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by fy20 1y ago
I had a really interesting situation a couple of decades ago when I was studying. I grew up in a rural part of the UK in the South West. The nearest train station was just over the county border, around 20 miles away. One day I was waiting
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by fy20 2y ago
Maybe there's some truth to Douglas Adams' writing - we are just insignificant enough that nobody cares. In the Star Trek series it's similar, they are interested to see how pre-warp civilisations develop, seeing them as quai
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by fy20 2y ago
I wonder if explorers from a few hundred years ago would say the same thing.
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by fy20 2y ago
Also look at the production quality that a single person can achieve today. Go to Amazon and drop a few grand on mics, lights, cameras and lenses. The result is production quality beating any 90s talk show, which would have taken a whole te
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by fy20 2y ago
In my country every supermarket has a recycling box where you can drop batteries, light bulbs and old small electronics (think hair dryers or keyboards). I believe this comes from an EU regulation that when electronics reach end-of-life you
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by fy20 2y ago
As a European I'm quite surprised to see Americans hating on their most successful car company internationally. You could say Ford is successful too - but only by name - as the cars it is known for outside the US are completely differe
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by fy20 2y ago
> Bread keeps for a week, no problem A flour based food, full of preservatives will keep for a week. Bread does not :-)
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Glowing spiral appears in might sky over Europe(news.sky.com)
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by fy20 2y ago
They had a really big bezel, so the current 13" MacBook Air is barely any bigger than the 11" MacBook Air: - It's 0.5cm thinner - It's 0.41cm wider - It's 2.3cm deeper - It's 200g heavier The aspect ratio on th
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by fy20 2y ago
I'd guess this is one of the side effects of the 'sugar tax'. A few years ago the UK introduced a tax on sugary drinks, but there is no tax on sugary free drinks.
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by fy20 2y ago
Up until the 2000s diesel engines in cars used mechanically controlled injection. With those, once started, the engine will run without any electronics. Engines produced for industrial applications (such as tractors) in developing countries
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by fy20 2y ago
https://www.selectspecs.com/ if you are in Europe. I've been using them for years.
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by fy20 2y ago
A few years ago an optician convinced me to get some fancy 1.67 index lenses, but I couldn't deal with the chromatic abrasion. The text at the peripheral parts of my monitor were clearly split into their RGB components. For frontend wo
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by fy20 2y ago
They already sell the eUp, which in my country costs €18k after government incentives. It has a range of 260km. This looks like it is just a replacement for that in the "ID" range.
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by fy20 2y ago
There is no job security. I live in an EU country which has very strict rules about layoffs (you need to give notice + severance). Well here I am 6 months after being told I'll be laid off, and my previous employer hasn't paid me
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by fy20 2y ago
Italy is the same. Each region has it's own variations of words, which can be very different or mean different things in other regions. For example in Rome a grocery store bag is "busta", but in Milan it is "sachetto&quo
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by fy20 2y ago
That and finding the answer on StackOverflow that you wrote
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by fy20 2y ago
From the article it sounds more like they want to introduce paid communities... which is not a bad idea. Many content creators have some sort of paid community, so if Reddit can take some of that market it could out work well for them.
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by fy20 2y ago
The majority of the top 1000 YouTube accounts will actually have an email address publicly available, as they are a business and they want people to be able to reach out to them for sponsorships or brand collaborations. For example, MrBeast
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by fy20 2y ago
Tarrifs don't really help in this situation though. The actions of large governments do not affect just themselves, it's affect other countries too. The affects are much greater than just where to get the cheapest steel. Smart gov
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by fy20 2y ago
> There are so much factories built and so small demand companies can not survive without help from the Government. They were build thanks to cheap loans from the Government. It feels like this is true for any older Western country like
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by fy20 2y ago
Lithuania has interesting rules about the surname, as it is gendered, and the suffix changes when the woman is married. Typically the father's surname is used, and the suffix is changed to match the rules. For sons it's easy, as t
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by fy20 2y ago
Inspections in Europe are not just emissions. It varies by country, but in general they are checking all the equipment on the vehicle. In my country you even need to make sure the fire extinguisher has not expired. I'd guess most of th
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by fy20 2y ago
Another 2010 owner here. I'm at 280,000km, and other than burning some oil everything still works fine. Usually by this age cars here are pretty rusty, but so far my Prius has held up well. There's a few spots of surface rust in p
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by fy20 2y ago
A bit more context: Very few people in Europe travel internationally by train. If you need to go fast you go by air, or if you need to go cheap you go by bus. Train travel works well within some countries (a decade ago, I took a train from
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by fy20 2y ago
At the end of the day, I don't think many people would be doing this if they really had a choice (e.g. a few million in the bank, house paid off, etc), but it is what it is. You still need to play the game of life and make the most out
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by fy20 2y ago
The cost difference in power probably works out to much less than $50/year. Modern PCs are very power efficient when idle.
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by fy20 2y ago
You can get used impact printers fairly cheaply off eBay. They still have a use case in restaurant kitchens - where heat doesn't play nicely with thermal paper, and the noise alerts you to a new order. In Europe where fiscal printers a
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by fy20 2y ago
Sounds like you had a bad experience. I moved to Lithuania nearly a decade ago, and my experience was just like moving to another city in my country. Opening a bank account took around an hour, they just needed my passport. After a year I r
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by fy20 2y ago
> The reason for "why microplastics?" is because human use of everyday objects are more plastic than wood or steel. Over the past few decades there has been a trend for plastic based materials replacing natural materials in ev

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