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by ed_balls 8y ago
Hasn't almost 1/5 of German voters voted on them? It's quite far from "Nobody takes them seriously". UKIP wasn't taken seriously as well, but it caused the biggest political crisis in decades.
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by ed_balls 8y ago
Is it really 1 in a million? There are other pseudo democracies that are doing well e.g. Liechtenstein
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by ed_balls 8y ago
PPP per capita is a better metric, but far from ideal.
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by ed_balls 8y ago
When companies are planning IPOs they do it months before. Was there a better time in the last 10 years?
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by ed_balls 8y ago
I think that the primary reason is psychology. People wanna feel safe. I was flying to Gatwick from Bilbao (EuroPython) and I walked into the plane like into a train. I was stunned. No one has checked my bag, no scanners. What is the point
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by ed_balls 8y ago
It's not "recession around the corner" as a main driver. Market is great now, but that will change when they interest rates go up, hence people wanna catch this boat before it sails.
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by ed_balls 8y ago
they may not know the models of cameras and the specs, but they do know they need to attach them somewhere and how they work.
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by ed_balls 8y ago
Sedans Aren't Dead, the market has segmented into sedans and liftbacks/4-door coupe. See BMW 3 and 4 series. It's p much the same car. People prefer for 4 because it's a bit more practical, but 3 series has large marketi
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by ed_balls 8y ago
It's other way around. Priests used to be the science class, but a few hundred years ago they split into 2 camps.
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by ed_balls 8y ago
and companies offering remote job gaining even bigger upper hand.
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by ed_balls 8y ago
I doubt your Airbnb will be used 100% of the time. 80% would be more realistic. Renting on Airbnb has a one major advantage over traditional renting. If someone loses a job and stops paying rent it's quite hard to evict him.
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by ed_balls 8y ago
NHS (Great Britain - state owned health provider) is on a track to reach 2mln employees.
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by ed_balls 8y ago
I have a dozen black t-shirts from Primark for about 2.50£ per t-shirt. > Why don't you buy clothes from a thrift store? It will drive the price up and hurt people with very little money.
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by ed_balls 8y ago
Agreed, I want my late 2014 13 inch Macbook Pro with the latest hardware. Also: - swap the SD port for UBC C (1 regular USB; 2 USB C) - move the microphone from the side next to the camera (when I'm talking to someone a slightest move
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by ed_balls 8y ago
Any source on that?
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by ed_balls 8y ago
> health impact of its cheap plastics Do you mean the health impact of when the device is thrown away?
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by ed_balls 8y ago
That's correct. HEPA filters anything bigger than 2,5 μm e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzopyrene and NO2, SO2 etc. are 1000x smaller.
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by ed_balls 8y ago
I wonder if you'd put cotton wool, how effective it would be. Here is my set up: - I bought XIAOMI Mi Air Purifier 2 straight from China for $137.00 and spent 1 euro on a EU plug. It's so quiet that I can sleep next to it, looks n
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by ed_balls 8y ago
from all websites I'd expect HN to NOT read OR as mutually exclusive
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by ed_balls 8y ago
One could argue that Google used search revenue for predatory pricing, which breaks anti-trust laws, to subsidise Maps and other services in order to build a monopoly.
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by ed_balls 8y ago
Author wants people to make huge sacrifices and it's written in a similar style like articles about startups or losing weight. The Fetishization of Redemptive suffering. I do not believe this to be effective. It's much better to s
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by ed_balls 8y ago
I depends on you location and driving in the city e.g. Prius can have less total CO2 emission than Tesla S if the electricity comes from fossil fuels. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RhtiPefVzM
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by ed_balls 8y ago
I was Monzo Beta user, but switched to Revolut. Much more features.
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by ed_balls 8y ago
- won't work as a free speech violation. - how would you define political?
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by ed_balls 8y ago
Floating point arithmetics is not the only problem. See bankers rounding.
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by ed_balls 8y ago
I'm the source. Have you tried water from these devices? P mich awful distilled water.
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by ed_balls 8y ago
Another problem is that the water doesn't taste great.
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by ed_balls 8y ago
> they can guilt themselves I dont feel guilty and wanna guilt trip someone. I'm interested in the subject, because there is a lot of false information. Is buying Tesla really that great? What if I drive very little? Maybe my totals
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by ed_balls 8y ago
I agree that my estimate could be too big, but I do think there is a potential to increase the forestation in the north. Because of the warmer climate, Iceland can grow aspen. The government is planning to grow tree in a large part of the i
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Ask HN: What is my carbon/green gas footprint?
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