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by nroets 4y ago
Except the price excluding the deposit in Slovakia is higher than the price in Hungary. That's how the retailer pays for the machine. I disagree that sugar free soda is unhealthy. Nutritionally it's almost identical to water, whic
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by nroets 4y ago
Germany, Slovakia and a few other countries have pushed the responsibility of recycling PET bottles onto the producers and retailers: There is a 25 cent deposit on a 2 liter PET bottle. Consumers deposit their bottles into machines at the r
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by nroets 4y ago
As the article implies: The source of the plastic in the ocean are poorer Asian countries (India, Vietnam, Cambodia, China). The reason is that these countries lack (a) properly designed landfills (b) the logistics to send all their trash
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by nroets 4y ago
Sailing downwind faster than the wind is possible. "Apparent wind sailing" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-performance_sailing Even more astonishingly are the remote controlled sail planes than not only
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by nroets 4y ago
Uber will learn to satisfy riders' preferences: Some riders what VIP treatment, others want the fastest possible service. Some riders live in a bad neighbourhood and want a driver to take them there. Uber is also learning which drivers
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by nroets 5y ago
4. Continue life as normal. Some Georgians are following this strategy under the assumption that the occupying Ukraine is going to require a lot of money and soldiers. Russia will run out of either (or both) of these finite resources before
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by nroets 5y ago
Yes, pass a tax. Not just on goods but also services: Flights, heating, taxi rides, bus tickets, food delivery etc. Before the US consumer can claim any kind of leadership, it they must make some real sacrifices.
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by nroets 5y ago
Mass migration to New Zealand or Siberia would entail would mean more construction work causing more carbon to be released. Rather adapt existing buildings to the changing climate.
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by nroets 5y ago
On long trips, there may be one or more Hertz locations near your route. If all of them stock electric cars, Hertz could offer a premium offering where you change cars along the way...
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by nroets 5y ago
Electric cars are also a good fit for rental companies for another reason: Their customers want to make a good first impression on customers, new friends and other individuals they rarely see.
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by nroets 5y ago
Even the Dutch have words that cannot be encoded with in Ebcdic[1]. And I suppose many Dutch have names like André. https://blogs.transparent.com/dutch/tremas-e-i-u-o-a/
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by nroets 5y ago
So much of the internet is about translating addresses from one format to another: Human readable to IP: DNS Private IP to Public IP: NAT MAC to Private IP: ARP Public IP to AS: BGP With a block chain DNS it may be possible to replace all o
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by nroets 5y ago
The incumbent telcos would love a regulatory framework where they must store address info and other personal data of their clients: Clients would then be much less likely to switch. International tourists will also be less likely to get a l
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by nroets 5y ago
I agree, but want to add that I think 'prepping' is in my genes and also in the genes of many of the settlers who left Europe and colonized the new world: They left because they did not trust a king or a church. They romanticized
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by nroets 5y ago
I believe sending cash through the mail is illegal. When transporting more than $10000 cash across state lines, it must be reported.
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by nroets 5y ago
China dominates Bitcoin mining and the latest crypto exchanges are either run by Chinese or are headquartered in Hong Kong. China has capital controls and little press freedom. Note that the US and Europe has highly evolved capital markets.
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by nroets 5y ago
Bitcoin is most popular in countries with high inflation and countries with capital controls. That coincides with bad policies, mismanagement or even oppression. As a citizen of such a country, I can see the attraction of Bitcoin. Bitcoin o
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by nroets 5y ago
No. Small n in only 21. You split the toys in a set of 10 and a set of 11. What I'm really describing is the Meet In The Middle algorithm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knapsack_problem#Meet-in-the-m...
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by nroets 5y ago
Here's that runs in O(√2^n) time and space. And with careful implementation it will never be significantly slower than the above DP algorithm. 1. Spilt the toys in two sets (A and B) of similar size. 2. Generate a sorted list L of all
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by nroets 5y ago
Here's a much more efficient algorithm that runs in O(n*√2^n) time and space: 1. Spilt the toys in two sets (A and B) of similar size. 2. Generate a list L of all the possible sums that can be made with the toys in set A. 3. Sort the l
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by nroets 5y ago
Just to add that many South Africans are importing and reselling crypto through a legal loophole. [1] Only "exporting" crypto is illegal. There are highly liquid international markets for our currency vs other fiats. The governmen
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by nroets 5y ago
A simple solution is paint the sea with triangles of which one side is perfectly horizontal. And always work bottom to top. You will have to pre scan the ways for instance where they change from ascending to descending. Here the sea will sp
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by nroets 5y ago
South African sailors who spend more than 183 days outside the country also don't pay income tax, but they usually are still tax resident: The first million Rand of employment income earned outside South Africa is exempt. But independe
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by nroets 5y ago
I don't see long term value in Bitcoin. I even made a website to explain why ( https://Bitcoin.IsNot.Money ). But it's liquidity gives it sort term utility like cheaply transferring money internationally.
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by nroets 5y ago
Except true criminals also like to talk. For example, before Covid I did at lot of Couch Surfing and related stuff. [1] One of my hosts illegally sold MJ for extra cash. He was very careful how he communicated with his supplier and not to f
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by nroets 5y ago
Interesting. The Tour Divide is a race of similar length, both distance and time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_Divide
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by nroets 5y ago
I think building has become a lot more complicated: 4 decades ago, semi face brick buildings with carpets and simple trimmings was common. Now it's plastered walls, with large doubled glazed windows everywhere. Laminate floors. HVAC. E
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by nroets 5y ago
A boom town where labour is really expensive and there is an acute housing shortage ?? Or someone who thinks it's the future and love telling his or her guests about it. Or someone who's fascinated by IKEA furniture.
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by nroets 5y ago
How can a merchant or even a crypto exchange know that the Bitcoins they receive weren't stolen in a hack before being laundered through a number of wallets ? I assume the US government will ask Coinbase to freeze these assets. But tha
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by nroets 5y ago
Jan 10, 2021 - back in the good old days when see-through glass was still the norm.

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