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MarkCole
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Comment #44420387
There is also the option to do half bins / half grid pattern at the edge. So you have the normal 42x42 grid pattern, then on one edge there are 21x42 sized boxes. There are a numbe…
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Comment #40881837
It really depends on a lot of factors. For example if you have solar, how well insulated your house is, etc. I am currently renovating a house in Germany and had a quote for a heat…
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Comment #40367725
The filing mentions the Foundation multiple times? > Raspberry Pi is a subsidiary of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, a UK charity founded in 2008, with the goal of promoting interest …
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Comment #35638615
The article is talking about his private fortune. The fortune of the royal family/the monarchy/the crown is of course much larger. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Estate
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Comment #32318795
Usually for big supermarkets they are changed over a radio frequency. So they do not need people to go around and manually program them. You can also do cool time limited actions w…
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Comment #31258477
They do have a fiber model[0]. However as someone else mentioned most ISPs provide a modem with Fiber, and you put your router behind it. [0] https://en.avm.de/products/fritzbox/fr…
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Comment #28862985
The article mentions that the FIFA license only includes rights to the name, logo and rights to the World Cup. The player and teams name, likenesses and logos are governed by licen…
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Comment #28536233
Btw since Raspberry Imager version 1.6 there is a hidden advanced options menu. It can be opened with ctrl+shift+x. This GUI allows you to set WiFi and SSH options. So you don't ev…
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Comment #19052276
Your business is currently an android + ios app in a sector Stripe finds to be "high-risk". Stripe can't guarantee you're not going to later sell your software/product directly usi…
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Comment #18635303
AFAIK they will generally only do it if the account is inactive. Were you actively using the twitter handle?
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Comment #18166732
They actually did want to call it the Model E, but Ford filed for a Trademark. https://www.businessinsider.com/why-tesla-named-model-3-mode...
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Comment #18156561
It matters a little but not as much as you may think. (By the way nothing says the dividend has to be yearly, as a company you can pay multiple dividends a year if you so choose. I…
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Comment #18119165
I don't see that this solves any problem in the interview process. This would just incentivize people who aren't going to take the job to apply. People would specifically apply to …
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Comment #18022126
Is the tech lead actually proposing it as his idea? As in "Last night I had this idea x, we should do that". Or is he saying to the manager "We should implement x now because..." b…
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Comment #17607241
I have not done this, but I have considered it. It is certainly appealing but I'd have to be sure I'd be putting the time to good use. i.e. Not playing video games all day. What I …
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Comment #17363217
If your domain predates the trademark, and you're using the domain and not squatting on an empty page then I don't see why you would be obligated to give it up. If they just sent a…
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Comment #16919155
I'm fairly certain it is. Billionaires and their families are at a high risk of being kidnapped and ransomed. Then there are stalkers, and obsessives who might try to enter your ho…
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Comment #16752485
Ahhh sorry I didn't see this. I don't have a blank copy of it that I can find. Only one with a lot of private info in it. It was based on one I found by googling "excel budget temp…
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Comment #16752419
Some probably could, some of them probably wouldn't translate super well 1:1 and you'd lose part of the game in the transition. I also think one of the great parts of developing a …
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Comment #16697045
I have a couple of suggestions: 1. Find parts of your life you want to automate and do less of. An example, I used to budget my money using an excel spreadsheet. I would copy my in…
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Comment #16348320
AC is generally not a thing at all in German residential properties. Usually only in stores/offices/etc and even then it's not a given, I once worked here in an office with no AC. …
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Comment #16347760
I live in the Heidelberg/Mannheim area of Germany and this problem is most definitely not restricted to passive houses. I know several people with top floor apartments that regular…
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Comment #16308628
> the first person responds with calling them jobless, disturbed and a harasser then the gloves are off Well that reaction seems to have come after they were harrassed, called a du…
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Comment #16308003
This reads a lot like an attack. Yes its clear they did not program their app 100% themselves. I fail to see how it's such a big deal. Especially one that requires posts on multipl…
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Comment #16272954
Yeah, it's quite a shame because I've always found the Google made phones to be the best. I had the Nexus 5 for 3+ years, and never had a problem with it. I think when it comes tim…