Balero

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by Balero 7y ago
So the Maori aren't indigenous to New Zealand? The current best guess is that they arrives around 1280[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_New_Zealand
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by Balero 7y ago
People defecating in a public park or green space is creating problems. Telling people to poop behind a bush next to the street is not a solution for peopling defecating on the street.
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by Balero 8y ago
I'm currently dealing with the keyboard having a few broken keys, and waiting for a few more before I get it fixed. I got mine in 2017. I have a Macbook air from 2013 that I have put through much worse conditions. The battery isn'
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by Balero 8y ago
"It was sixteen years ago now, and I've thankfully forgotten a lot of it." Sorry you've had such crap tenants. 16 Years is a long time, and the laws could have changed on this in this time. So there is a good chance you
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by Balero 8y ago
umm, nope British Gallon = 4.546090L US Gallon = 3.785412 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallon Though I had forgotten that the US used a different one. So my maths is off above. Thanks for pointing that out! Using t
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by Balero 8y ago
"You are also incorrect suggesting that $5 per gallon is “about equivalent to what other rich countries tax motor fuel.” In France, it’s $2.77 per gallon. In the UK, it’s $2.83 per gallon. Netherlands is $3.5 per gallon. Sweden is $3.5
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by Balero 8y ago
It's not as clear cut. Much of the non-European immigration took place fairly recently (post war time) and people migrated mainly to cities. Urban areas tend to be wealthier (obvs not always, but it is a trend) and have more opportunit
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by Balero 8y ago
Lived in the UK for a few decades. Have never seen a carolers. Thought they were a weird USA thing.
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by Balero 8y ago
I believe jaywalking is illegal, and enforced in Seattle. When I'm in the UK I will normally not press the pedestrian button (unless its the type of pedestrian only crossing which only activate with the button, not on traffic lights on
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by Balero 8y ago
I did not know that! Thank you. But I don't think it draws from the larger point.
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by Balero 8y ago
Historically Germany has been a very decentralised place, have a look at a map of the Holy Roman Empire. It was also in recent position of being split in two, with the capital of West Germany not being connected to the rest of the country.
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by Balero 8y ago
Hi, I didn't downvote you, but hopefully I can shed some light on why other's did. This is a conversation about the levels of CO2 and how it effects a person, especially their sleep. In this part of the conversation people have st
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by Balero 8y ago
I agree completely. Someone living hand to mouth subsidence farming has about $0. Someone who went to a top quality law school, or medical school. Who has a nice car on lease, and a hefty mortgage, maybe a bit of credit card debt. But who i
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by Balero 8y ago
In the UK, old people vote far more than young people do. Additionally the party that has been in charge for almost a decade is focused on this older section of the electorate. They are famously unpopular with younger people. Why would they
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by Balero 8y ago
From what I can recall it is due to an overlong drought. This could be due to climate change or not. There are arguments from both sides: https://www.inverse.com/article/25318-aleppo-syria-conflict-... http:/&#x
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by Balero 8y ago
From what I understand it led to (young) people leaving the countryside to live in cities. This lead to large congregations of unhappy unemployed young people, all new to a particular area. These people then grouped up and protested about t
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by Balero 8y ago
Downvoted for hyperbole. Current world population about 7B, 0.001 of that is 700,000. That's less than the population of San Francisco. If we do this with just the US population, you get about 3000.
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by Balero 8y ago
The place I'm in doesn't serve beer at all. I can see that not being great for productivity.
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by Balero 8y ago
I'm currently in a non-WeWork co-working space. It's not clear what you mean with "The fact that no one can actually do real work at a WeWork was just icing on the shit pie.".
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by Balero 8y ago
Old people should not be able to vote. They don't understand the world, and won't be alive to feel the effects of any decision.
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by Balero 8y ago
Science and knowledge can help make it cheaper, make those profit margins look better, and have it happen more.
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by Balero 8y ago
They also have abundant signs pointing to where they are. I even saw one that had a blue flashing light on top, with a large speed limit sign next to it. If you get caught by that, you really need to pay more attention.
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by Balero 8y ago
I have lived in a rural area that has one of these speed cameras. It's just before a surprisingly sharp turn. People do walk on this road, not many (there is no pavement/sidewalk, just grass). The hole in the hedge from the cars g
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by Balero 8y ago
I walk slow because some tourists have stopped to take a photo of a Banksy again. And also because of hills.
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by Balero 8y ago
I think I read somewhere Bjarne Stroustrup rated himself 7/10 at C++.
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by Balero 8y ago
"There's a reason we readopted some of these conditioning practices from ancient militaries." I'm curious, could you expand on this, or post a link for further reading?
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by Balero 8y ago
There is a tradeoff in fitness (a person can only train so much). If you want a stronger soldier, then they are gonna be worse in a different way, ie, lose some cardio. A person can only do, and maintain, so much.
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by Balero 8y ago
There has been an order of magnitude less casualties in both Iraq(4,424) and Afghanistan(1,856), than in Vietnam (58,220).
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by Balero 8y ago
In a confined tunnel pushing the air out of the way is more difficult than in open air. There's just less space for it to all go.
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by Balero 8y ago
Was there another common factor that linked these people? You mentioned that the one's in Oxford were from the university? They tend to be a bit older and to think they're better than other people (joking!!). And old institutions

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