NeoTar

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by NeoTar 2y ago
> The ß sticks around in German Some German. I believe it’s basically abandoned in Swiss German.
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by NeoTar 2y ago
Possibly you may have come across it under the term an 'incomplete sentence' - as others have stated, it's a set of words which don't form a complete thought. I'm also a en_gb speaker, and I'd never heard of th
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by NeoTar 2y ago
It must be hard to do research on this since I can imagine that prosecutions were possible even if homosexuality were not actually illegal (one can find other crimes to prosecute such as 'corrupting the youth') and the conflation
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by NeoTar 2y ago
Possibly the Free City of Cracow (Kraków) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_City_of_Cracow - which was arguably the only 'Polish' state that existed at the time, surviving until 1848? Although I suspect it
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by NeoTar 2y ago
Fingerprints are less accurate and reliable than often portrayed in the media.
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by NeoTar 2y ago
I'm not sure why, but that website is beautifully broken for me - it asked for my birthday (e.g. 25th Feb 1986) using a day / month / year form - then converted to the m/dd/yy form (i.e. a string 22586), - found tha
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by NeoTar 2y ago
There are techniques which allow you to, for instance, calculate the 'n'th digit of Pi in base 10 (or binary, or hex, etc.) These are generally more computationally/memory expensive than the techniques used to calculate as ma
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by NeoTar 2y ago
Undisclosed minimum length is particularly egregious. It's very frustrating when you've got a secure system and you spend a few minutes thinking up a great, memorable, secure password; then realize that it's too few (or worse
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by NeoTar 2y ago
I assume they would need to rap on the main entrance door, which could be five floors below this individuals apartment - not just their apartment door. (I.e. this is an entry phone that permits you to remotely unlock the street level door
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by NeoTar 2y ago
Some people enjoy working in an office, and (so long as you aren't imposing your desires on anyone else) that's just fine.
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by NeoTar 2y ago
I think every subscription should be required to have an information label, akin to the Broadband Consumer Labels ( https://www.fcc.gov/broadbandlabels ) that contains basic facts about the subscription, e.g. - Price (only Mo
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by NeoTar 2y ago
Communication requires thought and input from both sides - if I use a numeric abbreviation with someone who is unfamiliar with it, I am communicating badly. I think where we differ is that I see such abbreviations as no worse than any other
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by NeoTar 2y ago
Yep - pretty-much, aye-el-ev-en-why although I may have miscounted the syllables in eleven in my parent post. It's most pronounced in aye-ate-een-en, internationalization is a word I find myself stumbling when saying in full.
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by NeoTar 2y ago
It’s shorter to say (4 vs 6 syllables), and to write - how is that ‘no gain’?
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by NeoTar 2y ago
I18n is 4 syllables, internationalisation 7. It may not be pronounceable, but many abbreviations are not, and it’s still faster. But yes, like every abbreviation, do use the full word the first time you use it “Considering the topic of inte
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by NeoTar 2y ago
I’m using „our world in data“ - the link in my first post. A difference may be that my figures are not just electricity, but „primary energy“, defined as: „Primary energy includes energy that the end user needs, in the form of electricity,
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by NeoTar 2y ago
Strava has a global heat-map for running, cycling etc. although I believe it is a subscription-only feature. There is also your personal heat-map which is cool to see if you use the app enough.
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by NeoTar 2y ago
And create a housing crisis which is deadly - I cannot imagine the carnage that a major fire or earthquake would cause in a Kowloon Walled City like environment. But I do think that some building regulations need a rethink - I believe there
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by NeoTar 2y ago
It depends on where the parent commenter is living - in Berlin I was paying over 80 EUR a month for a travel card which only applied in the state of Berlin before the Deutschland ticket ( ) - I could believe that a monthly pass for other ci
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by NeoTar 2y ago
Not really. Let's use the UNCTAD definition of developing countries - there are a number of countries which exceed Canada's per-capita energy usage (the highest of those I mention above) - Qatar, UAE, Trinidad and Tobago and Kuwai
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by NeoTar 2y ago
The United States, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom have all reduced their per-capita energy usage since the peak (earliest peak usage was UK in 1973, latest was Canada in 2007), and I think we can argue that quality-of
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by NeoTar 2y ago
For anyone lacking European geography knowledge, the airports involved are very close - Maastricht Aachen airport to Liege Airport is a 40 minute (49km, 30mile) drive.
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by NeoTar 2y ago
True, but the pattern would break down with (the long-scale) definition of trillion in any case. The long scale makes sense because it is powers of a million - - one million - 10^6, - one billion (long scale) - 10^12 - ‘bi’ meaning two, is
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by NeoTar 2y ago
You are not correct. Having a monthly fee for a bank account (typically around 5 EUR) is common in Germany.
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by NeoTar 2y ago
Add to the cost of handling cash: - dealing with fake notes, - mistakes in handling notes and change (mistaking a ten for a twenty, etc.) - theft from the store (not just mugging on the way to the safety deposit box) - employee theft, - red
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by NeoTar 2y ago
People do consider it. But one of the issues with the tax system is that it’s not just a revenue generation mechanism. It is also used to encourage ‚good’ behaviours (e.g. saving for pensions) and discourage ‚bad’ (e.g. gambling). So, whene
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by NeoTar 2y ago
I encourage everyone to read the original versions of the fairy tales, as told in the Grimms, Perrault, etc. These stories sometimes read like something from another world. Like they are set in a world with hidden rules and assumptions, tha
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by NeoTar 2y ago
I think a rule which says that once a price changes, the POS system must universally use the lower price for the next two hours (for the largest supermarkets, maybe 1 hour for a mid-sized, and 30m for a small metro sized shop) would be appr
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by NeoTar 2y ago
To get in first with the joke answer - Surely it must be something created on 1970-01-01 00:00:00
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by NeoTar 2y ago
My only problem with your comment is that human forecasters and decision makers are also often not held accountable for their work.

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