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by avar 7y ago
Because they choose not to take photos of the surrounding stars, and those that are visible they either photoshop out or process the images in such a way that they're not visible. There's a sibling comment saying it's due to
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by avar 7y ago
There are emulators for z/OS and friends, you can use those on a PC.
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by avar 7y ago
I believe Turkey owns those F-35s operating in the US, they're used for training. On that Wikipedia page you can see there's dozens of F-35s in the US owned by foreign air forces. Can they just fly them out of the US at this point
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by avar 7y ago
Turkey already bought F-35s[1], but are being told both that they can't buy anymore, and the servicing of the engines will be moved out of Turkey by 2020 if they insist on buying the S-400 from Russia[2][3]. Also, even if they didn&#x2
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by avar 7y ago
Yes, those are a dime a dozen. E.g. GString[1] is one example. Rather than strict "Pascal strings" like the sibling comments rightly points out would be stupid, they're a light struct with a char /size_t len (and usually
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by avar 7y ago
It's beyond me why people would think this is worse for the tenant. Can I move to CA and be your tenant? You're basically giving your tenants free money. Let's say the rent is $1000/month (for simplicity). That's $1
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by avar 7y ago
An increase by 7% followed by 4% is an increase of 11.28%, not 12%. $1000 +7% = $1070, $1070 +4% = $1112.80 $1000 +12 = $1120.
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by avar 7y ago
If they were to do that we'd have armchair commentators on HN complaining that it doesn't mean anything because a $15k Ford Fiesta is still way cheaper. That we have Volkswagen selling a pure EV via a flagship luxury brand is a ma
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by avar 7y ago
Some searching around on YouTube [1][2][3] reveals a bunch of cars on greek plates with mixed paintjobs, fancy designs, stickers etc. Some of those (especially 70s muscle cars) are stock from the factory, so perhaps there's an exceptio
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by avar 7y ago
Are you sure? In The Netherlands you must notify the government if you change the color of the car so they can update the registry, if there's any doubt they'll help you pick. The list of colors is finite and based on EU law[1][2]
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by avar 7y ago
It really doesn't matter what the questioner wanted. The main utility of sites like Stack Overflow is not to give this one person the answer to their specific problem, but to be a useful landing page to people searching for things re
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by avar 7y ago
> And on the surface, there's almost no sunlight and the windspeed is very low[...] Ignoring other issues with Venus (heat, pressure, acid...) "wind" turbines on the surface seem completely viable. The wind speed is low (
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by avar 7y ago
Venus's surface pressure is 90 atmospheres, the same as at a depth of 1 km down in the Earth's ocean. Even if the temperature on the surface was comfortable for humans in short sleeves it would still be in insane logistical chal
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by avar 7y ago
Why would it? The kid isn't sleeping in the snow outside like a Husky, they're in a stroller, sleeping bag, wool etc. All put together it's probably better insulated than your house.
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by avar 7y ago
This 2004 paper examining the difference in infant mortality in The Netherlands[1] concludes that it's basically due to immigration, parents being older (father's age is also a factor), and fertility treatments. Some ethnic groups
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by avar 7y ago
> Here in the Netherlands, they tend to kick the mother out of hospital as soon as feasible after the birth (typically after one night, or even on the same day)[...] For our two (both born in Amsterdam) we were out of the hospital 3-4 ho
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by avar 7y ago
> Slavery ran contrary to what the US was founded on[...] My understanding of your argument is that because certain nice and lofty things were said in certain founding documents we should look at it as a matter of historical inevitabilit
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by avar 7y ago
> I cannot fathom how one can convince oneself that this indicates the opposite. Honestly I can't fathom how saying the US was founded on slavery is a controversial point. The context of this thread is a discussion of the design of
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by avar 7y ago
You're the only one bringing up a "founding principle", which shifts the discussion from reality on the ground towards legislative philosophy. Everything you've said here and in the sibling comment makes the case for the
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by avar 7y ago
> There's really no point in building a car that can go above 150km/h. Even if you're "only" going to be driving at 160-180 km/h (as is common e.g. on the German autobahn) you want to be in a car that can
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by avar 7y ago
Reading "all men are created equal" like that is ahistorical. The Declaration of Independence asserted that at the same time as those northern states kept slaves (and would for decades to come), and natives being driven from their
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by avar 7y ago
This idea that there's one guy or set of people to be found whose fault it is that you have a systemic problem is so uniquely American. In this case you're proposing to punish the smallest cog in the machine, some middle-manager o
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by avar 7y ago
Most smartphones that are out of a battery can give you magnetic north if you also have a big rock (smash phone apart), and make a compass leaf out of a piece of metal in the phone, something like a leaf and a patch of still water. The phon
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by avar 7y ago
...and I don't know about iOS, but I've had this happen at the very worst of times on Android. I've need to click on a dialog in Google Maps to accept a route change, and just then a pop-over dialog appeared that I accidental
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by avar 7y ago
Have you considered not trying to find a car with good infotainment systems, but just replacing it? I have an earlier BMW (E61) and there's a custom-made Android integration for it that costs around $500, trivial when compared to the c
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by avar 7y ago
You may have missed the part where the author of the article lives a short drive from German autobahns, or perhaps you don't count driving in excess of 220 km/h as pushing the car to its limits.
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by avar 7y ago
There's a legal way to avoid this sort of thing, which is to buy a cheap but upgradable vehicle and retrofit "parts", which usually aren't taxed at the same rate. The most famous example of this sort of thing is the &quo
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by avar 7y ago
Am I the only one who wants less integration with normal phone functions while driving, not more? I use my Android phone with a mount and Google Maps for navigation, but it's a pretty horrible and distracting experience. Even though yo
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by avar 7y ago
Standard Oil. It's a bit long-winded, but I recently read and would recommend "Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.". That you don't know what business Rockefeller was in would please him greatly beyond the grave.
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by avar 7y ago
Interesting, I didn't know that. Your first link pertains to diesel, as far as I can tell the EPA instituted the 10 ppm limit for gasoline in 2017 The limit was 50 ppm and 10 ppm in the EU in 2005 and 2009, respectively according to yo

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