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by ferongr 10y ago
If the disposal fees are punitive rather than set by the free market itself, then it's not a free market incentive.
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by ferongr 10y ago
So, when you step off the accelerator on a car with an automatic transmission, the ECU has to decide whether it will switch to the tallest ratio to let the car coast and save on gas, or keep the same ratio and engine brake using the intake
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by ferongr 10y ago
And that's completely missing a point of a CVT where you can keep the engine at a its most efficient speed and vary the transmission ratio to accelerate or decelerate in response to throttle input.
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by ferongr 10y ago
>Google Earth VR is first available on Steam for the HTC Vive The lack of a common VR framework, and no expectation from consumers that a VR-enabled application will be cross-compatible between different systems is the main reason I have
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by ferongr 10y ago
A way more powerful motor and power electronics that allow for a "taller" (smaller reduction ratio) final drive.
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by ferongr 10y ago
Most electric cars lack a variable-ratio transmission. At some point and you only have the final drive to reduce the speed of the electric motor. The final drive has to strike a balance between torque for negotiating inclines and top speed,
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by ferongr 10y ago
Lighter vehicles tend to have less durable construction. When it comes to low floor trams/railcars, the lack of space is another engineering problem. Plus, with a high-floor vehicle, you have lots of space during rebuilds to install ne
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by ferongr 10y ago
Mostly the same as a front loader, maybe a bit more since they have two bearings instead of a single one. Washing performance is equivalent to an automatic front-loader, with similarly low fabric wear. Furthermore, it can also spin-dry clot
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by ferongr 10y ago
Unfortunately, Greece is not the UK and the net income of a Greek is less than half that of a Brit.
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by ferongr 10y ago
It's not an "emergency" tax.
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by ferongr 10y ago
More often than not, most high-rise construction (that means... anything above 2 floors when it comes to Greece) is good, especially after the changes to the seismic code after the 1999 earthquake. A small drop in building quality came duri
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by ferongr 10y ago
Yes, since I pay the tax any the property value in my name is just that apartment. All owners have to pay this tax (ENFIA). There are some reductions for unemployed people but no 0% rates.
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by ferongr 10y ago
It's in Kallithea, a generic south-European concrete-jungle urban center. Also, I'm not sure it's fair to compare property values between the US and Greece. The average person working on the private sector would be lucky if h
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by ferongr 10y ago
I'm not complaining, I don't have any more property on my name and I think it's reasonable.
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by ferongr 10y ago
I don't know, all I see is a goverment that tries to perpetuate the old system, only with their people in place. The recent TV spectrum fiasco is a good example. A SYRIZA-friendly construction mogul got a large loan to bid on a license
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by ferongr 10y ago
They probably do. My apartment was made in 1963, 63sqm (670sqft). "Zone price" (i.e. what the government considers the price of 1 sqm of development in a certain region) is 1100 euros, building age multiplier for that is 0.60 so w
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by ferongr 10y ago
A 650 sqft apartment of 1963 vintage is taxed around 250 euros/year
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by ferongr 10y ago
Thank you, this is very insightful.
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by ferongr 10y ago
In theory, as long as you don't install apps from third party sources you would be safe. Google does security tests on apps uploaded to the Play Store (don't know how effective they are though).
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by ferongr 10y ago
No OIS. No MicroSD card. No waterproofing. No stereo speakers. Huge bezels without any function. Derivative design. It's not anything special.
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by ferongr 10y ago
Ironically, the controller itself looks more sturdy than the wobbly, jello ships in KSP proper (doesn't help that Unity's physics engine chokes on KSP's complexity).
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by ferongr 10y ago
From personal experience I can say that Locale Emulation doesn't reliable work for many games.
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by ferongr 11y ago
If we have the interface why stop at brain to text? Why not make the computer a part of our brains?
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by ferongr 11y ago
What's the probability of this bill actually becoming law?
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by ferongr 11y ago
This is an incredibly niche feature today because no releases come packaged in archives. Furthermore, to my knowledge you can't really "stream" archives.
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by ferongr 11y ago
I can mirror this experience too. Properly working Intel SSD fwiw. Mine impacts not only file copys but also all small file I/O like listing directories (explorer would hang for 1 second entering a new directory) and the like.
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by ferongr 11y ago
This just resets the profile. I've seen the Chrome clean up tool in action on an infected computer and it did a lot more, it actually worked like an antimalware scanner and removed many malware infections from the machine that were doi
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by ferongr 11y ago
Line-level inputs will be in excess of 1 KOhm (10KOhm if properly designed) Headphones will be up to 600 Ohm (I guess some boutique brands could have examples higher but I digress, the grand majority is between 16 and 250 Ohm).
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by ferongr 11y ago
>Error: No WebRTC support: Not a supported browser Funny, Fx44 does support WebRTC
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by ferongr 11y ago
Finally, I get to try Netflix, I thought. I signed up for the HD plan, I went to my playback settings, changed quality to high and decided to watch Pacific Rim. http://i.imgur.com/LKEcMDo.png Let's just say, it doesn&#

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