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by lucaspiller 9y ago
It goes both ways too. As a European I’d love to buy a Fiat(-Chrysler) 500e, but they aren’t sold here.
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
Although I’m for universal income, one of my concerns is how do you prevent companies from abusing it, and inflating prices even more. Drugs and medical treatments in the US are already very expensive compared to the same in other countrie
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
I have one and it’s pretty impressive how fast 3.7kW can heat things up (apparently you can even get 5kW models). I ditched my electric kettle as it was too slow in comparison.
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
On a related note it’s interesting how electric shavers (which could easily suffer from the same issue) are allowed on aircraft, but mobile devices need to be in flight mode. Are the frequencies of RF noise from an electric motor in a diffe
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
> Additionally, with FM you need to make sure no transmitters on the same frequency can cover the same area, as that would lead to interference. In the UK the BBC transmits their FM channels on the same range across the whole country [0]
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
A few years ago I had a subscription card for a cinema chain in the UK, it worked out to be the cost of around 1.5 tickets a month, but I ended up going around once a week. Anyway, at the time there was no way to book tickets online, you ju
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
It seems like a weird thing to purposely lookup, however I could imagine someone came across it, "This person watched A Christmas Prince every day for the past two weeks? That can't be right...", and then dug into it more, an
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
The linked paper says this: > we recommend here that ecological thresholds for neonicotinoid water concentrations need to be below 0.2 μg/L (shortterm acute) or 0.035 μg/L (long-term chronic) to avoid lasting effects on aquatic
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
I store backups on BluRay and bought a USB BD drive for this reason. I’m not planning on keeping the backups in this format forever, if something better comes out in 10 or 20 years I’ll move to that. I only use the drive once or twice a yea
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
One of the complicated parts about this for US citizens is taxes. If you are a US citizen you have to file taxes with the IRS for your worldwide income, even if you are living and paying taxes in another country. I assume most EU countries
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
NatWest is a subsidiary of RBS.
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
Used enterprise hardware that supports 10Gbit isn’t that expensive. For the average home user even gigabit is overkill, which is why 90%+ of people just use whatever WiFi router their ISP provides.
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
Also I agree banks in the US really need to modernise their procedures, I don’t really see how this is an argument for cryptocurrncy. Here in Europe I can make a payment to any other EUR bank account in Europe, for free and it’ll usually ar
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
These type of articles always come with stark warnings that in the future many people won’t have jobs, however if you compare today’s technology versus the 60s and 70s, the data would tend to disagree. In the US the unemployment rate is now
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
How do things like director expenses work? If I setup a company that rents me a house, a company car, and caters all my meals, I don’t need to pay any taxes?
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
If you already have a GTX 1060 or RX 470 and above, then yes you can probably still turn a small profit. However if you are looking to invest, it’s probably going to more profitable to buy coins than to buy mining hardware (at least for ETH
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
I’m in the process of writing up an article that explains what I think is the best way currently: using a wallet supporting BIP32, 39 and 44. A hardware wallet like Trezor or Ledger are the most user friendly ways to do this right now, but
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
In the UK these type of delivery drivers will be driving vans weighing under 3.5t. The restrictions on driving times only apply to vehicles above this weight.
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
I wonder if people felt the same when oil started to become popular in the late 1800s. The amount we use now, compared to then, would be completely unimaginable to them.
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
I have some friends in Germany, and their view - for the middle class - is that life begins in your 50s. At this age your kids have moved off to college or university, your debts are mostly paid off (not that debt is really a thing in Germa
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
Both my wife and I have three year old 5Ss, but our experience with iOS 11 has been completely different. For me it works just as well as 10, maybe even slightly better. For her it has turned her phone into a complete dog, even opening a co
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
Kind of highjacking the thread, but are there any SBC that support 4K HDR under Linux? I bought a OrangePi PC2 as the hardware does, but it only works at that resolution under Android.
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
If anything I’d say this will increase the supply of second hand hardware, as it will be cheaper to resell it, than break it down and recycle it.
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
It’s been like this where I live for 5 years and I still don’t remember to take plastic bags back to the store...
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
Netflix must be expensive for you...
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
Tesco in the UK (and I guess other supermarkets but I haven’t used them) give you the option of choosing not to have you groceries delivered in plastic bags. In that case they deliver them in the same reusable plastic trays they use interna
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
The loophole that allows the wealthy to avoid paying taxes usually has nothing to do with hiding money though. In the EU there is a lot of talk right now about companies like Apple avoiding taxes, if you buy an iPhone in France pretty much
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
And of course, somebody has already ordered one for cryptocurrency mining: https://twitter.com/BitsBeTrippin/status/939031211233525760
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
My parents have a plastic container slightly hidden in some bushes (ie not visible from the road), and the postman just leaves packages in there.
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by lucaspiller 9y ago
I lived in the UAE a few years ago, and I wouldn’t really be surprised. When I had water delivered I just left money and the empty bottles on the doorstep and never had any issues. One time I was at a coffee shop in a mall and there was a t

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