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by patrickk 10y ago
> No single entity should be able to terrorize the citizens of a nation state like that. Talk about hyperbole. Plenty of countries like Switzerland or Norway don't feel terrorised by the EU, instead exist peacefully alongside it. Pl
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40% of Frankfurt residents have non-German passports. It definitely doesn't feel like the rest of Germany. There are tons of Turks, Italians, Croatians in particular, along with workers from all the EU member states. You can theoretica
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http://kodi.wiki/view/Features_and_supported_formats#Format_...
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> I am also of the idea that if a country doesn't want to stay Vastly complicated by the fact that Scotland and Northern Ireland don't want to leave, and will in fact face calls for independence referendums as a result. They ge
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Hong Kong, which speaks English or for English teaching jobs in China.
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Probably quite difficult in practice, unless he/she could somehow convince a mining pool or something. Another option would be to set up mining hardware in a place like China with low cost electricity. However, this would take time, mo
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Here's a quote that leapt off the page at me: Just after college, I took my first airplane trip, destination California, in search of a job. I was seated next to a businessman who was probably in his early 60s. I suppose I looked like
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Ease of use is a big one. I tried used Automator for simple tasks in the past, and it's got a complicated syntax and a steeper learning curve compared to AHK which meant I gave up. Look at the list of keyboard commands for an example o
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Thanks for this!
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Another great project in a similar vein is Pulover's Macro Creator, combined with Autohotkey: http://www.macrocreator.com/ http://ahkscript.org/ Sadly Windows only. It's one area where Windows has
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by patrickk 10y ago
> Imagine buying a piece of tech for growing historical coffee plants in your basement where you set the climate control to Kenia or Hawaii (buy the soil addon?) and which guarantees (as in `likely it will yield') you 2kg of your ow
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Here's a fascinating documentary about concrete smuggling millionaires and the seafront property villas in Gaza: https://vimeo.com/101819495
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Musk has said before they monitor battery developments, but that he hasn't seen anything to catch his eye so far. Even Musk would be insane to switch the Gigafactory to a new, unproven battery chemistry. Plus, sodium-ion batteries are
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They attempted to go with "repulsive" for a nuclear waste disposal site in Finland, there's a really cool documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmWadizC8AQ
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I don't know any brands for doors, but try googling for brands and see if there are US distributors. The doors are usually solid all the way through (none of this plywood nonsense with cardboard in the middle) in addition to the bevel
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You can read more about EU energy efficiency requirements here: https://ec.europa.eu/energy/en/topics/energy-efficiency/buil... You can be sure Germany had a primary role in establishing these standards.
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I can tell you the Autobahn is being constantly maintained, it seems like there's roadworks everywhere. Another interesting thing I didn't know about it is that you are expected to have your car in tip-top condition for driving at
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Now that you mention it, I have one of those "floating" toilets, very similar to this one, including the recessed flush button, except in grey: http://www.decraplastics.co.uk/sanitaryware/images/geberit%2
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Germans are civil engineering Gods . Here's a factory-made, German Huf Haus, which was built in a factory in Germany, and shipped over from Germany to the UK on the back of a truck, and then installed on-site in just one week: http:&
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Depends on the city and the building materials used. After moving to Germany, I was blown away by the property prices (relative to comparable buildings internationally) and the building materials. This is a typical German door, with a bevel
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In Germany, the mobile plans are extremely stingy with minutes, SMS and data for some reason. I personally use Telegram (trying to convert friends to it), WhatsApp (everyone is on it), FB Messenger (everyone is there), iMessage occasionally
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Ambilight system for every input connected to your TV(instructables.com)
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Don't forget we are close to an electric vehicle breakthrough to the mass market, and it looks like solar PV is on a cost curve that will potentially mean it will dominate electricity generation in the decades ahead (took it's tim
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> Edit: actually don't use the YouTube transcripts, there's a human-curated transcript here How very meta.
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€90 on amazon, holy shit! Maybe there would be a demand for a website that lists where you can buy obsoleted programmer gear like the IntelliMouse and Thinkpads.
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> Cars are a terrible industry to get into. Copypasta from a comment I made on reddit about Tesla, many of these points also apply to Apple, especially the battery knowledge... "You could argue that Tesla is in the battery pack busi
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Craigslist is barely used in Europe, certainly in Germany.
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Not to mention the potential impact of the usual breakthroughs that are always just 20 years away like working nuclear fusion reactors, quantum computers and AGI. Having AGI could mean productivity growth so stratospheric than humans are es
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""Some of the volume data, such as power and rail freight and even (bank) credit, are interesting because there is less incentive to massage them at the local level. But they reveal only part of the truth, not the entire truth,&qu
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An interesting counterargument from Peter Thiel: " Monopolies drive progress because the promise of years or even decades of monopoly profits provides a powerful incentive to innovate. Then monopolies can keep innovating because profit

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