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by em500 3y ago
A lot of things that (especially progressive) Americans love about Europe are at least in part financed by those lower salaries.
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by em500 3y ago
You spent $1m on houses. You did not consume $1m worth of houses, nor did you spent $1m of your own money on houses if you used a loan. These are all subtly different metrics.
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by em500 3y ago
Because they're counting spending, not consumption. This is incidentally why house prices are not directly included in the CPI basket of goods: neither the purchase price of a house, nor the monthly payments are what people consume (=
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by em500 3y ago
Maybe it was a great achievement for Google, but outside of Google I guess approximately nobody rolling out MapReduce or Hadoop read Dean & Ghemawat, resulting in countless analysts waiting 10 minutes to view a few spreadsheet sized tab
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by em500 3y ago
What SQL shares with English (and most other natural languages) is that the rules are sometimes confusing/inconsistent/illogical, but evolution is very slow so most of us are probably stuck with the status quo during our lifetimes
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by em500 3y ago
No, it should come after WHERE, GROUP BY but before ORDER BY. From my favorite SQL tutorial[1]: The lexical ordering is: SELECT FROM WHERE GROUP BY HAVING UNION ORDER BY while the logical order is: FRO
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by em500 3y ago
You'd use cruise control.
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by em500 3y ago
They do random spot checks (and do not scan each item in your bag) for the same reason that ticket inspectors do random checks in public transport: there is probably some optimum between checking each and every item/person/train (
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by em500 3y ago
I recall reading that having a lot of strict laws on the books that are very selectively enforced is the standard playbook of authoritarian regimes.
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by em500 3y ago
I agree, having owned (among others) a Psion 5mx and a Nokia N900 in the past. You could write full docs, compile C programs or write papers in LaTeX on a pocket device, in theory. In practice of course, I never did when the novelty wore of
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by em500 3y ago
Max Verstappen was also too young to drive on public roads in his native countries (Netherlands/Belgium where minimum age was 18) when he debuted in Formula One at age 17.
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by em500 3y ago
The article shows that Intel and AMD's desktop iGPUs have higher bandwidth and lower latency than the Switch's X1.
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by em500 3y ago
The classic brick buckets are still widely available, right next to all the themed sets and the replica sets (which are explicitly marketed to adults). Not sure what the complaint is here, that the general public don't share your tast
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by em500 3y ago
Back in 2010 iPhones were expensive status symbols in the EU, approximately nobody bought them to save money on SMS. In some markets the really heavy texters bought Blackberries for a while just for BBM, but that got killed pretty quickly b
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by em500 3y ago
Maybe the more interesting stats for parents: Average distance to primary/elementary school: 500m (with on average 3.6 schools within a 1km radius, 27.5 within a 3km radius) Average distance to secondary/middle-high school: 900m (
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by em500 3y ago
Passport/visa check are easy if they're all ok. But what do you do if you have (a group of) people in the train without valid passports/visas?
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by em500 3y ago
Most of what you describe is not because they want to make train travel like air travel, but because the UK never signed the Schengen Agreement (so they need to check and stamp passports) and because of Brexit (so they need to inspect bagga
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by em500 3y ago
This is because of customs and border controls required by the UK, which needs a large separated and secured section inside the train station. Trains to other European destinations don't need any of that. Note that this direct route w
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by em500 3y ago
At the time WhatsApp was only forwarding messages from user to user. They didn't deal with different contracts and license deals in 180 countries. Nowadays they have a lot more country specific regulations to deal with, and also a much
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by em500 3y ago
Their entire marketing shtick is that you're getting an Apple Card, rather than any random MasterCard or GS card. Just look at this page https://www.apple.com/apple-card/ , if they brand it so prominently as their
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by em500 3y ago
The comment appears at odds with several items in HN guidelines, like - Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. - Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topi
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by em500 3y ago
The EU mandates a minimum €0.36/L excise tax on gasoline, which is about $1.49/gallon. In practice many large countries like Germany, France, Italy already levy more than $3/gallon. But they certainly don't funnel the re
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by em500 3y ago
So what would be your course of action if you had an SSD failure?
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by em500 3y ago
Maybe traffic accidents including kids have been trending down because kids are spending less time outside? It can be both true that the number of accidents have decreased and that actually playing outside is more dangerous.
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by em500 3y ago
In the Netherlands many insurance companies have stopped offering insurance for ebikes and electric cargo bikes, because the chance of theft is too high (approaching 90% in Amsterdam on certain types according the insurance companies).
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by em500 3y ago
> Just look at almost any billionaire's mansion and you will see this pattern which becomes an aspiration for the middle class. Most people, given enough wealth, desire and choose the McMansion. Billionaires tend to have lots of hou
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by em500 3y ago
> If that's true, why then did it take me 10 seconds yesterday to find an extremely obscure fact of 18th century history with ChatGPT 3.5? I tried Google queries for over an hour, without success. Can you share which obscure 18th c
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by em500 3y ago
> by the need to be seen to be doing something against perceived fraud by minorities which led to mass profiling and huge fall-out It was not only perceived fraud by minorities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dut
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by em500 3y ago
The theory is that tomatoes meant for canning can be harvested at a more optimal stage of ripeness (and they don't need to be bred for long shelf life) compared to fresh ones. I don't know if anyone has done any serious testing of
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by em500 3y ago
If the barriers to entry to the tech are low, virtual girlfriends should not be expensive. Probably much cheaper than real ones.

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