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by fyfy18 6y ago
Another alternative is bricks made from cork. The main use of cork is making wine bottle stoppers, which results in lots of left over material. Cork is more ecological than wood, as it's the stripped bark of the tree (the tree will con
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by fyfy18 6y ago
I'm unsure about industry, but at least for residential use gas won't be going away any time soon in Europe. In the UK 86% of houses use gas as the fuel for their central heating system, and even more use it for cooking and heatin
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by fyfy18 6y ago
You can find ex-military vehicles on eBay for pretty cheap in Europe. The problem is here you will need a C1 or C driving license if the vehicle is over 3500kg (7700lb) so the resale values are quite low. And I don't want to guess how
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by fyfy18 6y ago
I meant "can be" in that if you buy one rated for those temperatures it will reach that, but not all heat pumps are rated for that.
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by fyfy18 6y ago
A bit off topic, but does the US have import tariffs or customs duties for items purchased abroad? In the EU for most items over €20 purchased outside the EU, you will need to pay customs duty and VAT, and possibly a processing fee. The rat
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by fyfy18 6y ago
There's also the Astravets plant in Belarus, of which the first reactor is due to come online later this year. The initial batch of fuel was received last month. The plant has sparked some tensions in the area, especially with Lithuani
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by fyfy18 6y ago
There's plenty of EU countries where this is the case too. I personally know people who have got their license back after being caught drink-driving because they knew the right person and how much to pay. Regarding the motorcycle test
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by fyfy18 6y ago
I'm in a nearby (EU) country and the VOIP rates to terminate calls here are also quite expensive compared to Western EU countries. In a lot of cases it's actually cheaper to make calls to numbers here on a mobile phone from anothe
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by fyfy18 6y ago
Modern air source heat pumps can be effective down to -25C (-13F) in heat pump mode, and will automatically switch to resistance heating if needed. I'm building a house where it can get to -35C at times (but usually above -20C in winte
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by fyfy18 6y ago
I was brought into to help at an early stage startup a few years ago. The company was building an e-commerce platform and the product owner had this idea of 'attributes' that could be attached to any kind of entity in the system (
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by fyfy18 6y ago
In the EU most countries still had borders open for commercial traffic even during the height of the quarantine. This applied not only to trucks shipping tomatoes from southern Europe (rather vital), but also to a plumber hopping across the
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by fyfy18 6y ago
That's going to be the golang compiler - you can cross compile static binaries from your PC that will run on ARM. The final binary size should be a few mb.
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by fyfy18 6y ago
I don't think it's necessarily fair to assume she "needs" that without further context. My parents (late 70s; mother has severe arthritis) have an iPad that they use for video calling and they have been able to pick it u
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by fyfy18 6y ago
I don't disagree that eating plants is more efficient than eating animal products, but what I'd like to know is how much it costs to transport these products. Is coconut oil grown and processed in Thailand, then flown to Europe an
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by fyfy18 6y ago
I think the issue people have with the BBC are that it is very much controlled by the government/elite. This is the case for most British media though - compared to the US there isn't anywhere near the level of independence. (Also
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by fyfy18 6y ago
My wife has recently cut out a lot of dairy products and tried to replace them with vegan alternatives. The problem is most of the alternatives you can buy from the supermarket are made from coconut oil, soybeans, or some kind of exotic nut
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by fyfy18 6y ago
Maybe a NPM module for generating UUIDs? /s
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by fyfy18 6y ago
Does anyone know of any projects that allow you to do weather forecasting yourself at home? Of course it's going to be limited without a network of stations, but with measuring atmospheric pressure (and delta) should give you a pretty
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by fyfy18 6y ago
I like dark mode on my phone, because when I want to read at night (i.e. in bed) even on the lowest settings the screen feels too bright on light mode. On my computer though I don't really care, I never use it in a completely dark rom,
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by fyfy18 6y ago
Mass reforestation is possible in a generation or two though... In Lithuania for example a lot of reforestation was done in the later half of the last century, the percentage of the land that is forested now is 33% compared to 20% in the 40
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by fyfy18 6y ago
I've found this period has had an overall positive effect on my mental health. At first I was rather depressed, religiously following the news and subreddits about what was happening, but after a couple of weeks of that I realised I co
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by fyfy18 6y ago
This is the case for many EU laws - depending on the area [0], laws agreed upon in Brussels don't actually mean anything on their own, but member countries are required to write them into their own law. After Brexit happens such laws w
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by fyfy18 6y ago
Would anyone like to speculate on what new tech we will see that will take advantage of this? I can already stream (to my device) a 4K 60fps video while in a park, and at home I have gigabit fiber (up and down) which is barely ever used to
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by fyfy18 6y ago
Most of the revenue for the Mozilla Foundation comes from bundling Google as the default browser, and has done for a long time. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2018/
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by fyfy18 6y ago
In my country this is how the petrol stations stay relevant. Prices for fuel are pretty consistent between them (unlike say Italy, where there can be a 20c/litre difference if you drive 100m to the next station) so they've had to
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by fyfy18 6y ago
This has been very much the case in UK high streets for the past few years (on and off since '08). In the county-town where I grew up a Starbucks (!?!) closed because the rents were too high. Even before the pandemic, a number of shops
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And they are made in the UK still, unlike Dyson.
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How do you find your brain works and how productive you are compared to say 20 years ago? My father is in his late 70s and gets quite tired during his day - I wonder if you keep working it keeps the brain more active. Also it must be weird
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by fyfy18 6y ago
Don't ever try Scala. I work on a mid-sized CRUD application, and everything we need to recompile from scratch it takes 10 minutes. Typescript and Go are amazing in comparison in that department, but I miss the stronger typing of Scala
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by fyfy18 6y ago
I'd assume it depends on where the eggs come from: Are eggs that are from caged chickens fed antibiotics, the same as eggs that come from chickens that are free to run around and feed on food made only from organic plants?

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