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1411.
by iso1210 7y ago
Even then those numbers are western. I guess it's easy enough to learn - I'm useless at languages but learnt to recognise arabic and urdu numbers. At least almost every culture in the world has a base 10 system for encoding number
1412.
by iso1210 7y ago
Imagine if DNS consisted only of Arabic characters. Imagine how grumpy you'd be that you couldn't go to newyork.gov.us for your local government website, and instead had to go to نيويورك instead? Assuming you can't read Arabi
1413.
by iso1210 7y ago
Wow, that's an evil mode. Man says it's the "easy" mode.
1414.
by iso1210 7y ago
The UK is desparate for a 'trade deal' with america having voted to completely cut ties with the EU.
1415.
by iso1210 7y ago
This is the quote: > In europe, jet fuel isn't taxed at all (but train/car fuel is) which often makes flying the cheaper option. From london, I can fly to several european cities cheaper than I can get a 2 hour train within th
1416.
by iso1210 7y ago
OP was comparing tax between Germany and the UK, especially on trips from London
1417.
by iso1210 7y ago
Train fuel is electricity. A train with 500 seats running London to Manchester costs about £4/mile in electricity, of which 20p will be VAT (which I think is reclaimed) - so tax would be about £35, or 7p per passenger. A flight of a 15
1418.
by iso1210 7y ago
I wonder what the emissions from a methane powered suborbital BFR is compared with a 16 hour flight, especially if that methane was generated from CO2 extraction from the air using renewable sources of electricity.
1419.
by iso1210 7y ago
It makes sense for the local optimisation of the individual to go for the walmart society - after all their single choice won't make a difference to anything other than their bottom line It makes sense for people as a whole to optimise
1420.
by iso1210 7y ago
I think it was a backronym, but it was referred to when I first used Debian in 2000 so it's hardly new
1421.
by iso1210 7y ago
That isn't a tax thing though - payroll/income taxes are roughly the same.
1422.
by iso1210 7y ago
In the UK, someone on £80k ($105k) will pay £25k ($33k) in tax. That includes healthcare In the US, someone on that amount in Denver will pay $29k in tax. That's not an extraordinary difference, even before you factor in health care co
1423.
by iso1210 7y ago
> Reading OPs problem and some posts here where people are too bored of making ludicrous money left me with a bitter aftertaste that life really is unfair and success in life is more linked to the lottery of birth and opportunities avail
1424.
by iso1210 7y ago
> Sid "unstable" The next door neighbour Still In Development
1425.
by iso1210 7y ago
generating methane from co2 and electricity is fairly easy, mining helium from jupiter too. Once you have self sustaining colony on mars it can colonise the rest of the solar system far easier than earth can.
1426.
by iso1210 7y ago
Do you accept wildcards, or create a new alias in advance every time? I used to accept wildcards around turn of millenium but spam was overwhelming. How do you stop "mainstream" providers from sending your emails to spam?
1427.
by iso1210 7y ago
> If it can technically be done and it is valuable in any way Insider trading is illegal
1428.
by iso1210 7y ago
Why do you think the information is valuable? It's clearly more valuable to companies like google than the cost of providing services like search and youtube. It's like saying that TV adverts give something for nothing, where the
1429.
by iso1210 7y ago
> IRC survived because it was too niche for spammers to target much but spam is the primary thing that killed Usenet and email as a truly open system. A year or so freenode was hit by spam, and now everyone needs to verify, so spam stil
1430.
by iso1210 7y ago
Simple solution: If it's Boeing, I 'aint going
1431.
by iso1210 7y ago
Ericsson and Nokia Networks, especially in the mobile/5g space.
1432.
by iso1210 7y ago
NY taxis have adverts in them. I therefore use uber in NY.