Thlom

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by Thlom 6mo ago
Norwegian electricity prodcution in February this year was 98,8% hydro and wind and 1,1% thermal (mainly gas). I guess the last 0,1% might be the diesel powered generator on Svalbard (the coal one was turned off 3 years ago).
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by Thlom 6mo ago
I can juggle 4 balls for a little while, but two in my non-dominante hand? That's so unnatural I don't think I've even bothered trying.
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by Thlom 6mo ago
Do you not read the news? Israel was bombing Lebanon DAILY and occupying parts of southern Lebanon throughout the so called ceasefire. All without Hezbollah firing a single shot in retalliation until Israel and the US attacked Iran DURING
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by Thlom 6mo ago
Lol. No.
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by Thlom 6mo ago
Low bandwidth is a bigger problem than high latency. If it takes half a second or even a second for your clicks to register it's not a big deal, you learn to work around it. But if the bandwidth is so low that it takes 5-10 seconds jus
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by Thlom 7mo ago
I think OP was talking about the political side, not the technical side. How one company with the blessing of a regulatory body in one country could put thousands of satellites in LEO with minimal international coordination/deliberatio
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by Thlom 7mo ago
I'm thankful I live somewhere I can pay $300/month for daycare. I think it's even cheaper now and capped at like $400 no matter how many kids you have in daycare. We tried to have them at home while WFH a few months during co
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by Thlom 7mo ago
You can still buy LEGO Classic which is just a bunch of bricks.
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by Thlom 7mo ago
Sure, but I still need a Microsoft account of some sort to play Minecraft? And parental controls still exists inside Microsoft or Xbox (is that the same account??). I spent a couple days just trying to make it possible for my daughter and h
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by Thlom 7mo ago
Haha.
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by Thlom 7mo ago
On the other hand you can travel to Xinjiang, visit mosques, Uighur museums, experience Uighur culture, observe Uighurs just minding their own business in their daily life.
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by Thlom 8mo ago
It's a racket. The US have provided military protection in exchange for Europe tying itself to the mast of the US empire. Some of it is unspoken, some of it is contracted, especially concerning military hardware.
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by Thlom 8mo ago
This can only be correct in spreadsheets. In the material reality China outproduces the US by orders of magnitude. For example, China produces ten times more steel, 3 times more cars and in shipbuilding China manufactures literarily thousan
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by Thlom 8mo ago
I had never thought about it, but The Beatles toured almost constantly from January 1961 until late January 1965. Then they played a few concerts in summer and early December, before their last tours of Germany, Japan and the Philippines an
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by Thlom 8mo ago
That being said, it seems like this is being phased out. No new "statsstipendiat" has been awarded since 2019. Before that it was mostly 1-3 persons awarded each year.
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by Thlom 8mo ago
I'm not sure how they handle people living precariously without stable housing. There's a few, but not that many and most of them have some sort of connection to social housing and might be registered there or they are registered
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by Thlom 8mo ago
Over here we just have every person registered in a central database from birth and it's mandated by law to keep the registry updated with your current address. The last census was in 2001 and then there was also done a big job registe
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by Thlom 8mo ago
Many old people do valuable work even though they are not in the workforce. They are the backbone of many voluntary organizations, they are often the backbone of their apartment complex taking on janitorial work and administrative work, the
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by Thlom 9mo ago
Recently I've noticed that the subtitles on TV shows have become garbage. Often the translations makes no sense in the context of what is happening, but are literal translations of what is being said on screen. I assume it's some
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by Thlom 9mo ago
Can't you just buy an AppleTV, download the EE/BT TV app and ditch the box? My ISP also sends me these boxes that I never connect to my TV since their app on AppleTV works better than using the god awful TV box.
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by Thlom 9mo ago
Europe is just lagging behind. There's not that much difference between the US and Europe. Europe just has more history and culture which makes the changes less extreme.
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by Thlom 9mo ago
Ships over a certain size are obligated to report their position (and some other information) over AIS (similar to ADSB on airplanes. It's meant for other nearby ships and ports for navigational purposes. These are tracked from shore b
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by Thlom 9mo ago
It's not completely real-time unless you pay to get satellite tracking included. The free version only has data from shore based AIS scanners plus a few scanners placed on ships. So close to shore it's pretty accurate, but in the
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by Thlom 9mo ago
They can just buy new hardware from China.
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by Thlom 9mo ago
Tesla was a third of the new car market in Norway last year, but most people buy without the FSD. I don't know anyone that drives around using FSD as anything other than a gimmick or glorified lane assist.
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by Thlom 9mo ago
It's not a problem to drive long distance with a modern EV.
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by Thlom 9mo ago
They are behind on software. At least my Tang EV isn't at the level of Tesla. Among the Chinese EV makers that sells significantly outside of China I think NIO and XPENG are the more software oriented ones.
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by Thlom 10mo ago
Drilling a tunnel through a mountain is easy compared to drilling a tunnel under a city.
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by Thlom 10mo ago
The rest of the world does all of this without widespread truck ownership. The reason trucks are so widespread in the US is a combination of culture and regulation, not any special needs Americans have.
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by Thlom 11mo ago
Iran can of course build a nuke in a relatively short timespan if they want to, but for a range of reason they have made the decision not to. Perhaps they should have built a nuke, if they had one Israel and the US wouldn't have bombed

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