jeofken

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by jeofken 1y ago
- memorising names and birthdates of relevant people - private life and work life - anything I’m looking up more than ~5 times can go in Anki - spelling of words I often misspell (eg bureaucracy) - when reading anything technical I need fo
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by jeofken 1y ago
The EU forces every member state to implement an exit tax to trap entrepreneurs in a disadvantageous situation (Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive). Some countries such as Sweden implements this only minimally - making capital gains of Swedish co
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by jeofken 1y ago
Norway has a high wealth tax (it’s gonna be 1.1% of total wealth per year in normal cases), high capital gains tax, and an exit tax treating moving abroad as a capital gains event. This means, if you start a not-yet-publicly-listed company,
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by jeofken 1y ago
For me, one of the hibreak pro buttons broke (top left one). NFC payment works fine, but using google wallet on websites seem to fail for me. Video calls are fine but obviously black and white and frame rate is approx 10fps or something. Hu
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by jeofken 1y ago
Searched for “ink” in this thread hoping to find someone else who solved the problem like this An e ink smartphone gives me hours of my life back daily. Can not recommend enough LCD screens attract us like ants to a dropped ice cream
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by jeofken 1y ago
Maybe GP means country as in “Bundesland”, like how British people call their regions “countries“
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by jeofken 1y ago
PMS as in Pantone Matching System or Premenstrual Syndrome? AirBNB can be equally frustrating for users as well. Recently ended up at night in a new city in northern Japan where the host told me the listing was at a different address, wher
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by jeofken 2y ago
Anyone coding Mercury out there?
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by jeofken 2y ago
In my day browsers could save an archive of a page Is this still the case?
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by jeofken 2y ago
For me the only really useful intervention was getting a black and white e-ink Android smartphone. I started to read a book per month and my short video watching time was decimated. I got the Bigme Hibreak which isn’t the worst, but lacks r
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by jeofken 2y ago
In Anki, select the “Cloze” card type, and add hints with this syntax {{c1::answer::hint}} Try encoding the same information in multiple cards to train your brain to understand the concept rather than recognise the card. Good luck
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by jeofken 3y ago
> played by an actor
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by jeofken 3y ago
What makes the Icelandic people not indigenous?
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by jeofken 3y ago
Hopefully a dent can be made with something like Offset https://www.freedomlayer.org/offset/about-offset/
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by jeofken 3y ago
Isn’t this whole thing about Americans health insurance being tied to their jobs a side effect of some crazy WW2 regulation? Not sure how it works over there
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by jeofken 3y ago
In CH I can go to a different doctor if I don’t like one. They run their own businesses. It’s their incentive to take me. It’s amazing!!! Totally normal to everyone from here. I just go on OneDoc and select one according to my preferences.
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by jeofken 3y ago
When I moved from a country with public, so called “free” healthcare (Sweden) to one with private health care (CH) where I’m a customer rather than a “user”, I was blown away. I can see a doctor tomorrow, I can select which language (maybe
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by jeofken 4y ago
Maybe these software development philosophies are cargo cults
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by jeofken 4y ago
Scan den af i gen
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by jeofken 4y ago
What a wonderful message! Keep it up :)
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by jeofken 4y ago
So a black person who moved from Africa is then lower-case black, because they are not part of the Black (uppercase) culture?
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by jeofken 4y ago
If you pay 0 you get 0. If it’s free, you are the product.
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by jeofken 4y ago
With mutable state every function has an implicit dependency on other stuff. Without mutable state your function depends on its arguments, and produces only a return value. No moving parts or implicit dependencies = you can cut and paste st
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by jeofken 4y ago
Same for Swedish - it asked me ”Hur ser din typiska dag ut”. For any Swede who understands English, I get what they’re saying, but it’s an unnatural sentence to make.
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by jeofken 4y ago
Child safety and cars sure is related - and history buffs will be glad to know the “kindermoord” of automobiles was what got the Netherlands to change from car-centric cities with many lanes wide traffic jams, to the best city infrastructur
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by jeofken 4y ago
A Tesla Model 3 loses around 1% charge per day idle
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by jeofken 4y ago
Can you back this up? Most swedes I know are reluctant to speak, but in confidence say that “it’s a bit too much”
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by jeofken 4y ago
Have you ever seen a poll of a European country where people wanted more immigration (from the 3rd world)?
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by jeofken 4y ago
What about archiving them in torrent format - in this way, as long as there is one nerd who values history out there, there will be a copy
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by jeofken 4y ago
Do you have any data on air conditioning and EV range? I find nothing helps as much as going 110kmph (~70mph) rather than speeding at 130kmph (~80mph).

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