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931.
by Symbiote 2y ago
-iekins makes sense to me as a nickname for an infant in Britain. Probably only spoken within the family.
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by Symbiote 2y ago
I'm mistaken, the existing link between Lithuania and Poland was already in use, and the new one isn't built yet: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmony_Link
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by Symbiote 2y ago
Note this disconnection was planned after the Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014.
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by Symbiote 2y ago
Note that Finland and Sweden aren't on the European Continental grid, but the Scandinavian grid, which has its border within Denmark. Thiis means there's now an additional route for Finland to sell power even further south.
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by Symbiote 2y ago
Google Maps is surprisingly empty. Open Street Map has much more detail, and shows the harbour at Georgetown: https://osm.org/go/PzLP7syAF- as well as what I think might be an oil/fuel terminal for the power stati
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by Symbiote 2y ago
The islands were uninhabited until European explorers discovered them. Spain had no more or less right to them than Britain in the 18th century. UN resolutions on such cases are entirely political.
937.
by Symbiote 2y ago
The reputation and credit rating of governments falls if they fail to respect contracts they've signed under their own laws.
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by Symbiote 2y ago
Scotland has a referendum which didn't have a certain result before it was announced.
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by Symbiote 2y ago
Nowadays in Britain, even if the government provides the service they would typically contract a private company to set up and operate it. It looks like the Falkland are similar. Here's a Facebook post from the Falkland government anno
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by Symbiote 2y ago
Manhattan isn't unique — and as far as I've heard, they've recently copied systems in use in Madrid (bins in parking spaces) and London (wheelie bins) to solve the problem.
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by Symbiote 2y ago
I think 13A continuous draw is OK, as 3kW electric heaters are widely available: https://www.dimplex.co.uk/products/portable-heating/convecto... Perhaps electric cars limit their draw below 13A as they're muc
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by Symbiote 2y ago
> Imagine building a numeric display for a power plant operator to see how far off you are. You could build a display with 3 as the denominator, and a decimal numerator: | |_ 2.1 | | \ --- | \_/ 3
943.
by Symbiote 2y ago
In Copenhagen you could reasonably plan to go from the central station to, say, Høje Taastrup, but fall asleep and end up in Aalborg 5 hours and 400km away. Høje Taastrup is a large suburb at the edge of Copenhagen, and the end of an S-trai
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by Symbiote 2y ago
A friend woke up in Leeds once. The main problem was the unexpected cost of a peak time ticket back to London the following morning, which is a lot for a student.
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by Symbiote 2y ago
Many European cities do run buses at night, often replacing rail services. The largest ones run the metro/trains, sometimes only on Friday and Saturday night. It's not only useful for people leaving a party, but workers on early o
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by Symbiote 2y ago
Estonia seems to have only 5% or so of electricity from gas, and zero from oil. Latvia has more gas use, maybe 15% over the year. Lithuania around 10% gas. 90% independent isn't too bad. (Data eyeballed from the annual charts on app.el
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by Symbiote 2y ago
According to Wikipedia, Estonia did sometimes export energy to Russia. I don't know why this should be surprising. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Estonia
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by Symbiote 2y ago
The USA has 5044 nuclear missiles, so that shouldn't be a problem.
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by Symbiote 2y ago
Those parts apply equally to both languages.
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by Symbiote 2y ago
It supports all Unicode. That would be obvious, except for the name.
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by Symbiote 2y ago
AsciiDoctor also has an AST intermediary which can be used by plugins/extensions.
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by Symbiote 2y ago
While looking at a flight price on sas.dk I had to disable Firefox's built-in enhanced tracking protection. It seems excessive to not allow at least a single query in this situation. I had the same with a newspaper which I subscribe to
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by Symbiote 2y ago
Sweden, Finland and Norway seem to have the same checks as Denmark [1] but we don't see their eggs for sale here either. But from a quick search, it looks like I've happened only to live in egg-exporting countries within the EU, w
954.
by Symbiote 2y ago
Are eggs regularly transported long distances in the USA? I don't think I've seen eggs from outside Denmark for sale in Denmark, though many other things (cheese, meat) are. If people in Minnesota (same population) aren't re
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by Symbiote 2y ago
It was indeed the EU, it was the end of the low-value goods exemption if you want to search for it. I avoid shopping from China on principle, but if ordering from Ali Express or similar you shouldn't have any problems. Of course, you p
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by Symbiote 2y ago
Ordering from Denmark, a medium or larger retailer in China would collect the Danish VAT (25%) and send that to the Danish tax authority. They'd mark the package with a transaction id for this, and it would go through EU customs withou
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by Symbiote 2y ago
Some of this was already done by the EU and UK in the last few years. The de-minimis exemption equivalent was removed [1], but with over a year's notice which allowed time for logistics companies and their clients to develop software
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by Symbiote 2y ago
Perhaps new transshippers in Canada or maybe Mexico could take the place of the Americans.
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by Symbiote 2y ago
I think when comparing where to live, it's more helpful to look at what's normal. That's what you're going to be eating at mealtimes at work, it's what your kids are going to eat at school or their friend's pl
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by Symbiote 2y ago
Wording a criticism as a semi-compliment is typically British. Not realizing this is typically American.

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