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by distances 6mo ago
The investment taxation was already discussed in a sibling comment. As always in Europe, it depends on a country. Good for you if that's possible in Netherlands. Of course some roles can earn six figures or more, hopefully everyone kno
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by distances 6mo ago
Yes, as always it depends on the country. Germany and a bunch of others have nothing except completely useless insurance/capital guaranteed options. For investments, you invest post-tax and pay capital gains when withdrawing.
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by distances 6mo ago
My reading was that nothing of that applies in Europe. No earning 6 figures, no way to invest pre-tax or in any other tax advantaged way, no way to optimize healthcare costs, early retirement unlikely.
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by distances 6mo ago
I don't see any value in chat history. I delete all conversations at least weekly, it feels like baggage.
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by distances 6mo ago
Last summer it was good for certain tasks, but letting it run wild was a recipe for a huge mess where you'd spend more time unraveling it than writing the whole thing by hand. That was my experience, at least.
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by distances 6mo ago
Looking back, I understood with Windows XP that I wasn't in the target group. Win 95/98 had a simple but functional file search. Being naive, I was expecting some power user features in the future, like regex search. Win XP replac
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by distances 6mo ago
Just as a data point, depending on a country of course, the European public healthcare systems don't cover some/most/any of these either. For example the eye exams for glasses are usually done at the store where you buy the g
68.
by distances 6mo ago
> It is probably easier these days when you have a phone to fall back on Most definitely. The old lessons were hard learned, and they stayed with you. Going through everything, trying all the combinations, and reading obscure materials f
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by distances 6mo ago
This is what I used! At some point I managed to block DHCP lease renewals on my computer, and Internet would always stop working after a given timespan. Took a good while to figure out I caused the problem myself.
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by distances 6mo ago
Yes, the buildings will be renovated in time. For me it seems like a generation-long undertaking, though, and we get back to my original question. I think we're talking past each other, so let's leave it at this.
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by distances 6mo ago
In effect they are, even if not directly. There are requirements to stay aware of your surroundings. If you cause an accident by blocking all sounds, I totally can see insurance companies claiming this is your own responsibility and refusin
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by distances 6mo ago
No, 47°C to 67°C is way too low. The buildings are not actually circulating boiling water, but not too far either: > Typically, heating systems in Europe use water flowing through pipes and emitters (radiators) heated to high temperature
73.
by distances 6mo ago
The problem is the old building stock (say, large apartment buildings from early 1900s) which isn't energy efficient at all, and on cold winter days require very hot water to keep warm. The radiators were designed with assumption that
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by distances 6mo ago
I wonder how heat pumps would work for apartment building central heating systems. The circulated water has to be a lot hotter than heat pumps are capable of, as far as I've understood. Is there already a system that could viably repla
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by distances 6mo ago
> Hollywood made that up to paint a picture of the Russians. I don't think the true version of the events is necessarily any kinder to Russians than this dramatization.
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by distances 6mo ago
Alas, Finns are not particularly healthy in the cardiovascular department. I don't believe there are any major benefits.
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by distances 6mo ago
Just a clarification as it may not be clear from your message. A Finnish ("dry") sauna always includes throwing water on the stove, which is called "löyly". People have different preferences for the warmth of the sauna -
78.
by distances 6mo ago
There's the diary 1660-1669 of Samuel Pepys, which covers as the Great Plague of London, the Second Anglo-Dutch War and the Great Fire of London.
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by distances 7mo ago
I'm thinking the same. My total computing purchases in the last 25 years, including desktops, laptops, monitors, phones, and tablets is way under 20k. I would bet it continues to be more affordable to buy reasonable specs with current
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by distances 7mo ago
Delusional. In Europe people want not to just see Ukraine win, but also Russia to lose. It's the leaders that are timid, the people would like to see much wider ranging support for Ukraine. The Russian energy will not be accepted again
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by distances 7mo ago
I don't think lossless gives you anything other than, well, lossless compression. EQ or dynamic range compression don't really have anything to do with it.
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by distances 7mo ago
> People aren't using it for reasons other than its capabilities. This is very true. I have no idea how it performs, as I wouldn't use it even if I was paid for that. Wouldn't matter if it was the best model available, in
83.
by distances 7mo ago
Interesting, but the headline was misleading -- this was about the time to get the first 90%. The last drop was not discussed. I was already intrigued about how one could know when a drop was the last drop.
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by distances 7mo ago
This, and I curate a tree of MD docs per topic to define the expected structure. It is supposed to output code that looks exactly like my code. If not, I manually edit it and perhaps update the docs. This is how I've found myself to be
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by distances 7mo ago
I don't know what changed, but in recent months it has become impossible to pass. Not a single success, whereas earlier it wasn't failing ever. Firefox on Android. Maybe I look like a bot now, for whatever reason.
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by distances 7mo ago
It's not 40+c/kWh, the market end-user rate is around 26-30 now. And includes transmission and taxes -- worth noting as some countries talk of price before transmission & tax.
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by distances 7mo ago
For quite many banks a mobile phone is now the only 2FA they support.
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by distances 7mo ago
They didn't start from scratch, the first Jolla phone was released in 2013. The Sailfish OS continues the Maemo/MeeGo lineage that Nokia abandoned.
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by distances 7mo ago
Ahh that finally explains the [delayed] posts. For ages I've wondered what that is about and assumed it's some automated rate limiting.
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by distances 7mo ago
I use regular Firefox with the option to delete all data on quit. And I quit maybe once per day or so, as soon as I feel there are too many tabs open. Serves the same purpose.

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