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by em500 6y ago
The majority of the consumer energy prices in Europe go to taxes. Here in the Netherlands, average rates are around €0.22/kWh, which breaks down into €0.12 energy tax, €0.04 VAT and €0.06 electricity.
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by em500 6y ago
Even if you never spent any cash for 7 years, the full bank/cc records are insufficient to built a complete personal price index, because they don't list exactly what and how much you bought (unless you have some extraordinary ban
903.
by em500 6y ago
I agree it's undervalued. Sadly too few people are aware that a standard notation for time intervals even exists, and external software support is very sparse (e.g. lacking in Pandas, R, most SQL implementations). Which leads to too ma
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by em500 6y ago
Free versions of the actual specs: https://www.loc.gov/standards/datetime/iso-tc154-wg5_n0038_i... https://www.loc.gov/standards/datetime/iso-tc154-wg5_n0039_i... Or https://w
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by em500 6y ago
The fact that specific prices, or that prices in some spending categories have risen faster than the standard CPI is trivially conformable and trivially true. The contention that the general price level has increased faster than CPI is qu
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by em500 6y ago
You shouldn't. Shadowstats is a crank website, praying on people are already convinced that everything is more expensive than according to official numbers. They're the economics equivalent of homeopathy, anti-vaxers, 5G radiatio
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by em500 6y ago
Shadowstats is a crank website, and "eye opening" in the same way as anti-vaxers and 5G radiation truther websites are "eye opening" to a significant number of people without much expertise in the field. Shadowstats are
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by em500 6y ago
The total spending on health care in the Netherlands in 2019 was €510 per person per month[1]. That need to be paid in somehow. [1] https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/nieuws/2020/24/zorguitgaven-stegen-...
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by em500 6y ago
Sure, but all of those variations can be parsed unambigously as long as it's communicated to be an ISO-8601 datetime.
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by em500 6y ago
I get the full text after disabling JavaScript (Firefox).
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by em500 6y ago
It's not limited to phone users. I've been using computers since the 1980s (C64), and I appreciate not needing to habitually keep pressing "save" every few seconds in Google Docs or macOS Notes.
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by em500 6y ago
At the risk of sounding glib, you could store everything as integer grams?
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by em500 6y ago
Pip is not installed by default on macOS, and even python itself will be removed in some future version.
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by em500 6y ago
It's probably of little consequence for his employment, but Bellard has won a few IOCCC prices: https://www.ioccc.org/winners.html#B
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by em500 6y ago
This paints a rather colored picture. The initial advisory from 14 Jan 2020 [1] presents their case that "Based on the available information there is no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission." The reader can decid
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by em500 6y ago
Maybe we don't talk more about this because nobody here has deep insights into the current vaccine production chains (and therefor into the actual bottle necks), so we have no clue how many deaths could be avoided?
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by em500 6y ago
Here's is the EMA summary (I believe the full assessment report is not yet public): https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/ema-recommends-covid-19-va... Key snippet: Most of the participants in these studies w
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by em500 6y ago
The expectation is that users should have up-to-date external backups, and the internal drive should be treated as an ephemeral cache. You should already be prepared for the circumstances that your laptop gets stolen or that the actual flas
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by em500 6y ago
And here's a (big!) project that aims to reconstruct a complete source history from the current FreeBSD all the way back to 1970 Unix. https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo
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by em500 6y ago
Because there are very few software/IT companies in Canada (or Europe or almost anywhere else except China) with revenues like US software/IT giants. So software engineers tend to work in supporting roles / costs center depar
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by em500 6y ago
You probably need another correction: CPI does not count the cost of a mortgage, nor interest payments in any direct way. What the CPI estimates is the price of shelter , by surveying renters how much rent they pay, and house owners how mu
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by em500 6y ago
The upside of this (and their very succesful WeChat payment platform) is that Tencent is far less dependent on advertising revenue and all the ad-related ills than Facebook.
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by em500 6y ago
Console sales were banned in China from 2000-2015, which is why the industry grew into a PC-first environment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_games_in_China
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by em500 6y ago
Most governments in the world, including most western ones, have a long history of regulations and legal restrictions on gambling. Maybe the Chinese are ahead of the curve in recognizing the similarities in the video game industry.
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by em500 6y ago
That's tautologically true of course. What is far less clear cut is whether it's preferable for someone (and their children) to stay in a country with a bad regime that's improving or in one with a good regime that's de
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by em500 6y ago
Since people are probably curious: the Ryzen 7 5800U (8-core, 15W TDP) will probably be close to (but not equal to or better than) Apple's M1 in performance (based on specs and desktop Zen3 Geekbench scores). But they will probably hav
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by em500 6y ago
The literal answer to the headline question is "You can, just open Developer Tools -> Console and code away." But it seems the question in the article is actually "Why can't I write node.js code inside my browser?&quo
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by em500 6y ago
Yes, OER is just asking owners "If someone were to rent your home today, how much do you think it would rent for monthly, unfurnished and without utilities?"
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by em500 6y ago
> When the government calculates inflation, they look at prices of common goods, but not housing. Housing is based on monthly payment. That's why inflation is artificially low. Please read how the shelter part of CPI is actually cal
930.
by em500 6y ago
Incorrect, see my sibling comment. It's strange that there are so many misconceptions around CPI, while the BLS has extensive layman-language docs about most their procedures https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/cpi

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