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by fmobus 3y ago
I live in Germany, and am moving to a place ~50km from my workplace. It's a small town with about 15k inhabitants. It's an affordable and nice place, but I'm only really doing because there's a direct regional train to t
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by fmobus 3y ago
Surely the FAA has plenty of roles where people with those disabilities could work. It's not like they are trying to add a deaf person to be ATC communication coordinator or a paraplegic to be an emergency firefighter.
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by fmobus 3y ago
LAX might be a better option for the airline, as it is a larger airport with several alternative flights towards Japan where passengers could be shuffled into.
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by fmobus 3y ago
Given the abhorrent racism within the country at that time, can we really say there was an unified national identity?
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by fmobus 3y ago
What the actual fuck. I live in Germany and pay ~35c/kWh, I thought power was supposed to be cheap in the states.
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by fmobus 3y ago
Sibling comment linked to Wikipedia English article, which describes the overall thing, but I think it lacks a bit on the "being the opposite of shock therapy". The thing about Plano Real is really about its previous context. In t
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by fmobus 3y ago
Brazil cured its hyperinflation by what could be described as the opposite of shock therapy.
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by fmobus 3y ago
Well, the marketing person who came up with message can pat themselves in the back because you bet the engagement on that one was thru the roof.
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by fmobus 3y ago
In a case I read (can't remember where), reservation data was somehow leaking (either from booking or from hotels), and scammers were sending messages purporting to be the hotel saying the room was cancelled or mischarged or something
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by fmobus 3y ago
A 7-digit colony is a very distant thing, despite of Musk's nutty ideas. Guy can barely get his car things or his HLS things right, not sure why people trust him to lead on Mars colonization. His plans are not serious. At current level
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by fmobus 3y ago
Same experience for me here. And somehow, META stock is absolutely printing. I really don't understand this
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by fmobus 3y ago
I can extrapolate how much work is involved in keeping a 250sqm house clean, so I would decline the offer unless it came with magical cleaning dwarves.
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by fmobus 3y ago
Plenty of happy families in my building here in Germany, judging by how active kids are in the playground. Heck, we even have a kindergarten right next to the building, schools within walking distance (and kids actually walk to them - alone
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by fmobus 3y ago
Soundproof windows are the norm in Germany for modern buildings and are a ducking godsend. Mine are so good I can't even hear the rain unless it's a full-on storm. Also, outside curtains are pretty good at blocking light. To the p
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by fmobus 3y ago
I tried Language Transfer for German an found it very underwhelming. I heard a few bits of the last lesson, and it sounded like A2.1 stuff to me.
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by fmobus 3y ago
> The catch? Those credits expire in one year if unused. They do not accumulate. That's kinda fucked up. But well, for my friend in the South, where winters are miserably cold and houses have no heating infrastructure, using the acc
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by fmobus 3y ago
What's the regulatory situation for selling energy back to the grid? Friend of mine 10+ years ago in Porto Alegre opted for solar for water heating only, because there was no mechanism for net metering.
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by fmobus 3y ago
> It's happening with conspiracy theories, there's no single central figure commanding them but a stochastic machine reeling people in, which then feedbacks into itself. Interesting view. Kinda reminds me of stuff in Ghost in t
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by fmobus 3y ago
> The US is a continent spanning nation How is that relevant? No one commutes from NY to LA everyday, much as no one commutes from Berlin to Munich everyday. > and half the country does not live in a city Yes, and that's what I m
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by fmobus 3y ago
It can, when cities are not built with dumb land use patterns. I am moving to an apartment 50km away from my workplace. Commuting by car or by train will take around the same time (~50 min door-to-door), but the car will be subject to rando
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by fmobus 3y ago
Quick Google search tells me 28 people lost their lives due to traffic in Seattle in 2023.
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by fmobus 3y ago
It's more efficient for society as a whole. Public transit simply moves more people using less space and less energy, causing fewer deaths, while also being more equitable to boot. And your comment noted, it's a godsend for the mi
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by fmobus 3y ago
It is more efficient though. But if you say you want to avoid at all costs, and assuming there are more people like you out there, maybe we should just start _charging that cost_.
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by fmobus 3y ago
I've added a recurring event on my calendar to check login-ability to several apps with which I've had this kind of experience in the past. At least once per month.
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by fmobus 3y ago
What is your proposed policy alternative?
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by fmobus 3y ago
Is it really? How fast does it settle? Does it require an extra app and extra account? Is it guaranteed to be supported by any bank? Does it charge fees? Is it widely used and trusted by people? Seriously, I don't think people in this
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by fmobus 3y ago
Meanwhile, I can pay the ice cream vendor in Copacabana Beach using pix and the transaction is confirmed on their device before I even lift my finger from the screen.
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by fmobus 3y ago
Yep. Any developer that happens to make a good app will then be forced to cram it with ads to cover the fees. It will make success into a curse.
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by fmobus 3y ago
Where I work, using signal or any other tool for something related to work is a fireable offense. If you want something OTR, it's either a phone call or a f2f.
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by fmobus 3y ago
That doesn't sound good in terms of future-proofing this technology. If I want to read stuff 200 years from now, the knowledge necessary for that process will be buried deep inside some opaque ML blob.

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