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My e-bike’s battery on the other hand is in Wh.

Having filed taxes in Germany, Switzerland and Norway, I can give you two developed countries where it’s not similar to Norway. Not as bad as what I hear from the US, but not simpl…

Good point! Still, I could swear I saw someone (@FakeUnicode?) do exactly this once, but of course I can’t find that tweet any more, partly because it turns out that search engines…

Yup, you can put 280 of it into a single tweet.

In Europe there’s CoopCycle[1], a “federation of bike delivery co-ops”: https://coopcycle.org/en/

Oh yeah, I doubt you’ll find business class tickets that are anywhere near as cheap as twice the price of the average Ryanair flight, but as someone who is in the lucky situation t…

That’s true if you’re flying on budget airlines like Ryanair or Easyjet, but nearly all the legacy carriers offer a business class “cabin” where the seats are usually the same as i…

Perhaps you could even pay a company to print the entire paper for you and have it delivered to your door every morning.

You’ll enjoy the rest of his videos then. He’s one of the few Youtubers whose videos I watch regularly. In addition to being interesting, I always find them well-researched, well-p…

I’ve recently moved away from Spotify and back to my own music library. I’m using beets[1] to manage my messy metadata and it does a pretty good job. You can probably tell it to le…

Since this tracks the combined size of the top 100 npm packages, my guess is that those spikes are caused by packages entering and leaving the list.

They’ll also be live-translated from German to English (and vice versa) by volunteers – and often into a third language too!

They did however take $200 million in VC funding in November: https://blog.1password.com/accel-partnership/

> If I'm in a hotel room, and something has dead alkalines, I'll toss the batteries, and try to make it very obvious the batteries were removed so they can be replaced for the next…

> A lot of the time, it's actually difficult to find certain goods in stores here (or to know which store to go to). Exactly this. I want to support small local businesses and I’m …

Fastmail also lets you use wildcards and catchall addresses, giving you infinite email addresses whenever you need them, with no way to tell what “base address” they resolve to int…

Yes, but think of all the meetings you can’t have if people aren’t at the office!

Eh, I work in Norway and while I can work remotely on request, my inquiry about doing so regularly one day a week was met with “what if shit hits the fan and we need you here urgen…

Yes, but around three out of four people will have left by 16:30, which is definitely not common in all European countries. I’d say an average working day is 7 hours plus a 30-minu…

Nope, working in Norway, I can confirm that the office gets very empty very quickly after 16:00, and more than once have I been reminded not to stay all day when I was still at my …

> the fact that you need to be a citizen to buy one Small nitpick, but you need to be a Norwegian resident with an ID number (fødselsnummer) and a postal address in Norway, not nec…

Exactly, that’s why I’m wondering about the door-to-door times for a typical trip, and I don’t know enough about American cities to give a qualified answer myself. My expectation w…

I’m not sufficiently familiar with the geography of SF or LA – how does the door-to-door time and cost compare when you account for the fact that most trips don’t actually start an…

> So allemannsretten is threatening to be extinguished because it's a concept that doesn't scale. While I agree with your main point, I think it’s important to note that this is ab…

> That's one of the great things about electric cars in Norway - you're actually going to get electricity from renewable sources. This is true in a way, but only part of the pictur…