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by markvdb 6y ago
This used to be true, but it's quite little bit less so since about a year: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/01/shipping...
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Hey, no worries! Rereading my own comment, I realise I probably made you feel bad. That was not at all my goal. There is certainly room for improvement releasing videos early for future editions by working smarter. We'll certainly look
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The public matrix rooms at FOSDEM were bridged to irc. This was not by accident. We tried to give visitors the freedom to use their preferred tools to join FOSDEM. Whether you were using matrix with the latest Chromium or irssi in a tmux se
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The first videos are popping up on https://video.fosdem.org/2021 as we speak. P.S. The FOSDEM 2021 video team was three people. With day jobs. Humans. One of us with kids. Not perfect. Volunteering our time. During a pandem
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Giving electricity consumers the opportunity to set their consumption preferences is actually super logical. It's an obvious way to shave peaks off the total demand for electricity. Consumers obviously shouldn't have to monitoring
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Immune to everything but inflation and total government collapse does not buy you a lot in times of hyperinflation and total government collapse though. The article mostly looks at WWII. It would have been interesting to also include other
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> During WWII, a number of stock markets had “permanent breaks” with the market closing and never restarting again. That happened in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Poland and Finland when they were taken over by the Soviet Union. Comm
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Serving the FOSS developer community is FOSDEM's goal. We live by its grace. That is more than just fluffy talk. I believe FOSDEM to currently be fairly well positioned to keep that focus: - I like to hope/think FOSDEM's fina
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Hi! FOSDEM organising volunteer here. I'll try to to my best to answer your questions in a bit.
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This comment alone should be reason enough for the company behind Element to sue Google.
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Latvia went approximately -30% in 30 years, from 2.66 10^6 in 1990 to 1.894 10^6 in 2020. Further decreases are expected to bring this to under 1.5*10^6 in 2050. These numbers are massive, _and_ they underestimate the change in the countrys
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Staunch free software proponent here. Clearly, as you say, there's nothing wrong here legally. By choosing this license, Elastic explicitly allowed anyone in the world to do what Amazon is doing now. Ethically, I can't find anythi
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5:5 And, behold, I will deliver you up to the programmer tendency to build overelaborate castles of abstractions.
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The profit motive is everywhere in the medical sector, and that is a bad thing. Even if you believe in free markets, it's not easy to get the best care. To stay cose to the eye as a subject, look at vitreomacular adhesion. Roughly two
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by markvdb 6y ago
Hi! I'd like to share something I consider a success story. I'm using matrix successfully with my construction contractor and his helper. They've been working on a building site 2000km away for months. He and his helper have
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by markvdb 6y ago
Actually, bicycle tunnels - with a limited slope of course, like all other bicycle infrastructure - are recommended over bicycle bridges. These are more comfortable for cyclists. Gravity helps one cycle down, and the kinetic energy gained h
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> Americans still have [...] most importantly, the highest economic mobility in the world. Unfortunately, this is incorrect. If we are to believe the OECD [0], the US have near the lowest economic mobility of any developed country. [0]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannonball_Run_challenge#Legal...
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Down the wikipedia rabbithole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Empire .
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That won't even work within the EU. All sorts of barriers exist between EU states making this extremely difficult if not impossible. You'll need a salary or other reliable income sources in the EU member state where you're bu
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> If given the chance, I would go to great lengths to adjust my business, to right whatever wrong Facebook believes I have committed. I would change my business model, and shift the direction of my business to ensure I am fully compliant
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You'd just have to look at the global gold demand by industry [0]. [0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/299609/gold-demand-by-in...
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This kind of story is why your first priority when you start earning a salary should be to save up some f k you money. That should be about ten times easier on a software developer salary than on anything else, so consider yourself lucky.
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For any earnings over 41.060€ gross per year, net is approximately 1/3 of gross: - 13.07% employee side social security contribution. The ~35% of gross salary employer side social security contribution comes on top of this, so is not i
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A few points make the difference bigger: - Gross to net includes 13.07% employee side social security contributions. The state somewhat lowers those for the lowest income earners. This increases the gap. - Progressive taxation. Under 24k gr
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I have a very simple one: a bookmark to a web page that calculates the number of weeks until my 80th birthday. GF does not like it at all, but it works very well for me.
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Triggered by your comment, I triple checked with the person in question. The difference was ~155€ net from 2000€ gross to 2600€ gross. I updated my original message accordingly.
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Slightly off topic: Something funny is happening in my native Belgium. Some people drop their fifth formal working day to become bicycle couriers, Uber drivers or whatnot in the "sharing economy". The reason is taxation regimes. 8
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"You’re not only getting housing, but you also have an asset that you control that appreciates in value year over year." This should read: "You’re not only getting housing, but you also have an asset that you control that _ch
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by markvdb 6y ago
If you like this article, you may want to read The fish can sing by Halldor Laxness.[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fish_Can_Sing .

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