I recently learned that there's a special washing detergent and heat activated coating that you're supposed to treat Goretex with quite often. And sure enough when I did the water drops form beads again instead of soaking it. I'm curious to find out wether this will increase the lifetime significantly.

This happened to me with employment insurance just a month ago. Invoice went to the old address. I paid the invoice 4 days after the due date, but not the €10 late fee that i didn't know about. So they put the €10 late fee to debt collection and i had to pay €40.

What enraged me most was that that the insurance company supposedly didn't know my new address, although they are my landlord at the new address...

The debt collection of course had no problem finding out my new address.

Does your mail service not have a temporary forwarding service available?

>but you get way better quality of life in a 100,000 to 400,000 city nearly anywhere else in Europe. Even Aahrus has a better quality of life.

I think you're going a bit far there. Access to a larger international community, international schooling, wider offering of grocery products (e.g. asian supermarkets) and restaurants, diverse music, arts and cultural offering - smaller distance to airport, those are all reasons I'm happier in Helsinki then some random 100,000 person city.

It's weird because in this survey all of those would fall into the 'Happiness, Culture & Leisure', even though it includes a lot more stuff than 'outdoor spaces' for example.

If you've got some money, get custom molded earplugs made for sleeping. Places selling hearing aids sell them. They spray some foam in your ear to take the print, and you get the custom plugs in the mail a few weeks later. €140 is a lot for earplugs but it's amazing that they just slot into place in your ear, they're easy to pull out, and they're so small you don't feel them wether you're lying on them or wear headphones over them.

Plus you can adjust the sound absorption in some models and get specific decibel reduction out of the gate and overall it will be higher than foam.

Expensive but also helpful for in person concerts.

With selling dreams they mean selling the scene in which your insecurity has been relieved.

People feel pinned down in their life, so a common dream sold is to be free. Think of Mac and their proposition of enabling your creativity (a creative person is unconstrained). A lot of car and motorbike companies also show their products as liberating in different ways.

Beer ads often show popularity and unselfconscious social interaction, which is a big deal for young guys.

For course there's dreams of beauty, success, feeling accepted.

Alright. Maybe I just have a hard time seeing past the product, or the marketing is too obtuse for me.

Car ads for example are a complete blur in my head. The only thing that I distinctly remember is when everyone had ads with their cars driving in shallow sea water, which I found absurd. Do they still do that?

I certainly do feel pinned down in life, but I also don't remember seeing ads that offer a concrete solution (and I'm not even convinced its solvable). I don't think I need to be sold the dream to be free, because that is already something I desire very much. I just see products. Ones that will not fulfill that dream.

The FiveStar party in Italy did this. They had an online platform for their members, and apparently the way it went was that they'd first massage everyones opinion in the forums, and then let them vote.

I read it in a great long read from Wired called 'What Happens When Techno-Utopians Actually Run a Country'.

Slightly off topic but does anyone know a webbased slide editor that has responsive layout built in? Something like Indesign’s liquid layout feature? There’s so much happening in this space and yet everyone sticks to fixed desktop format.

I think pyramid scheme is what he means

It is not a pyramid scheme either. Nobody promises "payments or services for enrolling others into the scheme".

Tulip Bulb then

No, not that either. Anyone can plant more Tulips. There's no way to dilute the supply of Bitcoin.

Planting tulips isn't an instant thing. It takes a season to grow. Not that different from mining? And not really part of the tulip thing; that was all about the bubble.

I mean, miners could agree on a different set of rules to apply and increase the supply.

It's harder/unlikely, but its not "no way to".

You're describing a fork. Bitcoin has already been forked uncountable times. They don't carry over the users, so they don't carry over the network effects either.

I could imagine the commenter you're responding to also means the companies you're competing with for sales. Not just employees in the same company.

It has to do with the way western medicine is organized. It’s optimized for treating diagnosable illnesses, and does that very well.

Complex multisystem diseases like Ehlers-Danlos syndrome express themselves differently in every patient. Different symptoms take you to different specialists, but there’s no one to look at your situation holistically, or who has the time to put it all together. There’s apparently a new approach called ‘Functional Medicine’ which tries to better this issue.

I’m reading Sarah Ramey’s ‘The Ladies Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness’. Part autobiography of her own experiences, part explanation about this whole cloud of mysterious illnesses from ME/CFS to Fibromyalgia to Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. It must sound like a terrible choice for anyone but those affected, but Ramey has great literary qualities and zero tendency to linger in self-pity and the injustice done to the patients. Really worth the read.

To be fair, there is an entire branch of (MD equivalent) accredited US medicine called Osteopathic medicine that claims to use a multisystems holistic approach to treat patients.