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by fy20 5y ago
Come to Lithuania (we have winters of -25C and summers of 35C). All new homes have to be build to a building code that actually exceeds Passive House in some cases. In our apartment (built 2016) we don't even turn on the heating until
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by fy20 5y ago
Windows have a U or R value like insulation, so you can use that to compare. We are currently building a house and the triple glazed windows we chose have a U value of 0.9. The same manufacturer also makes double glazed windows which have a
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by fy20 5y ago
In Europe it seems to have changed too. Salaries are still of course low compared to the US, but it seems the salaries are stabilising across the continent. I've been speaking to recruiters recently and a lot more companies are open to
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by fy20 5y ago
There's also the option of migration within the country. If we take an elevation map of Bangladesh and compare it to a climate map, there are areas that are higher and still have good climates for crops. https://www.research
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by fy20 5y ago
I was working with a Ukrainian guy for a few years, and he was always complaining about taxes and how he wanted to pay less. Eventually he told us he was paying an effective tax rate of 7% :D
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by fy20 5y ago
This is the same for professional printers too. A friend of mine has a side business printing signs and has a large format Epson (I think?) printer. It takes something like 12 inks and has options for chrome and other niche colours. During
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by fy20 5y ago
On Windows you just don't connect to a network when installing, and it'll let you create a local account.
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by fy20 5y ago
> In regions with unstable governments you cannot rely on the government to keep saying that your house is your house. You can say it's your house all you want, but if the new regime sends soldiers to evict you, no amount of evidenc
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by fy20 5y ago
Anyone who is a contractor - working through a personal service company - effectively makes their tax returns public in the UK as well.
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by fy20 5y ago
I'm interested to know why you didn't go back. Reading OPs article there are a lot of red flags that stand out to me today, but if I was young and fresh out of college, I'd probably be happy to take a job there.
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by fy20 5y ago
I was under the impression that modern reactors have much safer designs that would make a repeat of that much less likely, and then slightly different tech like molten salt reactors completely prevent meltdowns. That still doesn't prev
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by fy20 5y ago
Yeah for smaller companies this is the norm. Even within Europe, if you work for a company in another country it will usually be as a contractor on paper, as it's a lot of work to setup payroll etc for one person (it needs to be done
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by fy20 5y ago
I don't really see a problem with this, as long as it is only used after an incident and only available to law enforcement. Of course it's a slippery slope, first this, then something else, but that's a different story. If yo
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by fy20 5y ago
My wife used to work for Emirates, and this was her favourite route as you had a long layover in both Rio and Buenos Aires :-) It meant you were away from home for almost a week, but it's much better to be away doing this than stuck on
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by fy20 5y ago
I upgraded to an Asus Zephyrus G14 (2021 edition) at the end of last year, as my T470s was getting a bit slow. The dimensions are smaller than the Thinkpad, but it weighs slightly more (1.7kg). The thing is though this is a gaming laptop...
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by fy20 5y ago
The main issue is that a heat pump takes a lot longer to heat up water on demand than a gas boiler. A gas boiler as used in the UK typically has a heat output of 25 to 50kW. Where as a heat pump for the same sized home can produce maybe 8kW
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by fy20 5y ago
Probably not much. Fuel tanks are usually made of plastic now, so you aren't likely to create a spark and ignite something. Petrol fuel in liquid form is hard to ignite, so if it leaks not much is going to happen other than giving your
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by fy20 5y ago
I had a cheap one 5 years ago that was able to jump start a car. The instructions said to leave it connected to the battery for 30 seconds before trying to start it, so I guess it's more a portable battery charger than a jump starter.
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by fy20 5y ago
> zero-calorie sweeteners What about the idea that sweeteners cause insulin resistance? Is there any proper (not funded by the sugar industry) research either way?
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by fy20 5y ago
This is me... I live in an apartment without space to securely store a bike (bikes left in the parking have been stolen) and I really don't like running. I try to walk 10,000 steps each day - around 5km or 1 hour in total - though.
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by fy20 5y ago
If they want to go green, why are they even allowing new homes to be heated by burning fossil fuels? Especially France where you have electricity with such a low CO2/kWh. In Lithuania you can no longer build new homes heated by gas. Al
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by fy20 5y ago
Retrofitting is going to be much more than the cost of the unit itself though. You can't just replace an on-demand gas boiler with a heat pump. The rest of the heating system is completely different between the two, it just wouldn&#x27
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by fy20 5y ago
The lowest is just over 1000ft below sea level. You probably don't want to be flying full speed at 0ft sea level there either.
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by fy20 5y ago
Goods vehicles and trucks almost always have speed limiters in Europe that do exactly this. This leads to fun on the highway when one truck who's limiter is a mile an hour or two faster than the truck in front decides to overtake.
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by fy20 5y ago
Does that apply to things you 'have' to do as well? I don't really like shopping for groceries, but I'd rather do that, than order take out that's expensive and probably not very healthy. If I'm going to cook s
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by fy20 5y ago
Homes that use gas in the UK typically have a gas boiler that provides both hot water for heating and domestic use (taps). They heat the water on demand, there is no facility for storing the water. Heat pumps as we have now cannot be used l
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by fy20 5y ago
It's the same in other countries too. My electricity is based on the Nord Pool prices, and a few days this month it has gone above 40c/kWh [0]. This time last year it was around 5c/kWh. (The amount I pay is higher as I need t
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by fy20 5y ago
I wouldn't consider the UK as a good example of affordable housing. First of all, compared to the rest of Europe houses are small - my parents have a house that's slightly larger than the average, it has 3 bedrooms in 90m2 includi
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by fy20 5y ago
> If you list the salary as too low, you're sending out a negative signal and will get less qualified candidates I'm not sure if it has changed now, but Gitlab used to have a big problem with the way they calculated compensatio
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by fy20 5y ago
In my country there's only one provider that supports eSIMs and the plans are much more limited. There are no prepay eSIM plans for example.

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