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by wooger 6y ago
Sadly Safari is the only useable iOS browser, as it's the only one where Content Blockers work for ad blocking.
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by wooger 6y ago
> Compared to Northern Europe certainly. Housing quality in Portugal is a joke. It's like going back in time a 100 years compared to Northern Europe: no heat insulation, high fire risk due to old electric infrastructure, single-laye
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by wooger 6y ago
Airbnb is also a factor, and has for sure removed hundreds of beautiful 1 bedroom flats in central areas from the rental market. I'm not sure of the legal status of airBnB in Portugal, but it could be part of the problem.
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by wooger 6y ago
Roads I've driven on in Portugal were all much clearer of traffic, less potholed and better signposted than the UK. In particular they have some motorway innovations we should steal: A minimum speed limit, and a zone around junctions w
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by wooger 6y ago
Huh? Same timezone as London, so... about the worst possible for CA.
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by wooger 6y ago
Agree, if I ever become fully remote and leave the UK I'd definitely consider Portugal, the quality of food, beauty of the cities & countryside, people are all great, costs are ultimately incredibly low for living in a European cap
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by wooger 6y ago
But you have to live in a specific place, and what you get for your $2000 is considered cramp squalor by the rest of the country.
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by wooger 6y ago
In the wider view, where most of the population aren't FAANG engineers, it does make sense though, as most of the younger population can't afford a mortgage at all in a 'hot market', so the higher CoL is just lost. There
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by wooger 6y ago
By the time you know this is the case in your flat, it's too late to do anything about it. Other than wait a year, then move into another flat which may have the same problem. Market forces don't work for hidden features like this
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by wooger 6y ago
It doesn't even need to be someone who moved to the area who's grandfathered in to the cheap taxes: Families can share ownership of a property and retain it forever. It's an insanely unfair system.
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by wooger 6y ago
Counterpoint: it's a lot more wasteful, especially for desktops, to own Apple. Look at all the iMacs with recent, high quality 5K monitors that'll be scrapped, as they can't be used with another video source. Such a waste.
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by wooger 6y ago
Livestock has been raised in Europe for Millenia with no soy anywhere near them. Grass grazed cattle & chickens are completely sustainable and beneficial to the environment they're on. Sourced locally they're a fuckton healthi
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by wooger 6y ago
Your addiction to breathing causes harm to the environment, so selfish.
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by wooger 6y ago
Veganism just draws an arbitrary line, wasn't scientifically selected for ecological benefits or any scientific health basis. Look at honey - obviously good for you, obviously sustainable, not allowed in the vegan diet.
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by wooger 6y ago
Cue vegans saying: "Are we the baddies?"
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by wooger 6y ago
We already know apple's own software has special exemptions in the OS e.g. from packet sniffers. Any reason to trust the ram usage for Safari nowadays?
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by wooger 6y ago
> I get it. Editing and reviewing costs money for journals. Are you sure? I'm sure previous posts on here made it very clear that they're peer reviewed for free.
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by wooger 6y ago
Never buy 1st Gen Mac hardware. As true today as it was in 1995
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by wooger 6y ago
I think 99% of the population would quit today if they didn't need the money.
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by wooger 6y ago
Yeah, at least the US has multiple cities with similar pressure on price, the UK market is so unbalanced by London. But anecdotally a huge swath of the younger population is moving to Birmingham or Manchester to escape the South East price
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by wooger 6y ago
They're already more efficient though, and there's no benefit to the current residents (tech rich or not) from massive incoming population growth. There won't be equivalent investment in services, recreation, leisure faciliti
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by wooger 6y ago
Or maybe it's just a big I/O & power box, with a bunch of slots on top that accept a Mac mini. Like a more stylish SNES.
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by wooger 6y ago
I always thought the longer term plan was to lead in battery manufacturing, and then diversify into other fields, plus sell batteries to other manufacturers.
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by wooger 6y ago
Wait, what? People run anti-virus on Macs? What proportion of the userbase is this? It's good to hear from Mozilla doing some browser developmenmt, and not making bizarre political announcements that an authoritarian shutdown of a soci
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by wooger 6y ago
hobbled how? For me, the form factor of a battery powered lazy person's vehicle is not yet perfected, and they should be more akin to a sit-down vespa scooter than the current scooters. The centre of mass is just too high, the wheels t
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by wooger 6y ago
And in our other cities it's still way cheaper (and socially acceptable) to drive in from the suburbs and park. There are car parks literally 200m from the centre of Birmingham where you can park all day for less than 10 pounds, and ch
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by wooger 6y ago
It's the moderators on Reddit that are much of the problem. There are organised subreddits (/r/AHS) that seek to get certain subreddits not in agreement with the latest SJW ideology banned. They do this by posting illegal &#x
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by wooger 6y ago
"Peaceful protestors" became a bit of a joke this year, as newsreaders stood in front of burning cars & buildings telling us a peaceful protest was going on.
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by wooger 6y ago
Yes, election fraud would be a plot to overthrow democracy wouldn't it.
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by wooger 6y ago
The first case certainly also happens in China and numerous poorer countries. Not just breaking safety regulations, but by literally swapping out concrete in structural support pillars for old oil cans. Or just using a poor concrete mix for

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