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by tonfa 10y ago
> Unfortunately thereafter, the RSU pyramid makes it really hard to leave Google, since you'd be giving up a virtual fortune, shimmering off in the distance like a mirage... Never understood that argument, how is it different from y
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by tonfa 10y ago
So if an NZ company sells products in Europe or US or Australia, they should be taxed in all those countries instead of NZ even if the product is fully developed in NZ?
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by tonfa 10y ago
I'd say redistribution is vital if you're sharing a currency (because normal monetary policies will only work over the whole monetary zone, so you want a mechanism to keep the sub regions in sync) And that's why the Eurozone
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by tonfa 10y ago
For France, can't be evicted during winter months, need a judge to decide to evict (so can take a a really long time).
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by tonfa 10y ago
And Europe will most likely introduce something like ESTA (unlike the visa thing which won't have support from the Commission)
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by tonfa 10y ago
What about France?
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by tonfa 10y ago
I think it's missing some words, maybe "after the first attack"? (Was 2005?)
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by tonfa 10y ago
Yes, as it uses a similar hashing scheme as git. https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/FAQ#FAQ.2FTechnicalDetail... That said the file format was switched pretty early on (2006 I think, less than a year after initial rele
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by tonfa 10y ago
> Five grand a month is great! Is there something different in Switzerland that would account for his/her success? Yes, cost of life and wages are way higher than what you have in mind. Median salary is around 6k (it is by far the h
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by tonfa 10y ago
But they are not sold refrigerated, right? In the US they would.
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by tonfa 10y ago
French version of the news mentions that it has no health impact: http://www.irsn.fr/FR/Actualites_presse/Actualites/Pages/201... "Ces niveaux sont sans aucune conséquence sanitaire" I suppose
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by tonfa 10y ago
> until they gave up Wasn't it mostly due to EUR losing ground against USD (due to QE?)? (at which point it didn't make as much sense pegging the currency only against EUR, I wonder why they didn't peg against a mix of cur
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by tonfa 10y ago
Where I live in Switzerland trash pickup is paid by volume (and free for cardboards and paper). PET, glass bottles and cans can be deposited for free at recycling points. For larger items there are recycling centers (where I think you pay b
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by tonfa 10y ago
Also there are still countries where downloading copyrighted materials is not illegal (distributing it usually is, though).
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by tonfa 10y ago
You colo bandwidth is likely not from a global CDN with hundreds of PoP: https://peering.google.com/#/infrastructure
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by tonfa 10y ago
Large companies in Switzerland (e.g. telcos) often provides customer services in English.
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by tonfa 10y ago
I think it's covered: The “skills and talents”, “EU Blue Card,” “employee on assignment” and “scientist-researcher” temporary residence permits provide full rights to a “private and family life” permit for family members accompanying a
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by tonfa 10y ago
It's what the other article says, for in flight message (single tick), if the key changes it might be reencrypted with a new key if the recipient key changes. If there's a double-tick it's too late, and it won't reencryp
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by tonfa 10y ago
While Switzerland has a decent rail system (high frequency, somewhat dense), it doesn't have high speed trains. Germany, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands all of at least some high speed lines.
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by tonfa 10y ago
This would point at the interaction with FF being the issue, maybe disable all extensions first to make sure they are not messing up with something?
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by tonfa 10y ago
Don't know if it's mandatory, but I think every concert I've been to in Switzerland has had free earplugs (foam and sometimes better ones). They also often have tinnitus prevention posters shown. In practice many people use t
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by tonfa 10y ago
Also covers the sound of people talking during concert (sometimes I wonder if it's intentional). (another happy user of etymotics earplugs, was life changing for concert experience)
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by tonfa 10y ago
The plan of shutting down half the plants by next year was pretty insane and had no chance of passing. Switzerland is still getting out of nuclear and won't build any new plant, just not on that ridiculously short timeframe.
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by tonfa 10y ago
Isn't it already opt-in? iirc you're always presented a screen asking you if you want to enable location history.
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by tonfa 10y ago
Out of curiosity, I wonder how it compares with computer power used for ad placement prediction.
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by tonfa 10y ago
Is Free still doing 6to4 (which was probably fine at the time) or did they start doing native ipv6?
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by tonfa 10y ago
On that topic (contemporary monetary policy), I've found "the end of alchemy" by Mervyn King fairly interesting and accessible.
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by tonfa 10y ago
> In general, flight pricing seems rather opaque; I'm always confused by flights from city A to city B that are more expensive than flights from city A to city C with a layover in city B. That example is pretty simple. If you consid
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by tonfa 10y ago
http://m.cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-sto... has a lot of answers (was published last summer).
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by tonfa 10y ago
On that topic, I think fb tried to enter a number of market but wasn't always successful (looking around there's things like coupons / gifts / credits).

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