AnssiH

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by AnssiH 7y ago
That exemption will be terminated EU-wide on Jan 1st 2021. It will also get terminated immediately in UK if they leave without a deal, at least according to current UK government VAT guidance.
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by AnssiH 7y ago
> However, it means the real effect of the RtBF law is that it impedes less technically proficient internet users to search other person's data, but absolutely doesn't achieve stated goals (as nothing is forgotten, and entities
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by AnssiH 7y ago
> for a while you couldn't find a tv with decent features that wasn't 3d. happy to see that trend be over. Huh, why would one avoid TVs that have 3D?
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by AnssiH 7y ago
> Switzerland is planning on charging receivers for the extra postage to make up for the huge losses until the postage union changes the rules. I'd like to know more, do you have a source? Could not find via Google. Many postal serv
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by AnssiH 7y ago
Out of interest, where in EU are 5%+ rates a thing? Here in Finland the base card-present rates of traditional merchant card service providers are around 0.3% for debit and 1% for credit, with no per-transaction fees so these apply to even
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by AnssiH 7y ago
The point is to put Haswell-optimized code in the "haswell" subdirectory. However, compiling code with -march=haswell (implying -mtune=haswell) does a lot of other platform/manufacturer-specific optimizations as well (not jus
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by AnssiH 7y ago
If you import electronics from U.S. to Norway you have to pay the Norwegian 25% VAT, not U.S. sales tax.
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by AnssiH 7y ago
The tax-free import limit in EU for air travel is 430 EUR after which you have to pay VAT (and duties, if applicable). I bet many don't do that, though...
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by AnssiH 7y ago
In addition to 20% VAT that others have mentioned, I believe e.g. the better consumer protections increase prices. In EU the seller must refund/fix/exchange faulty products for a long time after the sale, unlike in US.
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by AnssiH 7y ago
Probably a deceptive ad (likely violating Google Ads rules) was shown via Google Ads during Google testing, automated or otherwise.
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by AnssiH 7y ago
Do you have one of the affected versions installed? The versions since July 30th are not affected (according to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20826213 ).
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by AnssiH 7y ago
Majority of new single homes in Finland have used geothermal heat pumps for the last ~5 years now (source e.g. https://www.energiatehokaskoti.fi/suunnittelu/talotekniikan_... ).
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by AnssiH 7y ago
It is still there and visible on both Play Store and Settings when you open the full permission list for an app. It is called "have full network access".
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by AnssiH 7y ago
> I ordered expecting it to arrive in 2 days. Was the estimated delivery date in checkout and order confirmation e-mail in 2 days? I've encountered some rare items (refurbished car parts) on Amazon EU that seemed to get sourced on-d
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by AnssiH 7y ago
That is true for EU fines, but these are fines levied by the national authorities so they to go the national budgets of those countries.
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by AnssiH 7y ago
Dash cams are generally not legal in Austria for privacy reasons. This predates GDPR (article from 2013: https://www.oe24.at/oesterreich/politik/Video-Ueberwachung-a... ). I think nowadays dash cams might be allowe
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by AnssiH 7y ago
> 1. Amazon requires you to sell your products at the price that is not higher than at any other channel you use to sell. That is no longer the case, Amazon dropped the price parity requirement on US marketplace in March 2019 (and in EU
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by AnssiH 7y ago
You can think of all your executables and shared libraries on disk as a kind of read-only swap. If the system is low on memory, a page of program code may be dropped from RAM and re-fetched from disk when it is needed again, i.e. when that
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by AnssiH 7y ago
Some do, e.g. I visited Omena Hotels ( https://www.omenahotels.com/en/ ) a couple of times last year and the rooms had a TV with Chromecast (and Miracast).
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by AnssiH 7y ago
A Seattle Times article from a few days ago seems to contain more detail: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/newly... It includes e.g. a description of FAA bit-flip testing to induce incorrect
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by AnssiH 7y ago
That is getting considerably easier with the addition of pidfds, though: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/794707/93ffb35438fd3710/
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by AnssiH 7y ago
A missing cover sounds like it would be visible without opening the product packaging (which would be the cover itself, no?), i.e. they can easily notice the omission by comparing the returned item against a reference image. In the OP case
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by AnssiH 7y ago
For me returns and refunds consistently take over a week to register after the carrier tracking number shows delivery to Amazon returns center (Amazon provides no prepaid return labels for Finland). I don't really mind, though.
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by AnssiH 7y ago
The AWS IoT Button is for the AWS IoT Button service ("Cloud Programmable Dash Button"): https://aws.amazon.com/iotbutton/ The AWS IoT Enterprise Button is for the AWS IoT 1-Click service ("Trigger AWS L
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by AnssiH 7y ago
Ah, that makes sense. Finding a road without mobile reception here would be difficult.
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by AnssiH 7y ago
No idea about Australia, but here in Finland all those examples would normally be paid via a bank transfer.
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by AnssiH 7y ago
> The fact that they take 3% to 4% of every transaction and then extract a usurious 20% annual interest rate at a time when loan rates are 4% should be criminally prosecuted. The fees seem to vary a lot by region. Here in Finland majorit
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by AnssiH 7y ago
My understanding is that window mounted A/C units do not fit well into typical European windows that swing (instead of slide which I believe is common in US). Or maybe there is some other reason (e.g. permit stuff) for why I don't
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by AnssiH 7y ago
As far as I understand it, that just means that sellers have the option to opt in/out of the commingling program (Settings => Fulfillment by Amazon => FBA Product Barcode Preference). Yes, there is a cost for the seller if optin
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by AnssiH 7y ago
Well, one can think of it as follows: 1. You place an order from supplier A. 2. Supplier A buys the unit from supplier B (and pays the balance by transferring another unit A => B). 3. The now supplier A's unit gets sent to you. I.e.

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