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by Symbiote 1y ago
He was listed among 10 leading candidates in the Guardian, yesterday: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/07/who-next-pope-...
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by Symbiote 1y ago
Part of the reason it's relatively niche is because people did it once, then didn't like the surprise customs bill that arrived. (Or they heard about this from a friend/colleague.)
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The jets can be registered somewhere else (Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Aruba, Isle of Man) and thus never officially imported into the USA. e.g. https://www.occrp.org/en/investigation/tax-rules-for-the-sup...
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by Symbiote 1y ago
It's 42 packages with a total weight of 445kg, we don't know how many items are within each package.
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I've only seen "EnergyStar" in Europe on the BIOS screen of older computers. I knew it was American, but until this HN post I thought it only applied to computers. The EU's energy labelling scheme grades appliances on a
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"Cafeteria style" doesn't have to mean chicken tenders and pizza. Today at work in Denmark, the cafeteria served vegetable stroganoff with mushrooms and roast potatoes, chili con carne with rice, and/or turkey with mushr
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To make a useful contribution to the discussion, at least say what country this applies to. You also seem to have added business taxes onto the income taxes.
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I (British) am familiar with the term, especially as a verb like "fencing stolen goods". You can find British newspapers reporting this in the last decade. The legal term since 1968 seems to be "Handling Stolen Goods",
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by Symbiote 1y ago
> Why not give all children breakfast and dinner too, and buy them good clothes to wear? You can see the rates for this in Europe, Australia, Canada and South Korea here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_benefit
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The worse-looking (grotty, run-down, probably mostly sells cigarettes) type of souvenir shop has the best chance of selling postcards, in my experience. The photographs might have been taken in 1995. I've been to some countries where
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Denmark is often cited as an example of a society that's advanced for electronic payments, and it is — but there's a law here that means, in most circumstances, a business must accept cash. The official advice was changed from &qu
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Also, Germany is 13° east of Spain. That's almost 1 hour worth, 1 hour would be 15°. There's a misconception that Spanish people are 'lazy' for their late lunches, but they're eating lunch at roughly the same local
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by Symbiote 1y ago
112 should work in almost the whole world on a mobile phone, since it's part of the GSM standard.
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Isn't this because Europe stepped up over the last 20 years and now has an industry making "American" films here? Look at the list of films made at Pinewood Studios in England, there are plenty of films I'd consider Am
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HN employees of X, Tesla, SpaceX (etc), Meta, Alphabet and other tech businesses supporting Trump could also strike or threaten to strike to pressure their owners/boards.
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The National Gallery loans paintings to other galleries and museums, but it does require the receiving gallery to have suitable climate control, security and so on. https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/about-us/partnering
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These comparisons between countries are always difficult. Each place is adapted to the geography. In Europe, the coal or ore may well be loaded onto a barge. The rivers here follow some useful routes, and the continent is surrounded by sea
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Taxes spent on building roads presumably significant influence your behavior. Taxing cars puts the cost of those roads more directly on the users of them.
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People like you and the GP, who generalize across a huge continent/trade block with a wide variety of climates, living arrangements and wealth.
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This article was published when over half of power was already restored.
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It's unrealistic, and if one power station is unable to use their batteries to start their emergency generator (through the absurd incompetence you describe, or more likely through a major fire, flood or assault) the grid can be starte
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A power station can start a decently large generator with batteries. Maybe there are other concerns for an oil rig.
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It's the kind of thing that existed since the 1990s in the UK, though moving with the technology of the time. The first version would have required using a computer in the library. Example for Birmingham: https://www.birming
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It seems unfair to other customers of the bank to require the bank to "return" 75% of the money. This should be a matter for business insurance.
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A standard (now) actual chemical drum holds 200L, which would be 200kg plus the weight of the barrel if filled with water. Oil is less dense. Estimations are much easier with metric units. There are special hand-powered machines for moving
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Each US state also has - its own laws and constitution, search "Constitution of California" - its own taxation (e.g. sales tax differs between states, just as VAT rates differ between EU countries; Americans pay income tax to thei
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If a British 12 year old today were to need to write a cheque, I'd expect they would need to look up or be told how it's done. I wouldn't expect them to need to buy a pen first, or to need several attempts to write 10 words n
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by Symbiote 2y ago
The task is sending a letter, not a parcel. You buy the stamps (from the post office, another shop with opening hours you prefer, or online), sick one on the envelope and put it in a mailbox. Overcomplicating everything so you can grumble o
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He had difficulty writing an address on an envelope. This skill is something we expect of 8 year old children.
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by Symbiote 2y ago
You are intentionally making things difficult when you don't own a pen. That's very much your problem, and the rest of the world doesn't need to accommodate it.

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