rootsandstones

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by rootsandstones 10mo ago
Are there any good resources to learn how they work?
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by rootsandstones 2y ago
Nothing in life is without risk but children need to learn about the risk and what to do to minimize it.
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by rootsandstones 2y ago
That‘s a good one. They write down your frame number and tell you they get back to you. Then you never hear from them again.
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by rootsandstones 2y ago
Its just not true. Bikes get stolen a lot even when they are locked. But There is not a lot of violent crime in Switzerland, so you can walk around everywhere without any worries.
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by rootsandstones 2y ago
Offtopic but gizmodo.com is a mess, every few sentences there is an ad. And with activated adblocker it‘s just replaced with whitespace.
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by rootsandstones 3y ago
Switzerland has very liberal gun laws similar to the US but one of the lowest murder rates. It’s not just gun control.
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Apple joins opposition to encrypted message app scanning(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by rootsandstones 3y ago|0 comments
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by rootsandstones 3y ago
Here In Switzerland self checkouts don‘t have scales, you just scan everything and pay.
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by rootsandstones 3y ago
I read a lot of books already but sometimes I prefer a blog post where you can read about a certain topic for 20-30 mins instead of dedicating hours to a book. If I‘m really interested I will order a book about that topic. And also a lot of
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Ask HN: Good History Blogs?
10 points by rootsandstones 3y ago|12 comments
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by rootsandstones 4y ago
In 2021 91.9 percent of the trains in Switzerland were on time (tolerance is 3 minutes) Source: https://news.sbb.ch/artikel/109510/puenktlichkeit-2021-zweit...
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by rootsandstones 5y ago
What are some secure alternatives? I changed from gmail to protonmail a year ago thinking it was better.
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by rootsandstones 5y ago
FYI I can pay my taxes in crypto in Switzerland.