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by em500 3y ago
This is the current expenditure distribution: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/... By far the largest categories are Social protection and Health, followed by Education, Debt interest an
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> One of the ideas was a system of property tax system in which you pay property tax based on a property value which you get to declare (rather than some assessment by a third-party or government agency). The catch is that you are requir
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If you live in an apartment you may have lots of neighbors buying more and more powerful wifi transmitters, such that you don't even get your 100MB/s.
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> But most of them are single family houses connected 'rijtjeshuis'. Think of them as flat buildings flipped over. Usually known as terraced houses, townhouses or row houses in English.
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We even have words for the halfway phases between new moon and full moon: first quarter and last quarter. The 7 day week is not directly derived from natural cycles (unlike the month and year lengths), but the moon phases are convenient syn
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Most civilizations started with a lunar calendar (still used in Chinese and Islamic calendars), because it was much easier to observe the lunar cycle than the solar cycle. The solar calendar was the more useful one for getting good harvests
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by em500 3y ago
As sibling mentioned, ISO already defines a standard notation (2023-W44-7), precisely so that different people don't have to go invent their own. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_week_date
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by em500 3y ago
Last year two vloggers tried to live at Amsterdam Airport for a week, but were caught by security after 3 days[1]. Modern Airports have security and cameras everywhere. It might be possible though, see [2] [1] https://nos-nl.tran
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by em500 3y ago
I don't see the philosophical side here. "Rights" are a purely human construct and only exists in civilizations in the first place (try to convince a bear of your right to set foot in a wood). If you're content to stay s
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by em500 3y ago
Obtaining a vessel that can reach international waters (let alone one that enables you to survive there for a long time) is quite expensive.
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> This article is...not good. I agree. The opening paragraph reeks of picking numbers to fit a narrative. It states that the number of US listed public firms declined from 8000 in 1996 to 4000 today (suggesting but not explicitly claimin
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The Cortex X2 has already been shipping in phones for more than a year (in the form of the big core in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1). On Geekbench 6 it scores around 1500-1600 single core, which makes it comparable to a Intel 11th gen laptop core
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Does that mean that you don't actually need to keep bees to drive them away, just replay their sound?
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In the Netherlands, debit card fees are 6 euro-cent per transaction and 0% of the transaction amount. Since debit card do not come with a loan/insurance/fraud protection/chargeback ability, there's only a fixed processi
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by em500 3y ago
There is no such thing as a generic "European debit card". Dutch retailers accept specifically only Maestro, VPay, MasterCard Debit or VISA debit cards, but usually not not VISA Electron, or various other other country-specific Eu
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Which significant category do you think is missing here: https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/relative-importance/2022.htm ?
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by em500 3y ago
This is the current basket weighting: https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/relative-importance/2022.htm Which should be changed, under the constraint that they must sum to 100?
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Here are the transaction costs for a retailer at the largest Dutch bank: - Maestro, V PAY, Debit Mastercard en VISA Debit issued in Europe: €0.047-€0.06 per transaction - iDEAL: €0.35 - Mastercard en VISA creditcards issued in Europe: 1.70%
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by em500 3y ago
But as you just discovered, they don't work everywhere. Plenty of Dutch and German stores don't accept them. Visa and Mastercard interchange fees are nowadays capped to 0.3% by law, but they used to be 2%+ (and still are in the
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by em500 3y ago
Quoting the SQLite docs: The SQL standard specifies a large number of keywords which may not be used as the names of tables, indices, columns, databases, user-defined functions, collations, virtual table modules, or any other named obje
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SQLite has no date/time types, only strings and numbers, and functions that can interpret certain strings or numbers as date/times. That design choice actually made a lot of sense in the past, because unlike most other databases S
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Price controls are great for incumbents, but suck for new-comers or even incumbents who want to move. Disabling price as the allocation mechanism does nothing to address the supply/demand problems, and necessitates alternative allocati
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by em500 3y ago
But Americans do not pay the same tax as Europeans. As some others already noted, the high brackets in Europe kick in at much lower incomes (usually around 70k-80k or so). In addition, VAT (sales/consumption tax) ranges from 19%-25%.
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by em500 3y ago
> With a strong social safety net, low crime, strong employee protections, universal healthcare, inexpensive higher ed, plentiful time off, and a culturally rich environment with high social cohesion, Europeans live contented lives and d
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They can only be answered subjectively, because different people value different things. That's why such discussions usually end up with clusters of people with somewhat similar preferences arguing inconclusively with other clusters wh
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The usually unstated question underlying these sorts of comparisons is basically: "where people are better off?". But that can never really be answered, because * Different people value different things: am I better or worse off w
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Before posting our vibes based opinions about how little time we all feel we have, I'd encourage everyone to first spend some time with the data on how Americans actually spend their hours: https://www.bls.gov/tus&#x2F
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Across the US population, people spend 3.5 hours per day on work and 5.2 hours on leisure and sports[1]. Remember that a substantial part of the population does not work much (children, students, retirees, unemployed), so it's untrue
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So if she was in fact completely unaware that you tried to do so, would that be a victimless crime?
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Many of the larger internet services, including Netflix, can already be funded with cash via gift cards sold in supermarkets.

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