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by Svip 12y ago
Something I've noticed, there doesn't appear to be any roads in Greece. Is this because the Romans didn't build any roads there and just used the Greek roads? If that's the case, then why aren't those roads on the
902.
by Svip 12y ago
I admit I was deliberately generalising, because so was the parent. My culture might seem more aggressive and rude, but more often than not Northern/Central Europeans will tend to be less subtle than English speaking people. This can
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by Svip 12y ago
No, we understand them all right. We are just not generally as prudish as English-speakers. Perhaps it's more a culture difference than a language barrier.
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by Svip 12y ago
I cannot seem to find her mail or the others' in this thread. Am I missing something or are you referring to previous instances of Linus' outbursts? I guessing on the latter, in which case I specifically wrote 'the thread&#x
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by Svip 12y ago
So it will get posted on HN and other news websites.[0] Notice how no one else in the thread cares about Linus' language. [0] He is after all warning about the use of gcc-4.9.0
906.
by Svip 12y ago
In the case of the Siberia Airlines Flight, I do not find it unlikely that Russia pressured them to admit it was them. At the time, Ukraine was basically a Russian satellite state. The evidence is inclusive, but Ukraine just suddenly admi
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by Svip 12y ago
I agree. The point of a state should only be about who has responsibility for building the roads and such in that area. Why anyone would kill people to have more roads to pave alludes me (actually, I do know why, but their reasons are not
908.
by Svip 12y ago
From what I can tell the article suggests that technology will A) increase our ability to have sex safely and B) decrease our desire to do so.
909.
by Svip 12y ago
True. But maybe it is the definition of a LEGO tower? It seems like this is a form of competition. The same is true for this tower in Budapest: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/video/2014/may/26
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by Svip 12y ago
But isn't a tower characterised by its straight construct as compared to a mountain (or say, castle)? Although, I guess you could describe a mountain as 'towering'. Of course, you are right, if they built a LEGO mountain, th
911.
by Svip 12y ago
So if you are using OSM data, why not non-US cities as well?
912.
by Svip 12y ago
That was the joke. It's unfortunately, not uncommon for stories to describe something Europeans do (when they really mean Britons), that I seldom can relate to, until I realise they are only using the UK as a sample. Although, I shoul
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by Svip 12y ago
I do often see the notion that 'UK is Europe', particularly by American media; and that if something is true in the UK, it's probably true in the rest of Europe, so they often don't bother checking. Because, sure, we all
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by Svip 12y ago
Actually, Århus changed its name immediately after the reform, but Aalborg did not. It was not until 2012 that Århus decided to change its name back to »Aarhus« to become 'easier to spell internationally' (which was the argument)
915.
by Svip 12y ago
On a latter note: I remember experimenting with sorting of names, and discovered that Windows for instance has different locale sorting. Including one for Danish, where »aa« is sorted as one letter aligned with »å«. Of course, in this cas
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by Svip 12y ago
To elaborate on what taejo said, in Danish personal names do not change spelling, even if they mean the same. It is not uncommon to see people's given names or surnames being small variation of similar names. But in these terms, you
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by Svip 12y ago
Same for Just Eat in Britain (second). While it is indeed headquartered in London, it was actually founded in Denmark. But then again, it lists Yahoo! Japan as Japan's first. And I feel that while Yahoo! Japan probably was founded in
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by Svip 12y ago
Nay. Its status is currently candidate recommendation,[0][1] so I assume they are trying to integrate it into the HTML5 standard as well. Although, I am sure someone proposed to make it deprecated in HTML5. [0] https://developer
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by Svip 12y ago
As Tomte points out, this is largely a guessing game we are playing. How can we really know one way or the other? But I concede, German intelligence is likely the weaker link in European intelligence agencies (and weaker than American as
920.
by Svip 12y ago
Apparently, most of the data NSA collects is useless. And even with that data, other intelligence agencies (read: other countries') are often better informed than the Americans. Having the most amount of data is not the same has hav
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by Svip 12y ago
Probably factual inaccuracies, since Israel was not created by the UN (it was supposed to, but the Israelis declared Israel themselves because the UN was sitting on their hands, and took a larger area than UN had designated to Israel) and I
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by Svip 12y ago
Amusing that you call Duckduckgo 'Google', when DuckDuckGo doesn't use results from Google. https://duck.co/help/results/sources
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by Svip 12y ago
Their argument seems only to be that with the https?:// protocol prefix in the URI, the 'www' is redundant. No other arguments than 'time consuming' is presented. Even their FAQ doesn't answer why they
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by Svip 12y ago
GIMP 2.10 does. http://www.gimpusers.com/tutorials/whats-new-in-gimp-2-10 (I admit, GIMP 2.10 isn't technically out yet, but it is just around the corner.)
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by Svip 12y ago
I may not be a majority here, but I see JSON as a data transportation format, while I see TOML or YAML as configuration formats. You cannot write comments in JSON, for instance.
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by Svip 12y ago
Psst! They call the suite SeaMonkey today.
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by Svip 12y ago
While true that you cannot know whether the client will request the images, you can use their user agent to make a pretty decent prediction. There will be corner cases where you are wrong, but most of the time your prediction will be true.
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by Svip 12y ago
This is a trait I adopted a year ago for own filthy pleasure. I felt it was wrong to quote sentences and/or words in other languages with quotation marks meant for another language. I am confident other people have different views on
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by Svip 12y ago
Perhaps, but „Führer” is far more affectionate in a way than „Leiter” is. I do not disagree with the translation, but its association with Hitler in English is not entirely inaccurate.
930.
by Svip 12y ago
'Tonnes of people' might be an overstatement. Other than the immediate relatives of Adolf Hitler (father, mother, siblings, half-siblings and their children), no other people with the surname Hitler are known. And there is a good

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