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by harha 4y ago
I just drew [1] the radius from my home for comparison, this is unimaginably far. [1]: https://www.calcmaps.com/map-radius/
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by harha 4y ago
Professionally kind of – as some other posters mentioned, it's harder to reach higher pay grades. Some of my peers work very little and earn pretty well with their specializations (though some others ended up with so much responsibilit
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by harha 4y ago
Taxes are taking from funds for personal projects, and universities already get a lot of funding in Europe to do research, maybe they should focus on creating a better environment for students to become researchers or entrepreneurs instead.
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by harha 4y ago
I've recently been searching for some how-to videos and the number of ads is insane - but somehow they don't show when I watch in the video search results in DuckDuckGo
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by harha 4y ago
Search was quite broken back then. It got reasonably good at some point, now I’d argue it’s the content as a whole that’s gotten worse. I’m just skeptical if the EU bureaucrats will put the money in the right place, and if this is even the
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by harha 4y ago
That’s the cool thing about insurance, it doesn’t have to be popular - you have a risk you’d like to cover, here’s what it costs you
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by harha 4y ago
Ok so the middle class can’t afford to build a pool for 15-50k? Talking about bleeding out the middle class.
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by harha 4y ago
First result on DDG [0]: “The French Newspaper Le Parisien calculated that an average pool measured at 322 square feet is taxed 200 Euros per year.” I think the middle class should be able to afford a 8x4m pool outside of big cities. Especi
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by harha 4y ago
I think it’s mostly the middle class suffering. Would a billionaire save 300€ a year for a pool? And does the IRS need so many more agents to chase rich people? Also without an army of tax consultants and lawyers it’s easy to not be aware
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by harha 4y ago
Im afraid I’m not convinced. Taxes are often confusing to a point that you need experts to understand the whole construct and even then there’s disagreement. I don’t think that’s justified. The “community” has very little say in what happen
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by harha 4y ago
Probably will get downvoted but I don’t think paying taxes leads to more social justice. There are some exceptions where government actions are closer to the people they represent, but in general I have the impression that most governments
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by harha 4y ago
One issue is the higher upfront cost and this is where high-tax Europe could make a smart move: reduce VAT on products that get certified to last longer (modularity, longer warranty, fair pricing on spare parts, refurbished program to re-se
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by harha 4y ago
Especially in white it has the aesthetics of a stackable plastic garden chair, it just makes the surrounding nature look like a trashy trailer park back yard.
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by harha 4y ago
> make people not want them on their land or within eyesight I think that’s already the case. Better paint one black before someone has the idea to put ads on them, the only thing that could make them even less pleasant to have around
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by harha 4y ago
I have a family in a city. Judging by the cars around here, I’d say this is more likely to be BMWs market than most of the countryside. And I also think I would have had a car 10 years ago, now it’s just not anything I’d really consider wit
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by harha 4y ago
I think they’re also a bit blind towards what potential market they’re losing, even if it’s just step by step. My peer group would probably have been a great target 10 years ago. Now I hardly know anyone at my level with a car, and if, it’s
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by harha 4y ago
Wow this is evil. Talking of a company that claims being super green by not adding a charger or using different boxes for refurbished devices, but then makes sure you have to replace your otherwise functional electronics every few years. Or
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by harha 4y ago
> focus on the cleanliness of the shop, politeness of the staff or their hours I was in a European country at that time, so all of this was pretty much standard for this tier of shop (reasonably clean, not very polite, bad hours), anythi
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by harha 4y ago
For the iMac panel: I did some research because I wasn’t sure if it actually had a problem (I just had a hunch on the brightness and the monitor symbol had changed) - then I found one that worked as expected on alibaba, but dealing with all
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by harha 4y ago
> It is clear this 'Self Service Repair' model is designed to prevent independent repair shops from making money, therefore eliminating them. In what way is this good for the consumer? The quality can be highly questionable. On
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by harha 4y ago
If you’re dealing with customers that way you should have a big red warning sign everywhere to not run anything in production under any circumstances. Otherwise don’t take their money and advertise that everything will be easier and more re
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by harha 4y ago
Judging by the demands it sounds more socialist though. They don't seem to want less, only different government. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Occupied_Protest#...
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by harha 4y ago
Ah I think now I get it: Say I'm connected to devices A and B. Now C starts playing something, so via iCloud through one of the connected devices, the headphones get the message to disconnect and connect to C. So A, B, C need to be con
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by harha 4y ago
> If you want to avoid Apple, then you're up to the will of N vendors want to try to solve the problem their own way, so... Isn’t this the whole idea of having a standard? > For Apple, the key feature is iCloud. Your headphone bl
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by harha 4y ago
Ok let me rephrase that: can anyone explain why this common scenario doesn’t work and if there’s any way to solve this? Would a homebrew device running my own software help?
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by harha 4y ago
Small side note on Bluetooth: I regularly use four devices (phone, tablet, laptop, desktop) and I have two pairs of headphones (in ear and over ear). Since it’s 2022 and we have so much amazing technology all around us, these are the two th
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by harha 4y ago
Nope, just no treatment (not fact checked of course, but it sounds likely that they wouldn't get top notch treatment that an average person say in Western Europe could expect)
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by harha 4y ago
Looks like overall Apple subscriptions have solid growth. [0] I use it after I got bored of Netflix and other programs, because it’s ad and in-app purchase free and loads quickly on all devices. The games are obviously not the best, but the
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by harha 4y ago
That only plays out if you offer anything to customers once the competitors are gone. Also: there’s still PlayStation, Xbox and even Apple Arcade doing perfectly fine in this space
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by harha 4y ago
There are really just two situations if the solution generalizes well - and if it doesn’t it might be worth just mentioning that and to move on: 1. similar open data exists, great, just publish a sample implementation 2. if not the first ta

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