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Consider how many people a shovel versus a car can kill in a minute.
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People swim in the Muggelsee which is basically a part of the Spree...
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"Popularized in England" - maybe popularized, but such walls are by no means popular or common. "The county of Suffolk seems to be home to countless examples of these crinkle crankle walls. On freston.net you can find 100 wav
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I think it may be that electrical power could be generated in places where (carbon free) energy production can be abundant but consumption is low (e.g. Solar power in the Sahara desert) and then transported with almost no losses to sites of
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> It would only make sense if it was given to be used a store of value, but they had perfectly good coins to pay salaries with. The Roman Empire towards its end in the west had suffered from a lot of inflation, so coinage was either too
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If the noisy signals are not completely correlated then the signal would be enhanced; however in this case I imagine that there is likely to be a strong correlation between different tools which would mean adding additional sources may not
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Anyone know if there are any robo-taxis in operation in Europe? I wonder if there are unique problems with European cities - e.g. Paris has a population density roughly fifteen times as great as Beijing( ) and Phoenix. European cities also
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A previous company I worked at had a way to translate logs into sequence diagrams - specifically in this case SIP message flow. by searching for an ID you could see all of the services which interacted with the message flow, and by clicking
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Kubernetes :-)
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Coke is arguably generic across large portions of the USA: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/soda-vs-pop_n_2103764
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There are quite a few niche streaming services which have kicked off in the last few years - - Nebula (content from YouTube creators), - WoW Presents Plus (RuPaul’s Drag Race and associated shows) - Taskmaster.tv (the UK taskmaster series)
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But conversely, if you are designing a website where I will likely need to consult information or enter information whilst also using another site, it'd be great if your site could be accessed in a 'tall-and-thin' format. One
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Which is especially relevant given what happened next. > On December 13, 2011, Vice President Joe Biden and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner announced that the minting of Presidential $1 coins for circulation would be suspended.[21] F
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For the currencies which I am most familiar with: * The largest 'normal' British coin is worth 2 GBP (~2.50 USD), with the smallest note (in common circulation) being 5 GBP (~6.35 USD). * The largest Euro coin is worth 2 EUR (2.18
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The plan explicitly stated that only a president who had been dead at least two years would be honoured, so the programme officially ended in 2016. Subsequently a special bill permitted the creation of a George H. W. Bush dollar in 2020.
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I can't talk about the welfare optimising effects but it's a more efficient way to generate a similar outcome to a classic 'bid upwards' English auction - I assume you know the process of that. Imagine we have four peopl
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I can fill in some of the next steps... If M=1, then S must equal 8 or 9 since MORE can be at most 1987. Consider O, which is in MORE and MONEY. O cannot be 1 (which is M), and it cannot be 2 or more, since then MONEY - MORE > 10000, so
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Perhaps 90% of my acting out in childhood was people trying to stop me doing 'sitting down' activities. All generalisations hurt someone.
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Well, from one perspective, since the requirement is that a tile must be able to tile the plane only irregularly; - All three-sided shapes can tile the plane regularly, - All four-sided shapes can tile the plane regularly, So we know the
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I suspect they all could be British English, since the variations are less pronounced that one might think: re: Focused - to quote Wiktionary: "The spelling focused is much more common in the US but also more common in the UK and Austr
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Interestingly, this story may predate the computer revolution - I am thinking about the anti-tank dogs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank_dog These were basically dogs strapped with bombs which were trained to ru
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I have invented a superior system - Johnny Binary. It's basically the same as the described system except you are forced to categorize your files even more severely since every level of the hierarchy only allows two subcategories. It m
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This may be just a rumour, but I heard that there was a big community of moderators on the search for penises for the online interactions
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I believe you can also do that on the Bahn.de website by choosing "Nur Nahverkehr" (in English "Local transport only")
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How about if a company is taken over? Should I be “forced” to work for a company I did not decide to work for?
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I especially object to the case of zip-code being used internationally, because this isn’t a case of a sensible alternative usage, but rather one very specific US term being interpreted as universal. Please, for internalisation sake, use th
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I hope your heating is more energy efficient than heating with electric light bulbs though! (And it should be - worst comes to worst basic electrical heating can be effectively 100% efficient, and heat pumps can do better)
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And printers defaulting to ‘letter’ sized paper (rather than A4) no matter where in the world you seem to be!
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Looking immediately before the referendum vote and afterwards, the pound fell from 1.3039 to 1.1639 over two weeks - a loss of ten percent which can pretty much directly be attributed to the vote. When this article was written in January 20
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The European Union broadly believes in this and to my understanding the situation is broadly 'better' here than in North America. E.g. If I shop for plane tickets and I see a flight advertised for, say, 92 EUR I know that the pric
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