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481.
by chgs 2y ago
On US house sizes and latitudes, solar can provide a hell of a lot of power, at a time that coincides with peak aircon demand, seems a no brainer to me.
482.
by chgs 2y ago
The milky bar kid is strong and tough The red car and the blue car had a race Turn the milk chocolatey Keep hunger locked up tip lunch I have tried to avoid adverts for 20 years, but the adverts of my childhood (not just ones aimed at kids
483.
by chgs 2y ago
I expect a lot of pushback from the new u.s administration about any online regulations.
484.
by chgs 2y ago
Daytime tv is all about brainwashing wealthy retired people. Still not as bad as those weird country which advertise prescription medicine
485.
by chgs 2y ago
But it’s not, it’s targetted.
486.
by chgs 2y ago
You can visit for tourist or business reasons, not working. I suspect that many of the housing problems in places like Lisbon’s old be solved if visas were enforced.
487.
by chgs 2y ago
There is some evidence Malaria is increasingly coming back to some places in southern Europe and the US despite being eradicated decades ago https://www.wired.com/story/a-rare-domestic-resurgence-of-ma...
488.
by chgs 2y ago
What visa did they use?
489.
by chgs 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baedeker_Blitz
490.
by chgs 2y ago
Current 30 year rates about 6.5% which would mean about $2150 assuming about 10% down payment and 340k mortgage over 30 years. That would mean you are paying $2k a month in tax and insurance?!
491.
by chgs 2y ago
170 million people living in tents? Wow.
492.
by chgs 2y ago
Median house price is 347k. I find it hard to believe a mortgage on that is 60k a year.
493.
by chgs 2y ago
US cultural dominance for one thing, then success begets success - lots of VC money in the US because the US is rich which gets invested which returns even more and makes it richer. US businesses more likely to work with US suppliers, US cu
494.
by chgs 2y ago
Such a rare occurrence. Nat alone doesn’t protect you from 100% of threats. Neither does a firewall btw. But it does add an extra layer of safety.
495.
by chgs 2y ago
I bought TT after school and can clearly remember reading the manual on the bus home, top deck, at the front, on the alteincham to flixton bus. It’s funny how 30 years on, some memories stick in your head.
496.
by chgs 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25661474
497.
by chgs 2y ago
Which it isn’t because housing costs have risen to take into account the second earner
498.
by chgs 2y ago
No Broadly Parliament is split into 3 camps, the left, the centr, and the right, all pretty much even. Any two could work together as a coalition and agree to a leader, but that is proving harder.
499.
by chgs 2y ago
We had Junior x (Vanilla) x Senior x Principal x We now have added Senior principal x
500.
by chgs 2y ago
You should do a ShowHN on it!
501.
by chgs 2y ago
On the other hand people look at themselves and their neighbours and think “can’t happen here because we aren’t nazis” Doesn’t take many people to actually hold a nazi ideology to make it come to pass. After all, “ The only thing necessary
502.
by chgs 2y ago
I think that’s the point. That work isn’t going to be done for a single unidentified corpse on a battlefield.
503.
by chgs 2y ago
Quite suitable that the American protagonist did nothing to affect the plot or outcome, was just along for the ride.
504.
by chgs 2y ago
I suspect that computer misuse / hacking laws could apply. I’m also certain that there will be small print if you bought it from a dealer.
505.
by chgs 2y ago
There’s a big difference between being punished appropriately for doing something, and being able to present your mitigating circumstances, and being prevented from doing something. By all means fine me for going through the red light, then
506.
by chgs 2y ago
OP isnt talking about putting the car in airplane mode, but the phone. The point is that you are already tracked via your phone (which is likely kit in airplane mode), so there’s not a massive gain to preventing car tracking.
507.
by chgs 2y ago
Even without the privacy aspect it’s a problem. Last weekend I was driving home in my ICE car guzzling on those dead dinosaurs, and maps on my CarPlay unit went haywire, first I was slightly off to the east by say 50 metres, but this got wo
508.
by chgs 2y ago
I can’t think of much if anything which would be a compromising photo or video from my laptop, but conversations certainly are.
509.
by chgs 2y ago
Hardware switch in line with the microphone. Can’t be turned on behind my back.
510.
by chgs 2y ago
I’m more concerned with a trillion dollar industry programming peoples minds, but that’s a far cry from Elon musk putting a chip in your head to stop your “undesirable” thoughts.

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