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by lb1lf 5y ago
-Anecdotally, at a former employer we had an annual questionnaire used to estimate how content we were. The results, we were assured, would only be used in aggregate after having been anonymized. I laughed quite hard when the results were b
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by lb1lf 5y ago
Merry Christmas! God jul from Norway!
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-Well, in fairness you do import clean hydro from Norway, with foreseeable consequences for our utility bills.
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-Being a Land Rover enthusiast (though for reliability, a Toyota Land Cruiser is the daily driver), I subscribe to a UK Land Rover magazine, being mailed to the rather sparsely populated community I call home on an island off the northweste
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-This habit puzzles me no end; I'd be much more prone to expressing emotion in the case of the pilot NOT nailing the landing...
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by lb1lf 5y ago
"Got a lump on my head and a boot print on my chest From what the guys in here call "the Tillamook County lie detector test" Well I did my best but as you mighta guessed It's a tough test not to fail I'm sitting her
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by lb1lf 5y ago
> "To keep you safe also remember to have sex" . -While maintaining a safe distance, mind.
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by lb1lf 5y ago
No, never. It should be noted, though, that the Norwegian system is focused heavily on rehabilitation - and that anything which may ease the convict's transition back into civil society is widely seen as a good thing.
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-Yes, it was basically my country's equivalent of this - you're being vetted (basically no convictions; no associating), are being briefed on what not to discuss with whoever you end up visiting, then you get scheduled visits at r
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-I used to visit inmates at a prison nearby (I've since moved too far away for it to be feasible to go on a regular basis) During my first visit, the guy I spent a couple of hours chatting with suggested I never, ever remove the visito
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-In Norway, the law states that if you are to use your phone in a moving motor vehicle, it needs to be installed in an approved handsfree holder, with the screen as close to the driver's normal field of view as possible. No hand-held u
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by lb1lf 5y ago
> To do real collateral damage you have to deliver the payload via the air. -My pet scenario is you just use DHL and ship the thing in a container. Imagine a handful of nukes going off in, say, the Suez canal, in a lock in the Panama can
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-Thanks! This is why I love HN. :) My work takes me offshore on occasion, and twice I've been on vessels in pirate-prone areas; the different approaches taken were quite telling: a) On a vessel flying the Norwegian flag - 'Oh, we&
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by lb1lf 5y ago
> (...) perhaps a radar controlled light machine gun would have to be developed. The Phalanx CIWS would fit the bill nicely (except for the 'light' part) [0]. [0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zsf38NYzo5Q
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by lb1lf 5y ago
The article mentions Wilfred Thesiger; I'd just chime in with a quick recommendation - both 'The Arab Sands' and 'The Marsh Arabs' rank among the best travel/exploration books I've ever read. Quite unlike
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by lb1lf 5y ago
The good thing about hydro is that, unlike thermal plants, you can regulate power output fast to match demand. Hence, it makes sense to use hydro for handling peaks, not baseline supply.
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by lb1lf 5y ago
Norway mostly generate electricity from renewable sources, some 99% of our annual production (~120TWh, if memory serves) is hydro-electric. We've seen prices becoming more volatile in later years as our domestic market has become more
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-I shared an office while in uni with a -in his own words- selectively devout muslim. He moved way up north after graduation, and I, being an inquisitive fellow, asked him how he coped with Ramadan when it occurred during the summer months
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-The whales which were killed in this incident are not an endangered species; while I think killing animals for fun is ethically dubious at best, culling a healthy population for food hardly makes my ethic-o-meter needle wiggle. (That being
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by lb1lf 5y ago
> Even at sea level the exhaled air is about 16% oxygen (down from 21%). Giving the body access to more oxygen per breath won't make the air supply last longer[*]. -Incidentally, in the survival suits we wear when helicommuting in t
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-I've tried both, and by a wide margin the worst was firing someone. (Doubly so as I was a low-level manager in a very hierarchical organisation, so I had little to no sway on who got the boot and not - I was basically handed a list ov
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-These animals ARE killed for food. From the BBC story: "The carcases were pulled ashore and distributed to locals for consumption."
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-Wouldn't an airtag (or two...) fit the bill nicely? (Assuming even car thieves use iPhones there's some poetic justice to be served in their own smartphones bringing them down...)
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-While you mostly (around here, in the Norwegian boonies at least) will have to go to a specialist shop to get Japanese pencils (I've a box of Mitsubishi Hi-Unis on my desk as I type this), any two-bit shop carries a bunch of Japanese
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by lb1lf 5y ago
> Even the dumbest among us are clever, particularly when it comes to reducing work loads. It's not gonna be long before somebody figures out an alternative way to power that washer. The dean of the EE faculty when I got my MSc like
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by lb1lf 5y ago
Oh, we've got quite some of that to go around, too. Wars are good for creating further problems down the line. In the closing months of WWII, the German sub U-864 was sunk just off the island of Fedje in south-western Norway; among its
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-Well, there is such a thing as bio-degradable land mines in the works. [0] (At least the idea was discussed years ago - whether it is implemented in current land mines, I've no idea.) While mines are still an abomination, ensuring the
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-Oh, I don't really blame our forbearers as such, they'd just spent a few years seeing the world being chewed up and now had to start rebuilding fast, I can see how 'Let's just dump this stuff out where it will affect no
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-After WW2, the victorious allies dumped loads - as in, hundreds of thousands of tons - of surplus German ammunition in Norwegian waters, mostly simply by loading up old freighters with the ammo, steaming into deep waters and sinking them t
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by lb1lf 5y ago
-I know next to nothing of airships, but I believe your problem would be controlled flight; a huge airship has huge drag and once winds pick up, you'll soon run out of engine power to counter that drag - and all of a sudden you find yo

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