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> Under UK law the police can retain an individual's DNA profile and fingerprint record for up to three years from the date the samples were taken, even if the individual was arrested but not charged, provided the Biometrics Commissioner agrees.

"Is that a cigarette? - Yes it is, officer. - Doesn't smell like a cigarette to me!"

Likely we'll see such a system with electric motorcycles (and similar categories) first, which is like a "small scale" version due to the smaller battery capacity & size.

E.g. Honda is working on it: http://www.honda-mpp.com/in/

The issue I see with that is that messengers (platforms) have a strong network effect - it becomes useful to you if you can reach your contacts there.

Making it paid creates an inconvenience even if the price extremely low, if you don't even know if your friends are on there (= if it's useful to you) even more so. If your target group is worldwide you need regional pricing (and payment methods) to not exclude economically disadvantaged regions. And even then it might have selective effects towards people who can afford the service more easily.

For a case study of a paid messenger see Threema, though it is probably difficult to measure the impact of its payment model on its success.

> you can have periods where you're not anxious and periods where you are not

I'd say in that case there's not much to worry about ;)

I'm just guessing, but it might be better to register the domain under the business entity instead of privately.

The whole day ticket actually costs 8.20€, the after 9am ticket 6.90€ (for the zones AB / city area)

If you're commuting and have monthly ticket it will cost 93.70€ (AB), though you might get around with a cheaper ticket if you're living in the center (zone 000).

(This may be an aside, but I want to add this)

While it is true that there is quite a difference in GDP per capita between different EU countries, please consider that Luxembourg has a very particular standing and as an outlier is not representative of the "wealthier" EU members. Most of those are in the range of 40k-50k, with only three above this: 114,370 Luxembourg 83,990 Ireland 57,140 Denmark

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_European_Union

In some North/West European countries paying above 0.30€/kWh has been the norm for years.

Anecdotally: In Germany I pay about 100€/month for an apartment (with normal homeoffice PC usage). 3500-4000 kWh/year.

It's not reasonable to expect a candidate to give up their secure job / salary for a two week trial. It gets more complicated as within the first weeks you're probably mostly ramping up and not very productive yet, so it's both a cost-sink for the company and difficult to judge anyhow.

For fresh graduates this might be more viable, but internships are already a thing.

> unlimited > up to 5 weeks

This seems surreal to me, given that here (Germany) that is just above the legal minimum and every decent job gives 25-30 days. If someone offered "unlimited" here, I'd expect at least 40-50 days to be acceptable.

The drawback is that cable it is a shared medium, so it can be quite bad when demand is high (in the evening) and the upload bandwidth usually is very low.

As I am also looking for a flat in Berlin I can only say: At least you got a response. It's nearly impossible to find anything below 20€/m² cold rent and some people are trying to (illegally) sell on old, cheap contracts for 6000€ and more.

I used a HP ProDresk (USFF) for that. Quite small, reasonably powerful, supports 3 monitors and linux-friendly (at least the i5-9500T Version I have).

Drawback is that it doesn't really take up much less space / weight than a small laptop and you always need external monitor + keyboard, which makes it much less portable.

The issue is likely that in Qubes OS you don't have hardware acceleration. The bottleneck might very well be single thread performance, though your tips are worth a try.

For me it depends on the specifics of the video, usually ~10 Mbit/s 1080p x264 and YouTube at 1080p is mostly ok, but I don't even need to try 2160p content. (i5-9500T)

»In 2018, it emerged that under the "hostile environment" policy, victims of modern slavery and human trafficking in the U.K. had been jailed in breach of the Modern Slavery Act 2015, and that several had been deported by the Home Office.«

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Office_hostile_environm...

Just $450? Pfft. 10 years back I had an issue with an overheating MacBook Pro (within warranty) and because they couldn't reproduce it with their tests they offered a replacement board for about 850€ (parts only). Turns out changing the thermal paste (by myself) solved the issue completely.

I'd consider that a defect and return it.

In Germany you'll still pay 0.39€ / MMS even in otherwise unlimited-everything contracts. Needless to say it never was used widely. Personally I've only sent them very rarely and in almost all cases out of a misguided automated conversion, which I was never happy about.

In my experience it works for mostly static games - most others are not fun due to the additional latencies. If you're close enough to the server and not too sensitive it might be enjoyable, but also some genres are just unplayable IMO (e.g. FPS, roguelikes, racing games).

That reminds me of Chinese online censorship / banning of words, which lead to people using homoglyphs or homophones.

I'm currently trying Tidal and that's the main issue why I won't stay. Somehow there only seem to be official playlists, so if I search for a somewhat niche genre [0] I'll probably not find anything relevant, except maybe some compilation releases of dubious value.

I managed to bring their auto generated playlists to an acceptable level by favoring enough artists, but it's still a very lacking experience.

[0] e.g. searching for Detroit house playlists gives me "Classic Rock Classics". Lofi house → "Epidemic Sound Christmas".

In the EU you will find very different laws and tax systems depending on the country. Quite large differences in regards to culture as well.

One example: If you're a cross-border worker you'll likely have to file multiple tax decelerations (one for each country), which can be quite complicated if you don't speak the local language (and even if you do).

A modern dryer uses less than 2 kWh for an 8kg run [0]. That means for those 38 kWh you need to run it daily for almost 3 weeks. Normal usage (let's say twice per week) would lead to ~3 kWh energy consumption.

[0] Siemens WT47R400: 176 kWh / year for 160 cycles by energy label, 1.4 kWh for a full run.

A household dryer is very unlikely to get anywhere near 6 kW even at peak. In Europe it's common to have 16 A at 220-240 V which gives you a maximum of roughly 3.5 kW.

firefox-esr on Debian is currently on Version 78esr [0], which is 1½ years old by now [1].

[0] https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=firefox-esr&sear...

[1] de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versionsgeschichte_von_Mozilla_Firefox (the English page is useless for historical release information)

There's two angles here which might make a difference in the legality of it:

a) Apple turns it off on behalf of the carrier -> Apple is free not to offer this feature to you

b) The carrier is blocking it without help from Apple -> The carrier is limiting what you can connect to

The latter might be a breach of contract / telco laws (e.g. net neutrality) - depending on your jurisdiction / local laws.

It is noteworthy that Congstar is a brand of Telekom Deutschland GmbH.

Unfortunately that site seems to keep reloading forever (/e/ Browser which is a Chromium/Bromite fork). I haven't been able to check the original site though, so the issue might be present there as well.

To be pedantic you mean "seit" (since/until), not "seid" as in "ihr seit laut" (you [plural] are loud).

To be fair it's not like you can run one from your home connection. I mean you could, but it wouldn't be a good idea, unfortunately.