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Depends on the country.

The cafe I live above in Denmark just has an open network.

London has had continual weather measurements at Kew Gardens and Greenwich for over a century.

Require advertisements for property to include the floor (and ground) area.

Sorry, I'm used to people quoting annual salaries and misread the GP.

That's not how tax brackets work.

The effective tax would be about 26%.

My colleagues regularly get calls from nurseries, daycare, parents at the after school club, friends of their children or their parents and so on.

They can probably ignore international calls, although only probably.

One of my banks as well as my investment broker have a three day wait to increase the maximum transaction limit.

I have them both set at about €150.

I think for the bank I can go to a branch to avoid the limit, but that will be with the full fraud suspicion of the teller.

No, at least not in the EU. That's the meaning of this decision.

People already own them, and have owned them for months or years before the rules were changed for SpaceX.

There's a cost to selling, the brokerage fee plus in many countries there's then taxes due on any profits. Many people would prefer to have unrealized gains where they can pay the tax years ahead, when they need the money.

(Also please don't make the same comment 4+ times.)

My Danish electricity supplier lets me download my smart meter records since 2022.

It's by hour, and the highest times are probably when I was cooking with both the oven and the hob, and perhaps had the washing machine running too. The highest hour used 2.9kWh.

Plenty of cheap (e.g. rental) homes in the UK have crappy electric shows, which are usually rated at 6-8kW — but rarely used for a whole hour.

These Estonian MEPs are at least suggesting general regulations rather than age limits.

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-should-stand-up-to-bi...

Masters degree in the UK are one year.

Cambridge.

You'll have no problem getting the Amazon job (or similar) with a masters degree from Cambridge afterwards.

I doubt you'll retire wishing you'd worked just one more year at Amazon.

(I have a masters from Imperial. An equally good alternative if you'd prefer to live in London, or prefer somewhere a little more business focused. Google and Amazon both skipped the first interview stage based on my degree.)

Also if you ask Amazon, they're very likely to keep the job offer open for a year.

The ULEZ in London was first discussed in 2014, so the writing was on the wall for diesel cars since then.

China requires showing identification to buy a long-distance train ticket.

Other countries I'm familiar with (Spain, France, Germany, UK, Japan) certainly do let you turn up, buy a ticket, and get on. It will cost more than buying earlier.

The UK also has the third-safest railway in Europe. Some of that will be the result of a safety culture which prevents staff from overriding a door lock.

https://international-railway-safety-council.com/safety-stat...

We were four people, and a car gave us more flexibility for hiking. A couple of times we abandoned plans during the drive once we saw the weather and went elsewhere.

But yes, the buses were good too. The others all used them when they wanted to do something different. (I didn't, as I was the only one willing to drive the car.)

Air conditioning is increasingly necessary in Europe.

When I ran a student society we used an email mailing list.

You can have two if necessary, one only for announcements and one for discussion.

If you do, rent the smallest available car. You'll be thankful for it on single-lane tunnels, single-lane (for both directions) roads and so on.

This tunnel was fine, a novelty on a relatively long drive. The natural scenery was wonderful.

What's the name of the far left grouping?

I have essentially this at work, but the scrapers ignore it. (Or at least many, many scrapers ignore it.)

With FBPurity: https://www.fbpurity.com/ I have Facebook on my desktop computer exactly as it used to be in the 2000s when I signed up: content only from my "friends" and a few chosen sources (a band I like etc).

The newsfeed is very slow to load, as to fill the screen the extension must make twenty plus requests while hiding 99% of what Facebook's addiction machine returns.

I'm pretty sure I read that already being done in several places.

Presumably you read this very recently, since it's mentioned at the end of the article.

I've found two bugs myself with Rust coreutils on Ubuntu 26.04, and a breaking change with Rust sudo. I'm disappointed that this was released into the LTS, it really seemed premature.

It's not my field, but at least at my work the network can somehow tell the difference between an authorized user and not. It is not simply using the MAC address.

A guest device connected to the ethernet port in the conference room has the same access as a device connected to the guest wifi, a staff laptop has it's usual access.

Is West Virginia wired up?

In the UK anything "serious" like a train/plane ticket/timetable uses the 24 hour clock. That includes the default way to show a digital clock on a watch, phone or computer.

Many/most Americans say something like "I could care less about the World Cup".

British people say "I couldn't care less about the World Cup".

Both are saying they have no interest at all in the World Cup. I don't know why Americans phrase it that way.

To give a documented example, the lyrics of Teenagers by My Chemical Romance:

    They said, "All teenagers scare the livin' shit out of me"
    They could care less as long as someone'll bleed

It's often preferred by academic journals, which might be why the original commenter sees it as "academic".

It's also the official spelling used by the United Nations.