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by patrickk 7y ago
Yes, in Germany for example. Some cities are experiencing drastically rising housing costs as a result. There was a bank in Denmark (not in the Eurozone) offering negative rate mortgages. In reality the bank tacked on fees so they weren’t p
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I've done a bunch of research, and ended up purchasing a HPE Proliant Gen8 server. The plan is to install OpenMediaVault, and use it as a Plex server, for NextCloud, Docker and more. I will also get a Hassio server running also at some
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Thanks for linking this, I hadn't heard of this tool before (I've been using AHK for many years). Another very useful tool that I recommend for automating PixelSearch and the like is Pulover's Macro Creator: https:/&#x2
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Wow, very nice. This looks like exactly what I had in mind.
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Good to know thanks.
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One future Home Assistant project that I would love to implement is a whole house lighting system that gradually transitions all the lights from white/blue in the morning, to yellow/orange in the evening to aid natural melatonin p
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Some more items that I've setup in AHK: - Launching commonly used apps, like Notepad, Windows Explorer or Sublime Text - Launching commonly used websites in a browser, e.g. gmail - Paste from the clipboard into a language translation s
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> Question for HN: What will happen to the web when uBlock Origin becomes prevelent enough? Entrenched players, like Amazon, will become more entrenched. Medium and smaller websites will move to more affiliate marketing, "influencer
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Perhaps Reflex Area is for you. There's also this Reddit thread with some ideas: https://www.reddit.com/r/ArenaFPS/comments/a1hm63/arenafps_f...
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Have you noticed any issues? Especially transcoding?
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https://patrickkeane.me It's built with Wordpress and a standard theme, nothing fancy. I have to update more often. I post about random projects and interests of mine, and linking to interesting Github projects. I'm cu
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Apple at least somewhat tries to put up an image of caring about environmental issues[1] and privacy (e.g. in the aftermath of San Bernardino attack). (Of course they still have Chinese sweatshops, and who knows how much raw materials comes
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Some US companies partially do this in Ireland, I've heard anecdotally, where salaries are also much below the US. It's a much smaller market obviously, but it does happen.
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There are multiple, mature products in the "enterprise document management" space that work similarly to the product that you describe, available on premises and in the cloud[1]. There's also (smaller, specialised) consulting
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Any recommended Garmin model? When I check the OSM site, the information seems some what sparse.
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Reddit FIRE is also worth reading: https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/ Also JL Collins' book "The Simple Path to Wealth" is well worth a read, on the same topic. If you don't want t
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A (related) example is upscaling graphics on older games using AI: https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/18/18311287/ai-upscaling-alg... https://www.reddit.com/r/GameUpscale/top/
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Twitter is also overrun by propaganda bots and those peddling an agenda (e.g. Tesla perma-shorts).
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Aldi and Lidl's quality is overall better in Ireland because they use local suppliers for certain items. The dairy and meat in Germany is quite low quality for example, although the beer is way better and cheaper in Germany.
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It's not standard everywhere. My theory is that furniture and home fittings like doors have not really been disrupted by the internet (perhaps because of high shipping costs and bulky sized items). Therefore, there is wide variance in
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A lot of those parts are from third party suppliers (not that it excuses Tesla completely of course). I watched a video some time ago, where Musk was complaining that the big automotive parts suppliers simply didn't take Tesla seriousl
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It highly depends on where in Europe you go. If you are using German discount stores as the yardstick for Europe for example, it's a very low bar. The dairy quality is crap, and a lot of the meat doesn't taste great. Carre Four by
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One of the small, but significant things I noticed about German apartments was the lipped 'bezel'[1], where the door and the frame fit snugly into each other and there is a rubber/plastic seal between the door and the frame.
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Most of the crypto market follows Bitcoin's price, at least roughly. If Bitcoin gets up 5%, Ether and other coins might rise 6,7,10%. If you look at the 30, 60 day, etc charts of BTC vs the others, it's quite clear. So the market
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Even bigger could be a lack of progress and stagnation, due to the dominant paradigm sustaining itself indefinitely. As the saying goes "graveyards are full of indispensable men", and "science advances one funeral at a time&q
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Having very fast LTE everywhere also likely adds to the issue. Even in other rich countries, that is not the case (e.g. in rural areas or on underground trains) so you cannot spend all your time consuming bandwidth heavy applications like
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In Japan, robots to aid with elderly care are being developed[1]. Probably won’t eliminate all elderly care jobs but likely will reduce the amount required. Japan is facing worker shortages and doesn’t like immigration, hence robots. I pers
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Fruit picking robots are being worked on, strawberries if I remember correctly. Search for strawberry picking robot. It’s possible thanks to advances in computer vision.
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Prepare to get very jealous if you research building a gaming PC in Europe and seeing US prices.
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There's a whole bunch of other bookmakers listing political bets, mainly UK based ones where you should be able to get more liquidity: https://www.oddschecker.com/politics Are you betting on US politics? You can appare

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