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by markvdb 10y ago
Any idea how many EU multinational headquarters and logistics centers the UK has, versus Switzerland or Norway? Right... What about financial centers? Make no mistake. This will have a significant impact. Even my small laser cutting service
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by markvdb 10y ago
Bad news for all EU citizens, even worse news for UK citizens. We hackernews folks will be OK. As always, the vulnerable will suffer most.
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by markvdb 10y ago
EU wide base regulation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_on_the_energy_perfor... In the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Performance_Certificate In Belgium: https://nl.w
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by markvdb 10y ago
A flat tax is socially regressive, even if it is mathematically proportional. The marginal utility of 100€ is totally different at 370€/month compared to 10000€/month.
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by markvdb 10y ago
2) "One of the decentralized contenders happens to be the new Facebook by chance" is not going to happen. Interesting reading material: http://benkler.org/Pub.html .
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by markvdb 10y ago
This is yet another perverse collision of care and market regulation. Other examples abound. Why do we accept this? Do we even dare think of alternatives? What if western governments stop enforcing drug development intellectual rights? Not
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by markvdb 10y ago
"ON! TO! MARS! ON! TO! MARS!". I would sooo much love to hear that chant next time. That would really do justice to this kind of historic event. A chant like this would celebrate progress and claim this for what it is, an accompli
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by markvdb 10y ago
OVH have data centres and dedicated support staff in .ca too.
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by markvdb 10y ago
Cheaper, but does it also provide value? For non-critical things, OVH provide relatively good value for money. For critical things, I wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole. OVH is a dysfunctional company that somehow turns a profit.
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by markvdb 11y ago
It's one way to package development subsidies to private players. One of the reasons could be to minimise trade agreement disputes the kind of "Airbus got x€ of direct subsidies!" versus "But Boeing got x$ subsidies!&quo
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by markvdb 11y ago
His first work, "Down and out in Paris and London" was also really interesting in that respect, and highly biographical. http://www.george-orwell.org/Down_and_Out_in_Paris_and_Londo...
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by markvdb 11y ago
Totally off topic, but... Am I the only one to think of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_disaster when seeing the words "spark" and "zeppelin" together? (This type of air ship is called a &q
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by markvdb 11y ago
The closest to something standard there is is the combination of IBAN and BIC/SWIFT. Works flawlessly and cheaply within the EU plus surroundings (.ch, .no, ...) thanks to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_
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by markvdb 11y ago
Jetta small? The VW Up and Lupo are small...
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by markvdb 11y ago
Professional classical guitar teacher here. At this stage, it's too early for this to be useful in my personal teaching practice. You undoubtedly have a feature comparison matrix. Hats off for what you've already accomplished. AND
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by markvdb 11y ago
Because you want to buy a house? If you are borrowing 8k for a simple car @2%, 5 years, you are repaying ~140/month. On a 20 year loan @2%, that same monthly payment would net you 30k. My native country has a central database of every
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by markvdb 11y ago
Look at countries like .be or .no to see how this future looks like. I wouldn't worry too much...
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by markvdb 11y ago
Do the security p&p thing. One other thing that I haven't hear yet is that you could do is introduce "identifying easter eggs" into the data if you can. Sorry, not sure what the right word is, but it's a proven techn
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by markvdb 11y ago
Payday loans and predatory loan interest rates are illegal in at least several EU countries, like Belgium for example (sorry, link in Dutch): http://economie.fgov.be/nl/consument/consumentenkrediet/Kred... Ab
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by markvdb 11y ago
Exactly that. The government of the country where I currently live constantly fiddles with taxation rules retroactively. I'm quite sure it's the same most everywhere. I'd rather put my money in places where I am in control to
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by markvdb 11y ago
The article author is speculating about the motive. Let's see... 3 copies "published", one burnt, two saved, of which one in a library, the other in unknown hands... The forger might have been selling the "lost copy&quot
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by markvdb 11y ago
If a telnet or (preferably) ssh client exists, you could use tin on a remote machine.
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by markvdb 11y ago
We paid OVH for the renewal of our company's domain name several weeks before its expiration. This domain hosted our google apps for business and more. We received an invoice and bank statements for that. OVH never renewed with the reg
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by markvdb 11y ago
For non-critical things, they provide relatively good value for money. For critical things, I wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole.
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by markvdb 11y ago
Which is why we moved away from them of course...
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by markvdb 11y ago
I normally am quite reserved about language use, but comparing google to OVH? Seriously? OVH is a dysfunctional company that somehow turns a profit. We almost lost our company's domain name twice due to their incompetence.
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by markvdb 11y ago
Do you care about safety? Then driving 260 miles without a stop is not smart. Do you have kids? Then driving 260 miles without a stop is also highly irrealistic. But yes, more range would be nice for an expensive car like this!
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by markvdb 11y ago
Outstanding! I say this as the owner of a 100% FOSS & open hardware laser cutter...
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by markvdb 11y ago
Air assist is a classic thing on many decent laser cutters, especially for the reasons mentioned. On our lasersaur for example, a builtin air nozzle blow compressed air at the place where the laser beam hits the material being cut...
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by markvdb 11y ago
Luckily, he knew to use natural leather. Synthetic "leather" is known to produce extremely poisonous cholrine gasses when being cut...

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