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by timoth 11y ago
Reminds me of this: http://xkcd.com/1573/
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Amazon bars the sale of Apple and Google TV devices(bbc.com)
5 points by timoth 11y ago|3 comments
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by timoth 11y ago
> The problem in the UK is that companies can still deduct the mortgage interest, this puts people who buy property to rent out at an advantage. Not just companies in the usually-understood sense; private landlords can deduct mortgage in
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by timoth 11y ago
AIUI, it's not illegal and there is nothing to pay if you're under the relevant limits and it's for personal use. You can import up to 6000NOK of goods (3000NOK if you've only been out of Norway for < 24 hours) and y
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by timoth 11y ago
The superchargers arrived in Norway almost 2 years ago: http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/tesla-motors-brings-revoluti... You see a lot of Teslas around in Norway, relatively speaking. The favourable tax (discount) help
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by timoth 11y ago
Assuming you're both talking about Google Cloud SQL and AWS RDS, then with RDS you can actually choose between MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, or Amazon Aurora which is supposed to be compatible with MySQL 5.6. Google Cloud SQL
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by timoth 11y ago
Naturally it isn't. But those other countries maintain their roads, schools etc. etc. without taxing non-residents on their financial affairs in other countries. The main point is the difference between how the US handles the tax iss
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by timoth 11y ago
It seems part of the problem is that: > You have a great passport and can come back to a country that has a wealth of opportunities that are not available in most other places and in some cases no where else. could be said about many oth
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by timoth 12y ago
No downvote from me, but couldn't it be argued that the more cycling is taken up, the likelihood is that fewer people would be driving so there'd naturally be less exposure? So then it would be true that the more cycling is taken
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by timoth 12y ago
Rather than ATC taking over the plane, which seems like a non-trivial exercise, it might be a lot easier to allow them to override the door 'lock' mode in the cockpit (which ignores the keypad code for door entry) so that in this
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by timoth 12y ago
For network and storage at least, Amazon says that their HVM guests use PV drivers according to this page: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/instance-... but on this page, they don't say
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by timoth 12y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think this is the case. In fact, I'm running PV on m3.medium instances (EDIT: and c3.large) right now. It depends on the AMI you use to launch the instance, though some instance types on
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by timoth 12y ago
Interesting that over half of the companies on the list were added within the last week, if the dates in the page changelog accurately reflect when they were added. If so, perhaps they all suddenly bundled in so they could find out what th