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by cr1895 4y ago
>There have been some discussions of sailing these vessels all the from from Europe and operating them out of ports in Canada to get around the Jones Act Not mere discussions. This has already happened (Dominion Coastal Virginia demo pro
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by cr1895 4y ago
Its impact is vastly greater than trade along inland waterways. It regulates “coastwise transport” which, under various interpretations, means from one port in the US to another to even a single rock placed on the seabed by a ship. With res
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by cr1895 4y ago
>I'd like to get a specific example of something economically useful that the Jones Act forbids. The Jones Act obliges some pretty absurd contortions and workarounds to construct offshore wind, of which many many gigawatts are plann
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by cr1895 4y ago
Buying something at a shop or paying for a service is not repayment of a debt. There’s no precondition of accepting cash. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31/5103
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by cr1895 4y ago
Some context: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/04/29/world/asia/sh... https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2022/04/ch... https:/&
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by cr1895 4y ago
> how can people value human lives so little? I would suggest reading up on how the zero COVID approach taken by the Chinese government has impacted its citizens, and how it’s really very much divorced from any pragmatic notion of saving
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by cr1895 4y ago
I’m not sure I’ve tried those. You’re not referring to Tyrkisk Peber are you?
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by cr1895 4y ago
I quite like the Swedish one Djungelvrål
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by cr1895 4y ago
Most frustrating for me is that I receive no call notifications. Well, sometimes I do, but most of the time I do not and I need to wait until a call has been missed before I see who’s called. Unless I happen to be in the chat window of the
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by cr1895 4y ago
Tangentially related bit of curiosity - there is a long and narrow pedestrian/cycle tunnel under the Scheldt river in Antwerp. It was built in 1933, and access is via the original beautiful wooden escalators. Quite a neat bit of infras
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by cr1895 4y ago
>The Netherlands is pretty rough without a car. Hard disagree. It depends on too many factors to make a universal statement like this.
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by cr1895 4y ago
I’d interpret their comment as 32 hour weeks being normal and acceptable, whether or not it is most common.
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by cr1895 4y ago
What does “accessible to all” mean in this context? Why do I in Europe get almost zero spam calls or text while in the US it seems like a plague?
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by cr1895 4y ago
Very plausible that people from other EU countries who worked in airports left, and it’s a reduced pool of people willing and able to take on those jobs today because of Brexit. So it clearly isn’t the cause of airport chaos, but it can’t b
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by cr1895 4y ago
It still doesn’t sound that extreme, tbh. I’m not sure how Heathrow compares to Schiphol but KLM alone is scrapping on the order of 7,000 seats _per day_. And that’s one (admittedly major) airline. https://nos.nl/artikel&#x2
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by cr1895 4y ago
> 20 days, which is 28 days including weekends "total." Bit of an unusual thing to include weekends to make 20 actual vacation days sound 40% better than it is. Edit: to be clear, in my experience, when someone in Europe says “
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by cr1895 4y ago
Can someone provide the text of this article please?
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by cr1895 4y ago
The context of this subthread was wind power in the UK…it was super confusing to me that you apparently are referring to some mysterious other place with ice.
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by cr1895 4y ago
Can you clarify then what you mean by “because of moving ice?”
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by cr1895 4y ago
> the opposite of what you think. Well, no, I didn’t make the claim that it was the cheapest. It is competitively priced, however, which is important, and both technically and politically achievable. Anyway the other person claimed that
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by cr1895 4y ago
> Were they effective? They absolutely are effective at reducing the risk of death or serious illness.
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by cr1895 4y ago
> Offshore is very expensive because of moving ice. Huh? Ice? There isn’t any sea ice to contend with in the UK.
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by cr1895 4y ago
I strongly doubt that, due to the utterly immense scale of offshore turbines and better wind resource.
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by cr1895 4y ago
Unions aren’t really something which is polarizing in the Netherlands.
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by cr1895 4y ago
If you lived in a city where something like Gorrillas or Getir have a presence, then it’d be impossible not to know of them. They advertise like crazy and you see their delivery drivers and dark stores all over.
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by cr1895 4y ago
>A lot of companies in the Netherlands will be open to that. It's part of employment law. So long as you fulfill the criteria & there isn't a very compelling reason for your employer to say no, you're allowed to reduce
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by cr1895 4y ago
You're wrong for the case of the Netherlands and Belgium.
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by cr1895 4y ago
I'm a bit puzzled by the methodology. I didn't notice any mention in the paper if the exposed EMF was meant to be similar to a surface-laid cable, or one that is buried. In any case, it is certainly the case that subsea power cabl
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by cr1895 5y ago
> passports are essentially a national ID system Not very helpful as a national ID if they are a relative rarity
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by cr1895 5y ago
One can be happy for the creator’s individual (and deserved) success, while at the same time begrudge the fundamental change brought about by its acquisition. Simply saying “everyone shits on this guy” is not really helpful, or accurate.

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