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moooo99
3y ago
> Why would anybody pay voluntarily to avoid "extremely good" service they are entitled too? Maybe because expectations rise with the availability of other options? Why would one pay for a Porsche when they could drive a Prius?
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3y ago
I support this statement! I'm a reasonably tech-savvy iOS user, and these parking apps are among the worst digital experiences I have ever encountered. And I say that as a frequent SAP Concur user
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3y ago
> There is more than just cars that make noise, There is, but there is a vast difference in how much noise and when they make noise. I live next to a tram line with a 10-minute schedule. 12 trams/hour are substantially less annoying
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moooo99
3y ago
To be fair, fillable PDF forms from public institutions still seem to be uncharted territory for large parts of Germany.
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3y ago
that does indeed sound like a very German reaction
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3y ago
Maybe they would for a bike that costs more than 2k?
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moooo99
3y ago
As far as I know the theft recovery is part of an additional package and not included with a regular purchase. Certainly fun, but I think there are cheaper theft insurance policies out there.
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3y ago
I mean, you can also easily spend >2k on a bike. In terms of e-bikes the prices for Vanmoof and their competitor Cowboy aren’t particularly cheap, but they aren’t incredibly out of line either.
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3y ago
> There's a long list of construction startups who thought the industry was low-tech simply because everyone in it was dumb, and that they would be the smartest guys in the room who'd revolutionize everything. Those startups ar
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3y ago
I didn’t realize they’re that strict. I have an individual account with them I occasionally use and didn’t encounter any issues with ID (I can’t even recall being ID’d tbh). That being said, I am located in Germany and have a German billing
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3y ago
Honestly, the most notable political prosecution I could think of right now is police in Bavaria prosecuting climate activists under anti terror laws in anticipation of a possible crime.
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3y ago
I don’t know about the details, but I know Hetzner has quite a backstory with their servers being abused by spammers. I don’t know how the state is today, but maybe it’s not as unlikely as it seems?
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3y ago
AMD has made several attempts, their most recent effort apparently is the ROCm [0] software platform. There is an official PyTorch distro for Linux that supports ROCm [1] for acceleration. There's also frameworks like tinygrad [2] that
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3y ago
There are LTE standards specifically designed for use with low bandwidth IoT applications in mind and they allow your devices to be extremely power efficient. There are both NB-IoT and LTE-M, but require extra SIM cards for access that are
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3y ago
But it fertilizes the market for what kind of developers? Currently I see no real convincing reason why this should be substantially different than existing headsets except for a better operating system experience. I can see this being an e
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3y ago
> but the assumption is most will then choose to work and earn extra income on top of that. Also important to stress that most (limited) experiments suggest this assumption to bee true. UBI is not as radical as many people pretend it is.
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3y ago
That is a non-issue regarding privacy and the intention is to ensure compliance with employee protection laws capping the maximum weekly working time. You write down when you started working and you write down when you stop. Some employers
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3y ago
> If they have a track problem that far under ground, it's a serious heat wave. Unintuitively, parts of the London underground are notorious for being extremely hot. Especially the central line is super hot due to the material the t
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3y ago
There was a lot of reporting regarding the same issue in the UK last year https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2022-07-19/why-cant-uk-roads...
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3y ago
At least anecdotally I can say worse ride performance is not true. Lower noise emission is hard to tell as a passenger, but seems to to be the consensus in the literature I found. Thats probably among the reasons these tracks are usually on
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3y ago
> Where I grew up in Los Angeles, only the very wealthy lived within 10 miles of where they worked. Thats not a mode of transporation issue, that is a city planning issue
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> nobody ever mentioned brake/tyre dust until the switch to EVs had begun, Remember asbestos brake pads?
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3y ago
> if there are any alternatives. There are. There are ballastless tracks that utilize a continuous concrete slab instead of the crushed rock ballast. Their main benefit is that they are lower mamintenance than their counterparts, but the
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3y ago
One may complain about the prices for specific SaaS offerings, but mentioning Lightsail as a alterantive to a completely managed offer is not exactly an apples to apples comparison.
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3y ago
I like reddit, I really do. So it's sad to see them taking a page out of the twitter playbook and are taking active measures to destroy their thriving ecosystem. The official reddit app is an absolute nightmare and essentially unusable
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3y ago
Do you happen to be in Germany? Because that was my exact experience and the reason I eventually switched.
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3y ago
Framework is killing it and I absolutely love it. I have no need for a laptop right now, but if I ever buy another one, they'll definitely be at the top of my list. The only concern I have is with screen resolution. I'm using a Ma
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3y ago
It literally took a single google search to find out that you’re wrong. FM transmitting for private use is completely legal for UKW frequencies between 87.5 and 105 MHz and transmission powers lower than 50nW [1]. You can buy perfectly FM t
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4y ago
You could just out an SQL server somewhere and connect it as a datasource to Power BI. If you’d prefer a more standalone and SQL oriented Open Source solution, go ahead an checkout metabase as a BI platform. However, I’m not aware of any BI
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4y ago
Thats the whole point of the initial comment. It is necessary to store some potential PII for long periods of time due to regulations from the same people that want you to get rid of all PII.
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