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by Symbiote 2y ago
This would add about two cents to a disk, so it's just being used as an excuse.
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by Symbiote 2y ago
The nationality of ancestors is not very relevant to most Europeans, mostly because we're the native people of the continent. People with multiple nationalities or who grew up in a different country than their nationality very often de
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by Symbiote 2y ago
CGNAT is cheaper than acquiring additional IPv4 addresses, but it is more expensive than the same traffic going over IPv6.
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by Symbiote 2y ago
A quick search shows a company here will produce 5000 DVDs for £0.27 each. That's with full-colour printing, but no packaging. A 25% tariff would add $0.08 to to each disk. That hardly seems likely to affect the decision whether to p
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by Symbiote 2y ago
This is still better than the British system , where wealthy politicians who get voted out by their own constituents then get put in the House of Lords. It's then almost impossible to remove them. See Zac Goldsmith for a recent exampl
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by Symbiote 2y ago
In Europe it varies by country, but in general Tesla is down while EV sales are up or steady. > Figures published towards the end of February by the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) showed that Tesla sold just 9,945
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by Symbiote 2y ago
The EU parliament is elected with a much fairer system than the British one, half of which isn't even elected but nominated in return for bribes or being a bishop.
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by Symbiote 2y ago
Large users like the supermarkets have agreements with electricity providers that they will reduce their use at certain times in return for a discount. Tesco doesn't care if the freezers in store run at 04:00-04:15, or 04:30-04:45, and
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by Symbiote 2y ago
It was a core part of GCSE English in the 2000s, so almost everyone in England studied it. Things like reading a Daily Mail article and identifying all the nonsense parts. I don't know it out helps society. I suspect people don't
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by Symbiote 2y ago
I wasn't clear. 7-11 exists in Denmark more-or-less as you describe (bit more food, less junk). The Netto shops I linked to are small supermarkets, selling a full range of groceries — fresh fruit and vegetables, meat, fish, bread, chee
881.
by Symbiote 2y ago
You live a low impact lifestyle, but the idea of walking to a shop didn't occur?
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by Symbiote 2y ago
And also the shop receives the toothpaste as a carton of 48 or 96 tubes or whatever it is, with little space wasted. With an individual delivery you get several times the volume of wasted space, plus at least one wasted layer of corrugated
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by Symbiote 2y ago
In Europe there's a good chance the 'corner shop' is run by a national business or franchise, benefitting from their supply and logistics systems. That means prices are usually the same as in their larger stores, although the
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by Symbiote 2y ago
Because the companies make it easy to sign up with an individual's address, and that's often fine to test out the service. Some then make it difficult to use a more appropriate address. It's not ideal, but there's a huge
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by Symbiote 2y ago
A sales person from Microsoft emails us every 3-6 months or so trying to upsell us on a more expensive 365 subscription. I think their time would be well spent contacting a customer who hasn't paid. Blocking sending email would also be
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by Symbiote 2y ago
Multiple reminders to the same person isn't much use if he's in hospital, and you're ignoring the out-of-office replies. The time this happened to us, I was pleased the company looked at our website and phoned the receptionis
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by Symbiote 2y ago
We've been overdue on something like this, but a public notice would have left us moving to a competitor. It's easy for it to happen if a colleague is away for a month, or has left, and the bill isn't being seen by anyone. Do
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by Symbiote 2y ago
CDs have better quality than vinyl in every way. If you want the sound of a vinyl, apply the modulation and record the result on a CD. In practise, popular music recorded on CDs often had poor mastering (see "loudness wars") where
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by Symbiote 2y ago
Secondly, text typed into the search/address bar is sent to them for "suggestions" and to broadly categorize the search ("travel"). Turn this off if you don't want it. Thirdly, they'll be notified if you c
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by Symbiote 2y ago
Is Portable Firefox still an option, or is that sort if thing possible to lock down too now? (I've only very briefly worked with restrictive Windows, and it was years ago.) https://portableapps.com/apps/internet&#x
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by Symbiote 2y ago
They call them "Keyless repeaters and signal amplifiers", but say people also refer to them as "jammers".
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by Symbiote 2y ago
It's also a very large building or roofed space, where it's more difficult than elsewhere to accuse homeless etc of loitering.
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by Symbiote 2y ago
You would need to further filter for the largest railway stations, perhaps by number of platforms ≥ 6 or 8, otherwise you will include many urban and suburban stations that serve essentially the same purpose as metro stations.
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by Symbiote 2y ago
I changed the default date format of our internal company home page so instead of "25 February 2025” it reads "Tue week 9, 25 February"
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by Symbiote 2y ago
KDE and Microsoft Outlook allow you to add the ISO or American week number to the calendar. Probably other software has this icon
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by Symbiote 2y ago
Muslims, and therefore many countries in the Middle East and North Africa.
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by Symbiote 2y ago
Comfortaa works well for this: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Comfortaa
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by Symbiote 2y ago
Cloudflare's customers are distributing copyrighted material. That's basic copyright law, and the host and distributor can easily take it offline after a court request.
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by Symbiote 2y ago
Biden's policies clearly weren't EV-damn-the-costs. You can see this easily, as China and many European countries have more EV sales. Norway is leading, with 93% of all new cars being EVs.
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by Symbiote 2y ago
The "classic" view is based on the votes from old accounts, and might have fewer political stories: https://news.ycombinator.com/classic Or maybe "pool" or one of the others: https://news.ycom

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