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by hondadriver 8y ago
Fully second this, we also have Forest. They have proven to be the most reliable Home Automation part in our home. Prices start at about EUR 500, but increase with curtain length (excluding the curtains). Seems like at lot, but having to re
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by hondadriver 8y ago
This
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by hondadriver 8y ago
Jetbrains is like a new Borland. I hope they don’t end the same...
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by hondadriver 8y ago
The key could be only on the client side, derived from your password. Ok they could be evil and send it to their server in the next update, we will have to trust them not to do so.
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by hondadriver 8y ago
How can he prove he did posses this amount of crypto currency and is not making everything up? With a system without any regulation nor oversight where you have to play your own bank, this is exactly what you’ve signed up for...
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by hondadriver 8y ago
The quiz is called AWS Icon Quiz. "AWS has terrible icons" is only the title of the Hacker News post.
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by hondadriver 8y ago
Obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/1174/
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by hondadriver 8y ago
True, but until recently it was very uncommon to save first to buy a house. This is because you could get a mortgage for up to 125% of the price of the house bought and the interest on this loan could be fully deducted from income tax. And
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by hondadriver 8y ago
There is income tax (interest / gains on stocks / crypto etc is not seen as income). And there is tax on your valuable possessions on the first of January, exceeding 25.000 a person, so 50.000 if you're together, ex. your fir
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by hondadriver 8y ago
On your possessions above 25.000 (ex first home) on January 1st, you pay as if you will be making 4% the coming year. The tax is 30% over this virtual 4% gain. So 1,2% tax over the amount above 25.000 But mind if you keep the possessions, n
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by hondadriver 8y ago
You're right it is a tax on the possessions (except your primary home) you have. so if you've bought a second home, it is also taxed, so not unspent , but if you put more than 25.000 on a current account with 0% interest rate, yo
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by hondadriver 8y ago
Yes you've paid income tax for it and have to pay VAT if you buy something. The idea is you are going to invest / save the money and earn interest, get dividends or profit from the stock price itself. The old system used a virtual
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by hondadriver 8y ago
In some countries, for example the Netherlands, unspent income is taxed if it is above EUR 25000 per person.
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by hondadriver 9y ago
Can you please explain further? How does it work on the iPhone? How is it different from this method?
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by hondadriver 9y ago
Ah now I understand why the clock on our microwave oven is running behind. I am sure I set it correctly after the end of the latest daylight savings period (which they also should forbit, different subject). It seems getting worse over time
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by hondadriver 9y ago
I guess you mean L-R. In Dutch and German 1925 is most commonly read as 'nine teen five and twenty' But 2025 as 'two thousand five and twenty'
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by hondadriver 9y ago
Not so strange. We just parted a few months ago from our 4:3 29 inch trinitron. It still worked, but we wanted a bigger screen for our new home. I never liked LCD so replaced it with a Sony OLED (yes I know the panel is from LG)
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by hondadriver 9y ago
I am Dutch and learned to open the door this way. But judging the comments of other Dutch people, it seems it is not universally taught. I am puzzled why it would be offensive to call it the Dutch reach. I see it as a compliment.
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by hondadriver 9y ago
Maybe relevant: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=208
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by hondadriver 9y ago
In mainland Europe we only use the metric system, even when speaking or writing English. Also it is common to stick to the comma as decimal separator and dot as thousands separator when writing English. This convention is independent of the
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by hondadriver 9y ago
And you forget what we get for those taxes / lower salaries... Things like better social security (what if you loose your job? Get I'll? Etc.) , Retirement funds, heath care, and maybe most important free time, like 25 to 35 paid
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by hondadriver 9y ago
Aurelia + TypeScript for the front-end and C# on .NET Core for the back-end.
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by hondadriver 10y ago
when reading this, and from my own experience, I think it are the brakes. But only that it also happens when you don't break continuously. Could it be a CVT geared car has a lot less resistance on the engine, even in the L position, co
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by hondadriver 10y ago
Oops, you're right, corrected above. (I am not a native speaker)
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by hondadriver 10y ago
I always use low gearing when going downhill, updated the story.
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by hondadriver 10y ago
Disclaimer: I know little about the technical details of cars. I don't know if it is the same noise, but I had a loud, fast paced, 'whoom, whoom, whoom' sound on my Honda Civic Hybrid from 2008 when going downhill a lot. Livi