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by jayalpha 8y ago
You would be surprised how often my US credit card has saved my a... from insane European customer service. Hello Wizzair :-)
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by jayalpha 8y ago
That is nothing. Try flying to Australia and end up in Canada: https://www.news.com.au/travel/world-travel/north-america/co...
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by jayalpha 8y ago
" There is also a 24 hour period where you can cancel your flight, which I believe is by law." AFAIK, only if you book with an airline direct.
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by jayalpha 8y ago
This has happened with me and Sri Lanka airlines (tricky to book when they block VPNs, you are in China and they have a google captcha.). I ended up with two tickets, one via their website, one via Vayama. I complained and Sri Lanka airline
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Would you mind elaborating?
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by jayalpha 8y ago
"The billions are not arbitrary, but to settle obligations arising from the UKs past membership, such as pensions for their EU personell." No UK monkey was ever able to understand this. "Just walking away will make this oblig
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by jayalpha 8y ago
No. They are kicking themselves out.
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Most western food is likely more expensive. I can speak only for China. - Cheese. Good Cheese is expensive. - Milk is expensive - Floss and mouth wash was uncommon and expensive until recently. - dentures cleaners were super expensive (I us
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by jayalpha 8y ago
"Surprised this was being downvoted because it is true. If countries engage in protectionism unilaterally, they are predominantly harming their own consumers and undermining competition of their own businesses." This worked quite
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by jayalpha 8y ago
"Free trade is great even when applied unevenly." Is it? Lets assume a real FTA with the EU and Mercosul. Result? EU agriculture will nearly collapse, and Brasilian industry will nearly collapse. Sure, prices of electronics, cars
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Based on my understanding of Asian tastes, it likely will still make cheese a rather rare and expensive product. So I advise caution with the happiness. Reminds me of the guy who brought a shitload of blue cheese to Brazil and was surprised
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by jayalpha 8y ago
"Wether you want it or not, you are in the news business – as a Customer, that is." Thanks for clarifying this for me. Based on this, there is nearly no business I am not in. Does that make me a businessman extraordinaire?
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by jayalpha 8y ago
"I'm just incredibly baffled by what you're proposing the solution is if its not a cultural shift towards paying for content?" I am not in the news business. Nor am I am in the diesel motor business. It is not my task to
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by jayalpha 8y ago
"The impact on journalism has been clear. Just within the past week, we have seen over 1,000 planned layoffs at Gannett, BuzzFeed and HuffPost" I had never considered the click-bait outlet "HuffPost" as "quality jou
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Could be a quote from Pele Stanton https://peele.net
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by jayalpha 8y ago
"A large multicenter team reports that Porphyromonas gingivalis, which is the key pathogen in gingivitis (gum disease) may be the actual causative agent in Alzheimer’s, which is a bold claim indeed. But they have several lines of evide
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A New Infectious Mechanism for Alzheimer’s?(blogs.sciencemag.org)
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by jayalpha 8y ago
"Are Canada Goose coats really worth it in the first place ?" Define "worth"? There are many nice jackets for 1k US$ that you can buy. This being said, I am not aware of any military Unit wearing feather coats. And this
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by jayalpha 8y ago
"Host Flash is the ultimate Linux hosts file manager. " https://host-flash.com/
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Did you read about the car? Why not build it in China?
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Out of curiosity, what kind of "undiscovered territory" were you thinking about? As posted by me before: a) USA. Very little taxes in trade with the EU already. Little to gain with FTA. b) Canada? Okay, but the UK has this Free tr
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Dyson, a big Brexit supporter, plans also to build an electric car, in Singapore: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/23/dyson-to-... By the way, Singapore has an EU free trade agreement. I
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by jayalpha 8y ago
No, because timing. But if you have a few bucks to spare and want to gamble you could buy far out of the money options for a downturn. VIX gets priced in, don't know how it looks currently. Or you can gamble with "paper money&quot
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by jayalpha 8y ago
> I'm pretty knowledgeable on my local real estate market, and people are constantly telling me we're in a bubble (we're not) I don't know your real estate market, but real estate seems to be in a bubble basically wor
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by jayalpha 8y ago
> no it's not. It is easy to make fundamental predictions in finance. It is impossible to predict timings. > Once home prices stopped going up as much and interest rates started increasing, these people were no longer able to mak
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Describing market moves in "standard-deviation events" does not really make sense. It is something for normal distributions and "random walks". It has been known for a long time that his is not the case: https:/&#x
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by jayalpha 8y ago
It is a rule for German passports. US passports don't have characters. AFAIK there is no general rule for passports. Also, some passport numbers stay with you for life (China), other change with every passport.
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Passports. German passport has alphanumeric number but no O to avoid 0/O ambiguity.
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Well, mate is not the default Ubuntu Desktop. Honestly, I never got used to the Ubuntu desktop (What is it now? Unity?) but I always stayed with KDE and Kubuntu. Recently I am unhappy about the stability and also about the RAM requirements
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by jayalpha 8y ago
"Some people are disheartened to see how much you still need the command line to do some very basic things." I am more surprised how someone can do serious IT work with windows. A nightmare for me.

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