aivisol

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   by aivisol 7y ago

   This might give some clue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhabihah "The slaughter itself must be done by a sane (mentally competent) adult Muslim."
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   by aivisol 7y ago

   2,400 m above sea level
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   by aivisol 7y ago

   Live stream from Roque de los Muchachos observatory in La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kr-8ESM-8M
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   by aivisol 7y ago

   I think the concern here is that engineers understanding might eventually be overruled by managements need to decrease costs, roll out faster, etc...
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   by aivisol 7y ago

   Can you explain this to the layman? How does it work? Does it mean they store IMSI hashes with location data in one database and customer names and their IMSI in another and nobody supposedly should have access to both databases at the same
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   by aivisol 7y ago

   Yes that is true about Soviet Union. (Disclaimer: I lived 20+ years in USSR and more than that in the West). And in theory you are right: democracy vs authoritarianism should not be the same as socialism vs capitalism. Now, what I see as
7. 187.▲
   by aivisol 7y ago

   > Nominal socialism vs. nominal capitalism was only one, and many would argue not the biggest. Can you elaborate on this? What, in your opinion, is more significant difference than political/ideological system? I am actually curious
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   by aivisol 7y ago

   > You mean to say that Western and Central Europe don't exist? I would say they are all capitalist countries. I cannot think of any European country after 1990 which prohibits private enterprise. What you are referring to is still a
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   by aivisol 7y ago

   I come from a similar place and feel the same, and would never ever want those times back. We have seen too much repression, horror and misery that we have developed our own allergy against anything which hints in that direction. But on the
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    > For example, intelligence, as measured by IQ tests, follows this pattern. Average IQ is 100, but nobody has an IQ of 1,000 or 10,000. True, but can IQ be, say 210? If yes, then standard deviation cannot be applied here, right? Because
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    Can Switzerland be an option? That's where ProtonMail is located, right? But again, where Switzerland's cables are connected to? To same 14 eyes I guess.
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    > Now their trains are better than anyone else's Do you have source for that? > They even managed to beat competitors and export their trains to Turkey and Argentina.. This does not necessary mean their trains are better than any
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    > All refugees coming to EU are directed to these charter cities. This seems to be problematic IMHO. Who would want to go there instead of already build, well run city. Would you?
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    Not that I support trade wars, but do we have evidence that really nobody wins in trade wars? Just out of curiosity.
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    You don't need a smart lock for that IMHO. Any house alarm usually can detect intrusion.
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    Subsidizing own postal service would mean paying it with tax dollars. Why would those who never use this service should pay for those who use it more? Besides that (and its my own observation only) I have noticed that subsidies usually dist
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    And opposite when approaching retirement age.
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    Not just some employee, but "chief growth officer at the Marlboro maker"...
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    True, however if you look in the European context, Southern countries have lower rates despite having lower standard of living. So the climate cannot be completely ruled out, it is perhaps one of the factors.
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    Why your contact address is in Berlin but phone number in Denmark? Also: please fix "How does it works?" to "How does it work?" on the front page.
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    European here, too, lived in several EU countries, received very few robocalls in my life. Do not think this is due to regulation. Exactly, caller IDs can be spoofed, and who gets the fine then? Should be something else: the way how we are
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    Or soviet "invalidka": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMZ_cyclecar . (4 wheels though)
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    I believe "serverless" in a way how it is used in this context means there is no top down full server starting from hardware all the way up to the OS available to you exclusively. Instead you just use services which you need for t
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    I do not understand how Canary Islands are less of a tourist trap than, say Cuba? Granted, there are no volcanoes in Cuba but that does not make it's nature less interesting. And tourism in Canary Islands is definitely much higher deve
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    Reminds me of Fufme: http://www.easylife.org/fufme/
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    The look outside the window right now is depressing :(
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    Thank you for your detailed explanation. The visualisation you mentioned (by nullschool.net) is what I use regularly, however, without much understanding of climate dynamics.
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    I was not trying to deny the average increase. Rather I wanted to point out that there are extremes which are becoming more pronounced on both ends. The July was extremely cold in NE Europe and even the map shows only few degrees below aver
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    In the meantime in Finland, NE Russia and Baltics: "The average temperature over Europe in July 2019 was just above the 1981-2010 average for the month. It was warmer than normal over western Europe, except for south-western Iberia, b
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    by aivisol 7y ago

    Maybe that is because the scale is much larger nowadays?