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by soco 1mo ago
What will hit you before that here in Switzerland is the local authorities which have in front of their eyes a certain plan for your building, and anything not on the plan (in this case the AC unit) will need a permit. It's not an easy
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by soco 1mo ago
You'd be surprised (I certainly am) how fond can some people be of concrete box architecture - hint Le Corbusier.
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by soco 1mo ago
I've had one placed like this in the balcony of a XVth century palazzo turned museum plus hotel, straight in the historical heart of Verona. If they can do it, everybody can do it as well.
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by soco 1mo ago
Now here is exactly one place where the regulation can hit hard: awnings are maybe not allowed because the house wasn't designed with them. Possible to get the new design approved? For sure. Simple? Ha.
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by soco 1mo ago
Yet here we are. They even recognized officially (Labor Department, October '25) that Americans are not willing to pick up these jobs.
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by soco 1mo ago
I suppose they would still need some goons to help the robotic army push back the rioters.
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by soco 1mo ago
I don't bother with rewards either, be it cards or memberships or whatnot - too much hassle if you're also working full time. BUT: one thing I use the credit card for and that is for the pay and travel insurance attached to it. Co
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by soco 1mo ago
For sure I wouldn't be able to tell the difference, but I don't know anything screaming more "processed food" than the meat alternatives. The component list is longer than this thread, sorry I wouldn't touch that wi
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by soco 1mo ago
The business of "optimizing" is breaking a lot of things in the world, when you think about it.
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by soco 1mo ago
These are valid questions the western Europe dodged for far too long. Looking the other way created the rightwing monster of today.
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by soco 1mo ago
It's probably the difference you can also notice between Switzerland and Germany for example. Take rough sleeping: in Germany it's there (no, not LA-style but still noticeable). In Switzerland they get immediately rounded up and t
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by soco 1mo ago
No need to reverse engineer, printers are required to do this for decades.
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by soco 1mo ago
EU is for all practical means not a single market, it's a hodge-podge of rules much more integrated in theory than in practice. Which is exactly the thing causing problems here, and ironically this is exactly what the anti-EU folks com
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by soco 1mo ago
As an American and probably as most Americans you are missing the point that there are no "Europeans", stop saying that. The EU is just a bunch of states which happen to do some things together. And all those "directives&quot
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by soco 1mo ago
Yes yes, my point was that you're not bound by the same strict zoning laws if you decide to redo things - by either retrofitting or rebuilding or whatever. Not that's it's easy, just easier.
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by soco 1mo ago
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but the places with pure apartments and such are not like this because of zoning laws similar to the US, but they just were created like this by their developers. Thus, they could change much easier to
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by soco 1mo ago
Then you can call yourself "editor", if you want to even "editor in chief". But you're still not the writer.
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by soco 1mo ago
Nevertheless, those books aren't sold for the writing style, but because they're about the cult leader. So not the "writer" is prized (ghost or not) but the personality.
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by soco 1mo ago
So long story short: adapt that rule so the beneficiary of the fraudulent service pays the bill. There, I fixed it.
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by soco 1mo ago
Many people today are listening/watching/reading AI generated music, art and literature, so a sizeable part of the consumers simply don't give a hoot on the culture part - whether the artists sold out or not, what opinions th
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by soco 1mo ago
You mean, the start of the trend of apex celebrity superstardom. Because also now, Ariana Grande has her cosmetics line, Adele is on so many covers, and money flows from and to all for promotions and everything.
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by soco 1mo ago
Dunno which country they mean, but my passport is quite big. I would never buy such a behemoth phone. But maybe that's just me, always sticking with the smallest (flagships) available... I also never bought a tablet, so the foldable br
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by soco 1mo ago
And because of this, no browser of mine is allowed to send notifications, and also no app by default - they have to prove themselves useful first. Sorry fellow developers working on notifications, your work goes to the drain (mostly).
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by soco 1mo ago
As a related anecdote, I found it surprising when I moved to Switzerland decades ago, that speaking high German wouldn't really work with foreign-looking shop assistants - they'd only speak and even understand Swiss German.
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by soco 1mo ago
People who redefine the meaning of a well defined word usually do it to reinforce their otherwise weak argument.
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by soco 1mo ago
I very much cannot understand why the parties did not take part. So happily letting him take back a seat he abandoned earlier for whatever reasons? Or what is even the point of not competing? He can be investigated whether in office or not,
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by soco 1mo ago
To me "no button pressed" would mean "fuck knows". Not "auto".
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by soco 1mo ago
Stats tell me the bigmac price in Denmark is in average about 7$ and in the US about 6$, while their average employee hourly pay about 23$ in DK versus 13$ in the US. I don't think the minimum wage and labor costs and whatnot explains
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by soco 1mo ago
You mean a good amount of the 46% consumed by road transports. So my napkin says, when we all switch to driving EV the oil demand will drop by 15%. It's something for sure, but not overly dramatic (to me).
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by soco 1mo ago
I know I have a problem with "suspension of disbelief" but I find it always weird in those dystopian movies where they all drive monster trucks on an apparently endless supply of scavenged fuel and spare parts. But I'm positi

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