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by eertami 4y ago
I don't know about OP, but in Switzerland at least no, that wouldn't be legal for a private citizen to do at their home. The problem is using a camera to monitor people. It doesn't matter if the camera is only a live video fe
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by eertami 4y ago
> mainly that it's not very good for long-form or persistent messaging like a forum. Discord recently added Forum Channels to try and capture this segment as well. https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/arti
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by eertami 4y ago
> Like, if my phone can't receive calls Do you not remember the iPhone 4, which couldn't be held in your hand while taking a phone call? The iPhone 8 I was given by a client wasn't perfect either. It would regularly miss n
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by eertami 4y ago
And USA is only 4% of the world population... ;)
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by eertami 4y ago
There are definitely companies in the UK that will pay competitive rates for tech. $70/hr is lower than the median contracting rates for the UK, and I'd be suspicious if someone with 20 years experience was that cheap. I'd ex
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by eertami 4y ago
I've had plenty of success using the EU regulators to enforce 261/2004 compensation requests if an airline is not following the rules. It can take a while for the regulator to get to your case, but it is only a 10-15 minute invest
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by eertami 4y ago
I might be missing something obvious, but why doesn't everyone (particularly those living abroad) just change their name to a high caste one?
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by eertami 4y ago
> Next you’re going to say the Swiss also don’t have one Well... at a federal level there is, but it's a confederacy so most of the time you're interacting with a local canton which has it's own set of systems.
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by eertami 4y ago
> your idea of small towns is quite off My idea of small towns is based on well designed towns in central Europe. Almost everything you talk about here are problems from poorly planned suburbs, and have nothing to do with actual towns&#x
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by eertami 4y ago
> less time then you'll sit in traffic in the city going a few miles to the same thing Most people aren't going to drive for just a few miles though, surely. I'd just cycle or take one of the busses that arrive every 6 min
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by eertami 4y ago
> Now I'm growing my book collection instead. No subscriptions, DLC or microtransactions for those at least No subscriptions, DLC, or microtransactions... yet.
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by eertami 4y ago
Vehicle tax in much of Switzerland is decided by the Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW). Important distinction of GVW is that it takes into account the maximum permissible operating weight, if the vehicle is fully loaded. Drive a heavier car, pay m
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by eertami 4y ago
> 32oz soda ... $1.69 I'm sorry, what? People drink a whole litre of soda with their lunch? I don't understand this on multiple levels. Who would buy this, why would anyone sell it, and should that even be legal?
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by eertami 4y ago
Yep. I suspect this submission is SEO spam, based on the authors other content about... yeah you guessed it, creating SEO spam.
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by eertami 4y ago
The linked article has quite a few cracks that show, but this is just straight up ramblings of a crazy person. Is this the sad outcome for people who don't know how to write but get addicted to "hustle" influencers and SEO sc
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by eertami 4y ago
Price isn't the thing that keeps most people I know away from Macbooks (after all, it's the employers/business expense). I'm sure many people would like an M1 machine for the efficiency but the software is simply not ide
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by eertami 4y ago
https://archive.ph/z83rO
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by eertami 4y ago
I have an XPS and I personally find it better than the M1 MBP in almost everything except power efficiency, so I have much difference experiences compared to your other review in this thread. The XPS doesn't make much noise and I notic
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by eertami 4y ago
> Honestly unless you're required to run windows Or Linux, at this stage. Apple silicon support is not good enough yet to be a pleasant experience. Sure, an x86 laptop doesn't compete with power efficiency of the M1/M2 - m
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by eertami 4y ago
In Switzerland (Europe but not EU I suppose) it would be illegal to have a home security camera in a public area like this - dashcams aren't legal for the same reason, they invade privacy without a justified lawful reason. Being in the
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by eertami 4y ago
> Exactly the same for telecoms The UK would have a nationwide fibre network if the government didn't step in to tear down public telecoms in favour of privatisation. Now it's 2022 and other major European cities have 25 Gbit f
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by eertami 4y ago
The government built the roads, to a specific specification of assumed car sizes. If cars get so big that they break these assumptions then roads start getting blocked, or you start to have streets that some cars are too big to fit through
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by eertami 4y ago
Disagree, with the money I would be awarded from my employer for their breaking of both employment and privacy laws I think I could easily purchase a new laptop - and also fund a few months of vacation while searching for the next job. (Thi
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by eertami 4y ago
Maybe the onus shouldn't be on people to request the music be turned off, but on people not blasting loud music in public nature spaces in the first place? This is just the kid on the bus/train playing music on his phone speaker.
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by eertami 4y ago
> In a major tech hub like San Francisco, where I live, it's possible to get 1gb/1gb in some areas for under $90 As a point of comparison, I live in a small city in Europe (80k population) and we have 10gb/10gb for $60&#x2
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by eertami 4y ago
I have two laptops, one with a high DPI display (Macbook), and one with a regular 1080p screen. Both running Linux. There is quite zero difference viewing text at a regular viewing distance. If I move uncomfortably close to the screen, I ca
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by eertami 4y ago
High DPI on something like a phone screen makes sense since it is often used so close to the face - but are people really getting this close to their computer displays? For a 1080p 14" screen, and a person with 20:20 vision, you would
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by eertami 4y ago
>enjoy macOS If you're wanting to use your laptop for development work, you're going to pick the best job for the task. Moving to OSX would not only slow things down due to how slow non-native Docker is (no it is not negligible
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by eertami 4y ago
Their point is that just because someone can do leetcode does not mean they can program well, and they may too just be faking it to get a job they aren't qualified for.
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by eertami 4y ago
People are mostly just pointing out the very objective losses to quality of life in the US compared to Europe, which is a fair answer to the original question. And day to day quality of life has nothing to do with geopolitics for most peopl

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