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by lb1lf 6y ago
-The idea is that all the plumbers are academics looking for the easy life. :)
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by lb1lf 6y ago
A Soviet engineer needs some plumbing done in his apartment, and calls for a plumber. The plumber arrives, does his thing, and hands over the bill. The engineer is shocked. -'What, this is like a quarter of what I make in a month - for
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by lb1lf 6y ago
At least in my jurisdiction (Norway), you install a car alarm because your insurance company still gives you a discount if you have an approved alarm installed. The cheapest, approved alarm I could find for my beater (an old Land Cruiser) w
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by lb1lf 6y ago
> HR is an agent between you and the company. It’s there to run the negotiations between what the company wants and what you want. If you don’t understand that, you won’t be able to use HR to your benefit. -I like to think of HR as an ab
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-As you state, making new land is hard, so the simplest option remaining probably is to make more land desirable to live on - say, by improving local transit so that you can live farther away from downtown and still have a decent commute. O
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-I don't think 'all amplifiers sound alike' is a widespread opinion, but rather (in engineering circles, at any rate) that any competently designed amplifier, run within its limits, sound like any other competently designed a
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by lb1lf 6y ago
True, but with the (used) pads you can reconstruct past messages. (Provided you intercepted those, that is.)
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by lb1lf 6y ago
Uneducated guess - the ability to quickly completely and utterly obliterating the pad would probably be a much more significant concern than space or weight. After all, you don't want your cipher desk, OTP and all to be overrun by opfo
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-Oh, I've seen Bouvet off in the distance once, and if the Norwegians would just have kept mum about their annexation, the British would be none the wiser to this day. Bouvet looked, to put it mildly, barren, mostly covered in ice as i
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-Scandinavians did try to find a few small bits of empire, though - mostly to find that the only places left over were the ones none of the major powers cared about. The US Virgin Islands used to be The Danish West Indies until 1917, also t
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by lb1lf 6y ago
The point I was (clumsily, as it were) trying to make was that one man's north is another man's south - the sun setting (at summer solstice) at 11pm is something happening way south of where I am currently at - but, apparently, wa
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by lb1lf 6y ago
That's down south. Way down south. (I am pretty much straddling 70 degrees north as I type this - sun last seen Nov 23rd, comes back in two weeks. Midnight sun between May 17th and July 26th.)
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-In the good old days (sixties, presumably also earlier) police forces in at least some countries had phone books sorted both by address and by number. (Source - flea market find, a Norwegian book on the state of the art in criminology, pub
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-This isn't just a treat of a flawed democracy (which Singapore undoubtedly is!) - we've been having the same debate in Norway (though not explicitly about Covid-19) for at least a couple of decades - basically, whenever data is c
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-My brother-in-law coined the phrase micro-holiday to keep himself sane when having kids - a micro-holiday is the time you have to yourself during a day. Most often, it occurs in the time span between closing the rear door after packing the
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-My boss has a Xeon Dell - a 7550, methinks - luggable. It is filled to the gunwales with ECC RAM. Cost him the equivalent of $7k or so. Eeek.
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by lb1lf 6y ago
While the methods employed by the PRC are, ahem, somewhat more pragmatic than those utilised in most other countries still having the death penalty, it is mere nuance - the state murdering its own citizens is a practice which should have be
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by lb1lf 6y ago
I sadly do not remember who came up with this quip (c.2000), but it went something like this - "If video games influenced behaviour, those who grew up in the eighties would run around in dark rooms, listening to monotone music while po
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by lb1lf 6y ago
Just out of curiosity - if the AI software relies on utilizing images scraped from the web, could one conceivably hit the developer with copyright infringement charges? Or would this be fair use?
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by lb1lf 6y ago
> That $40k home isn’t so cheap when you make $13k and interest rates were 11-15% -However, if interest is at 11-15%, chances are inflation was in the high single digits - so as long as wages stayed reasonably level (in real terms), you
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-The Lærdal tunnel is a masterstroke of tunnel engineering; at 24.5km/15miles long, a major issue would be that it is simply mind-numbingly boring to drive through it, with the likely consequence that drivers' minds drift and acci
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-In the subsea tunnels a bit further east, in Norway, large fans mounted at regular intervals help maintain a draft through the tunnel. I don't think much forced ventilation is needed for normal operation - the blades spin very leisure
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by lb1lf 6y ago
> Even without Brexit it is illegal for a British resident to drive a foreign-registered car on British roads. Though the law is rarely enforced, it does exist. -Norway has a similar law, with the interesting application that if you, a N
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-I heard on the radio a few weeks ago that deaths on accident-prone roads which had had average speed cameras fitted were down by half. This was in Norway, but I expect the same holds true for other jurisdictions.
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by lb1lf 6y ago
> Not in Germany it doesn’t. Only the actual driver can be found guilty of speeding, even by speed-camera. -Same in Norway - ticket is sent to registered owner by default, if s/he contests the claim, s/he is summoned to the loc
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-A former girlfriend is of a Russian emigré family; she always got a chuckle out of Norwegians' inability to understand the concept of inflection. Her father as a matter of course got letters from all her leisure activities, school &a
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by lb1lf 6y ago
Your observation that guitar music is being eclipsed is too good an opportunity to pass up on to dig out the (possibly apocryphal) rejection of The Beatles back in 1962 - “We don’t like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.” —D
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-But those loans do not cover tuition (which is basically free), but your living expenses while studying, which you would have incurred anyway.
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by lb1lf 6y ago
-I'd say that is plausible if next week's draw turns out to be 1-2-3-4-5-6, for instance. (That is - as is pointed out upthread, such 'weird' draws will occur naturally on occasion. It would, however, be quite suspicious
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by lb1lf 6y ago
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." (Lev Tolstoi; 'Anna Karenina') ('Все счастливые семьи похожи друг на друга, каждая несчастливая семья несчастлива по-своему.'), for

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