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by em500 4y ago
No, it's not typical to get US keyboard Macs in NL. All physical stores (and most online stores) including Media Markt and the official Apple store only stock ISO layout. Fortunately it's simple to order the ANSI (US) layout in th
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by em500 4y ago
I really doubt that the Walkman's audio quality is "better" than the iPhone 8's in any objective sense. > I’m not an audiophile, and I’m sure said people would blanch if they read about the files I play. But the audi
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by em500 4y ago
Maybe the author should try James May's cooking show/book[1]. It's a decidedly anti-snob take on cooking, with a focus on amateurs ("You wouldn't be reading this if you knew how to cook") and convenience, unaba
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by em500 4y ago
I know plenty of fairly affluent families with multiple children in European cities who never bothered buying a car. By the time the children were eating a lot, they were carrying part of the groceries. Starting around 10 or so, the parents
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by em500 4y ago
The mobile version https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events is less busy and arguably better readable/accessible than the desktop version.
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by em500 4y ago
You don't a landline. As you mention yourself it's very hard to waste much time on a mobile phone with no internet access. OTOH, a laptop with internet can be as just much of a timesink as a smartphone. The internet, it's a h
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by em500 4y ago
How are you pretty sure about that? According to survey data[1], even full time employed mothers (let alone fathers) spend on average about double their time on leisure and sport (2.89hr/day, including 1.48hr/day watching TV) than
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by em500 4y ago
I liked it a lot, but many people seem to find it a hard slog to get through, especially coming from LOTR/the Hobbit. Especially the first part "Ainulindale", which you can safely skip until you've read the rest. My tip
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by em500 4y ago
I think it's broadly true that people have a lot more leisure time that they think. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has surveys on how Americans spend their time[1]. Across the entire population, people spend 3.61 hours per day on Work
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by em500 4y ago
As TFA notes the Parade magazine formulation is only "loosely based" on the actual show Lets Make a Deal" hosted by Monty Hall. The real Lets Make a Deal* is a bit more complicated[1], and AFAICT there is no easy analysis
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by em500 4y ago
The original Parade problem is fairly ambiguous and incomplete. Therefor there is no "correct solution". Other formulations typically include the conditions that the host will always open a door, and that door will always contain
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by em500 4y ago
This has already been explained elsewhere in this thread, but here it goes. The original problem formulation in Parade magazine is as follows: Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one
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by em500 4y ago
The Month Hall Problem has been discussed many many times on HN and elsewhere. I've read many of the discussions (but of course not nearly all of them. My observations: 1. The linked Wikipedia article is very extensive, and already cov
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by em500 4y ago
You've hit the nail on the head. The problem is not the phone, it's unlimited internet. You can waste almost as much time on a laptop with unlimited internet as on a smartphone. OTOH, it's pretty hard to get into unhealthy sm
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by em500 4y ago
The official list is payware: https://www.iata.org/en/publications/store/airline-coding-di... Alternatives are to scrape some other website (who presumably paid IATA for the data) or Wikipedia ( https:/&
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by em500 4y ago
Your reply doesn't seem to answer my question at all. I opened both links, searched for "airport" and "IATA" and nothing relevant came up.
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by em500 4y ago
Ok, I'll ask the obvious. Why is OpenBSD trying to maintain a list of IATA airport codes? (And before you ask why not, try to think of some answers yourself first. I can come up with a few drawbacks, though I'm nowhere close to a
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by em500 4y ago
Wikipedia provides a handy Euler diagram: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Supranational_European_Bo...
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by em500 4y ago
I mostly agree (except for the weird MMT stuff). OTOH, I believe governments and schools at least in my country have made a good faith effort to try to educate kids widely about these matters. But most kids and adults alike probably find te
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by em500 4y ago
It's weighted by size of the Eurozone countries household expenditure (which is close to GDP), so basically the only ones that matter are Germany, France, Italy and Spain.
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by em500 4y ago
It's not much of a secret when even in high school economics class I was taught about different substitution methods (Paasche, Laspeyres[1]) with various drawbacks. It's done because factually consumers buy different and producers
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by em500 4y ago
> In some calculations food and fuel are excluded because of volatility (controversial, for obviously reasons). From the BLS FAQ[1]: Has the BLS removed food or energy prices in its official measure of inflation? No. The BLS publishes
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by em500 4y ago
The basket and weights for UK CPI are here: https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/arti... and for the US: https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/relative-importance/home.ht
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by em500 4y ago
This sounds almost like a parody of an uninformed rant against capitalism. Stock buybacks are a simple standard way to distribute company profit to it's owners (alternative options are dividends, retaining the profits in the balance sh
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by em500 4y ago
> I work as a senior eng at a large tech company and based on levels.fyi, it looks like my SF colleagues make somewhere between 2 and 4 times what I do. I know money isn't everything, but I've experienced the pain and stress t
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by em500 4y ago
> - Were coffee preparation methods at all considered? I don't know if everyone in the trial was being served the same coffee or if respondents prepared coffee in whatever manner they liked and just reported how much coffee/how
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by em500 4y ago
The full text pdf is gated, but it's probably indentical to this one: https://roar-assets-auto.rbl.ms/documents/16093/Sweetened%20...
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by em500 4y ago
I managed to get one in AMS1 more than a year ago, without IPv6. It varies between €0.44 and €0.46 per month. But like the parent mentioned, it's pretty much permantently "temporarily out of stock". (I've checked about
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by em500 4y ago
How do you speak clearly and plainly about these topics? It's factually true housing prices aren't included in the CPI, but it's not easy to explain why and how replacing it with the somewhat abstract notion of housing servi
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by em500 4y ago
The government already publishes separate indices for a few hundred separate spending categories, ranging from pet food to parking tickets[1]. The reason nobody bothers to do what you suggest is that it's a ton of work for pretty much

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