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- 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 (…

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 impleme…

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.…

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 bla…

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 LC…

Maybe GP means country as in “Bundesland”, like how British people call their regions “countries“

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 th…

Anyone coding Mercury out there?

In my day browsers could save an archive of a page Is this still the case?

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…

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…

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What makes the Icelandic people not indigenous?

Hopefully a dent can be made with something like Offset https://www.freedomlayer.org/offset/about-offset/

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

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 ju…

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 ca…

Maybe these software development philosophies are cargo cults

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What a wonderful message! Keep it up :)

So a black person who moved from Africa is then lower-case black, because they are not part of the Black (uppercase) culture?

If you pay 0 you get 0. If it’s free, you are the product.

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 movi…

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.

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 …