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by oldsecondhand 4y ago
VAT rate isn't the same in the EU either, but each member country has to have at least 20% VAT.
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by oldsecondhand 4y ago
However creating text content is much cheaper than video, and I also don't see text comments replaced by video replies. Text is also easier to search both for humans (skimming) and computers. "This meeting could have been an email
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by oldsecondhand 4y ago
I bought Nokia dumphones and they didn't have connectivity issues, but I live in the EU. The bigger problem is that a lot of services assume that any phone is a smartphone, and can display images and has a browser.
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by oldsecondhand 4y ago
One way to look at it is ponzi scheme, but a more charitable interpretation is just eating your own dogfood.
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by oldsecondhand 4y ago
Corporations also invest huge amount of money into art, see Hollywood or the popular music industry. Governments do the same (especially outside of the US).
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by oldsecondhand 4y ago
> It’s a wonder all this stuff doesn’t just gunk up It does gunk up but it takes a few decades.
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by oldsecondhand 4y ago
The German greens were more against nuclear power than fossil. If you care about the environment that's a pretty irrational choice.
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by oldsecondhand 4y ago
So they make $3 a day instead of $2? Still not enough to create future Einsteins.
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by oldsecondhand 4y ago
> They joined Google when there was no leetcode and when Google had amazing high standards in asking math and algorithm puzzles How was that any better? Leetcode is math and algorithm puzzles.
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by oldsecondhand 4y ago
Thermal insualation decreases mold in the winter, as the walls don't cool down enough for vapor to condense. Single pane windows also gather a lot of condensation.
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by oldsecondhand 4y ago
In the 80s AIDS was the gay disease. Also people live longer than a decade.
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by oldsecondhand 4y ago
If you marry a plutonic friend, you can start a nuclear family unit.
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by oldsecondhand 4y ago
On the other hand Java's generics made it easier for Clojure to be developed.
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by oldsecondhand 4y ago
Maybe they should invent trustless employment.
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by oldsecondhand 4y ago
Going back 300 years in tech won't reduce the carrying capacity permanently. We'll either rebuild modern technology or will cut out enough trees to cause an environmental catastrophe.
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by oldsecondhand 4y ago
My first idea was merge conflicts, but this works better.
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by oldsecondhand 4y ago
Hyperinflation is 50% MONTHLY. This is 20% annualized.
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by oldsecondhand 4y ago
Are we sure it's plastic and not biodegradable (e.g. starch based)?
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by oldsecondhand 4y ago
The Europeans didn't topple any empire in the Americas. They collapsed by themselves due to the sickness brought over by the Europeans before they made contact. It would have been logistically impossible to topple an empire overseas.
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by oldsecondhand 4y ago
> (Of course, the total memory needed at large scales can be disruptive, but that's fundamental. If you've got a lot of elements, you need a lot of memory for them.) But in case of a linked list that large amount of memory doe
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by oldsecondhand 4y ago
If you want to live among the rich, you have to pay the entry fee.
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by oldsecondhand 4y ago
I wish it had variable width lines. I know that SVG doesn't support it natively, but it could be transformed to a filled area when exporting with a strict SVG format.
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by oldsecondhand 4y ago
> Before the internet we referred to TV as "the opiate of the masses" No, that's religion.
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by oldsecondhand 4y ago
The Dacia Spring is like that, but it's also a but weak has a bit engine, but its also dirt cheap.
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by oldsecondhand 4y ago
Maybe the Big Mac Index would be better. At least it's linked to cattle as well.
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by oldsecondhand 4y ago
> In most non-IE languages that are considered difficult, the difficulties are not in grammar, but in phonetics, when those languages use sounds seldom encountered in other languages, e.g. tones, clicks, pharyngeals etc. In Hungarian the
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by oldsecondhand 4y ago
I have a Platinet 4 port USB 3.x hub/docker (USB-C uplink) that doesn't need a external power, however I didn't benchmark the speed, but I don't have the disconnection problems that I had with unpowered 2.0 Hubs.
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by oldsecondhand 4y ago
Umlet allows that too. Though dragging won't change the structure. https://www.umlet.com/
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by oldsecondhand 4y ago
There's also XAMPP
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by oldsecondhand 4y ago
You can observe the movement of molecules beyond macro properties like temperature.

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