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by Svip 7y ago
That's not "American". The house number comes first in the US, e.g. > 10 Main Street Apt# 150 Which frankly just looks weird. At least the Scandinavian standard has them in a sensible order. In Denmark it could be: >
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by Svip 7y ago
I am only speculating, but I think in Europe at least, there is a tendency to avoid railway crossings with rails that run parallel to another road. And if that cannot be avoided, the trains are required to run very slowly along those track
543.
by Svip 7y ago
I've only seen those kinds of gates in Europe. Mind, I have not seen all US railway crossings, but I have seen a few, and none of them had gates like that. Plus, I think there is too little money in the railway network's budget
544.
by Svip 7y ago
Some of it is people driving down the railway track. It may be confusing at night (all the incidents I could find mentioned in the bottom happened at night), particularly if there is a road junction immediately following the railway crossi
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by Svip 7y ago
The template mentioned in the delete note references this section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_... Seems like the original author requested the page to be deleted.
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Tech companies ignore pleas on rail safety(politico.com)
31 points by Svip 7y ago|42 comments
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by Svip 7y ago
I am genuinely curious, why aren't there transmissions for electric engines? Surely the advantage would be the same as for an IC engine. I remember hearing that Tesla tried to build a 2 speed transmission for their Roadster back in t
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by Svip 7y ago
In Danish, we say Volapük (well volapyk in Danish). So nice of us to give an artificial language some exposure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volap%C3%BCk
549.
by Svip 7y ago
Maybe there is some truth to the West German term 'Finlandisation'? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finlandization
550.
by Svip 7y ago
I totally recognise this. In this example, and the comment below, you measure in unit of nutrition (which I agree is the important factor), but no one has disputed that a human diet from plants compared to meat would not require more usage
551.
by Svip 7y ago
Are you saying livestock does not live on a diet less varied than humans? As I understand it, they aren't as picky about food as humans are.
552.
by Svip 7y ago
But doesn't a vegetarian diet require more hectares than a meat based one? Livestock farming will emit more emissions per hectare, but I don't think we have enough hectares of arable land to feed 7.7 billion people with vegetaria
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by Svip 7y ago
One thing I dislike is people sending one documents over Slack. Slack and similar are a terrible document storage systems. Here e-mail is definitely better. But when people get to used to Slack and its ilk, they start to send documents v
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Next European Commission Takes Aim at AI(politico.eu)
2 points by Svip 7y ago|0 comments
555.
by Svip 7y ago
While lower fares, which would necessitate subsidies for the Danish railways, are definitely needed, the railway infrastructure in Denmark does need an overhaul. It was the wrong decision not to electrify the tracks back in the 1990s, this
556.
by Svip 7y ago
The success of the IC3 from the 1980s lead politicians in the 1990s to decide not to electrify the tracks, but instead count on diesel, and so the IC4 project was initiated. It was a bad decision then, particularly because the IC4 project
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Trump administration launches unfair trade practices probe of French tech tax(politico.com)
1 points by Svip 7y ago|0 comments
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by Svip 7y ago
Denmark itself is a pretty valuable strategic asset. What with controlling the seaways into the Baltic. If Greenland is valuable, then Denmark would likely be guaranteed to own it. In the same way, that Denmark has remained independent.
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by Svip 7y ago
It does make me wonder what it would have been like if Denmark had not sold the US Virgin Islands. Although, I feel the islands might be doing better today than they are now.
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by Svip 7y ago
I think a more appropriate translation would be 'friend for one', as it can be read as an offer. »Ven til en« is obviously an unusual way of phrasing it, but replace »ven« with any commodity you can purchase, then it sounds more
561.
by Svip 7y ago
> ok, controversial counterpoint: maybe some number of deaths is worth it. Not if you wish to win the hearts and minds of the general population at large. As grandparent points out, the coverage seems disproportionate, but that's b
562.
by Svip 7y ago
I did not select Greenland (nor Denmark for that matter, but Denmark was not black), since it's not possible to select Greenland.
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by Svip 7y ago
On the country welcoming list,[0] Greenland is coloured black like North Korea and Afghanistan. But surely as part of the Kingdom of Denmark, it should fall under the same rules as Denmark? Or since it is not in the EU, maybe not? Speakin
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by Svip 7y ago
The advantage of a welfare state to me, personally, is predictability. If I were to get into an accident, break some bones and not be able to work for a few months, I would not be charge a large hospital bill. Nor would I lose my salary.
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by Svip 7y ago
Customs is cracking down hard on Chinese shipments. Often ignoring the "personal gift" label, because a majority are not. Sweden has introduced an extra import tax on Chinese shipments.[0] In Sweden, they pay 25% VAT, with some
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by Svip 7y ago
Doesn't it also have something to do with the fact that the US has so much more land compared to the amount of people who live there (population density) in comparison to Europe? Basically, we don't have a lot of land in Europe.
567.
by Svip 7y ago
Thanks for the quick change. That's definitely better. Unfortunately, most European countries aren't federal states, and so dividing them by "state" (more like region, county, department or province) makes little sense.
568.
by Svip 7y ago
It doesn't handle non-US countries particularly well. It found my city, and the post code is close by (2000), but then the query in the Google Maps URL is just "2000". How will that get me here? Maybe add the country code
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by Svip 7y ago
I also write Go for a living, and feel sort of the same way about other languages. But then I have some good news for you with Rust, you'd like it (at least I did/do). It's different from Go, for sure, and in my head fulfil
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by Svip 7y ago
Performance wise, there is no distinction in Postgres 11. As I understand it, internally varchar(N) is basically just text with a character limit. varchar(N) really only exists in Postgres these days for backwards compatibility, and the f

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