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by logifail 1y ago
> Because visible engineering is bad, right? Don't forget all the ski lifts in the Alps...
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by logifail 1y ago
> It’s better than a pylon but worse than a clear skyline The design agency gets their clicks, but this will never happen. The end. Apologies for all those taken in by the concept art images who thought this kind of thing could/wou
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by logifail 1y ago
If you're happy to purchase a SIM card, register it in your name, and hand it to someone else for them to use, go right ahead. Q: Who's paying the bills for that SIM?
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by logifail 1y ago
> Moving the discussion to "we put some sculptures in your landscape, and in return those sculptures carry some cables" might genuinely help [..] If you have the Alps on your doorstep, you may simply want your landscape to stay
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by logifail 1y ago
> the stag doesn't seem structurally sound for example It's concept art, it doesn't have to be structurally sound or even make economic sense - the creators got their clicks! We ought to be more sceptical of this kind of t
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by logifail 1y ago
> Let's hope we get these in the U.S. This is concept art, no more, no less.
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by logifail 1y ago
Apologies for raining on anyone's parade, but this is nothing more than concept art.
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by logifail 1y ago
> The ID presented at time of purchase does not have to be the ID of the actual user of the card In some EU member states this might be fine, but definitely not all. > Your local drunkard will be happy to get $10 to buy a SIM card for
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by logifail 1y ago
My domain registration is just over 25 years old... I guess I'm also "legacy"? I don't think I'm missing any point, thanks.
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by logifail 1y ago
> I'm still using an email that is one of the AOL domains ProTip: Honestly, just buy your own domain, control your own email address(es)...
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by logifail 1y ago
> What does help, and what European governments (at least the one in The Netherlands that Pieter is from) actually do, is more funding for startups. If you're a startup founder in NL almost every angel you talk to has a matched fund
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by logifail 1y ago
> SLS was 6 years and like 10-20 billion $ over budget and nobody ever complainged, in fact they got consistantly more and more money Ah, but SLS were the right kind of people . Allegedly. /s SpaceX, less so. Allegedly.
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by logifail 1y ago
> I suspect that the introduction and then disappearance was worse than not introducing it at all I'm not convinced that we understand the human immune system quite that well. Speaking as someone with three kids and (sadly) quite
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by logifail 1y ago
I don't understand why a quotation - a straightforward summary of factual information about the virus and its low risk to a specific group, written by a professional statistician and University of Cambridge professor - is still conside
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by logifail 1y ago
Developing countries also have significantly younger populations, who are at much lower risk. "Older adults are at highest risk of getting very sick from COVID-19"[0] [0] https://www.cdc.gov/covid/risk-factors
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by logifail 1y ago
> many countries in separate parts of the world took drastic measures Putting China to one side, broadly speaking weren't the most stringent and prolonged restrictions mostly in wealthier, highly-developed countries?
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by logifail 1y ago
> There was a period of a few decades (I guess still ongoing, really) where parents sheltered their kids from everything Not just parents sheltering kids. Take a look at this (in)famous tweet https://x.com/d_spiegel&#x2
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by logifail 1y ago
Except if they aren't quite as independent as people thought
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by logifail 1y ago
> This is effectively already the case in parts of Scandinavia Ironically this isn't quite as consequence-free as some people thought: "In 2018 a former deputy governor of Sweden’s central bank predicted that by 2025 the countr
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by logifail 1y ago
I've been using Win10 LTSC since it first shipped, but the pain of it just keeps on increasing (not being able to load the latest .Net; Teams and more and more other apps refuse to run despite the OS still being "in support"
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by logifail 1y ago
> I take that to mean that if your server isn't availble to receive the mail at the time it is first offered, it won't be retried later. Umm, RFC 5321, which describes queuing and retry? SMTP is designed to be very forgiving
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by logifail 1y ago
> it was the fact that I needed 100% uptime or risk losing messages Q: If your server(s) is/are offline for a few hours, why would you "lose messages"? I've just checked my own email server -> "up 219 days&quo
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by logifail 1y ago
> instead of constantly starting and stopping to access road-side mailboxes Q: What's the (average) distance between deliveries to road-side mailboxes? I'm thinking of the average driving time between them, compared with the ti
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by logifail 1y ago
> The marketing side of the business is very data driven with lots of very intelligent statisticians and scientific testing for ad placement and ad content, etc [...] We'll see that and raise you: “It is difficult to get a man to un
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by logifail 1y ago
Ever since I first looked at the Oshkosh NGDV for the USPS I couldn't help but wonder WHY there was a need for a custom vehicle?* European parcel delivery firms and postal systems (Deutsche Post DHL, La Poste, Royal Mail, PostNL and al
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by logifail 1y ago
> about half your costs are the bus driver (Genuine question) is this true around the globe, or is that US-specific? We were in Portugal over the summer and travelled with Flixbus (for the first time ever) to get from Porto to Lisbon.
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by logifail 1y ago
> Checks in the formal economy are now routine Someone who is prepared to pay people smugglers to help them cross a border illegally may not choose to restrict themselves to working in "the formal economy". "Illegal workin
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by logifail 1y ago
> some sort of number provided by the government There are countries where each citizen has one unique identifier (Sweden's "personnummer", Denmark's CPR). The UK is definitely not one of those! [yet] Instead there
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by logifail 1y ago
> It's presumably harder to forge a cryptographic signature than paper documents? Unless there is both serious pressure from the state and the population at large supports a massive increase in checking and being checked I struggl
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by logifail 1y ago
It feels like "gold-plating" of regulations is and always has been a significant problem in the EU. Regulations are written (at EU level) to allow X, Y and Z; somehow by the time it's implemented at member state level it mira

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