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by Symbiote 2y ago
Cases like this make me wonder how long it will be before the first "digital nomad" or simply workaholic gets detained, after admitting they might check the email and have a Zoom call during their vacation.
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by Symbiote 2y ago
I think a good part of it is 'wealth' profiling. I'm white, male. I travel to some lower-income countries for work. I can dress like a neat, well-paid software developer with the €2000 laptop and €1000 camera in my bag. I&
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by Symbiote 2y ago
> openrsync is written as part of the rpki-client(1) project, an RPKI validator for OpenBSD. openrsync was funded by NetNod, IIS.SE, SUNET and 6connect. Could anyone suggest why these organizations would want to fund this development? h
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by Symbiote 2y ago
That looks like an "Apple tax". The principle of the AUI port was that the three Ethernet connections (10Base5, 10Base2, 10BaseT) could all be used with a 'cheap' change of "MAU" adapter. For 10Base5, it would
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by Symbiote 2y ago
Cable TV (from cables under the road) is much more common in Denmark than in the UK. Digital, broadcast TV in the UK is mostly received by radio broadcast or satellite broadcast, so the house would only have the appropriate cables from cert
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by Symbiote 2y ago
Someone carrying a new phone in the original box would need to prove they purchased it in the USA. Discard the box in Canada and it's a lot less suspicious. Customs are unlikely to find the phone unless they have some other reason to s
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by Symbiote 2y ago
They don't mean 10Base2 "Thinnet", common in the late 1980s and in cheap installations in the early 1990s. They mean a modern (ish) device which uses existing TV cabling, to avoid rewiring in houses.
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by Symbiote 2y ago
If the US increases customs checks, and if the person is caught, that risks seizure of the phone and a fine starting at $300.
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by Symbiote 2y ago
Since around 2020, you've been able to pay Swedish VAT when you purchase from Ali Express etc. The resistors increase from $1 to $1.25, with the $0.25 going to the Swedish treasury. Do you not have electronics shops in Sweden? Copenh
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by Symbiote 2y ago
Britain took 4 years to negotiate and prepare for the new trading arrangement with the EU. It wasn't all smooth, but they did things like massively expand customs facilities at sea and airports to allow for the new inspections, train
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by Symbiote 2y ago
Perhaps you'd like to give an example, maybe for the UK since all the information will be in English.
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by Symbiote 2y ago
The Guardian are reporting essentially this, it's clerical errors of some kind: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/04/revea...
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by Symbiote 2y ago
Tesla built a factory in Germany to produce their cars.
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by Symbiote 2y ago
The exemption for low value imports was removed a few years ago, see other comments near this one in the discussion. Purchases from Temu pay EU VAT according to the location of the purchaser, and an electronic system means the money sent to
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by Symbiote 2y ago
Fulfilment doesn't have to go through eBay for this. If I sell a package on eBay.de to a buyer in the UK, I get a customs tracking number to show eBay has collected the required UK VAT. That goes in the form when buying the delivery l
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by Symbiote 2y ago
Strictly speaking it also includes some British military and contract staff from other countries (cleaning, landscaping etc, whatever they need).
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by Symbiote 2y ago
It could be a clerical error — intending to choose Haiti or Honduras, or maybe Hong Kong, and clicking or typing HM by mistake. Or maybe OCR is used somewhere and has made the error.
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by Symbiote 2y ago
Old people don't necessarily have photographic driving licences in the UK. Some would be caught out if their passport has expired.
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by Symbiote 2y ago
Can you provide an example, especially for the EU? From what I read, the average tariff applied by the EU is under 1%. Other comments say Trump has just divided imports by exports to calculate his tariff rates.
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by Symbiote 2y ago
One could, but they'll have even greater issues finding and training staff, and without a reputation they're less competitive with the cheaper Chinese products.
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by Symbiote 2y ago
I've seen these in imported Asian products, especially from China and Japan. Biscuits and similar dry snacks. I've never seen it for a European product.
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by Symbiote 2y ago
> Or the factory can build their parts here in one of our 50 great states. Then the ⅔ they sell outside the USA would be subject to the retaliatory tariffs likely to come in response to Trump's tariffs. They'd also lose at lea
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by Symbiote 2y ago
For Git one could look for .git/config. There must be something equivalent.
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by Symbiote 2y ago
Within the next year or two, I'm going to look at implementing something similar at my work. We don't pay for electricity directly (it's included in the rackspace rental), but we could reduce our carbon footprint by adjusting
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by Symbiote 2y ago
Europeans are buying not-Tesla, with the reduction in Tesla sales becoming an increase spread across all other EV manufacturers. EVs are not only produced in the USA and China, but in the EU, UK, Korea and Japan.
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by Symbiote 2y ago
According to this site, which claims to be tracking European EV registrations, you'd expect to see VW, but BYD isn't in the top 8. Tesla is so low for this quarter I suspect the data isn't yet there. https://eu-evs
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by Symbiote 2y ago
Small things are fine. It's not fun when the corporate marketing team meets in September to start planning their April Fools jokes.
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by Symbiote 2y ago
Their stance regarding Israel and Palestine is well within the mainstream in Europe, including the UK. How has the NY Times reported this? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/31/israel-killed-...
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by Symbiote 2y ago
They find fault with lots of British things, but you'll need to look at the UK section. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news The article you linked has some sources, though maybe a survey would help (if one exists). It
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by Symbiote 2y ago
I'm not sure that site is fair. The Guardian has some statistical errors (600 vs 30), a couple serious and the others less serious (9% vs 3%). It seems to be being held to a higher standard than media known to be less trustworthy.

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