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by tonfa 6y ago
In bunch of countries phase out of ICE cars is planned for the 2030-2040 time frame.
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by tonfa 6y ago
At least in western Europe, before WW2 many countries were not on CET/CEST, so that's fairly recent.
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by tonfa 6y ago
> A few cases in Asia every year and we’re done We also need to get rid of a vaccine-derived polio in Africa (and some places in Asia).
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by tonfa 6y ago
Because the population has been more cautious since then?
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by tonfa 6y ago
Wonder if it's similar to eg https://www.molecularpartners.com/molecular-partners-announc...
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by tonfa 6y ago
> Maybe the 36,000 US troops in Germany? Do german people really care about those? (besides the obvious economic benefits in the towns where those troops are stationed due to local spending) I always thought it benefited the US more than
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by tonfa 6y ago
That's what is being reported, e.g.: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/technology/twitter-hacker...
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by tonfa 6y ago
A large part of compensation is probably not in base salary, that'd be asking for like a 50% compensation cut.
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by tonfa 6y ago
FYI Geneva did a representative study: https://www.hug-ge.ch/medias/communique-presse/seroprevalenc... They estimate ~27k infections on April 17th, for comparison right now for that canton the authorities declare
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by tonfa 6y ago
e2e encrypted calls vs using a server, it's a fairly different product.
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by tonfa 7y ago
If you want to convert between money, it's slight more expensive but marginally so (15k USD for converting 1B with IB, 8k if you change more than 5B per month)
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by tonfa 7y ago
And in a hard hit place in Germany it's 14% https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/04/09/999015/blood-tes... (which matches some of the estimates for Italy)
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by tonfa 7y ago
> If you want to detour into tinfoil hat territory, you could posit that these studies on severe patients were designed knowing it would show low or no efficacy, because it’s too late to protect the patient’s hemoglobin. I would think it
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by tonfa 7y ago
Tho they've focused mostly on care instead of the science (they don't believe in randomized trials), and it's going to be hard to know if the treatment is efficient from those (the EU and Michigan studies should help figuring
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by tonfa 7y ago
I'm seeing lots of good ads for local business on instagram at the moment, e.g. local bars doing home delivery.
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by tonfa 7y ago
Also most of Europe does very little testing, but assuming they have uniform criteria, the growth rate should still give some idea of the propagation. For example in Switzerland, they barely test anyone, but it's pretty clear that with
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by tonfa 7y ago
Yes, I think CH and FR do that, they ask to self quarantine if you have symptoms. Italy was actually testing everyone afaik.
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by tonfa 7y ago
Exactly what I did.
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by tonfa 7y ago
But what's the point in buying one if I only need it for a few weeks? I don't want to generate extra trash and those in the office are currently unused.
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by tonfa 7y ago
Since beginning of March, Switzerland has 2.5k workers on part-time unemployment (a setup to use reduced working time instead of layoffs).
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by tonfa 7y ago
Switzerland has fairly strict gun possession laws, people have a military issue rifle at home, but do not possess ammunition. They also aren't allowed to carry/transport it except very specific situations (eg going from/to sh
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by tonfa 7y ago
Imo the key word is informal settings, I think most people would use those but higher class people were taught when not to use them.
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by tonfa 7y ago
Also France said they don't extradite their citizens, so he'd be safe there as well (but he's facing charges for a different issue in France).
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by tonfa 7y ago
> But if I go to Australia, Canada, UK, or any other country, how do I get access to this cheap healthcare without becoming a citizen or paying taxes? You'd likely pay more than a resident/citizen who may not pay or may a token
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by tonfa 7y ago
I've always wondered, could large ETFs providers propose a few voting profile you could pick from and vote accordingly? Or are they forced to vote the same for all the shares they hold? I'd love to be able to tell eg vanguard how
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by tonfa 7y ago
What that article doesn't make it clear is that the overseas cash was still subject to US taxation. A few years ago, that taxation could be indefinitely deferred, but that's no longer the case. So calling it a tax haven is somewha
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by tonfa 7y ago
In the end the remaining profit is declared and taxed in the US, right? I agree many countries would like a bigger share, but it does not seem obvious why France or Germany deserve a bigger share, when the product is developed elsewhere. Hi
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by tonfa 7y ago
Is that correct? Note that the US does no longer allow deferred taxation of foreign income (which was what was happening before 2017). (Even at the time, money stashed overseas was still subject to US taxation, though it could be deferred u
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by tonfa 7y ago
I don't think consumer OSes are considered highly critical. (Unlike code running for avionics for example)
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by tonfa 7y ago
For Google that's the standard way to manage incident: https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/managing-in... (I assume it's the case in many other places)

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