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by fy20 5y ago
Which is exactly why we should be hoping this works. Given the way the Chinese economy works - being state controlled and all - if it takes off I expect they will start replacing coal plants with this, well before EOL. In the West it would
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by fy20 5y ago
The UK has a high population density, and a lot of land is still owned by old nobility who don't really care to sell it. In the rest of Europe prices are much lower, I'm currently building a house in Northern Europe on the outskir
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by fy20 5y ago
Have you spoken to your insurance? If there is a fire would they cover it, or would they reject the claim as you "aren't following the manufacturers guidelines" (as impractical as they are).
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by fy20 5y ago
As a kid I remember watching a documentary on spontaneous human combustion. That gave me nightmares for weeks...
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by fy20 5y ago
I live in another European country and people here were also patiently waiting there turn... and then those people got vaccinated and nobody else wants to. This week the government has put into effect new regulations that effectively ban un
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by fy20 5y ago
In Europe most passenger railway companies are nationalised (or at least heavily controlled by state owned entities), and rail transport in Europe is arguably much better than in the US.
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by fy20 5y ago
The usefulness of this given how finnicky wireless chargers are is questionable, over USB seems more plausible as even a USB condom wouldn't protect you from this. I imagine sitting in an airport, charging my phone and using the free W
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by fy20 5y ago
And what's the point of that? Aren't the verification apps going to check the issuer?
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by fy20 5y ago
I feel pretty well placed to answer this as in my country most cars are diesel, my summer project has been fixing an old diesel engine, and I drive a Prius :-) - Diesel engines are more complicated than petrol engines. You have a high press
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by fy20 5y ago
It's better than what happens in most of Europe where governments automatically track your vehicle's movements through cameras. At least you have a choice (for now).
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by fy20 5y ago
EVs are still significantly heavier than the ICE equivalent though, compare models from European manufacturers that sell the same body in EV or ICE versions. The EV version is typically a few hundred kilogram heavier, or even more if you ge
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by fy20 5y ago
One thing a lot of the comments here are missing is that EVs are already very close to matching the performance of ICE supercars. The Tesla Model S Plaid has the fastest quarter mile time for a mass production car, and it's not a sport
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by fy20 5y ago
> How about artificial flavonoid—xanthine concoctions such as Red Bull? In my country, 'energy drinks' cannot be sold to anyone under 20 (same as alcohol and tobacco) for exactly this reason.
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by fy20 5y ago
In Europe I'd say Italy takes that prize. I suspect it's the fact that there are a lot of different climates within the country (much like California). Spain grows a lot of produce for Europe, but things like cucumbers don't
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by fy20 5y ago
In Lithuania there is the "opportunity passport" which was designed to show you are safe. You can get it if you are fully vaccinated, have recovered (identified by a positive PCR test or have antibodies), or have had a negative PC
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by fy20 5y ago
As a tourist it shouldn't be an issue, but if you want to work there (not that there is really much to do outside big cities) you will have issues if you don't speak Lithuanian or Russian. But that's the same as if a non-Fren
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by fy20 5y ago
Be careful. After vaccines, politics and working from home vs the office, this is probably the next most controversial topic on HN.
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by fy20 5y ago
It's a zero sum game though... if everyone did this then the price you pay in the first place will go up or they would be cancelled. These benefits only work because most people don't take advantage of them.
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by fy20 5y ago
I live in Vilnius and you can easily get by just by speaking English, you only really need Lithuanian (or Russian, although younger people often don't speak it) if you need to deal with the government. Lots of tech companies hire peopl
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by fy20 5y ago
It's more the other way around... Sky has been a broadcaster and producer in Europe for a long time, and in the mid 2000s got into the ISP game thanks to local loop unbundling (allowing third parties to use shared telephone infrastruct
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by fy20 5y ago
I replaced an old Unifi AP with a TP Link EAP 245 v3 and its been running fine for 3 months. They have some equally complicated to setup provisioning software like Ubiquiti (when you have just one device it's overkill), however you can
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by fy20 5y ago
Side note, Jedi is the fourth largest religion in the UK. I wonder if Disney have considered registering it as an official religion to lower their tax bill there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_census_phenomenon
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by fy20 5y ago
Wind turbines take less than a year to become CO2 neutral - generating enough electricity to offset the embodied CO2 used to produce, transport and construct the turbine. https://www.newscientist.com/lastword/mg24332461
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by fy20 5y ago
What if you don't have a bike computer, so don't know how fast you are going?
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by fy20 5y ago
The problem with that is that some kind fellow on GitHub will clone the project, uncomment the code to enable the premium features for free, and change its name. If it's released under a FOSS license, the original authors have little r
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by fy20 5y ago
In this case the device was operating for months (blocking emergency frequencies?!?!) before they bothered to look for the source. Something on a timer would be much harder to discover due to the intermittent nature.
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by fy20 5y ago
I heard of a similar story when taking a tour of a local transmition station as a kid. You can light up fluorescent tubes by placing them on the ground under high voltage power lines, so I'd assume something like that is how this would
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by fy20 5y ago
There was something like that in the UK a decade ago, although that itself seemed like a racket, as the property owners and residents both paid. I understand now the law has changed, making it a lot harder to legally squat in the UK. https
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by fy20 5y ago
I needed to rent an apartment for 6 months a few years ago while on an Erasmus course and it was hard enough then... I even offered to pay up front - in cash - if it would make the process simpler, but nope. A few agencies simply turned me
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by fy20 5y ago
On the other hand, as a burglar if you are caught, couldn't you simply claim you have been there over 48 hours and are a legal squatter. Most residential properties won't have CCTV, so it's your word vs theirs.

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