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by arlort 3y ago
Or maybe African countries have agency and this is unrelated
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Your logic is based on the equivalence between prioritizing public transport and placing restrictions on cars I can maybe see the point when talking about limited traffic zones. But the discussion here was about: 1. Reducing the need (not o
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Yes, but all of that is unrelated to the original point The commenter I replied to was complaining about weather stations not using decimals. As you point out we can predict averages with a better accuracy, but services which have that accu
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> I never thought I would see an American Exceptionalist comment about a system of measurements. You haven't been on the internet long, have you? Welcome, and I'm sorry
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Besides Celsius not being the SI unit. I'd be shocked if weather forecasting is ever precise to less than 1-2 °C
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> and (consequently) restricting private vehicles This "consequently" is quite a jump and doing a lot of heavy lifting in jumping from policies that are completely neutral to "authoritarianism" to something where a di
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> including the widespread surveillance required to enforce certain proposed traffic restrictions But 15-minutes cities aren't about traffic restrictions. I might be wrong but this seems like people are conflating low traffic zones
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To add context to the link, this isn't a repost, just related. The post linked is about the Council (think US senate or Bundesrat) not having enough votes to pass the text (they're still looking for internal compromises) This post
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> Should client-side scanning be allowed or not? That's up to you if it "should" (personally, no, horrible most likely illegal idea) Patrick has been a pretty vocal opponent of the draft so if he's content that's
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The commission isn't an extraneous entity, if the parliament and member states want a law or amendment the commission will write a proposal. It doesn't "have to" strictly speaking but it would. Framing it like you do is
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> to send it back to parliament unrevised No, once a proposal is made the commission can withdraw it but not amend it anymore After the proposal is made parliament and the council shuttle back and forth (between each other) proposed chan
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You would likely need to increase the number of seats (or allow "fractional" representatives for smaller states) so that even the smallest state gets 3-4 representatives And then yes, in traditional proportional systems you vote f
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The important aspect of the metric system is consistency, not the actual base. The base is 10 because it makes math easier in almost all modern languages Time is weird because its units are so necessarily arbitrary. We don't control (y
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> Europe is worse in carbon-free transition. Than whom? The parent comment referred to Texas, let's extend that to an US/EU comparison in electricity production The latest numbers I could find for either: EU: https:/&#x2F
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2 km/h when you're reducing from 50 to 30 is a negligible difference, and round numbers are easier to keep to on analog/digital speed gauges, and easier to set manually on cruise control systems
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That's fun, this was also the premise of a Donald Duck story in the italian mickey mouse weekly https://inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+2629-3&search=paperino%...
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Which is why this thread seems surreal, if it were about cost cutting they wouldn't bring people to the US in the first place
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> Fresh of the boat immigrants are not entitled to welfare in Europe If you mean healthcare then employed residents (what H1B is) are
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https://scihub.copernicus.eu/ No clue if it's enough for your purposes, but I think this is the basis for the article
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> Isn't "right to repair" the default state? There's no such thing as a default state, only status quo. And the status quo is that right to repair is not really a thing all that much
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The most convincing use case (for plus codes, not w3w but same logic) I've seen is that it can be used instead of an address in slums and similar places where addresses aren't available/practical The problem is that it's
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> As a dumb American This is one of the most annoying openings to a sentence you could device, just fyi As to the why. (With the premise that the comment you're replying to is overstating it) An open border is pretty irrelevant to a
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I think you're supposed to use the composition key for those. Don't know how frequent they are in croatian though, so it might be impairing the speed at which you can type if they are very common
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If someone tried to fake euro coins they'd likely end up losing money and they're used much less (particularly across borders) than notes. Notes need to be designed much more carefully to avoid counterfeits and if the designs diff
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You've gotten it a bit twisted. The implication isn't that appreciating the past is offensive The idea was to not exclude any one country, nor to make any one country above the others. There were only 7 banknotes when the euro sta
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> Their power is derived from how much - or how little - the Government decides to act based on their rulings That's ... exactly the same as any other country in which the judiciary and executive are separate
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> and its also getting phased out That's disputable
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Italy and Germany pay ESA, ESA pays the contractors. But it's not like a layer of indirection means countries are magically unaware of where the money ends up It's not like ESA raises taxes on its own to pay for stuff
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Ok, yeah, I hadn't thought about the certificate issue phase, though that's a different concern than what you talked about initially. The victim in the paper you mention aren't users but rather the CAs themselves (though the
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> to fund extensive rail networks You don't really need to fund extensive rail networks, just rail networks that get to a large enough share of the population to make it worthwhile The vast majority of people don't need to go f

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