stick around but needs to be recorded quickly
You are right, it is a bit sensationalized. The 1.4M-by-Jan projection from the CDC is the highest currently and also seems to be the least official. CDC has stated this as a "worst case" scenario with no intervention. It's hard to find the source material from CDC but it has been parroted since last week. I think it may have been a remark from a CDC scientist but not an official release. It's worth considering other estimates
The CDC report and the article present both worst-case and best-case scenarios for Liberia and Sierra Leone. 1.4M is worst-case (no intervention) and "almost ended" is best-case ("If, by late December 2014, approximately 70% of patients were placed either in ETUs or home or in a community setting such that there is a reduced risk for disease transmission [...] then the epidemic in both countries would almost be ended by January 20, 2015").
People are downvoting you, but your comment seems fair enough to me, since the alternative scenario discussed in the article is that the epidemic could be "almost ended" by the same date. So, could be 1.4 million, could be "almost ended". Certainly seems like a misleading and intentionally sensational headline to me.
