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by jonp888 5y ago
It has two meanings: 1. the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: 2. the act of buying, selling, or exchanging stocks, bonds, or currency:
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> They steal it from those outside the union by constraining the the supply of labor. Can you explain how this works? In Europe Unions just represent the rights of those the Employer chose to hire. The employees are not required to be me
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The Trading part designs and manufactures(or purchases manufacturing capacity) of the boards. You couldn't do all that as part of the charity, especially given they also make products specifically designed for industrial use.
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In Germany 3 political parties have just reached an agreement to form a coalition. This means they have had to get together and agree on a common position somewhere between the policies they campaigned on. No-one gets into Government in Ger
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If the train has to leave the high speed line on the outskirts of the city and run at slow speed it wastes a lot of time.
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The display style of Electronic Charts are standardised, but not the UI of the device that display them. However, seafarers are required to be formally trained on each type of Electronic Chart display they use. Beyond that, not much. The in
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The German BR01 Lokomotive can travel 75mph forwards but only 30mph backwards: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRG_Class_01 The difference with a passenger car is that the wheels on a car are mounted on a bogie which c
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Really? I didn't know 'clit' had any other meaning than as a colloquial abbreviation of clitoris.
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Sorry, I mistyped :)
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The UK also has national ID system. It is almost unique in Europe in this respect.
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You and Yours is a long running consumer affairs show on BBC Radio.
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Only a few posts below this is one where someone unironically equates Facebook engineers defending their choice of employer with SS officers defending their part in the Final Solution. Welcome to HackerNews.
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No, the opposite, that many of the people working for evil organisations are not doing evil stuff, but instead maintaining kernel drivers or whatever, and they don't concern themselves with how exactly the money that pays their salary
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This is not a problem, it won't put the fire out. The real danger is when going through a tunnel, the backdrauught from the exhaust hitting the tunnel causes a surge of flame into the cab. The crew must keep the fire doors closed.
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The tender is much lighter, and shorter, so it is at increased risk of derailment when running right at the front of the train. Locomotives can of course run backwards for long distances if required, but generally they have two top speeds -
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That's a bit of an ironic comment Broadcom chips are not available on the open market and they won't sell to you unless you are an enormous company(or have a "special relationship" as RPi did). Effectively you can only b
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If you are a "freelancer" that in fact works full time for a single client, especially if the "service" you provide is to personally perform unspecified tasks for a certain number of hours per week, then this is known as
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SNCF article on new night trains: https://www.sncf.com/fr/offres-voyageurs/voyager-en-train/tr... Timetable and ticket booking link for one of the first Wien-Paris trips: https://fahrplan.oebb.at&#
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I don't understand why Americans covet European long distance high speed rail. Even a lot of the more recent European high speed routes were built primarily for political reasons and carry little actual traffic. The high speed line bet
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Good news! The policy of running only "socially necessary" night trains has been reversed, and they are coming back. The Paris - Nice route has already restarted, Paris - Hendaye(for connections to Spain) and Paris to Vienna via M
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Not a great comparison. I've never heard of a toddler accidentally murdering someone with a fire extinguisher, yet that's an everyday occurrence with guns.
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For exactly the reason, the parent post said, it makes all worker protection and benefits laws meaningless, and most people think these laws are a good thing. If this was possible then every company would say: "We don't want to ha
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> lot of other Democrats would say something more like "Of course they're bad for business; that's the point! We hate business and we want to punish it for being business." That's an extraordinary suggestion. Why
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According to this comment( https://old.reddit.com/r/commandline/comments/f62wlr/how_i_u... , it doesn't stop there, logic bombs have been inserted into the build scripts and the software itself to try
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> Org-mode for Emacs [1] is just great > - Consistent interface: using emacs might be tough on mobile > - Custom logic: via emacs scripts > - Standard protocols: custom scripting does anything. Huh?! What kind of fantasy world
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Reminds me a bit of the situation in London. It's entirely true, but highly misleading, to state that the total population of the City of London is between nine and ten thousand people.
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> The STIKO does not currently recommend the vaccine for pregnant or breastfeeding mothers. They don't expressly reccomend it, true, but that's because of lack of data, not because they have any reason to think it may cause p
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> That's a temporary situation that cannot realistically continue. It might not be realistic, but it is UK government policy: https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/uk-asks-for-brexit-standst...
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It's going to be bad. I don't expect to have a conventional retirement like my parents did. By that point, society will not longer be able to support a large cohort of people who just consume and don't contribute. I don'
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I'm not sure what you mean by "retaliation". The BBC does not have the right to broadcast olympic coverage outside of the UK, even short clips, therefore they are not doing so.

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