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by belorn 1y ago
When we are talking about full tuition, does that include the full cost of the student for which could (in concept) be scaled infinitive without any additional funding and support from the government? For example, if there was more foreign
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by belorn 1y ago
From my experience, writing rules directly after incidents and as a reaction to incidents do not produce good results. New members of the community 5-10 years later will have no understanding of what the rules are trying to do or why they e
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by belorn 1y ago
Its been a well known secret that Russia has been using incursions into Swedish airspace and Swedish land as a part of troop training for decades. The only major change in recent time is the rate of the incidents, and the use of interferenc
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by belorn 1y ago
To expand a bit on Scandinavia, let me describe my 5 different but equal valid identification systems that I personally own that is valid to use in order to identify myself towards the government, two (mostly) digital and three physical wit
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by belorn 1y ago
Technically it expensive because demand exceed supply. Russia was just one of the larger producer, as it is a by product from natural gas extraction, so with the war that source was cut off. In combination, US military decided to sell a lar
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by belorn 1y ago
They do no longer grant permission for open circuit so its mostly a philosophical question. Helium is very expensive currently because of Russia, so it would possible be cheaper to buy a rebreather than do four 100m dives with open circuit.
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by belorn 1y ago
Britannic has long been one of the major bucket-list dive that many deep wreck sport divers pursue. Diving there require quite a few things to get permission from the owner and the Greek government, among which are a quite heavy fee (and mo
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by belorn 1y ago
I would also like to read the source for the last claim of that statement. The break-in is well established in multiple sources, and also documented on Wikipedia (citing one of those sources). CNBC also add that they planted microphones (us
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by belorn 1y ago
Children often lack experience and education to prevent harm, as that is one of the distinguishing aspect between adults and children. We also know from biology that children are more prone to poor impulse control. Children in general are d
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by belorn 1y ago
With modern safety design and human factors, we do both and more. A car can have an automated breaking system, and a manual break, and an information system that informs the driver of the surroundings in order for better informed driver. We
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by belorn 1y ago
I would find it exceptional interesting if youtube moved away from the concept of providing content for free without an expectation for repayment, to a model of selling a service. Selling a services is covered under a very different kind of
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by belorn 1y ago
Do you accept Washington post as source? https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/15/war-on-terro...
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by belorn 1y ago
It would be interesting to know how articles like this compared to the average article. How are the ratios of downvotes to upvotes, flagged to non-flagged, and comments to views? Are people who comment here positively or negative correlatin
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by belorn 1y ago
Surgical strikes is mostly a myth presented to make the war on terrorism look better than it is. The US military defined anyone killed above the age of 15 to be a terrorist regardless of situation, and thus by definition had almost zero civ
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by belorn 1y ago
There is no 1$ in electric production, unless you are selling and buying simultaneous at the exact same date and time, and from the same location. A fair price would be the current market price at the point in time, subtracted with the cost
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by belorn 1y ago
The energy market has many similarities to the stock market. People also bet on the prices going down or up by contracting themselves to produce a set amount of energy at a given time for a given price. There are companies which only do tra
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by belorn 1y ago
10kWh during periods where the energy market price is at the lowest will not pay for 5kWh for periods where the price is at the highest. It will be closer to 0.1-1 kWh for every 10 kWh. The alternative (the current model where I live) is to
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by belorn 1y ago
Hydro is pretty great with a few caveats. Flooding remain a massive problem if there is a failure, as the world most deadliest power plant accident was a hydro power plant with a death toll between 26,000 to 240,000 people. An other major i
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by belorn 1y ago
From the research I have heard and seen on the subject, when people communicate with people different than themselves it can both help and hurt trust. The primary factor that I took from the research is that it depend on ethical values. If
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by belorn 1y ago
Art is not art. Art is the thought manifested into something which convey the thought. If an artist is using an AI to manifest a thought, then that can be art. Similar, music is not music, but rather the thought of an musician manifested is
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by belorn 1y ago
The opposition to the construction of wind farms are mostly silly except in a very specific situation. We should not construct those in nature reservation. If a place is worth designating as a nature reserve then we have decided that such p
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by belorn 1y ago
Some respiratory viruses need large aerosol droplets, but covid virus particles remaining viable with a half-life of up to about an hour outside large droplets. The initial theory was that environments like extreme hot and humid climates ma
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by belorn 1y ago
Karolinska Institute in Sweden did a study during the pandemic that had findings of virus particles in every location in the hospital ventilation system, past all filters and air purifying. It was a early finding that indicated the role of
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by belorn 1y ago
There are no easy solutions or free lunch, only true costs. Nuclear has its benefits and drawbacks (most which don't need to be repeated). Hydro power is a great natural resource, except for that extinction aspect and flooding risks. S
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by belorn 1y ago
We can hope/pray/predict that prices will go down in a year or two. I have yet to see any politician or providers give that promise. The government have approved new grid stability power plants (based on natural gas), and those ha
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by belorn 1y ago
I would nothing more than to enjoy those cheap prices. Here in Sweden (and EU in general), while energy prices has drop in response to renewables, grid fees and energy taxes has increased more than to cover any savings. Grid fees are now th
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by belorn 1y ago
The desire for breathing comes from CO2, not oxygen. Pre-breathing pure oxygen will likely not have a significant impact on non-trained free divers Pure oxygen also has its own issues and risks which is part of the training for people who u
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by belorn 1y ago
How is the consumption fees moving compared to grid fees? In Sweden, grid fees has increased significant, while consumption fees is actually one of the lowest on a 5 year history. Grid fees is what pays for grid stability and transmission,
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by belorn 1y ago
The problem with censorship is in general never about any specific application of it, but rather the principle. When censorship becomes culturally acceptable, self censorship and political polarization follows as a natural consequence. The
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by belorn 1y ago
Looking at the Swedish railway, the issue is related to budget but the problem is not that simple. The main issue is that the railway system lacks redundancy in track capacity, meaning that any failure require short term fixes in order to r

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