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by avar 7y ago
They banned the sale of chewing gum, they didn't outright ban it. You can still chew gum there and bring it into the country. It's a useful distinction because they've really banned some other things, and they're much
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by avar 7y ago
> And I don’t know of a country where smoking is entirely banned. Bhutan, and the Holy See, not that the latter counts for much besides PR.
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by avar 7y ago
For the purposes of a discussion about older games not being playable on modern OSes? Yeah, maybe. In fact it could have no code changes whatsoever, but just be recompiled against newer tooling to accomplish that goal. But I'm talking
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by avar 7y ago
Does TF2 really count as a game made in 2007? Same for GTAV, WOW etc. These games have all gotten extensive updates, almost nobody is playing the gold master version of these games. It says more about how some publishers have moved from rel
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by avar 7y ago
I really wish HN had some policy/method of changing the links to such pop-sci articles to the actual source. The paper they're talking about is much more readable. These news articles manage to spread all the information in the co
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by avar 7y ago
Would you be OK with your use of work bathrooms being made public? You can have an expectation of privacy while using other people's stuff.
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by avar 7y ago
You don't have to forgo any rights. I'm not saying a mob should get between you and a customer, but that customers should be more picky about who they deal with. A lot of people in this thread are calling for a boycott of Blizzard
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by avar 7y ago
Hence the analogy to cabinet making v.s. all of carpentry, he's been banned from something he's heavily specialized in. But I think that misses the point, 20 years ago nobody would have been able to ban anyone from Quake III, beca
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by avar 7y ago
We're increasingly at the mercy of private companies for what used to be considered civil liberties. I'm sure I'll get someone arguing about private v.s. public oppression, but at the end of the day being a professional video
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by avar 7y ago
Sure, and similarly you can easily bike to the airport here in Amsterdam. But let's not jump from "in Europe" to the two cities widely recognized as having the best bicycling infrastructure on the continent. I've spotted
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by avar 7y ago
I'm surprised this hasn't come up before, isn't the US full of e.g. military installations where employees work by the hour and clock in/out, and where there's some gate check going in & out of the installation
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by avar 7y ago
It shines right up until the moment someone writes a Lua command that takes more than a trivial amount of time, now your entire server is blocked in a pile-up of connections waiting on some relatively trivial amount of code being executed.
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by avar 7y ago
There's a lot of amusing YouTube videos of tourists attempting to holiday there without a car, here's a good one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEAVSGYuhCY This sort of thing exists in Europe too, try walking ou
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by avar 7y ago
As much as we can rightly poke fun at Americans over here in Europe about this I've found Europeans really underestimate how much we're adopting American-style suburbs because they just haven't been to those areas. Case in po
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by avar 7y ago
The GP is obviously wrong about EVs emitting no fine dust, see my sibling comment, but we're talking about fine dust, i.e. PM10 dust. The study my comment links to notes that only 0.1-10% (depending on conditions) of tire wear meets
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by avar 7y ago
> Electric vehicles have no direct emissions, including no direct emissions of fine dust. QUOTE Traffic related particles can be distinguished into: exhaust traffic related particles, which are emitted as a result of incomplete fuel comb
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by avar 7y ago
The "green washing" is paying for building green capacity in the EEA. It's your you & your coal-burning local utility sending money to sustainable power stations elsewhere in the EEA.
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by avar 7y ago
Someone else posted a picture already, but The Netherlands has a nationwide network of municipal-run charging stations. In Amsterdam they're placed in the middle of two parking spaces and have two sockets that service those two spaces,
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by avar 7y ago
I'm not saying that backbreaking work doesn't exist within automotive manufacturing, but that categorizing the entire workforce as engaging in such work is clearly a gross exaggeration the way modern manufacturing is done. Sure, b
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by avar 7y ago
> Working in an auto plant is hard, backbreaking work that will leave you physically broken by retirement Is it? I've watched a lot of modern car assembly line videos and it doesn't seem to be hard or backbreaking at all. Borin
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by avar 7y ago
By "that trait" I believe he's referring to that particular way of getting to bilateral symmetry, not that an organism that doesn't do it like that can't be bilaterally symmetric. As an example, think of what it wou
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by avar 7y ago
I'm not bound to a wheelchair, so maybe I'm full of it, but I'd think the feeling of not belonging among paraplegics has to do with not being able to fully partake in society. Go to a party and your default is to make eye con
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by avar 7y ago
A man in a centaur suit still has hands so they can carry a package, and if a room has something the size of a very small table in it someone trailing a second set of legs could get there too. Even something the size of a horse could get in
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by avar 7y ago
Neither the article nor the paper makes that claim about bilateral symmetry. From the abstract of the paper: "As is reviewed here, the strongest constraint on the evolution of a triped is phylogenetic: namely, the early genetic adoptio
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by avar 7y ago
You've misunderstood what bilateral means, it doesn't mean "two of each", it roughly means that there exists a point at which you could bisect the animal with a mirror and "see" the hidden side. So e.g. humans
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by avar 7y ago
Is there a reason to make these sorts of exoskeletons human-shaped for the purposes of helping the disabled? Isn't it easier to make something like a centaur where there's a second set of rear legs? That would also lower the cente
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by avar 7y ago
This is something that affects every RDBMS that exposes SQL. The SQL language describes what and not how , how specifically to retrieve your data is left to the implementation. The most common causes for this in MySQL (and I expect SQL S
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by avar 7y ago
Not really, the point of Dutch privacy law (and similar EU laws) in this context is not to deter a dedicated investigator, but to merely put enough of a hurdle in place that everyone reading the article won't see the names of suspects,
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by avar 7y ago
Most OECD countries pay 60-100% of the price of the US price of a gallon of gasoline just in taxes[1]. It absolutely works as an incentive, and e.g. Berlin isn't in flames right now because gas is closing in on $6 per gallon. 1. htt
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by avar 7y ago
No. There's scientific consensus on aggregate warming and overall destabilization of weather patterns. So we can say that generally speaking we'll have a higher chance of beating previous temperature records going forward. That d

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