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by xioxox 4y ago
Fake celebrity endorsements are often used on these scams. Well-known UK finance media guy Martin Lewis constantly has to try to shut down ads using his image.
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There's this: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/scotland-blog/2016/may/1...
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by xioxox 4y ago
Short-sightedness is the eye problem in British English: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/short-sightedness/ We also use long-sightedness.
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by xioxox 4y ago
Are you sure? I see values of $1.7M or so for Berkley [1]. In Munich it's around 10k Euros per square metre. There are many properties with prices around the Berkley value [2], although flats will be cheaper. [1] https://www
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by xioxox 4y ago
Does anyone know why box fans are so hard to get hold of in Europe? In Germany they seem very rare and expensive.
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Astronomy usually writes coordinates in this order, for example: Right ascension [RA], declination [Dec] in the equatorial coordinate system (corresponding to Long, Lat), or Galactic sky coordinates l (Galactic longitude) and b (Galactic la
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by xioxox 4y ago
It also has crazy things like taxation on energy produced by your solar panels that you use yourself.
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by xioxox 4y ago
I believe there is a tax free threshold of 801€ for singles and 1602€ for couples, however.
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by xioxox 4y ago
I'm pretty sure in the UK and Germany that you can't claim tax relief on mortgage interest of your own home.
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by xioxox 4y ago
Uh, Munich has incredibly expensive house prices. It's over 1M Euros to buy for anything of a reasonable size. Developer salaries are around 65k. You can get a little cheaper by going to a neighbouring towns, but the stupidly high pric
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by xioxox 4y ago
However, there are many areas of the world where you can't grow human-edible food on the land currently being used to grow grass for feeding livestock. Of course this is not true everywhere, but a lot of area, e.g. in the UK, could onl
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by xioxox 5y ago
As a comparison, I have to program in Fortran in my day job, and I really hate it. On the negative side, text handling is really horrible (even with the new variable length strings), there are very few good libraries outside of numerics, a
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by xioxox 5y ago
It can work ok if you're a single person with no children. However, you'll potentially have to pay a lot more tax if you're married where your spouse earns more or less than you. There several other reasons where legally you&
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Here's a solution which is vectorizable: http://gallium.inria.fr/blog/fast-vectorizable-math-approx/ I've also read that Chebyshev polynomials are far better for approximating functions than Taylor serie
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by xioxox 5y ago
It certainly looks like they're trying to flatten cities and kill civilians: https://twitter.com/Polk_Azov/status/1506585227069689861 - it's certainly not targeted on the military
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by xioxox 5y ago
I'll be interested in this remake when it's done. I don't know what it is about Colossal Cave, but the descriptions of the caves were pure magic to me when I played this many years ago. Perhaps it comes from the real experien
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by xioxox 5y ago
The GUI designer is called Qt designer - it's called designer in Ubuntu/Debian. Unfortunately Debian has really made a mess of their packaging of Qt/PyQt. They've split up everything into tiny packages and their naming s
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by xioxox 5y ago
I use fork a lot in my Python science programs. It's really great - you can stick it in a loop and get immediate parallelism. It's much better than multiprocessing, etc, as you keep the state from just before the fork happened, so
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by xioxox 5y ago
I would check the model. An MFC-L2750DW printed for me from Ubuntu without installing anything.
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The data from the mission will be made public after proprietary periods [1]. They have an archive [2]. I don't expect that the raw telemetry will be made available, but the raw science data in FITS format appears will be available. [1]
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by xioxox 5y ago
I remember scirate is pretty old - the domain was registered in 2007. Given the low number of comments now, and with those are concentrated into a narrow part of arXiv, it's unlikely to take off generally.
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by xioxox 5y ago
Is it just me, or are most of the results in that paper rather obvious and not very useful in general, outside of social media posts. In Facebook posts, it's not surprising that men talk more about computer games and sport, and swear m
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by xioxox 5y ago
Interestingly, some of the in-person debit card payments I make from my German bank appear to work internally as direct debits. They appear as "SEPA-ELV-LASTSCHRIFT" on statement. Other card payments are just called "KARTENZA
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by xioxox 5y ago
Yes, I remember using Linux installed onto an MSDOS partition using UMSDOS. It was pretty nice to be able to run Linux without repartitioning.
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In the UK, the big supermarket Tesco were criticised heavily for how they charged their suppliers for various things: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/mar/30/tesco-reduc...
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You can also use lftp to transfer a directory tree using the sftp protocol: $ lftp sftp://hostname lftp ~> cd somedir lftp ~> mirror . lftp ~> quit
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Yes, but I think it's a mock-up and not a real Buran. It was mostly empty inside (and dark!). They showed us the hanger which partially collapsed and damaged the Buran inside, as we were being driven along.
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by xioxox 5y ago
Kazakhstan is an interesting place. The huge open landscapes are completely different to what I've experienced in Europe. There are seemingly endless rail tracks and telegraph poles. I've been to Baikonur to see a proton rocket la
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The Boring Billion(en.wikipedia.org)
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As a scientist, it depends on what you mean by wrong. It's nice to push an array of numbers through some array operation. If some of the outputs look like NaN or Inf then that tells me something went wrong in the operation and to take

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