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There is no legal right to work from home in The Netherlands. The only law we have is that an employer should give you a good reason to work from the office.


> rather than a 2 hour car ride as seems to be the case for many people in the US.

The Netherlands has good bicycle infrastructure but the majority of people still go to work by car.

The commute time between countries is similar.


The Netherlands does not have transport cost compensation by law. Various unions have negotiated it for their members and a lot of people have it as part of their compensation package, but it's not mandated by law that a company should pay you for your travel cost.

A company is also not mandated by law to provide you with a bicycle.

You also do not get your cost fully covered if you drive by car. Currently it's capped at 23 cents per kilometer which is not enough for most cars.

It's not a tax deductible, it's just (income) tax free.


That's my mistake then, since I've never worked at a company here that didn't compensate you and assumed it was a given! I can no longer edit my comment unfortunately, otherwise I'd point this out there as well.


In similar fashion, European students with a gap-year will go backpacking in Asia


Does your nations healthcare system not cover that?


I have no issues using my AirPods on Android.

Automatic device switching doesn’t work but that doesn’t work on my Sony headphones either.


The new hearing aid features are gatekept behind an iOS app. You can't tweak the hearing aid settings without an Apple device.


The Samsung Galaxy Buds only have 360 audio and the better audio codec if you use a Samsung Galaxy smartphone. Doesn't even work on other Android devices let alone iOS. And as far as I know you can't tweak the hearing aid features of Galaxy Buds on any device.


If you can't actually tweak audiogram settings, they're not really hearing aids. In fact, Samsung doesn't sell them as hearing aids and from what I can tell never use the term "hearing aid" in any of the marketing, branding, or feature listing of the devices.

They're not FDA approved as hearing aids, so they're not hearing aids.

Either way, pointing to another company being shitty isn't really a good justification of the first company being shitty.


Just trying to understand your argument: Samsung does it so that makes Apple ok? I hear a lot of people argue (when defending Samsung, Google Play, etc) that Apple does it so it's ok, but not usually the other way around. I guess it makes sense that it would devolve into the spiderman meme, but the real losers in that are everyone else that isn't making money from it.

Personally I thinks it's shitty when anybody does it.


+1 on this. I use them with my android phone, steamdeck, windows computer, TV. They work great!


I really appreciate that iFixit made the schematics publicly available, unlike a certain other right-to-repair advocate.



The Dutch government is spending billions to keep ASML in The Netherlands. To circumvent these prohibitions, the money doesn't go directly to ASML but is invested in better infrastructure, housing and education in the local area. More trains and busses to bring people to the company, better energy grid to power all the ASML offices, more money towards STEM studies of the local universities so they are creating the new ASML workforce, building extra homes so the company can hire more people.

Plus tax cuts for the employees of ASML, which is fully legal under EU legislation and prohibitions.


This seems like a pretty fair way to do it - the government invests in being a place worth staying in, rather than just subsidizing or lining the profits of the target business. If ASML left, it might blow up the economic model of tax + investment, but the constructed infrastructure and social assets would remain.


It is kind of funny in way. :-)

"Oh no, education and better infrastructure such as mass transit and a power grid, the horror!"


Not complaining! It's wonderful that we are finally getting investments in a better environment. And ASML provides a big boost to the economy as well.

But a bus line that goes from the train station directly to one company, together with housing that will be filled with the expats from ASML is obviously an (indirect) company subsidy.


    > Plus tax cuts for the employees of ASML
I had to research this claim. It looks true for some. <<This allows certain workers recruited abroad to keep 30 percent of their income without paying tax on it for a period of five years as compensation for relocating.>> Ref: https://nltimes.nl/2024/03/25/cabinet-close-eu14-billion-pla...


The 30% ruling isn't specific to ASML, it's a general tax credit you get if you're a non-EU national that moves to the Netherlands (plus a bunch of other conditions) on a sponsored work visa.

https://business.gov.nl/running-your-business/staff/terms-of...

Whether ASML and their employees get extra benefits on top of the 30% ruling I'm not sure, I wouldn't be surprised if they do though.


I use around 60 gigabyte on my phone. When I go on holiday I put around 40 gigabyte of offline maps on it. 128 gigabyte is enough for me.


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