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by tonfa 3y ago
Thanks both for the pointers (it's easier to google if you know what to search for). https://climate.ec.europa.eu/eu-action/fluorinated-greenhous... is the list of alternatives with corresponding GWP for EU.
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by tonfa 3y ago
> Air conditioners [...] leak harmful planet-warming gases into the atmosphere. Anyone has a reference about that? Last time I tried to research it, it seems like it was mostly fixed at least in Europe with the most harmful gases being b
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by tonfa 3y ago
Switzerland already have QR code based payment (twint, can debit directly from your credit card). Bunch of self service farm products simply have the qr code. It's also common to have qr-code or cash only payment available in mountain
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by tonfa 3y ago
Still fairly easy to find IMO. You can search deleted code easily, and blame layers allows finding how code evolved fairly quickly.
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by tonfa 3y ago
Switzerland started getting unique ticket across public transport companies since 1857. Now it's enshrined in the law (and over 240 different transportation companies are participating, incl. train, bus, gondola, boats, etc.). (servic
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by tonfa 4y ago
Like https://github.com/google/crubit ?
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by tonfa 4y ago
https://www.coursera.org/learn/money-banking Goes over the history iirc
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by tonfa 4y ago
That's a weird reply when a market has mostly two players. By definition there won't be any other significant market share.
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by tonfa 4y ago
> Wouldn't this underground network be more efficient than the above-ground railways for cargo? Cargo trains above ground need to stop at lights, need human drivers, etc etc. I think CST vs. cargo rail are very much complementary. C
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by tonfa 4y ago
> The goal is not to replace urban truck traffic with CST. Though reducing that traffic is one goal. """ In urban areas, city logistics can reduce delivery traffic by 30%. """ I guess this is achieved becaus
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by tonfa 4y ago
It seems to be last mile distribution from logistical centers, so targeting rather short distances given the size of the country and distribution of large cities. First segment is between on of the biggest logistical hub and Zurich (largest
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by tonfa 4y ago
It's pretty clear from the website that this is the intent. It's the delivery from the logistical centers (where the train freight terminates) to the city centers. They mentions repacking so that things get bundled by final destin
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by tonfa 4y ago
> Was on a Swiss train that did exactly this yesterday. Though there's usually replacement trains for those use cases. The main stations have a standby train (Dispozug) ready to immediately replace any train that's cancelled or
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by tonfa 4y ago
It's not exactly like the US tho. Basic insurance is mandatory for every resident, insurers can't refuse covererage (no preexisting conditions) and pricing of insurance is transparent (I don't think they can differentiate bey
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by tonfa 4y ago
And Init7 is solid quality (and probably the perfect ISP for people who like to have fun with their network), but not exactly cheap for Zurich. You can get like 10Gb/s for half the price with other ISPs.
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by tonfa 4y ago
It's a niche/small ISP, which mostly targets advanced users. Though for regular users, they can get 10Gb/s for half the price of init7 with other isps (but probably worse peering as mentioned in the post).
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by tonfa 4y ago
Yeah that's the story telling but not the reality, most of the sales were to cover taxes due on option exercise (had to do it in 2021 to avoid a tax regime change that was starting in 2022).
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by tonfa 4y ago
So not sure it would have worked in that case. The statues where basically used to fill the space (mixed up with other things) when the wall (Jubé) they were on was removed on the 17th century (iirc). There were some large (known) cavities
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by tonfa 4y ago
I guess parent meant hybrid where part of the team is full remote and part of the team is in office.
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by tonfa 5y ago
> I have no idea how we got there, but my guess is that most Google engineers are either : completely ignorant of internationalization issues, don't care, or don't speak more than one language. Funny, if anything probably 80%+
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by tonfa 5y ago
I think they discovered the trick. Default headers might be ignored, but anything non default (e.g. en-gb, two languages, etc.) is assumed to be correct.
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by tonfa 5y ago
> Swiss BIS It's weird to call it swiss BIS, the place where international institutions are headquartered is not usually relevant :) We don't say Swiss FIFA, or Swiss WHO.
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by tonfa 5y ago
Isn't some part of starlink backbone on google networks? https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/13/google-cloud-wins-spacex-dea... That probably makes the bar to reach for a successful DDoS fairly high.
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by tonfa 5y ago
Or even a lot less if you're waiting for the special offers. I have sunrise unlimited internet for 5 CHF/month (10 CHF without discount). Includes like 500 MB for roaming per month as well.
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by tonfa 5y ago
If you've never been, Iceland is surprisingly not that cold during winter, there are many places that are much colder (e.g. US/Canada east coast). Is is also not warm in summer though :) (I guess the gulf stream is regulating temp
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by tonfa 5y ago
Inflation helps reallocating labor more efficiently since salary is sticky.
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by tonfa 5y ago
Billionaires are wealthy but usually don't hold cash assets (or much gold for that matter), currencies are irrelevant. (In a BTC world they wouldn't hold much BTC either, if they do that'd be a pretty bad outcome since wealth
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by tonfa 5y ago
But by design Bitcoin doesn't dilute or expand through balance sheet, so in a BTC maximalist world, those 100 people still hold roughly the same fraction, right?
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by tonfa 5y ago
> The difference between having someone who always triple-checks every parameter they input, versus someone who never double-checks and just wings it. Sure, the person who triple-checks will make mistakes, but less than the other person.
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by tonfa 5y ago
Thanks to the GDPR at least that's easy to verify for European users.

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