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*for US.

> The result is that DRM protections are everywhere

Not everywhere, in Poland ebooks are only watermarked, there is no DRM protection and you get epub/mobi/pdf copies of every ebook you buy.

public.... transport! It is a thing outside US.

> UK uses miles for distance, stones for weight, and I'm pretty certain that many things in the US are measured using metric.

UK is the same bad example of choosing using units of measure as US is.

> I certainly don't complain when someone uses a celsius temperature

because you shouldnt? it is a world standard.

Why when counting CO2 emissions for petrol cars people only count what comes out of exhaust pipe and not whole petrol industry? Because for electric cars you counted almost complete process for petrol you missed a lot.

Just use uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In Poland we have something called "Blik" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blik) state of the art internet payment system. https://blik.com/en Sadly it has to be supported by bank (to be specific their mobile app) so not usable by all EU customers. But since it is also operated by banks (they share cost of IT infrastructure) commission is much lower than Visa/MasterCard and milion times easier to use.

In 2020 Blik had 7 million users and processed 424 million transactions. In 2019, the number of Blik transactions exceeded the number of transactions made on the Polish Internet with payment cards.

In PSD2/3DS world paying with card is real pain in the ass, only advantage is transaction insurance and chargeback.

> Much has changed since my college days, but there’s still a dearth of African-American women in science, technology, engineering and math professions, an absence that cannot be explained by, say, a lack of interest in these fields.

XD yeah, because racism is always the answer. Also there is no enough black people hiking because forests in US are racist as fuck.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/13/hiking-a...

Yeah, because They ask me about my gender and race every time I open any github repository or read tech doc... Happily providing any type of education only to specific gender is illegal in my country as per constitution (Poland).

https://arslege.pl/zasada-rownosci-kobiet-i-mezczyzn/k15/a52...

There is something like https://www.esize.me/ where You scan your feet in one shop, upload scan to them and use it on different e-shops like http://eobuwie.pl/. Poland-specific but resolution to Your problem is there ;)

There should be open-sourced service where you can pair your email address + PIN with collection of sizes.

Really? 9USD for single article? Is this the same article as in here https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328581842_Bitcoin_e... (free)?

Fake news.

Electrified are counted as pure electric, plug-in hybrids, full hybrids and mild hybrids. "Mild hybrids" is just a petrol car with bigger starter motor.

how git is decentralized?

https://downdetector.com/ client perspective is best perspective ;) Problem in this outage is that site X works ok but transit provider for clients in US works badly and generates "false positives"

> who wants to sit in an Uber with a stranger, breathing each other's air?

XD There are countries (like any other country then US) that have something called PUBLIC TRANSPORT. And people use is every day regardless of pandemic.

> The ride-sharing economy has just evaporated

Uber is still much more "healthier" than public transport.

Ads in Internet are the whole ecosystem, they are served based on info you provide in cookies, browser fingerprint and some javascript magic. There is non of that in RSS reader as it is separate from your daily browsing.

> Having DRM on books is a fucking dystopia nightmare that shouldn't even be a thing and I hope that the EU will pass laws to nuke them from orbit

Learn polish ;)) there is no DRM on polish ebook sites. You just pay and get links to PDF/EPUB/MOBI formats of ebook. There is only watermark protection, example site: https://virtualo.pl/ebook/heban-i150038/ but it is similar in all publishing houses.

simply no.

only to one specific version. This is not what community was hoping for.

epub version will by available?

paywall

Jet fuel is tax free, energy and diesel for trains is not. https://simpleflying.com/eu-jet-fuel-tax/

> At one point our doorbell stopped working, resulting in at least a half dozen packages being stolen (..) It took us over 9 months of emails and complaints to the landlords to finally get the doorbell replaced

Is this a fucking joke? Remote doorbell costs like 4USD. You should just buy it yourself...

> 3,657 USD per month for an apartment

It is cheaper to go to EU by plane, get a job for like one month, get proper healthcare and come back ;)

paywall. $30 for two paragraphs?

Doesn't work with Adblock enabled. Adblock by default block shitty cookie popups and without clicking accept i can't log in (and there is no info about mandatory cookie accepting thing).

Because no one thought that the background would change or something like dark-mode would appear ;) 1x1 image was "good enough".

don't be such a buzzkill! :D

paywall

your car is full probably 5% of a time, airlines have profits from full planes, you don't.

"per gallon per passenger" is a useful measure for planes.

or just pay them like a decent human being.