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by Symbiote 5y ago
I used two European sites, since my comparison was obviously for delivery to somewhere in Europe (Denmark, in my case).
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by Symbiote 5y ago
Your local shop isn't the only option. The first online retailer (above Amazon in my Google search result) is €3 cheaper than Amazon, shipping included. https://www.amazon.de/-/en/C1010429-P-Continental-Gators
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by Symbiote 5y ago
From https://www.fasterpayments.org.uk/about-us/personal-transact... , the lowest Faster Payments limit I can find is GBP 10,000. GBP 25,000 is more common. The technical limit for the system is GBP 1,000,000, and the
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by Symbiote 5y ago
Similar checks are already normal in the EU; national identity card systems, a population registry etc already prevent non-residents from opening bank accounts. Just search "open bank account Germany" or similar, and you'll s
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by Symbiote 5y ago
American cash is hoarded abroad, so I don't think that's very informative. For the UK [1] (graph on page 2) shows the number of cash transactions made per year. There's a continual decline since 2012: "Since 2017 cash us
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by Symbiote 5y ago
Bank accounts for homeless people can be done, in Britain probably after 'encouragement' from the government (do this your way or we'll force you to do it our way...). https://www.hsbc.co.uk/help/money-wo
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by Symbiote 5y ago
Britain has the Co-operative Bank, which isn't a cooperative company (one owned by its members), but was owned by a cooperative company. The USA has many credit unions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Co-operativ
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by Symbiote 5y ago
The UK (when part of the EU) limited the fees Visa and MasterCard can charge — 0.2% of the transaction for debit cards and 0.3% for credit cards. Electronic transfers (made by website, telephone, app, in the branch etc) between bank account
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by Symbiote 5y ago
At 1am, I could easily fumble and press the wrong button. I might not even know what I'd accepted
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by Symbiote 5y ago
GDPR Art. 22: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-22-gdpr/ But that's only part of it. A business account might not fall within these rules, and Google can enforce them anyway (after human review) with very little recours
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by Symbiote 5y ago
Laws are irrelevant. It's the considerate thing to do.
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by Symbiote 5y ago
The US needs an automatic bill payment system with strong guarantees. In Britain, most people¹ pay bills (electricity, water, phone, internet, insurance, car loan, credit card etc) by "Direct Debit"². (Most European countries have
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by Symbiote 5y ago
They sometimes do reverse these transactions, but the amount of money involved here (1 bicycle worth) is probably easy for the scammer to put out-of-reach of the bank very quickly -- withdrawing cash, buying gift cards etc.
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by Symbiote 5y ago
It would be slightly nearer the top, if you hadn't written essentially the same comment three times in this discussion.
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by Symbiote 5y ago
For what it's worth, in Denmark www.rt.com resolves to 91.215.41.10 and seems to work correctly.
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by Symbiote 5y ago
Hong Kong and Russia: https://bgpview.io/asn/131279#peers-v4 http://cooks.org.kp/en/ is hosted on that network.
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by Symbiote 5y ago
I think markmonitor.com offers this sort of service, but I suspect it's "call us" pricing. Note how domains like google.com, amazon.com, microsoft.com are registered with them. You can find similar services by looking in Who
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by Symbiote 5y ago
For the languages using Č etc, you probably also don't know how to pronounce C, W, V, etc. At least writing Č shows it's different to C.
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by Symbiote 5y ago
It is amazing how many people use any CLI tools for years without reading the man page. The man page for the shell (man bash; man zsh) is a good place to start.
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by Symbiote 5y ago
Many people presumably don't add "EDIT" for the smallest edits -- but then there's nothing to see.
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by Symbiote 5y ago
Another British company makes banknotes for "over 69 national currencies" [1]. From the website [2] I can see England, Gibraltar, Seychelles, Macedonia, Bangladesh, Kenya, Solomon Islands, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Qatar, Fiji, São To
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by Symbiote 5y ago
Unlikely, similar to anything else you throw in the recycling bin.
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by Symbiote 5y ago
As an example, this sign [1] is at the edge of Copenhagen's main pedestrian shopping street. The international symbols show it's a pedestrian zone, and there's a rule of no stopping from 11-04 (no stopping meaning not even an
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by Symbiote 5y ago
What's the point in making a generalization based on such a narrow experience? If you're often choosing Ryanair or Norwegian, of course you'll often fly on a Boeing aircraft. EasyJet and Wizz are 100% Airbus.
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by Symbiote 5y ago
> To get a debit card you must be either 18 or have a legal guardian who is at least 18 on the account. Not necessarily. You can be issued a debit card from age 11 in the UK, although it will only do online transactions to prevent the a
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by Symbiote 5y ago
No, since the previous fast trains aren't run on the old tracks any more. Due to stopping distances etc, you can fit several freight trains in the space needed for one express train.
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by Symbiote 5y ago
Outside where I once worked, I got fed up with the ice cream van idling the diesel engine outside my window, so I complained to the local council by email. Why wasn't the driver using the power socket in the lamp post that was there fo
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by Symbiote 5y ago
Last time I was in an African country there were people wearing shirts like "Atlanta Winners 2019" when it was some other baseball team that won in 2019. So similar to what you describe. Those shirts were probably made in Asia, bu
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by Symbiote 5y ago
How common do you think that is? There seem to be several videos, but perhaps there's a lot of CCTV on school buses. I can't remember ever seeing pictures of a city bus (as opposed to a long distance bus) overturned in an acciden
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by Symbiote 5y ago
Plenty, according to the presentation linked elsewhere in this discussion. Cummins (the major manufacturer of engines, generators etc) will service the high voltage parts of the bus.

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