Beretta_Vexee

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by Beretta_Vexee 18d ago
There are a whole host of microstates and more or less autonomous overseas territories that use the euro. If Mayotte can use the euro even though the island is on the brink of collapse, I don’t see why that would be a problem for Iceland. I
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by Beretta_Vexee 18d ago
This is one of the main reasons for the discussions. The Icelandic króna is a very small currency that fluctuates significantly. It is a small economy, and the difference in currency complicates access to European financial services. Switch
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by Beretta_Vexee 18d ago
One of the factors leading them to reconsider EU membership is monetary policy. The Icelandic króna is a very small currency that fluctuates considerably. Switching to the euro would protect them from exchange rate risks with their main tra
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by Beretta_Vexee 20d ago
There’s a small cinema in Paris that still screens 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' once a month; at certain times of the year, there’s even a troupe of amateur actors. When I went to see it, it was a joyful shambles, with rice, wa
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by Beretta_Vexee 23d ago
It’s a step in the right direction; the alternative would be to do nothing whilst waiting for a perfect text that will never materialise.
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by Beretta_Vexee 26d ago
The Keynesian debt theory, the government should run up debt and support the economy during recessions, and then repay that debt quickly during periods of growth. This is not what is happening. Repaying the interest on debt held by a Norweg
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by Beretta_Vexee 26d ago
The principal is repaid by issuing new bonds at maturity. This can be sustained for a long time if interest rates are low, but for much less time if rates rise. The volume of bonds being issued becomes so great that rates have to be raised
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by Beretta_Vexee 26d ago
US government bond yields are regarded as the rate of return on a risk-free asset. So, for someone to decide to lend you money or invest in your business, you need to offer them a higher rate of return. This extra return is the risk premium
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by Beretta_Vexee 27d ago
It’s not quite the same when a schoolchild or a farmer has to figure out different train timetable formats depending on the railway company. It was the 1980s, and these were the first affordable watches available… The SNCF doesn’t change it
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by Beretta_Vexee 27d ago
For a very long time, China and India used a mixture of the 12-hour and 24-hour formats, which meant they had to convert the time or switch between time formats multiple times par day. That was the intended use of this button. Both countrie
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by Beretta_Vexee 29d ago
A Chinese and Russian troll farm employs people from French-speaking Africa for their French-language operations. There are many Ivorians and Senegalese promoting the CCP’s ‘Community of common destiny’ on Reddit, for example. Edit: Communi
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by Beretta_Vexee 29d ago
There’s bots that automatically downvotes certain topics on HN. I post at times that often coincide with the middle of the night in North America, and I get 3–5 downvotes within the next 5 minutes. Talking about a country that sets up fake
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by Beretta_Vexee 1mo ago
with a resolution of 640x480 or below !
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by Beretta_Vexee 1mo ago
> living in Berlin ... I don't think I will ever feel integrated. I’d understood this was a typical Berlin experience even for German.
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by Beretta_Vexee 2mo ago
gaborkoos.com blog post, It suggests that the overflow is a sort of extension of the primary bucket, when it is a entry par entry collisions resolution mechanism. The abseil documentation is dense but clear. What I get is Swiss tables are a
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by Beretta_Vexee 2mo ago
This is one of the least clear explanations of what a hash map bucket and overflow are that I hav read.
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by Beretta_Vexee 3mo ago
Public or shared technical ducts and technical galleries, available to all operators, are a distinctive feature of France. The law strongly encourages the leasing of, or joint investment in, telecommunications infrastructure. All operators
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by Beretta_Vexee 3mo ago
Major campaigns to install telephone lines took place in the run-up to and during the First World War. This enabled civilians and conscripts who were not trained in the use of radio to communicate with headquarters. There were literally reg
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by Beretta_Vexee 3mo ago
We mustn’t forget the context: FFmpeg and Videolan got their start in dorm rooms, where students used them to stream TV in the dorm and share movies. The Polytechnique and École Centrale campuses are just a few kilometers apart, and both pr
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by Beretta_Vexee 3mo ago
Perhaps you should limit it to capital cities or states with a certain population size. Including all the European microstates does not seem appropriate to me; Andorra, Monaco, San Marino and the Vatican have very varying degrees of indepen
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by Beretta_Vexee 4mo ago
Meta on Facebook: posts about contraception, HIV or family planning will get you banned. Posting photos of drowned migrants on Italian beaches with hateful messages? That’s cool, bro free speech.
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by Beretta_Vexee 4mo ago
It’s those left-wingers and their ‘cancel culture’ that are stopping these oppressed billionaires from speaking freely!
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by Beretta_Vexee 4mo ago
It’s not just Europeans who are beginning to realize that the U.S. can’t be trusted; Australians are still waiting for a hypothetical delivery date for their AUKUS submarines. The Gulf states find themselves with too few interceptor missile
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by Beretta_Vexee 5mo ago
Don’t worry, hardware manufacturers are going to keep ripping us off with HDR encoding. HDR10, HDR10+, Dolby Vision, and so on.
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by Beretta_Vexee 5mo ago
It depends on how long you've been using WordPress, whether you use plugins, whether they're well-maintained or not, and so on. Back around 2010, there were security vulnerabilities in WordPress or its popular plugins almost every
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by Beretta_Vexee 5mo ago
"Installed battery storage in France rose 35% last year 1.61 gigawatts, according to grid operator RTE data." 1.5 GW are pumped-storage hydroelectric power plants (PSPPs). This article is shit.
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by Beretta_Vexee 5mo ago
DRM has always been a means of protecting a monopoly; copyright protection is merely the excuse given to justify the measure and the monopoly.
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by Beretta_Vexee 6mo ago
3D adaptation of the 1992 Cryo Interactive adventure game.
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by Beretta_Vexee 6mo ago
It depends; it’s not bad with the right plug-ins for designing a building, but God forbid you ever have to model a threaded hole.
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by Beretta_Vexee 6mo ago
For decades, employees have been developing tools using whatever was available to them, and in most cases, this was limited to Excel macros. AI provides access to much better tools for testing and quickly experimenting with new ideas. The o

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