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by ekr 17d ago
Very similar experience with Romania and the Netherlands. I grew up in western Romania (was born in the mid '90s), and moved to the Netherlands over 5 years ago. When I first came here, I was stunned by how green everything was, being
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by ekr 19d ago
What does self-aware even mean in this context?
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by ekr 2mo ago
I used to be a long time lineageos (and before that, cyanogenmod) user. Phones always felt faster, smoother, and with better battery life without all the bloat. Felt more secure too. But at some point, I had a few apps that stopped working
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by ekr 5mo ago
It's likely I would have missed the traffic jams had I not had the fuel incident, since this was 5AM, roads were empty at the time. And yes, everything is under our control and nothing is. It's a matter of perspective. Everyone pr
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by ekr 5mo ago
I could in theory. But inside, it often feels that I'm doing everything as early as possible. Just that I'm overwhelmed. I also don't value being on time too much. I was recently late to a date of sorts, 10-15 minutes, which
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by ekr 5mo ago
Sometimes, the Deutsche Bahn is so late, that it's early. Wrapping around. The previous train in the schedule sometimes was so late, that it was just a bit before the next one was supposed to depart. So the next one is cancelled or del
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by ekr 5mo ago
Why? Bathroom queues or things like that? I live alone but am almost always late. A few weeks ago I was late to the airport for a flight by a couple of hours. Yesterday I was late to work, I was commuting by car when an officer thought of s
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by ekr 5mo ago
I think you're mostly right, except maybe a bit misinformed on #1. The younger Khamenei is, according to recent reports, in a very unstable condition, has likely never actually had an input on the leadership of Iran so far, and his fut
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by ekr 6mo ago
That's very interesting to me. When I was a child, I used to love the smell of gasoline as well. Now I get a repulsion from it. And it's not the only thing like that. Several things that I used to like now I can't stand. Pest
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by ekr 6mo ago
Indeed, I meant 10S. And what I meant by load being distributed along more cells, is that since you have many more cells, current drawn from each is lower. Which greatly prolongs the lifetime. And hence the question I had with charging too
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by ekr 6mo ago
Although the thought of getting an electric car has passed through my mind on a few occasions, I'm not 100% familiar with the intricate technical details. (for some reason, the tax incentives where I live are still in favor of continui
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by ekr 7mo ago
That's strange (i.e. different from my experience). I've been living in the Netherlands since 2021, speak some (~ B1) Dutch, but good English and German. Dutch language was from day one comprehensible due to German similarity. Man
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by ekr 7mo ago
I'd say just stick that $100k in a diversified all-world ETF, because putting it into some random's entrepreneur wannabe is unlikely to pay off (you'll probably not get anything back). Unless you're really wealthy, but t
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by ekr 7mo ago
Not being rich per se, but probably stress. The body has no innate knowledge of how wealthy you are, outside of some information stored in the neocortex about financial details (which has little influence on the overall functioning and regu
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by ekr 8mo ago
Not when installed properly, i.e. on a level, compacted base. Where I live, in the Netherlands, a great portion of streets, driveways, sidewalks, bikepaths are from klinkers, or bricks. Very rarely do you see any indentations in them (mostl
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by ekr 8mo ago
Well, fuel here is close to if not the most expensive in EU. That also contains a lot of tax. But I just don't drive that much. And the insurance is cheap because of years of no incidents, and the fact that I'm over 30. But indeed
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by ekr 8mo ago
Same here. Living in the Netherlands, I drive a 2008 Daihatsu Cuore, bought for 850E over a year ago, I pay 17E /month in mrb (road tax) and 38E/month insurance. It's basically close to the costs of a scooter. And I average u
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by ekr 8mo ago
It has been reported in the press that Starlink subscription fee has been waived for Iran, so people with receivers can use it for free.
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by ekr 8mo ago
Such a striking similarity to my own path. But I was in early 20s-mid 20s, going through some more difficult times and after a lot of research and study of the nervous system and trauma, I came to the conclusion that neurofeedback seems lik
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by ekr 9mo ago
I know I'm too being vague, like all other comments in this thread. But my suggestion would be to work on feeling well/good. The energy one emanates is what attracts or pushes other people away. It is of course a very complex topi
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by ekr 9mo ago
After reading your comment, I'm left wondering. What exactly is actionable in it? How exactly does it help a person in OPs position? Apart from the part deferring to a therapist, which is more or less common knowledge in this day and a
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by ekr 9mo ago
What people care about when talking about EVs and consumption is generally how much distance they can cover. If you take away the distance factor and just report power, it becomes meaningless/almost useless.
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by ekr 11mo ago
It's still a bubble, even if it doesn't or won't at all implode. It's a bubble because the underlying economic realities don't come anywhere close to the current valuation. I.e. it's all so inflated due to spec
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by ekr 2y ago
> The Uber we have today seems to be paying the third party drivers around cost price per kilometer That doesn't make sense, as the drivers are obviously not operating at a loss.
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by ekr 3y ago
Bafang BBS series had only two wires (positive and ground) connecting the battery to the motor. I think other motors by bafang have similar setups.
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by ekr 5y ago
> ADHD is the condition where there are many problems around and you cannot decide which ones are really worth solving, so you spend some effort on most of them but solve none. What you described here has nothing to do with ADHD. You des
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by ekr 5y ago
From my POV, Rust is already a bad decision for the same reason Linus was against C++. There's a continuous trade off against complexity and this is just such a huge addition to what was already a behemoth. I think Linus nowadays is a
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by ekr 5y ago
No. Various manifestations of mental illness and diseases of the mammal nervous system are deeply linked to the whole body and not just the conscious part of the brain. They were arbitrarily sculpted by evolution and encode a lot of informa
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by ekr 6y ago
I'm personally both impressed and surprised by how well this M1 chip performs. But one thing most reviews omit to mention is that it has a fab process advantage compared to the competitors, especially against Intel. And going from TSMC
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by ekr 6y ago
There were talks of splitting Google and other huge companies due to their size ( https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/10/house-amazon-fac... ). Wouldn't it be awesome if Apple's CPU/IC desig

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