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by Zanfa 5y ago
One thing I've never seen explained in a way that makes sense to me is how UBI wouldn't immediately result in inflation that eats through most of the grant for lower income households. A lot of countries already have housing deman
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by Zanfa 5y ago
This is what puzzles me. Taking your Xbox gamertag on the blockchain as an example. It doesn't provide any decentralization, Microsoft is the central entity that gives the gamertag it's value. There's 0 incentive for Sony or
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by Zanfa 5y ago
4. It can’t involve anything off the chain (physical assets or items) or your data integrity will require some sort of a centralized trusted oracle that defeats the trustless nature of the blockchain. This basically means most of the exampl
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by Zanfa 5y ago
> I don't see how it's relevant to the discussed gas topic, but I will play along. The topic originally was whether Russia could realistically become the main trading partner for Scandinavian countries and how unpredictability
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by Zanfa 5y ago
There's plenty of coal to go around, Estonia & Poland are two examples of nearby countries relying primarily on local coal for energy. Also, Germany is not Russia's neighbour.
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by Zanfa 5y ago
A common pattern for Russia is announcing unplanned railroad/pipeline maintenance when a country makes a political decision that Russia finds unacceptable. Or cranking up gas prices at random. Also harassing ships that are laying under
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by Zanfa 5y ago
For imports, at just under 10%. For exports, Russia shares the 5th place with China at roughly 5%, behind US and Netherlands. This is still extremely low given the fact that it's the by far the largest neighbour in terms of economy and
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by Zanfa 5y ago
Not sure how this applies, especially to Scandinavia. Sweden has lots of hydro, Norway has hydro, gas & oil. Russia also needs European money, since most of their budget is energy export, that’s why even at the peak of cold war they kep
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by Zanfa 5y ago
No way Russia is going to be a major trading partner for Scandinavia as long as Putin (or similar) is in power. They keep pulling political stunts with their exports, making them too unreliable for most businesses. It’s not a coincidence th
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by Zanfa 5y ago
The example app doesn’t work on latest iOS Safari on iPhone SE 2020. After 2 long loading screens you can progress through the app until you need to pick categories, but that screen is unscrollable, so you’re stuck. Trying to go back breaks
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by Zanfa 5y ago
What do you do with ICUs running out of capacity though? Disallow admitting non-vaccinated people and let them die at home?
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by Zanfa 5y ago
They don’t. All of the delivery companies are massively (as in billions) unprofitable with no reasonable path to profitability due to competition from other equally unprofitable VC funded companies.
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by Zanfa 5y ago
And on top of this, I could not find a single place in the EU that actually had the LG 27” 5K in stock at all earlier this year. The only way to get a good 27” 5K screen is to buy an iMac.
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by Zanfa 5y ago
Estonia re-imposed strict measures as well because the ICU was becoming overwhelmed. This means mandatory masks everywhere, no public activities without proof of vaccination (restaurants, gyms etc) and limits on opening hours and strong pol
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by Zanfa 5y ago
And Uber has made like $25 billion in losses with no end in sight?
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by Zanfa 5y ago
Again, in a world of spherical cows this could work, but in reality it didn't. I was an Android dev pre-5.0 and believe me, having lived through the s*tshow that was push notifications at the time, there's no way it would've
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by Zanfa 5y ago
You could always run a custom Android build on company devices.
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by Zanfa 5y ago
There's a good reason to not allow 3rd party background networking though. It would work in theory, but in practice every company with more than a few devs would eventually implement their own crappy version of a notification system wi
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by Zanfa 5y ago
A reasonable legal requirement should be that customers are able to unsubscribe using the same method used to subscribe and the process should not require more time and effort than the initial subscription.
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by Zanfa 5y ago
Definitely a welcome change, low quality auto-translated results are one of the things that has become a major issue when trying to find anything in my native language. For a lot of searches, literally most of the results end up being an in
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by Zanfa 5y ago
That's not a coincidence though. They're responsible for closures of a good number of competing flights from destinations that are not big enough to sustain multiple large carriers at different price/quality levels. Thus ever
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by Zanfa 5y ago
To be fair, I wouldn't fly Ryanair even if they paid me. They have the absolute worst experience of any airline I've flown with. There's no reason to fly Ryanair unless you enjoy being treated like cattle, love filthy planes,
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by Zanfa 5y ago
I'll admit, I should've checked their Q3 numbers before, regarding the write-off, but they're nowhere near profitability even if you ignore that. For example, in the table linked above, they've accounted for all revenues
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by Zanfa 5y ago
That's just creative accounting. Uber actually incurred a $2B loss, but for some reason they insist on ignoring expenses when calculating their "profits".
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by Zanfa 5y ago
Apparently it can be. An interesting question now is how many of the PhDs given out are thanks to copy / pasting vs actual hard work.
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by Zanfa 5y ago
Be careful when visiting the website, it tries to calendar spam.
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by Zanfa 5y ago
I can’t agree with most of the points, especially the ones relating to performance, at least as far as SDUI as a generic concept is concerned. If Judo is reinventing HTML, that’s one thing, but a sane approach to SDUI gives you native UI pe
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by Zanfa 5y ago
We used this pattern a lot at my previous company with a lot of success over the years. Operating in almost 10 different countries, mostly running lower end Android phones and being able to slightly customize parts of the UI on the fly to s
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by Zanfa 5y ago
Since the Estonian ID-card infrastructure has been around almost 20 years (didn't even realize it's been this long already), it's used literally everywhere. Every time you interact with the government or a bank, utilities or
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by Zanfa 6y ago
For what it’s worth Farnell is by far the most reliable place for electronics components I’ve found in the EU. Next business day delivery for 5 EUR from Western Europe to Estonia even if you order in the afternoon. Haven’t been disappointed

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