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by carlob 5y ago
Bike friendly cities are converging towards 30 km/h. Kph, mt, sec: are all widely used but wrong.
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by carlob 5y ago
Energy goes with speed squared, that's why I said momentum, which doesn't. Also a 50 cc moped with a single passenger would be closer to 150 kg. Pedantics aside, probably the most annoying thing about having this on a bike lane wo
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by carlob 5y ago
At what point do we start stretching the definition of what can be allowed on a bike path? 300 kg of cargo at 25 km/h is very close to the momentum of a moped riding at 50 km/h, which is something I definitely don't want to s
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by carlob 5y ago
Are you aware of the fact that there is a number of countries where the average police officer is unarmed as well?
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by carlob 5y ago
> In secular countries, citizenship often is considered to be something of almost sacred value. Citizenship also comes with very tangible benefits such as the right to vote or - in many cases - entitlement to social security benefits. H
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by carlob 5y ago
No the life changing decision is to move to a new country to become a garbage collector. If you consider that the person collecting your garbage during a pandemic getting the same rights as you have by being born in the right side of the gl
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by carlob 5y ago
This has nothing to do with doctors... medical workers are a small minority of the people being granted citizenship, a lot of these were street cleaners, caretakers, grocery store employees... They just took a bunch of essential workers who
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by carlob 5y ago
What do you mean f/1.8 equivalent? I thought focal lengths were different for different sensor sizes, not apertures.
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by carlob 5y ago
I think you are (possibly deliberately) forgetting that there are pesticides which are allowed in organic farming, they are just not as effective as more modern alternatives and they end up polluting the water table in a very significant wa
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by carlob 5y ago
The browser supports ad blockers, apps do not. It's a no brainer.
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by carlob 5y ago
French stresses the last syllable of each sentence not of each word...
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by carlob 5y ago
Absolutely not true or rather only true of some verbs. Urano is stressed on the a for example...
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by carlob 5y ago
Except in most Slavic languages r can work as a vowel. (if you are confused think about how the y in year is a vowel sound but works as a consonant in the syllable)
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by carlob 5y ago
The MuPad CAS that was used by this software has since been bought by Mathworks and integrated into the symbolic functionality of Matlab.
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by carlob 5y ago
The Coliseum was used pretty much as a quarry for centuries: during the Middle Ages it was considered a symbol of the persecution of the Christian rather than an archeological site, as such it was OK to destroy it in order to collect precio
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by carlob 5y ago
My brother is very into genealogy and has tried several software and online services, however he has always done his wooden family trees for print and gifting in Illustrator. This makes me think that the problem of automatically generating
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by carlob 5y ago
Scottish cuisine is pretty good, maybe you meant English...
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by carlob 5y ago
Though Charles would have been better...
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by carlob 5y ago
That's the English Wiktionary and it doesn't cite any sources. The paper etymological dictionary I've checked gives both theories and a number of references for each.
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by carlob 5y ago
I'm pretty sure that you can't have devastate in they list without mentioning waste.
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by carlob 5y ago
There is a fun triplet in Italian: anello (ring, think annular) anno (year, think annual) ano (anus) all come from the Latin word for ring: the year because of the repetition of seasons and the anus, well, because of its shape.
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by carlob 5y ago
I got an email address that I thought was really clever, but it's somewhat hard to read. $FirstName$L@stName.eu People are a bit flummoxed at first, but then it clicks. The jury is still out on it. Meanwhile my $FirstName.$LastName@gma
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by carlob 5y ago
I took a class of econophysics in grad school and one of the models with studied was a very simple generational model to explain inflation. It was originally discarded because it had an unrealistic solution with very high inflation, however
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by carlob 5y ago
We have that in Italy too, but at least that means that ripping CDs or DVDs is entirely legal. It's actually called private copy contribution.
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by carlob 5y ago
I don't think any politician worth their salt uses whatsapp, not even for private communication.
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by carlob 5y ago
Slightly off topic. I strongly suspect that $3-4 for coffee is dictated by the unwillingness of the American public to have different prices for take away, counter or sit at a table with a computer for two hours. I live in Italy, and an esp
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by carlob 5y ago
I wonder how it deals with dynamic range. I've always been told that one shouldn't run an electric guitar directly through a stereo because the peaks might fry it. So I would expect that whatever comes out of the RPi doesn't
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by carlob 5y ago
> Russia benefits, I think. Not clear, most of Siberia would be turned into mud (which currently only happens for a month or so), many roads there are just frozen rivers.
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by carlob 5y ago
In Italy we have something like that, that should translate to usucaption[0] or acquisitive prescription. The term for real estate is 20 years, for other types of property it is shorter. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by carlob 5y ago
> Not sure about the equivalent Italian law, but I would be deeply surprised if there isn't something similar. It's actually in the constitution: hereditary titles are no longer recognized.

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