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by em500 2y ago
They don't sell the SE in the EU anymore since this year, because it's not compliant with the new regulations that mandate USB-C charging.
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by em500 2y ago
Before people immediately think the worst of Google or other corporate representatives, be aware that people working in these companies need to weight their words carefully. From The Verge's article on the issue: The UK has reportedly
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by em500 2y ago
I don't think that's true, at least for Americans. Even in the sub-population of full time working parents, more time is spent on watching TV (1.45h mother, 1.98h father) than on child care (1.41h mother, 0.91h father, where units
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by em500 2y ago
Food additive manufacturers sell farmers aditives to produce yolks with specific hues[1]. There are regional/cultural variations in color preferences, so regional farmers will target different sades. [1] https://www.dsm-firm
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by em500 2y ago
Some countries still allow that: https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/sim-card-regist...
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by em500 2y ago
There's a big demand-supply mismatch throughout both the 24hr and the 365d cycle, while most consumer prices are flat throughout the day and the year. Solar panel owners are basically using the grid as a big battery, and miffed that el
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by em500 2y ago
I've seen such policies in other countries. What typically happens is that the well off buy 2 cars, one with odd and one with even license number.
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by em500 2y ago
Sellers are largely free to choose what form of payment to accept or refuse, regardless of "legal tender" laws. The concept is much more narrow than commonly assumed: https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/curren
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by em500 2y ago
Lot's of cranks are not sharing any information at all (so can't even be classified as "misinformation"), but pure unfounded opinions without any informative content (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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by em500 2y ago
Even if we have another Covid-like pandemic in 5 or 10 years, the social/political response will probably not be much different/better than last time. In this sense we've really learned very little from Covid.
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by em500 2y ago
Yes, the problem with such projects is that the must be very clear benefits for users (rather than developers) to attract a critical mass. At work we had Apache Zeppelin running on the servers alongside with Jupyther. In practice almost
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by em500 2y ago
Best to get this straight from the source[1,2]. Resources are detailed from p.54 onward. [1] https://archive.org/details/TheLimitsToGrowth/page/n55/mode/... [2] https://web.ics.purdue.edu
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by em500 2y ago
Hong Kong has plenty of undeveloped land[1]. New development is intentionally restricted by the government, which owns most of the land, with the full support of a large part of the (home owning) middle class. [1] https://www.qu
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by em500 2y ago
In most of Europe and several large Asian cities I visited, AMEX and Discover acceptance is far lower than Visa/MC (which charge lower fees to merchants).
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by em500 2y ago
> I'm surprised it doesn't come from the EU. On the other hand, I'm not sure if this move is against short form content in general, but rather against China. How can you be unsure about that, of course it's a move aga
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by em500 2y ago
This is really meant for just the Chinese domestic market, and of very little interest to the RoW. For the Chinese this is a relatively small leap. The Chinese internet has always been it's own separate world, with very little dependen
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by em500 2y ago
The longest history I could find using FRED data is this: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1BPi3 . So median house price to family income rose from 2.9 to 4.3 between 1963 and 2003, based on the series https:/
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by em500 2y ago
Main equipment manufacture was Wuxi Lead, where naturally everyone speaks almost exclusively Chinese and all docs are in Chinese. Not a problem of course when most customers are also Chinese, much more so when they're European.
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by em500 2y ago
Comments from insiders in Swedish[1] and Dutch[2]. Some snippets: ... In the end, they are just in a situation that is almost impossible to save. You have a factory full of machines that are substandard in quality, reliability and document
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by em500 2y ago
This is one of the reasons that pretty much all academic economists, regardless of political affiliation, agree that rent control is bad policy. The economically superior way to help locals of lower means is through income transfers (becaus
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by em500 2y ago
Self-reply, direct gtranslate link: https://old-reddit-com.translate.goog/r/sweden/comments/1g1x...
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by em500 2y ago
There's an interesting AMA on Reddit from a Northvolt engineer: https://old.reddit.com/r/sweden/comments/1g1xkmx/jag_%C3%A4r... (Google translate works well on the old.reddit.com site). According to
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by em500 2y ago
Probably any change in country takes some time to adjust to traffic. Coming from the Netherlands, I got quite confused when driving in San Francisco, by many wide roads without any clear road markings. Which parts are meant for overtaking,
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by em500 2y ago
The most common argument is that it's a regressive subsidy, given that the college educated earn significantly more than the non-college educated[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United
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by em500 2y ago
This seems to mirror the situation where US financial regulations (FATCA) are seen as such a hassle to deal with for foreign financial institutions that they'd prefer to just not accept US citizens as customers.
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by em500 2y ago
At least below age 12 or so, our kid's social life consists entirely of classmates that she sees 7 hours a day at school during weekdays, after school and in weekends playdates with classmates that she likes, sports, music and swimming
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by em500 2y ago
Most of the world doesn't do DST either[1], nowadays it's mostly a European/American thing. [1] See the map at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_by_countr...
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by em500 2y ago
Asking as an ignorant outsider, are the economics of much different from that other the movie and TV industry? At least that's where Netflix is a lot more experienced than Google, Meta and Microsoft. (Whether they're good at it is
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by em500 2y ago
So first it was Sardinia, Okinawa, Ikaria, Loma Linda. Then it's not even Loma Linda but specifically Loma Linda Adventists. That looks like XKCD-level p-hacking https://www.xkcd.com/882/
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by em500 2y ago
The problem with laws like these is similar as increasing taxes on corporations, or mandating higher wages by fiat. The implicit assumption is that money is moved from the (presumably rich) owners to workers, but economically it's dete

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