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by tonfa 2y ago
There were 9 manufacturers with access to the initial technology, but only one managed to productionize it iiuc.
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by tonfa 2y ago
Under GDPR don't they risk 10% of worldwide revenue? (Plus for a company like apple trying to be seen as the defender of privacy, the PR and reputational hit)
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by tonfa 2y ago
EES is rolling out next year: https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/policies/schengen-borders-...
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by tonfa 2y ago
I also found a recent article: https://www.nzz.ch/english/googles-spyware-hunters-track-sta...
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by tonfa 2y ago
It currently wouldn't matter for the US, since it's one of the few country doing worldwide taxation of its citizens.
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by tonfa 2y ago
In winter I think the plan is to use the heat for district heating. (which is also kinda interesting since in parts of Switzerland district heating through waste management facilities starts to be a problem due to a reduction of the amount
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by tonfa 2y ago
> I have yet to ever meet these types of people where renting ever makes sense. They clearly don't exist. As I mentioned, not every country is the same :) Most buy vs. let simulation will tell you not to buy in over priced swiss cit
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by tonfa 2y ago
Not every country works the same, coming from a place with low home ownership (40%, mostly in countryside). Some ideas of what can be different: - lower flexibility (non liquid and concentrated investment) - many people will end up with ma
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by tonfa 2y ago
Some of the conclusions are weird, e.g. negative impact on new constructions: > This could involve the construction of public housing or financial support for private investors engaged in social housing development. Consequently, the tot
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by tonfa 2y ago
I actually thought floor heating was standard for heat pumps (maybe it's a european thing tho)
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by tonfa 2y ago
> Sure, and that takes 24 hours to be processed (business days only) There's SEPA instant now (that starts to be ubiquitous).
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by tonfa 2y ago
Yeah, but renting in Switzerland is fairly advantageous compared to many countries (rent is locked, except interest rate adjustments).
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by tonfa 2y ago
It's going to be a tradeoff in any case (T+2 requires more collateral but gives more times to line things up for settlement)
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by tonfa 2y ago
> Does settling/clearing on a delay actually serve a purpose, or just enables someone to collect rent? It removes friction from the market since it gives time to line things up between market participants. For example if some assets
165.
by tonfa 2y ago
The swiss links are totally new lines, not "upgrades". But given it's Switzerland they just decide to do it all underground.
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by tonfa 2y ago
> Totally honest question - have there been recent expansions of train lines into cities in Europe? In the last 20 years There's a lot of ongoing extensions, but into existing train station. Eg https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by tonfa 3y ago
Isn't having good apps/api a selling point for apple hardware (where they already make massive amount of money), why can't that be a motivation by itself?
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by tonfa 3y ago
> voluntary for the participating nations to comply Most of those nations judiciary systems will enforce the ruling (eventually triggering legislative changes to reconcile things).
169.
by tonfa 3y ago
Gmail wasn't a 20%, I don't know why anyone thinks it is. Buchheit was asked to work on it.
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by tonfa 3y ago
While it would be nice to have on a map, live rerouting is already handled on the sbb/google maps/citymapper/etc apps (afaik they all have realtime data).
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by tonfa 3y ago
But microplastic in sea salt is a real thing (and might be a bit worrying, personally I now always go for mountain salt, deposited pre-anthropocene era)
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by tonfa 3y ago
> I wonder if this was at least a factor in Switzerland remaining neutral in both world wars probably has more to do with 1515 (Marignano) and 1815 (Congress of Vienna, which secured Switzerland as an independent state, while enforcing n
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by tonfa 3y ago
> There's probably more plastic in the salt than iodine at this point. Probably not in swiss salt tho (it's usually mountain salt, not sea salt).
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by tonfa 3y ago
Good luck trying that with cops in France (who condescendingly will "tu" you while expecting "vous" in return)
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by tonfa 3y ago
The blog has a link to https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/zenbleed.html#discovery which presents the concept.
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by tonfa 3y ago
Is that kind of fingerprinting allowed in EU? If that's happening at least for big tech I'd assume there would be some ongoing investigation?
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by tonfa 3y ago
> So the central bank interest rate isn't targeted to be 2%, but it will be somewhere close to it: too high, and they drive inflation well above 2% all on their own. Isn't it the reverse relationship? Increased rate decrease th
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by tonfa 3y ago
Criteria isn't actually public vs. non public (there's another thread discussing that already).
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by tonfa 3y ago
Are chromebooks bootloader locked?
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by tonfa 3y ago
One thing trees/plant help with (instead of concrete/asphalt in cities) is with the added impact of evapotranspiration (besides providing shade).

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