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6y ago
Don't you need to sign after a swipe?
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6y ago
> The "AOA sensor disagreement" light is built into every cockpit, While technically true, that sounds a bit misleading considering that the AOA DISAGREE warning "light" is just a text indicator on the primary flight
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6y ago
I don't think they are too common in 20000 EUR cars yet, but they are continuously trickling down. A quick look shows that they are an option in Opel Astras that start at 21390€ (inc. 24% VAT plus 2000€ car tax) in Finland and under 20
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6y ago
It was cut due to the title length limit.
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6y ago
Interestingly, here in Finland retailers are required by their terms to check your ID for magstripe purchases over 50 EUR. This policy predates chip cards, i.e. not a new thing. So there is some regional variation in practices.
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6y ago
Only blocked in some countries, the video works fine in most of Europe, Canada, Australia, South America, and India. Map: https://polsy.org.uk/stuff/ytrestrict.cgi?ytid=Jqd-JcjQo8I
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6y ago
I'd guess this only applies to snippets, not simple hyperlinks, so Google could get away by showing headlines only. However, that is just complete speculation as I haven't seen the actual law, and the afr.com article is behind pay
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6y ago
Here in Finland Verified By VISA and Mastercard 3D Secure will just present the same 2-factor bank authentication you already use for your non-card online payments and bank transfers. There are no separate credentials or sign-up steps. Prac
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6y ago
Same in Finland. I believe under 15 Posti-operated dedicated post offices remain - just yesterday they closed their former HQ post office in the Post Building: https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/end_of_an_era_
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6y ago
Right. Though it does happen with "new" items as well, I've been hit with RAM swapped in the package with an older module (sold by Amazon as new).
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6y ago
My guess: The chat agent selected an incorrect reason for the return, causing Amazon to expect the actual item back. Whenever possible, I always initiate the return myself to avoid customer service messing things up (there is a specific ret
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6y ago
> So this makes me wonder, if amazon are bundling-up returned items into pallets and selling them in bulk, how did clearly returned items get sold back to an end user? If the item is (looks) unopened and pristine, Amazon will usually sel
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6y ago
> So far, no amount of fines, or laws, has actually changed anything as far as Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Google or Microsoft are concerned. That seems like hyperbole. E.g. all the three big EU-Google anti-trust cases (Shopping, AdSense,
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6y ago
I guess the box looked unopened so the returns worker didn't look inside.
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6y ago
I believe they theoretically could , but I guess they don't consider it cost-effective, or are waiting to see what happens, or they are already planning to do it but it will take much more time. Regarding your "shipping to Austra
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6y ago
Amazon might end free shipping to Ireland from amazon.co.uk and start doing it from amazon.de instead. This switch was done to a number of other European countries within the last decade (inc. Finland). edit: OTOH, I just realized Ireland
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> In reality you might find impacts of the Amazon FBA Brexit bombshell start to impact you earlier. For instance, if you already have stock in Pan-European FBA it is feasible that Amazon will repatriate your stock before the end of the y
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https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/30/hard_to_find_linux_ma... > "C is still one of the top 10 languages," answered Torvalds. However, he said that for things "not very central to the kerne
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6y ago
Something like https://diskprices.com , maybe?
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Yeah, they are open in Finland as well ( https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/information-on-coronavirus/curr... ). Though I think the parent was talking about worldwide numbers which I have no idea about.
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Note also that ssh and scp (from OpenSSH) are included in Windows by default since 2018.
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Many of them charge cable operators for the right to carry them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retransmission_consent - so having the channel available free online diminishes the value of the retransmission consent. Al
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> I know this is the case when actually doing a PIN debit transaction (e.g. not Visa or Mastercard), but do you have a source on Visa/MC debit transactions costing less? PIN/contactless debit transactions go through VISA/M
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6y ago
Yes, the postal service here delivers unaddressed items - the customer (sender) simply specifies the destination area and the item gets delivered to everyone (except no-ads boxes): https://www.posti.fi/en/for-businesses
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I think that "occupant" still counts as addressed if it also has a street address etc.. By unaddressed I mean that there is no address at all, they are just delivered to every mailbox in a specific area (except for "no ads&qu
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Ah, sorry, I misinterpreted your post. I thought you meant that USA import duties are much lower than EU import duties, but I now see you meant EU import duties are much lower than EU VAT taxes. Completely agree then. The removal of the €22
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Do you have some source for the lower import duty rates? They heavily depend on the specific item category - in my experience usually 0% or ~5% for the tech items I've imported (but that is not really enough to draw any conclusions fro
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Out of interest, are they addressed? Here in Finland you can opt out of unaddressed bulk mail by adding a "no ads" note on your mailbox/mailslot. 99%+ of bulk mail is unaddressed here (addressed mail would be more expensive
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Foreign regulators demand substantial new changes to Boeing 737 MAX controls
(seattletimes.com)
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> this incident caused 0.18 mSv/h in Helsinki According to graphs here https://www.stuk.fi/web/en/topics/environmental-radiation/ra... it rose to 0.18 µSv/h, not mSv/h, which is just sl
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