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by avar 3y ago
> it's the best one can > do, I guess? You could just cut out the middle man and pay to sequester carbon directly, why do that with an airline at the point of sale? Some quick searching suggests that on hour of air
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by avar 3y ago
(I'm assuming your first sentence is missing an "isn't") We're talking about mortar here, not concrete. I.e. the "paste" that's put between bricks and other stone work to "glue" it together.
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by avar 3y ago
In the scenario I described you'll need to consult or maintain such a list anyway. This'll differ by jurastiction, but in most of Europe you're allowed to deliver unrequested advertisements by post, but you're obligated
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by avar 3y ago
By "this" do you mean if someone is trying to discover this my "return probing"? I.e. opening return requests after every single purchase in the hopes of getting this response? I can believe that, but I wasn't doing
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by avar 3y ago
(I delivered untargeted physical spam in my early teens, a TV guide) Why you think the person who's delivering doesn't have an incentive to listen? They're paid to deliver to N addresses, if they know that X, Y, Z addresses d
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by avar 3y ago
Amazon will still reply "just keep it" and refund you to some return requests. I got that just a few weeks ago when trying to return an item, from an automated system.
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by avar 3y ago
As far as I know a Schuko socket can have live on either the left or right (looking at it), but there's a strong convention for having it on the right. Partly this is compatibility between CEE 7/3 and 7/5 and 7/7[1], Th
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by avar 3y ago
> So the core standard is called NEN1010 [...] If you still have it & don't mind sharing my email's in my profile... :-) > I meant it's hard to do it wrong if you're trying to do it right[...] This example came
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by avar 3y ago
That's idiotic, but current drunk driving laws in most places are overzealous in punishing responsible behavior. E.g. sleeping off your drunkenness while sitting in the front seat with the keys within reach. Starting the car to run the
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by avar 3y ago
> I read the Dutch standards for electrical wiring Aside: Do you have a handy link to those standards? > it's actually hard to do it wrong [...] building stores don't even sell wrong materials. It's quite easy to get it
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by avar 3y ago
You don't need high heat (refractory) mortar for many outdoor fire pits or stoves. It's mandated in many places (and for good reason) for indoor fireplaces, chimneys etc. That's because regular mortar will crack when subjec
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by avar 3y ago
Sure, but that's tangential to this sub-thread. The GP is taking the nanny-ware as a given, and narrowly asking why the passenger isn't allowed to bypass it. I'm pointing out that cars don't have a is_occupied_by_human()
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by avar 3y ago
Isn't the in-between choice to drive or fly out of Russia towards Europe, then fly east on a non-Russian airline, and eventually take e.g. the Tokyo to Vladivostok direct flight?
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by avar 3y ago
Presumably because the car doesn't know that there's a person there, the seat may have a weight sensor, and the car knows that the passenger seat belt is plugged in. Both are trivially circumvented.
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by avar 3y ago
Are you suggesting that someone could shut down all human activity on the European continent by declaring that everything bothers them?
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by avar 3y ago
The European perspective is broadly to have the "freedom from ", whereas the American one is the "freedom to ". You've got the freedom to aquire an arsenal, I don't, but I prefer the freedom from other pe
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by avar 3y ago
I have an experiment for you, pour e.g. a 0.5L Erdinger Weißen upside down and observe the resulting mess, then do the same with the 0.5% version of the same beer. There's much less foam in low alcohol beers, so it's not just the
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by avar 3y ago
You can brew a 5% beer, then mix it 10:1 with water, and you'll get 0.5%. It's not up to modern standards for "alcohol free" beecs, but it works if you're just aiming to hydrate while avoiding pathogens in your wate
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by avar 3y ago
You need to account for extradition. Given the practicalities of available flights she's pretty much limited to Bali, Northern Africa etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_extradit...
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by avar 3y ago
No, it doesn't matter that there's no domestic manufacturing of X today. If you put a sufficiently high tariff on X you'll get it made locally sooner than later. Tarrifs are crude but very effective centrally planned price s
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by avar 3y ago
> Such an increase in capability turns the whole principle > of policing on its head. Another way of looking at this is that we're getting a computer-assisted regression back to the historical norm. If I lived in a
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by avar 3y ago
As a bit of historical context: "This is horribly inefficient BSD crap. Using these function only leads to other errors. Correct string handling means that you always know how long your strings are and therefore you can you memcpy (i
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by avar 3y ago
Why is it a bad idea? I live in a dense European city, and the other day I was driving down a busy road at a certain time of day, and was made to undergo a breathalyzer, along with anyone else going the same route. If I'd failed the te
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by avar 3y ago
The flurry of excitement was before the FAA started actively regulating it. Since then e.g. Amazon is stíll nominally pursuing it, but here's a recent article about how that's going: https://www.businessinsider.com&#x2F
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by avar 3y ago
How are you making the leap from discrimination to the search being without "reasonable grounds"? Let's say I'm driving from A to B and the police stops me with a trunk full of heroin. I'm supposed to argue that if
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by avar 3y ago
> ... were absolutely not that common in the average 90s car. Yes, but we're not talking about what's more common, but about how recent regulatory changes affected car design. You can look up luxury models of mid or late 90s ca
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by avar 3y ago
> I would like to see a citation on this. E.g. [1] has a decent overview of the side impact saga for the Euro NCAP since 1997. I'm less familiar with how the American version has kept up. In any case most mass market American cars t
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by avar 3y ago
Cars are in fact larger partially due to advanced safety features, in particular doors, pillars etc. have gotten a lot thicker over the last 25 years. > Larger cars aren't inherently safer. Yes they are, you're probably better
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by avar 3y ago
(I immigrated to The Netherlands from another developed nation). It's weird, the main oddity is that it's just not considered theft in the same sense. Before E-Bikes took off ~10 years ago everyone living in a city had a €50-300 b
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by avar 3y ago
Prices without VAT are the main listed price on Dutch websites whose primary clientele isn't the end consumer. Examples I remembered offhand: elektramat.nl, rvspaleis.nl Those both list the price with VAT too, but the primary list pric

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