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by Luc 7y ago
'Oh, this road is a lot less bumpy and is also going in the right direction, let's just keep following it'. Did this across a European border by accident. Took us 10 minutes to notice the different style of road furniture.
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by Luc 7y ago
What's the Tamagotchi to get nowadays (in Europe)? I would like to buy some as gifts. There's a whole bunch of different models and I'm a bit lost.
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Chicago School Professor Fights ‘Chicago School’ Beliefs That Abet Big Tech(nytimes.com)
1 points by Luc 7y ago|0 comments
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by Luc 7y ago
Of course not, and since I ride my bike at 15 km/h in a bicycle-friendly city, on safe paths, I don't wear one on my bike either. I wouldn't wear a helmet in the U.S. since I'd rather not risk getting on a bike at all ov
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by Luc 7y ago
Steam donkeys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_donkey
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The World's Most Important Electric Car Is Launching Now(thedrive.com)
3 points by Luc 7y ago|0 comments
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by Luc 7y ago
I suppose you didn't mention the country in an attempt to not get criticized? Because if you're talking about Belgium, half of what you said is plainly wrong.
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by Luc 7y ago
The reviewer is Tim Maudlin, one of the foremost philosophers of physics. It's kind of hard to find someone better placed than him to review a book about causality, and his comment seems entirely appropriate.
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by Luc 7y ago
Ironic!
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by Luc 7y ago
Which calculation on lat/lon coordinates would make an atom-scale error grow, say, a million times to millimeter-size?
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Streets Ahead(economist.com)
12 points by Luc 7y ago|4 comments
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by Luc 7y ago
Related to this, check out Dakshana ( https://dakshana.org/ ). They're a very well run charity with great metrics, and their Annual Reports are interesting reading.
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by Luc 7y ago
Not that I'll be doing this, but... The blurred areas on the ROV video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p8TH1tDvzk ) probably contain location data, among other things. Considering that we have a nice, nearly black ba
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Being and drunkenness: how to party like an existentialist(aeon.co)
1 points by Luc 7y ago|0 comments
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by Luc 7y ago
> The weird thing is that nobody is out there taking credit for this success. Probably because all politics is now Brexit. It would be amusing if there was an EU directive at the root of it.
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Notre-Dame came closer to collapsing than people knew(nytimes.com)
494 points by Luc 7y ago|239 comments
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by Luc 7y ago
You already knew about it, so obviously there was no need to mention it. Again.
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The helicopter team that films the Tour de France is one of a kind(arstechnica.com)
2 points by Luc 7y ago|0 comments
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by Luc 7y ago
> No one would say japan is wrong for shutting nuclear down. Many people say that, including those best placed to know. > Also it's been at least a 20 year struggle to find a place to put all the nuclear waste, also highly politi
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by Luc 7y ago
It is exactly this which Greenpeace has latched onto for their propagande. The fact that it is true in only the most trivial way is not understood by those on the receiving end. The end result is a voting population primed to vote against t
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by Luc 7y ago
How many atmospheric nuclear weapons explosions could we tolerate? Certainly more than 500, since that's how many were conducted. We're still here.
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by Luc 7y ago
"According to you, does nuclear energy contribute to the production of greenhouse gasses (CO2) and to climate change?" In France a whopping 86% of 18-34 year olds answer YES. Source: p17 of https://www.orano.group/
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by Luc 7y ago
AFAIK the medical consensus is that the virus exploits the cough reaction etc. to infect other hosts. E.g. quick random Google: https://bmjopenrespres.bmj.com/content/3/1/e000118 "The commonest form of c
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by Luc 7y ago
It feels appropriate to suppress the symptoms of the cold (headache, coughs, stuffy nose) while it runs its course. Some people do find it virtuous to suffer a little, but that's another matter.
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by Luc 7y ago
Search for 'nazca lines hands' on Google Images and you'll find dozens of other pictures of this figure...
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by Luc 7y ago
> But what we really need is to build more renewables and to simultaneously scale down our energy use. To put it bluntly our energy using industry has to take a small hit. This is why the Green parties in a lot of countries need to be po
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by Luc 7y ago
But then straight lines become curves. This maintains straight lines.
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by Luc 7y ago
Neither, just silting up. The Tiber has been filling in that area with sediments for thousands of years. The harbour was just a tiny dent in that natural process. Here's a poster with some progress drawings over the millennia: https:&
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by Luc 7y ago
It's pretty cool how the hexagonal harbour has survived. It's a lake now, Lago Traiano, about 2km inland.
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by Luc 7y ago
They're considered equivalent to pedestrians and should use the sidewalk at walking speed, unless it's blocked. They shouldn't be on the bicycle path. According to French rules of the road, that is. https://ressour

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