All SSDs have plenty of spare blocks, so the final size is a decision on how many spare blocks to allocate. Measuring in a power of 1024 makes little more sense than for a hard drive.
It's nothing like "shared space" in the Netherlands.
A huge proportion of road in the UK has no white lines anyway, it's either too narrow, or they are in a built-up area with low speeds expected. Self-driving cars will have to deal with this.
Here, they are removing some lines from slightly larger roads in built-up areas, to make them feel more dangerous. That makes drivers slow down.
Plenty of driving has a net-negative effect on society, so by your economic argument we should be slowing down and reducing traffic even more.
If you'd actually read the article, you'd have noticed things like "one in central London and two in Croydon", and realised your comment was irrelevant.
1500 pieces, mostly bricks but enough windows, wheels etc. And lots more colours than there used to be.
That's the largest, but there are a few sizes of the same thing, and in a Lego shop you can buy individual bricks by volume. I don't see what more they could do — there'd be no point having 50 no-particular-theme sets.
There's nothing wrong with different colours. Most European currencies have different colours, and they don't tarnish like the Sacajawea dollar does.
Odd-number polygons are better, so the coins can have constant diameter. That's easier for a vending machine to detect.
Changing the metal can be useful for more valuable coins. The £1 coin is quite thick, and makes a satisfying "clunk" if you tap it on wood, which the "copper" [plated steel] 1p and 2p don't.
In some countries it's simple. The bus looks like it's 25 years old, and the driver (or conductor) takes cash. This worked for me in Vietnam, Georgia, Albania and Ecuador. (Only Vietnam had understandable maps and signage, and then only for the trains.)
In London, you can pay with any contactless debit or credit card (or phone). It's not especially clear what the cost will be, unless you look it up on a website or in the guide book. There's a disadvantage as some foreign banks charge per foreign transaction, but it certainly makes things simpler.
You could argue that commercial plane passengers deserve some kind of check (there have been hijackings etc), but for a train? They already know who the driver is, why does it matter who the passengers are?
I'm amazed that travelling by Amtrak requires id. That's like China, the only other place I've been where I had to show id to buy a non-local train ticket — and I've been to a few former-Soviet or communist states.
I've opened a couple of accounts in the last 3-4 years, and neither gave me a cheque book by default, so I don't have one. I think there was an option to request one.
I "used" a cheque last week, since my grandma gave me one at Christmas. That's the one cheque per year I receive.
Electronic transfers are "instant" in the UK (which guarantees within 2 hours, and is usually within 5 minutes if between banks, or instant at the same bank). This was introduced about 6 years ago.
Wikipedia says the system was introduced to increase competition, so it sounds like something every country should have.
The only reason the rest of the world thinks 1-3% is normal is because VISA/MasterCard/AmericanExpress/DinersClub have tons of extras in forms of "free" credit, kickbacks, insurance and so on.
I think by "rest of the world" you mean "at least the USA", because much of Europe has cheap debit card transactions — the EU has limited it to 0.2%, for example.
"We can see that cash payments are less expensive from society’s point of view for payments below SEK 20" so that's $2.50. In Sweden, that's really only going to buy a large candy bar.
I never said that it was, but the Institution here is already paid for, and all that remains are recurring costs, such as printing Notes, minting Coins, and Five-Finger Discounts.
As the Riksbank points out, these costs scale in proportion with the use of cash. But card transaction costs decrease as their number increases.
So I will look with Interest what happens in Sweden; maybe the fact that they have just one National Bank will make it work.
Riksbank ~= federal reserve.
A final comment: the two Gas Stations that I regularly go to offer me a 5% discount for Cash. They aren't doing this because they like me.bork.bork.bork
They are probably doing it because it makes it easier to fiddle the books, and pay less tax...
Cheque-books, that's something people over 70 uses in Sweden, rarely used by anyone else these days. If you are young and shows up with a cheque you could as well come from Mars - and many shops may even refuse to cash it today to avoid fraud risk.
Britain is slightly behind, but no shops will accept a cheque since a few years ago (when it was already rare).
Old people still use them for paying workmen or donating to charity.
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In countries without an irrational fear of child kidnapping, sexual abuse etc, we interact in the normal way. That is, by talking to them.
Can you "steal" a Pokémon in the game? If so, it's probably less appropriate to steal them from children.
That's the anglicised version.
The gaelic original uses Ã".
This is not true.
The UK considered it, but decided criminals would simply steal a phone etc, so didn't implement it.
All SSDs have plenty of spare blocks, so the final size is a decision on how many spare blocks to allocate. Measuring in a power of 1024 makes little more sense than for a hard drive.
For one example, my SSD is 256GB:
Disk /dev/sdg: 238.5 GiB, 256060514304 bytes
You obviously never had a phone in Europe, the rates and phone prices are even worse than the US.
You obviously aren't European, if you're willing to make generalisations like that about 40-odd countries.
Tough, rap is music. This is the same as people arguing over what is art.
"Electronic" is a type of instrument, not a type of music.
Here's a song from my favourite band: https://youtu.be/YwlsziopzmQ
Ok, bands.
https://youtu.be/0j9pt7egWJM
https://youtu.be/N6GnolqLgkk
https://youtu.be/4EChJG4YzEE (catchy band name, right?)
https://youtu.be/IrW-hC_3xSE
I accept half of this is dance music, but only if death metal counts as rock.
Without bothering to read the article, it's probably relevant that the user in question is a resident of France, and access the site from France.
Facebook obviously know this, as it's a key attribute used to target advertising.
It's nothing like "shared space" in the Netherlands.
A huge proportion of road in the UK has no white lines anyway, it's either too narrow, or they are in a built-up area with low speeds expected. Self-driving cars will have to deal with this.
Here, they are removing some lines from slightly larger roads in built-up areas, to make them feel more dangerous. That makes drivers slow down.
Plenty of driving has a net-negative effect on society, so by your economic argument we should be slowing down and reducing traffic even more.
If you'd actually read the article, you'd have noticed things like "one in central London and two in Croydon", and realised your comment was irrelevant.
European WWW, Swedish web site, and — per capita —
more Bittorrent traffic from Europe.
http://shop.lego.com/en-GB/LEG...
1500 pieces, mostly bricks but enough windows, wheels etc. And lots more colours than there used to be.
That's the largest, but there are a few sizes of the same thing, and in a Lego shop you can buy individual bricks by volume. I don't see what more they could do — there'd be no point having 50 no-particular-theme sets.
There's nothing wrong with different colours. Most European currencies have different colours, and they don't tarnish like the Sacajawea dollar does.
Odd-number polygons are better, so the coins can have constant diameter. That's easier for a vending machine to detect.
Changing the metal can be useful for more valuable coins. The £1 coin is quite thick, and makes a satisfying "clunk" if you tap it on wood, which the "copper" [plated steel] 1p and 2p don't.
http://2bh3fjfwtb1h68dqai6uooj...
The shows the symbol correctly. I expect Tom knows, he's user number 822.
Shows correctly in the preview: €.
"That said, the city is considering bringing in new rules to prevent Uber from fairly competing with other types of taxi drivers."
Name these mysterious laws specifically targeting Uber, because you are talking rubbish.
There's a proposal that a booked car may not arrive within 5 minutes of the booking, to keep the black cab's 'instant' appeal.
Ticketing is, indeed, the hardest part.
In some countries it's simple. The bus looks like it's 25 years old, and the driver (or conductor) takes cash. This worked for me in Vietnam, Georgia, Albania and Ecuador. (Only Vietnam had understandable maps and signage, and then only for the trains.)
In London, you can pay with any contactless debit or credit card (or phone). It's not especially clear what the cost will be, unless you look it up on a website or in the guide book. There's a disadvantage as some foreign banks charge per foreign transaction, but it certainly makes things simpler.
You could argue that commercial plane passengers deserve some kind of check (there have been hijackings etc), but for a train? They already know who the driver is, why does it matter who the passengers are?
I'm amazed that travelling by Amtrak requires id. That's like China, the only other place I've been where I had to show id to buy a non-local train ticket — and I've been to a few former-Soviet or communist states.
I've opened a couple of accounts in the last 3-4 years, and neither gave me a cheque book by default, so I don't have one. I think there was an option to request one.
I "used" a cheque last week, since my grandma gave me one at Christmas. That's the one cheque per year I receive.
Electronic transfers are "instant" in the UK (which guarantees within 2 hours, and is usually within 5 minutes if between banks, or instant at the same bank). This was introduced about 6 years ago.
Wikipedia says the system was introduced to increase competition, so it sounds like something every country should have.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The only reason the rest of the world thinks 1-3% is normal is because VISA/MasterCard/AmericanExpress/DinersClub have tons of extras in forms of "free" credit, kickbacks, insurance and so on.
I think by "rest of the world" you mean "at least the USA", because much of Europe has cheap debit card transactions — the EU has limited it to 0.2%, for example.
I think you've added a 0:
"We can see that cash payments are less expensive from society’s point of view for payments below SEK 20" so that's $2.50. In Sweden, that's really only going to buy a large candy bar.
I never said that it was, but the Institution here is already paid for, and all that remains are recurring costs, such as printing Notes, minting Coins, and Five-Finger Discounts.
As the Riksbank points out, these costs scale in proportion with the use of cash. But card transaction costs decrease as their number increases.
So I will look with Interest what happens in Sweden; maybe the fact that they have just one National Bank will make it work.
Riksbank ~= federal reserve.
A final comment: the two Gas Stations that I regularly go to offer me a 5% discount for Cash. They aren't doing this because they like me.bork.bork.bork
They are probably doing it because it makes it easier to fiddle the books, and pay less tax...
Cheque-books, that's something people over 70 uses in Sweden, rarely used by anyone else these days. If you are young and shows up with a cheque you could as well come from Mars - and many shops may even refuse to cash it today to avoid fraud risk.
Britain is slightly behind, but no shops will accept a cheque since a few years ago (when it was already rare).
Old people still use them for paying workmen or donating to charity.
You can get this one: https://www.gohenry.co.uk/ at age 8, although there's a fee.
In Denmark the minimum age is also 8, but there's no fee from Danske Bank.
3.7m is a decent size, going by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Perhaps you're thinking of the colossal squid?
Perhaps this one is closer to the source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Whoever put it there may well have hacked a developer's computer, whether they were working at Juniper or not.