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by Detrytus 3y ago
> Spain's youth unemployment rate is at around 28% right now. As long as there is a single unemployed Spanish person, especially young people, we shouldn't be accepting any more immigrants. You can expect commenters on HN to in
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Well, bears are free to file a lawsuit against humans in the local court of law. If they don't they have only themselves to blame for their situation.
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Income tax should be abolished completely, since it is immoral. Government should derive their tax income from taxing corporations. And the best way to avoid any "tax optimization" schemes is to tax revenue, not profit. You run a
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by Detrytus 3y ago
> A contribution towards your pension is not a tax. It's a deferred payment. You will get that money later, with interest. That's quite a naive take. European public pension systems don't work like that. The money is not i
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by Detrytus 3y ago
I would say that doctors who attend conferences have more up to date knowledge than those who don't, regardless of age.
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Delayed surgeries are precisely what they mean by "lower intensity of care".
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by Detrytus 3y ago
> an electric car is 2x-4x cheaper to drive than an ICE car It hugely depends on the cost of electricity. Last year some European countries (Netherlands IIRC) had those so high, that it was actually more expensive to drive EV than ICE.
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Actually, when demand for EVs goes up, lithium mining won't be able to keep up, so in the next decade or so we'll see steep increase in battery prices.
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by Detrytus 3y ago
What if you lose your phone? In my country banks only allow you to use one phone for mobile authorization, so you can't even have a backup phone. I really wish 3DSecure was optional so I can turn it of when going to foreign vacation.
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by Detrytus 3y ago
But there are laws about that: you authorize tip with your signature, if they charge you more than you authorized, they can get in trouble. Don't see the issue here.
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Fuck smartcard readers. Also: fuck 3d secure. The nice thing about old, "insecure" card payments was: I just needed to memorize my credit card number, expiry date and CCV and I could pay online for everything. No need to always ca
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by Detrytus 3y ago
I think parents of US citizen children cannot be deported for that exact reason: it would leave the child without a parent. That's why they are called "anchor babies". But of course if they leave the US willingly (e.g. travel
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Nobel Prize is your best bet :) Also, if you are an athlete then Olympic medals help. Other than that, it's all subjective.
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Yes, they do recommend pouring water on burning EVs, but this does nothing to extinguish the fire, it just keeps it under control, keeps it from spreading, until it burns out on its own. That takes 40 times more water and more time than ext
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Are you by any chance East Asian? It is well known that people of that race have much lower tolerance for alcohol, due to some genetic differences (liver metabolizing alcohol differently)
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Are you talking about pure lithium quantities? Those are small indeed, but... the concentration of lithium in the ore mined is low (some mines work with 0.2% ore), so you need to move 500kg of rocks to mine 1kg of lithium.
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Additonal 10 gallons of fuel is a rounding error to a typical car mass, its effect on fuel efficiency is not detectable without precise lab equipment. Certainly you're not going to notice that when paying for gas.
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by Detrytus 3y ago
But then Tesla decides to be different, advertises full 0-100% capacity and range, and Musk brags on Twitter how other EV manufacturers can't keep up.
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by Detrytus 3y ago
That's a PEACETIME budget. If UK feels threatened they will make military spending a priority, and in such case they can easily throw like $500b on weapons. And they have an advantage, because they have a lot of military production hap
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Especially since UK was never part of Schengen
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Yes, the whole test seemed quite easy, but then in the end I only scored 129. I guess if I spent more time on it, and haven't been mildly drunk I could do better. Also, "raw test score" was 57/60 (so I got only 3 questio
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by Detrytus 3y ago
guarding a single storage facility is easy: just put a thousand men with machine guns between it and anyone who could possibly try to raid it. Guarding against nature is even easier: we have at least a century worth of climate data, it&#x27
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by Detrytus 3y ago
You make a lot of assumptions here, about the directions in which future technologies can possibly develop. The thing is: if we are making decisions right now, we should make it based on what we know for sure, not based on our hopes and dre
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Efficiency of solar and wind isn't the real issue. The problem is: solar only works during a day, and wind farms only work when there's wind. Which makes both of them irregular, unpredictable. It could be mitigated if we had a che
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Nuclear technology is safe enough, and the storage of the waste is non-issue: the amount of waste produced thorough last 80 years since we first split atom would fit in a single storage facility of the size of the football stadium. If we wa
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Forgive my ignorance, but isn't an old school microwave with knobs and button even more accessible, thanks to tacile feedback? Why do they need to put AI in everything?
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by Detrytus 3y ago
SEPA Direct Debit is mostly used for recurring payments, and the account owner must authorize the company to use it. Just knowing someone's account number is not enough, you still need that initial authorization. In fact, in some EU co
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by Detrytus 3y ago
LOL, HN is really California-centric :) Ever heard of rain? I want to be able to use my phone in a rain, to call a taxi for example. Also, I don't want to worry about accidentally spilling a coffee on it.
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Well, the plot that you linked is awful, since it changes scale few times along the X axis, but is seems to me that mankind evolved in the one of the coolest periods ever, and the warming that we are observing now might just as well be Eart
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by Detrytus 3y ago
18A process is allegedly ahead of schedule (moved from 2025 to 2024), so perhaps Intel will skip 20A completely?

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