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by arcade79 2y ago
The tragedy here is that expectations differ. I would expect my laptop to use my local DNS server if the VPN is up. My local DNS server is the one I have on my home network. The rest of my traffic, I would expect to go through the VPN tun
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by arcade79 2y ago
A lot of misunderstandings among the commenters here. From the link: "the total compute cost it would take to replicate the paper" It's not Google's cost. Google's cost is of course entirely different. It's t
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by arcade79 2y ago
It was wonderful to work with. :-) It's one of the things I truly miss from Google.
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by arcade79 2y ago
I was lucky enough to play it against Steve Russell at the CHM, about 10-12 years ago I believe.
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by arcade79 2y ago
Norwegian tekst-tv: https://www.nrk.no/tekst-tv/100/
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by arcade79 3y ago
Atheist here; I love visiting buildings like that. Sagrada Familia is truly beautiful. I like it way better than St.Peters in Rome.
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by arcade79 3y ago
No, the general income tax is 22%. You add the higher tax bracket to that. Then it's the social insurance on top.
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by arcade79 3y ago
Except you should look at the shape of the country. And the fact that we don't spend much out of that fund. Hint. Minneapolis to Houston is a shorter distance than Lindesnes to Nordkapp
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by arcade79 3y ago
And yet, even our more populous cities are less densely populated than several US states.
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by arcade79 3y ago
The revenues from the oil sales goes into the pension fund. Not really applicable.
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by arcade79 3y ago
Yes. You've got Nebraska, Idaho, Nevada and Kansas! THey all have a lower population density than Norway! Therefore the other states don't need to bother.. EDIT: Ugh, thinking, typing and using a search engine. The above is wr
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by arcade79 3y ago
Sure, if that city stretched further than the distance from Minneapolis to Houston! We're not exactly a densely population country. We've got enormous distances. A city would be rather easy, wouldn't it? Just pop up some b
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by arcade79 3y ago
What's your point? We've got a lower population density than the US.
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by arcade79 3y ago
Population density of the US is ~5 times higher than in Norway. The distance between Lindesnes and Nordkapp is greater than the distance between Minneapolis and Houston.
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by arcade79 3y ago
Yes, but the population density of the US is ~5 times greater than Norway, so this isn't really an argument.
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by arcade79 3y ago
Norway is not small (distance-wise). But we do have electricity production pretty well spread out as we're a mountainous country with plenty of hydropower throughout the entire country.
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by arcade79 3y ago
This used to be true until we joined ACER and built a couple more electric cables. It hasn't been true since about 2021.
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by arcade79 3y ago
It has to be mentioned that Norway spends most of it's petromoney on the Pension Fund. We've got a rule that the government at most can touch 4% of that for whatever they want to do - but they keep it around 2-3% .
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by arcade79 3y ago
It occurs to me that you have no clue when it comes to distances in Norway. Minneapolis to Houston is a 1176 miles drive. Lindesnes to Nordkapp is a 1305 miles drive.
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by arcade79 3y ago
How would "your way" be detected?
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by arcade79 3y ago
Rather happy that my daughter is in the Scouts here in Norway (Note: there are two scouting organizations here, religious and non-religious. My daughter belongs to the latter). Learned to use knife, axe, hammer and saw. Learned to cut woo
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by arcade79 3y ago
> and yet you don't see very many buildings collapse, bridges fail, and damns flood down valley. Hi! Let me tell you about my wonderful country. Norway! I'm sure you've heard about it. The socialist utopia in Scandinav
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by arcade79 3y ago
I switched to Firefox both at home and professionally in 2020. Previously, my web browsers have been (in chronological order): Netscape 3.X, Netscape 4, Opera, Phoenix, Konqueror, Firebird, Firefox, Chrome, and now back to Firefox. I have
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by arcade79 3y ago
I need to add another reply to this drivel, to point out that No, I do not buy plastic packaging, plastic cup straws, or other silly plastic products that are essentially one-use. LEGO is not one-use. The entire point of lego is to NOT be
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by arcade79 3y ago
I'm 44. Since '86, I've noticed that I've lost a 3 gray 2x1 full size bricks for the Castle, two bricks for one of the spaceships. Every single other model has all their bricks. I despise the "planned obsolesce&quo
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by arcade79 3y ago
That's weird. It ran wonderfully well both on my 486SX 20Mhz and 486DX2 66Mhz.
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by arcade79 3y ago
Oh wow. Not often I get as triggered by a comment where someone is wrong on the Internet as this. This has to be some of the dumbest drivel I've ever read in a comment about Lego. The Lego sets I got as a kid in the 80s, have been
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by arcade79 3y ago
> Hmmm... that sounds suspiciously like fisheries-related slavery/indentured servitude. See also: Dutch Harbor. Well, no. There's two parts to this. 1. Svalbard is rather nice. While years there doesn't count towards Nor
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by arcade79 3y ago
Easy. In the series, Norway decides to invest in Thorium nuclear power to get out of oil. We basically decided "we'll be environmentally friendly". Suddenly powered by nuclear in addition to hydro - and having a hefty petr
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by arcade79 3y ago
Based on the description, it sounds like Norway

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