At least with Gates it seems that him still being the wealthiest person on the planet has not much to do with his stinginess but with his investments that make money faster than they are giving it away [1].
Not in my experience. But as I have mentioned in my own top-level comment, I have been fairly diligent about unfollowing the people that produced noise in the stream.
I am a user for a while now and Refind has become part of my routine.
The biggest part for me is not the repository of knowledge that I am building though - is is the social aspects of the product. A new tab extension allows me to see the links stored by people I follow and the quality of those links has been very high - although I have to be diligent with unfollowing noisy people that do not fit my interest spectrum. The Refind stream has drastically reduced my Twitter usage as I just get my daily dose of inspiring articles and content there.
as far as i understand it the timber bridge was the temporary bridge used to support the construction and then torn down after the concrete bridge was completed.
This bridge was most likely not constructed as a pedestrian bridge. What you see in the back probably is the bridge that replaced this one when a one way bridge did not provide enough capacity anymore and the old bridge was re-purposed as a passenger and probably cyclist bridge.
Based on that it was definitely built for higher load than just a few pedestrians.
Edit: The German language Wikipedia article actually confirms this [1]. It states that the bridge was built for a traffic load of 13 tons and that the new bridge was built in 1993 to increase capacity. The old bridge was thoroughly renovated after the new bridge had been constructed. The bridge actually is well documented and is under protection as an architectural landmark. It was exhibited in the MoMA for a long time.
Based on the amount of prep these guys put into this and the available documentation I don't see why they should not have checked if what they wanted to do is possible.
The domain is registered to Joseph Doekbrijder [1] who does seem to be working in the area. You might be much more knowledgeable about were to look for his crypto background than I am.
So, first trends indicate that it will be rejected with 70 percent no votes.
One reason that has been handed around to explain the no votes is that people do not want more regulation and think that this minimum wage would hurt more than it would help. Also: A large portion of people (90%+) already earn more than this minimum wage.
[Update 13:42 CET]
It now looks like it is going to be rejected with 77% of the vote. Quite a statement.
I am glad that domains are not $0.18. Imagine how many domains would be available if domains were that cheap...
I gather that at that price domain grabbers would just start to register everything (within reason). Then we would deal with some kind of secondary market where domains would be priced by their attractiveness and not sold as a common good (this obviously is already the case for many good domains).