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by eisa01 6y ago
Note that PHEVs also receive substantial tax breaks, such that the advantage of an BEV over a PHEV is mostly only the 25% VAT The annual registration, toll road and parking fee exemptions have all been abolished, but there is a goal of it b
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by eisa01 6y ago
It does not include hybrids, the 54% is pure battery EVs :) Plugin hybrids were 20% and non-plugin hybrids 9% Total *EV share of 83% See slide 21: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/opplysningsraadet-for-vei...
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by eisa01 6y ago
No clue what is the most common routing service, but at least Graphhopper and OSRM picks the correct route https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=graphhopper_...
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by eisa01 6y ago
This is Michael Liebreich, founder of Bloomberg New Energy Finance. That's as credible as you get in the energy/transport sector
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by eisa01 6y ago
Why? This was discovered and breaking news on Twitter today, it has not been picked up by any media outlets yet
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by eisa01 6y ago
The report [1] is also supported by Bosch and Honda, amongst others It was picked up by British media [2], but it is of course full of factually wrong assumptions [3] [1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/4lh5prkwzn490ra/D
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Aston Martin use sock-puppet PR company to “debunk” EVs(twitter.com)
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by eisa01 6y ago
Norwegian experience is that you only need on average 1-2 kW on a load balanced system (individual chargers are 22 kW). I hope the regulation allows for that?
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by eisa01 6y ago
Same with Apple Watch - why exclude the most popular wearable?
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by eisa01 6y ago
Why do chips like these not have 5 GHz Wifi? Living in a city, the 2.4 GHz band is crowded, and a lot of devices require you to play with your router settings to set them up [1] e.g., some Mill heaters must be set up on a 2.4 GHz network us
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by eisa01 6y ago
Interesting! Will you update on the process on eg Twitter?
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by eisa01 6y ago
A friend of mine lost access to his Instagram account that was blocked for impersonating others (he shares the name with a known person). He had no recourse for six months as the form to appeal the decision didn’t work... finally got it fix
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by eisa01 6y ago
Now they only need to offer the 4K streams on an affordable plan for single household customers. It’s unfair to pay for the 4-stream family plan to get 4K for double the price of the single stream plan!
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by eisa01 6y ago
It's 1.5 years since I was in Tokyo and I didn't have Apple Pay at the time - but isn't NFC Visa and MasterCard payments rolled out yet? International Apple Pay is just standard NFC, so I would be surprised if it doesn't
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by eisa01 6y ago
OP here: This has been noticed by Norwegian media for some time, but it is still ongoing Apparently they have brought it up with Google and Facebook, but I can't see anything happening, and the options to report ads does not deal with
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by eisa01 6y ago
OP here, it was a Google Adsense ad served on a normal web page. I reported it using the chevron-button, but didn't think the 4 options were adequate descriptions * Seen this ad multiple times * Ad was inappropriate * Not interested in
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Ask HN: Does Google have a way to report scam advertisements?
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by eisa01 6y ago
This will be interesting for the LNG exports to Europe The EU commission is looking at associated methane emissions from natural gas imports, so there is a risk that the US may very well shut off their access to EU markets, or be subject to
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by eisa01 6y ago
On a similar topic: One of my friends got locked out of their Instagram account He tried to fill in the form on his Android phone to get the decision reviewed, but when he hit submit it just showed an error. He persevered, and after approxi
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by eisa01 6y ago
The original iPhone had 3 years support, same as the Pixel 4 :)
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by eisa01 6y ago
This controversy is not dumb, it is actively harmful to the prosperity of the United States and Western civilisation It is dividing the country by delegitimizing the election If senior republican leaders don't tell him to fuck off to
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by eisa01 6y ago
That sounds very strange. Norway is in a similar position as Switzerland in terms of trade, and Amazon has for the past 10 years collected Norwegian VAT up front when using express shipping. This year the government mandated that internatio
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by eisa01 6y ago
> Because pants are looser around the knee than the waist, heavy items like a phone will constantly be swinging around uncomfortably down there -- same as they do in cargo pants. You can have a "pocket-in-pocket" to avoid that
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by eisa01 6y ago
Uh, LibreOffice and PowerPoint are just tools You can easily create crappy presentations in PowerPoint You were quite unreasonable in my opinion, and failed to communicate why they would need to use PPT I’m saying this as a person with Powe
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by eisa01 6y ago
Yup. The first time I voted 15 years ago I didn't have to show any ID and was quite puzzled. A friend of mine actually considered voting under my name when he found out :) The OSCE (? not quite sure) vote observers commented on this in
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by eisa01 6y ago
That doesn't immediately sound good. E.g., baby wipes thrown in the toilet will clog the sewage pumps and break them. If bamboo toilet paper works the same way, you'll have a big issue!
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by eisa01 6y ago
It's hydropower ;) Geothermal energy is mostly for district heating and hot water
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by eisa01 6y ago
I thought it was $5/TB/month too, but turns out you can get down to $1/TB/month with "Deep Glacier" etc., $2.5/TB for retrieval
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by eisa01 6y ago
I asked a friend about that in IT, and that’s the plan
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by eisa01 6y ago
Insurance is not meant to cover routine purchases, it's meant to cover purchases that are unexpected and too large to cover. We have a publicly paid health system in Norway, but we still have: * Copays until you reach €200 * No denta

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