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by flakeoil 4y ago
A landlord in Sweden cannot increase the rent out of the blue. If there is a rental contract in place at least. If renting without a contract for some weird reason, well, you better be sure you rent from someone you trust. Like in most othe
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by flakeoil 4y ago
You just picked some random sentence from that article. I can pick some other sentences from that article and give another picture: "Most of the plastic that enters the oceans from land comes from rivers in Asia.1 More than 80% of it.
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by flakeoil 4y ago
Do you guys define racks the same way?
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by flakeoil 4y ago
Sounds like pure stupidity and incompetence. Why not buy a bunch of Ferrari's and beat them up with sledge hammers while they are at it?
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by flakeoil 4y ago
Renting is typically cheaper if you use the thing rarely. If you use it regularly it is typically cheaper to buy.
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by flakeoil 4y ago
You could use the Agenda from EasyOrg [0] in combination with VS Code or Sublime to get the Agenda functionality. EasyOrg has its own editor just in case. [0] https://easyorgmode.com
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by flakeoil 4y ago
Maybe more like: "We have a bull market and almost no unemployment; let's lower the interest rate to below zero".
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by flakeoil 4y ago
Adding to that, vehicles with built in solar panels will also add some attractiveness to this for development countries. No need to pay for fuel/electricity. Sure it might take up to a full day to get 50-100 miles in the battery, but w
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by flakeoil 4y ago
If no book is sold in the first place I suppose long term no books will be written. At least not that many.
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by flakeoil 4y ago
You are quite right. Especially in a work setting I have seen many times where email discussions or message discussion go overboard with lots of misunderstandings, heated feelings etc and once you get on the phone with the other party you s
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by flakeoil 4y ago
But at least people will notice the photo book and at least have one look through. And it might even be a great moment when family members together can look at it and discuss memories. And quite likely it will be kept by a descendant. And i
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by flakeoil 4y ago
I believe self-driving cars will partly solve this. Instead of waiting for a bus that leaves every 15 minutes, there is a car leaving every 30 seconds. Instead of buying a car, you pay for a subscription. Instead of taking your own car you
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by flakeoil 4y ago
I guess that's what the parent comment meant. Google tries many new products (in-house developed or acquired). If it does not reach a user base of several 100 million users (or 10's of billions of revenue) after a few years then t
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by flakeoil 4y ago
In the below article [1] is suggested to use your regular calendar app on the phone and then later write it clean into your desktop system, whatever you use. I like to use one text file per big project and keep all related notes and todo it
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by flakeoil 4y ago
If you prefer continue using a text file for your todo/done items, then I recommend Easyorg [1]. There you can see the todos from the text file in a more organized agenda. There is also a calendar view where you can scroll week by week
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by flakeoil 4y ago
I'm not sure how much of H&M clothes are really collected after use, but at least they have invested in a company that works on recycling fibers from clothes. They own over 10% of it. Probably some of what they collect goes to this
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by flakeoil 4y ago
That's why it's better to tax the energy itself directly. Instead of inventing a lot of complicated tax schemes and deductions and incentives, just increase the tax on gasoline/diesel. It steers people to fuel efficient cars,
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by flakeoil 4y ago
You are right. And the simplest solution to this is to increase the cost of fuel /energy (typically by increasing taxes on it). This automatically directs us in the right direction. More fuel efficient cars. Or public transport and bic
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by flakeoil 4y ago
> in the UK most diesel drivers remove their particulate filters Are you sure about that? Sound quite crazy to me. > to increase fuel efficiency How much would that save? > Diesel is a scandal Yes, what the car manufacturers did is
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by flakeoil 4y ago
I don't understand your argument. Most active ingredients/medicines/chemicals that have some sort of effect on people (good or bad) are more or less controlled. Their are called medicines (drugs) and are under subscription (a
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by flakeoil 4y ago
> It's super important because it's really hard to do research with controlled substances. > And pharmas are not interested in spending on some product that they can't market anyway What do you mean? That pharma compani
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by flakeoil 4y ago
You don't need very detailed imagery to spot a swimming pool. The Google earth type images are enough. It can also be used to spot building extensions etc. And it also gives a hint on other cheating and crime, for example if the house
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by flakeoil 4y ago
Why is always the solution to to go somewhere else and screw up? Go to the moon and harvest. Go to Mars and live there as we ruined mother earth. Mine the deep sea floor. Why not try to recycle better instead. It's not as sexy, but how
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by flakeoil 4y ago
> Good luck selling a car with a 50 mile range. You won't sell many. Where did you get that 50 mile range from? > Again this is false, that is not how pricing of goods works. You have to price your widget to sell on the market, n
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by flakeoil 4y ago
OP complained about that things don't move fast enough. It's like development has slowed down. My argument is that developing a cell phone is way more difficult and complex than some other old inventions. Even though one can argue
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by flakeoil 4y ago
Just because it's an amazing thing which without life would be more difficult doesn't necessarily make it a good or amazing innovation. Sure tap water is amazing and living without is hell. Food is amazing and living without is he
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by flakeoil 4y ago
As the charging time for EV batteries has gone down dramatically ( currently fast charging to 80% capacity in 20-30 minutes), there is no need to have such big batteries anymore. They could be reduced in half for many use cases. In addition
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by flakeoil 4y ago
Whatever governments decide, you will not be able to buy a gasoline car after 2030 because the car manufacturers do not want to make them. A gasoline car will not be able to compete with an electric car in terms of performance and cost. The
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by flakeoil 4y ago
I like EasyOrg as you do not need to use Emacs. It also has a useful agenda. [1] https://www.easyorgmode.com
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by flakeoil 4y ago
OP doesn't talk about subcidies, but instead about the fact that the federal level needs to force the city level to build for example smaller apartments/houses, or build denser or whatever. However, cities and the ones already liv

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