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by eCa 2y ago
> They pay SpaceX for launches. Sounds like it is easier to cut out the middleman, eventually? (Only half-joking)
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by eCa 2y ago
I’m kind of in the same boat. A couple of years ago I did a 700k tour on virtually only minor roads (I believe about 10k was on roads with a center line). I used cycle.travel[1]. I’m in Europe, not sure how good it is elsewhere, but here it
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by eCa 2y ago
And used on eg German license plates, for at least partly that reason (IIUC).
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by eCa 2y ago
> what am I supposed to do about it? Watching from Europe, I think you are getting close to the point where 75 million people need to hit the streets (preferably in DC). It appears they are trying to beat the 53 days record.
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by eCa 2y ago
Well, I’m on the other side of the Atlantic, so probably not the other side you meant so take it for what it’s worth. Your president has threatened war on Denmark, a close ally to my country (think your relationship with Canada until he sta
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by eCa 2y ago
(I did the, slightly snarky, original sibling comment, but this comment was better to reply to.) My understanding of your original comment was similar to how 'JkCalhoun understood it, but this comment reads more like "the country
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by eCa 2y ago
So you are suggesting that all posts on news.ycombinator be anonymous?
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by eCa 2y ago
As someone living in a monarchy, I can assure you that our regent very much does not own my nation’s treasury.
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by eCa 2y ago
Would you say handling air traffic control is easier than setting up a LAMP server?
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by eCa 2y ago
And for those so inclined, not too difficult to install your own instance (the official install guide has a couple of unnecessary pitfalls though).
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by eCa 2y ago
> I now try to stop believing in things. It's mostly just molecules that happen to be in a certain configuration for some time. And so are we. Interesting thought on the books vs pins, made me think. A sheet of paper is a thing. So
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by eCa 2y ago
In addition to the sibling comment, it is also generally a requirement that the crew is changed before the train can continue, which also takes a while. As an aside, I was once on a train that hit a deer-sized animal while going through a c
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by eCa 2y ago
EU user here. Streaming platforms approaching 100%. Other than that, not common, but slightly increasing.
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by eCa 2y ago
I think a more positive read of it is that it provides publicity for the organizations that receive money.
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by eCa 2y ago
> none of our cars could get over the "hump" between the coaches. Sounds like feature for the border control to ”randomly” select such cars for a search, to be honest. I don’t think the alcohol-across-borders amounts have chang
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by eCa 2y ago
This is becoming more and more common. Can’t say I’m a fan either.
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by eCa 2y ago
I think a case could be made that it’s fair that a person of his influence on the world loses a bit of his privacy a couple of thousand years after his death.
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by eCa 2y ago
> really killed the "fun" of the internet. The original eternal September[1] predates my entry to the internet by a couple of years, but the cycle repeats eternally. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eterna
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by eCa 2y ago
Plenty of people have kids in their 40s and 50s.
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by eCa 2y ago
Or if you have something cold in your cart already, with condensation (cold drinks, ice cream etc).
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by eCa 2y ago
In my experience[1], if there’s no bike path roundabouts are better, in particular for left turns. But on a bike path they are usually not much fun, basically requiring negotiating with drivers 270 degrees apart at the same time. My preferr
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by eCa 2y ago
But you get the price in another currency, and don’t know the exact exchange rate (in place of monitor calibration).
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by eCa 2y ago
And I’m in the EU, and didn’t get blocked… Enjoyed the photos, but don’t really understand attempting to geofence a personal website.
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by eCa 2y ago
Not the parent, but with similar view on panned audio. If it's music where it's done on purpose, no problem. But talking with audio in one ear? I'm out. Not sure why exactly, but it's very jarring. For me, it's one
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by eCa 2y ago
Or weather reports for aviation[1]… [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/METAR
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by eCa 2y ago
Of all the sources (and their reliability) available to Google, they chose the one thinking that fourteen feet is a reasonable length for a human.
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by eCa 2y ago
If you have kids, would you want them to compete in that?
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by eCa 2y ago
The most surprising place I’ve seen it in is in the name of a certain street[1] in Barcelona, where it is used for pronounciation purposes. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avinguda_del_Paral·lel
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by eCa 2y ago
OsmAnd is awesome, I use it especially when walking in new cities. For cycling though, I’m a happy user of cycle.travel[1]. [1] https://cycle.travel/map
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by eCa 2y ago
> So let's just wait until there's 15 minutes of error - a couple of millenia from now. Then move the UTC prime meridian about 3.75 degrees / 400km Perhaps a couple of millenia down the road, we have the technology to spee

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