jonp888

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by jonp888 3y ago
There are plenty of unsuccessful landlords who bought property hoping to renovate it and then found they couldn't, and for everyone who made money on the stock market there is someone who lost it. In the comment above yours someone mad
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It doesn't really matter in the end. The Human race is basically screwed and civilization will collapse in a few decades anyway. Most of your children's lives will be spent either starving, freezing, drowning, burning or fighting.
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by jonp888 3y ago
Apart from Google Flights, I often use azair.com, because it will let you do 'fuzzy searches' such as "any airport in Germany to any airport in Italy". If you want to take a journey that's rarely served, it's o
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by jonp888 3y ago
> American cinematic canon, which contains by most measures the greatest artistic accomplishments of mankind. I love how Americans are so high on their own exceptionalism that they come out with these kinds of statements without even rea
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by jonp888 3y ago
As far as I know no such tracking occurs and to do so would be illegal under German law. In London meanwhile, you can a weekly PDF statement showing exactly where you were and when! :)
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by jonp888 3y ago
As I said, there's no need to completely disregard what they say, but readers outside the UK should be aware that some aspects of how the IEA operates are controversial, and though it presents itself as an institution carrying out empi
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by jonp888 3y ago
Please be aware when reading this that the "Institute of Economic Affairs" is absolutely notorious in the UK for it's partisan and extreme libertarian views(at least in a British context), whether it be on tax cuts, climate c
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by jonp888 3y ago
A diff tool called "Spreadsheet Compare" is included with Excel. I don't think its supports "Track Changes" like Word.
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Excluding the closure of nuclear power stations, what do you consider bad about the German energy policy?
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3..2..1.. Get ready for dozens of comments from Americans who for some reason have very strong opinions on German nuclear policy, even though it has nothing to do with article
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What is about HackerNews and the obesession with the decision to remove Nuclear Power, which was only a minority component at it's peak, from the German energy mix, as somehow being the dominant factor in the entire German society and
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SNCF is not a monopoly any more. European regulations also prevent this(although admittedly the French government delayed implementing them as long as the possibly could). There is already competition on the Paris - Lyon - Milan route, and
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It depends massively on the local condition where you live, I guess. AirBNB just deliver the service. It's hardly their fault if not enough people signed up in your area. My typical experience in small towns where I live is that there
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If you tried that in Germany there would be a legal challenge on the grounds that a system which knows where the user travelled infringes on privacy :D
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As far as I am aware, although the system is very capable it started as someone's PhD thesis in the mid 80s and has been developed since then. I worked on the data prepartion for a small HAFAS installation at one point and the specific
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by jonp888 4y ago
Accept that nothing of significance will be done until it is far too late and most of the world is drowning, burning or starving. Enjoy your life, for goodness sake don't have children and prepare for the collapse of civilisation in ar
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by jonp888 4y ago
The openly racist, climate change denying, far right Alternative for Deutschland party won almost all districts in the last federal elections. It was the launching pad of the anti- Islam PEGIDA movement, and had the lowest covid vaccination
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by jonp888 4y ago
There is no address registration in the UK, for instance. It works OK for most people. British people are very opposed to it or to ID cards, despite that fact that it being OK to live in there with no ID whatsoever makes it attractive for i
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by jonp888 4y ago
1) Since there is Freedom of Movement and no border checks in the European Union, the only way to determine where someone is actually resident is if they register it. Health Insurance is mandatory in Germany. I am would have thought an Amer
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They weren't used by the government. They were used by individuals to hide information about themselves - usually adultery. The BBC suspended Gary Lineker for a couple of day's. They were massively criticisdd and he is back on ai
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There is no reawakening. Realistically, interest is slowly declining. Britain has had an extensive steam perservation scene for decades. It's just that the technology to do relatively affordable one-off designa nd manufacturing of stea
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Oh, here we go again. Yet another project that offers 0.0001% of the functionality of a Bloomberg Terminal(or one of it's genuine competitors) marketing itself with a clear comparison. I wish people would stop doing this, it just makes
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by jonp888 4y ago
It's usually not that simple. At my company, for instance, a device registered as Windows will be blocked from the network if security updates are not installed within a reasonable period of time, so any non-Windows device needs to be
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Yes, but Deutsche Post only delivers letters and small untracked packages. Large packages come through DHL, in a truck. AIUI, the US Post Office does everything in one.
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I didn't know it did anything apart from Chat and Video. Perhaps that's why I don't have any problem with it. What am I missing?
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Processing rates for Consumer cards are capped by law in the EU(and probably still in the UK).
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Losing an employee from one day to the next without any possibility to do knowledge transfer or implement a transition plan is far more disruptive than having then continue to work for a minimum period. The idea that if you just pay people
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Clearly you see sidewalks as entirely useless constructions that represent only unecessary cost and risk. It's incredibly sad that in your perfect world no one would ever walk further than from the door of their dwelling to the door of
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> published by one of the largest podcast directories on earth Is there any actual value in this? I was under the impression anyone could add any external podcast to iTunes for free.
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That's not a comparable situation. Spotify sign contracts with successful podcasters who they pay(> $100 million in one case) to produce content for their platform. The argument here is that by offering a "Click here to start

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