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41K likes, 1,646 comments - rif010_rotterdam on May 8, 2024: "De eerste golven rollen door de gracht!!🌊We zijn stoked🤙 Dit zijn de eerste lagere testgolven en kunnen niet wachten op meer! Op na...".

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The Modern Curse of Overoptimization

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I know a guy who used to make his living as an eBay reseller. That is, he’d find something on eBay that he thought was underpriced so long as the auction didn’t go above X dollars, buy it, then resell it for more than he paid for it Classic imports-exports, really, a digital junk shop. Eventually he got to the point where, with some items, he didn’t ever have physical possession of them; he had figured out a way to get them directly from whoever he bought an item from to the person he had sold the item to, while still collecting his bit of arbitrage along the way. This buying and selling of items on eBay, looking for deals, was sufficient to be his full-time job and pay for a mortgage. But the last time I saw him, a few years ago, he had gotten an ordinary office job. He told me that it had become too difficult to find value; potential sellers and buyers alike had access to too many tools that could reveal the “real” price of an item, and there was little delta to eke out. He’s not alone. If you

‘Toen bekend werd dat Paul Auster was overleden, stonden hier twee uur later al mensen op de stoep’

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Er moet ergens een genootschap zijn van mensen die alleen dode schrijvers lezen, denkt Olaf Leeuwis van boekhandel Mayflower in Leiden.

Incensed: Alan Kilpatrick's 'Incense Workers' series | Art UK

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How to solve ‘range anxiety’

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In ‘The Adventure of Silver Blaze’, Sherlock Holmes mentions ‘the curious incident of the dog in the night-time’. ‘But the dog did nothing in the night-time,’ argues Inspector Gregory. ‘That was the curious incident,’ replies Holmes. You never hear anyone say: ‘We finally stumbled across a charming little petrol station nestling among the trees’ Along