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by avar 6y ago
Regarding the automatic parking enforcement they claim, on the topic of non-discrimination: > The service works the same way for all license plates regardless of the car model, age, or the owner’s profile. This whole thing seems to be de
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by avar 6y ago
You're mostly wrong about the coalification process as it relates to the carboniferous. There's many different types of coal, but the one you seem to be thinking of is hard coal (anthracite). The others are lignite and bituminous
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by avar 6y ago
Of course it has a huge drawback: opportunity cost. If you look at two recently constructed wind farms in The Netherlands[1][2] then by a conservative estimate the offshore one costs around 5 million/MW compared to 2.5 million/MW
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by avar 6y ago
The Netherlands has plenty of space for on-shore wind, what it doesn't have is sufficient space for them to get away from the NIMBY's. Hence building them off-shore.
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by avar 6y ago
He's really not replicating the standard test at all, here's a standard test machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEN2eojse3s In a standard test machine you clamp the material in such a a way as to not introdu
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by avar 6y ago
> noise, [...] anxiety How is it any categorically different from taking a helicopter ride today, or being a passenger in a fast-moving scooter? A lot of people are demonstrably fine with that. > [...]wind The wind from the propellers
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by avar 6y ago
Yes, and re-read them in the past couple of weeks since the new ones are coming out. It didn't feel out of place to me, sure some story arch's got wrapped up, but others opened up. If this went onto say 9 books like that it would
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by avar 6y ago
So sick of it that there's two new books in the series coming out, one this month?
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by avar 6y ago
> In The Netherlands [...] a small beer of whatever's on tap [...] is 250ml-350ml Traveler beware: Just because it's true that a Dutch "vaasje" glass is 230-330ml[1] the actual volume of beer you get is at best 80% of
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by avar 6y ago
Tires are their own special measurement hell. A 17 inch tire does not have a diameter of 17 inches. Those 17 inches are the diameter of the rim it's supposed to sit on[1]. Thus e.g. a 245/45 R17 tire has a diameter of around 26 in
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by avar 6y ago
Because that's how bottle return works in developed countries, which is a proxy for it being trivial to detect if a returned bottle is good. Whereas the suggestions in this thread that I've been replying to are going to involve so
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by avar 6y ago
I've never heard anyone say that. Who are these people that are reading fuel consumption in their dashboard and doing the mental arithmetic to convert that to km/liter? I've only heard "my car spends about 5-8", mea
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by avar 6y ago
> As a gearhead, I absolutely hate the metric/standard difference. To take the example of the F150 there's a 26 gallon fuel tank, but then the engine size in in liters, transmission fluid is in quarts, windshield washer reservo
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by avar 6y ago
> Usually the manufacturer has them My experience with this has been terrible for e.g. circular saws & power drills, to name one example. I had a part I needed for a Makita circular saw & Black & decker power drill. In both c
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by avar 6y ago
Right, so all of the incentives of evading cigarette taxation, except this time around there's a machine that'll accept the "cigarettes" you have for sale, and your "customer" won't be able to tell the dif
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by avar 6y ago
I repaired a Nokia 8.1 and a Xiaomi Mi A2 recently. I used the (commonly used) B-7000 glue for both. It takes up to 48hrs (or more) to fully dry, I didn't wait enough so I think it dried pretty loosely on the Nokia 8.1. As a result the
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by avar 6y ago
Yes, that's what I'm saying. That you're not going to easily find replacement parts for your washing machine, but you will for your phone.
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by avar 6y ago
How do you source those parts? Figure out which part of the main board of your TV amplifier burned itself out with an electric meter, oscilloscope etc., and know enough about electronic repair to source a replacement resistor, capacitor etc
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by avar 6y ago
> no one is going to be breeding batteries like cobras, regardless of the reward. Yes they are. You can buy Li-ion batteries of the mAh size commonly used in phones for $1-2 in bulk on AliExpress. Any price incentive to return them is go
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by avar 6y ago
One reason screens don't break as easily as they used to on modern phones is because they tend to have a sturdy metal frame that the screen and backside are glued onto under tension. This is one of the main things to beware of when you
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by avar 6y ago
> Add a very small tax to each device with such battery (in the order of cents) [and pay it] back to whoever brings the battery to a recycling plant. We do this with the likes of glass bottles and beverage cans and lot of them just end u
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by avar 6y ago
You should use a credit card for online purchases when you can in The Netherlands. With IDEAL you don't get the ability to do chargebacks, and most webshops will charge the consumer the same amount of money for an IDEAL and a CC purcha
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by avar 6y ago
> Just look at Boeing and MCAS, probably not based on Linux. This just reinforces your general point, but it wouldn't matter if the 737 ran on Linux. The MCAS behavior is part of the "business logic". No underlying OS woul
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by avar 6y ago
Most developed European countries have a tax to GDP ratio 10-15% higher than the US. Fiscally conservative right wing parties in those countries typically run on a platform of at most reducing that by 3-5%. If you then take what they'd
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by avar 6y ago
> Almost all are run by parties who are described primarily as being center-right or center-left. They're described like that by the local standards of the country they're in. But if you were to transplant e.g. some "right
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by avar 6y ago
I live in one of those places (Amsterdam). It's because this isn't a practical problem for anyone living there, so why should we care to spend our tax money and police attention on it instead of crime we ourselves are affected by?
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by avar 6y ago
> If anyone knows how to control floating point rounding in C reliably, I'd be interesting in hearing it I skimmed over that code and it seems that hack is required because a) you're not happy with what the compiler does with a
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by avar 6y ago
> [...]it's fairly safe to assume it takes up less than a percent of overall European science funding. No it's not. We're in a thread where the cost of the LHC and its successors is being contrasted against funding for oth
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by avar 6y ago
It's really not low single digit. Firstly it's a proposal for ~€100bn (not ~$100bn), the current program is ~€80bn. Secondly if you look at the spending[1] more than 50% of it by any reasonable measure is "soft" scienc
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by avar 6y ago
The EU funds the Copernicus program, among others, which is managed by the ESA. But it's not the case that the EU provides 93% of ESA's total funding, it provides on the order of 20%[1]. You seem to be quoting the 93% number from

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