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by lqet 6y ago
To put that into perspective: the tunnel cost roughly 175M euros, that's 3.5k EUR per inhabitant. I don't find this excessive. From the maps, it looks like basically every inhabitant benefits from those tunnels. Even if it just
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by lqet 6y ago
For me, there is a difference between working "hard" and working "deep". Working "hard" means being busy, typically more than 8 hours a day. Example: answering mails, writing some sort of report, dealing with c
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by lqet 6y ago
I suspect a meteorological explanation. The weather might be so bad sometimes that crossing the bridge is not possible. Or the lifetime of a bridge exposed to such conditions might be extremely low, or maintenance costs extremely high.
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Underwater Roundabout in the Faroe Islands(bbc.com)
156 points by lqet 6y ago|53 comments
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by lqet 6y ago
> occasionally flirting with a fellow resident. Most of them do. Unfortunately, we also had some men in late-stage dementia who were pretty obvious about their sexual interests. Needless to say, this often caused problems with female res
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by lqet 6y ago
None of the patients I came in contact with over one year (around 20) had any pain. Physically, they were all surprisingly healthy.
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by lqet 6y ago
> good articulation of the circumstances where I would rather die than continue living. I did my alternative civilian service in a nursing home for people with dementia when I was 19. I have noticed 6 stages: 1) Fear that something is wr
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by lqet 6y ago
> There were Christmas gifts that made no sense Not an early onset case, of course, but I remember receiving the exact same Christmas gift from my grandmother two times in a row. Each time she seemed delighted about the gift idea. Everyb
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by lqet 6y ago
This was the controversial section in the retracted article in "Angewandte Chemie" which was given as an example: > In the last two decades many groups and/or individuals have been designated with "preferential status
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by lqet 6y ago
Those were great. I hung around a forum around 2004 where someone posted a link to jeans he just bought from a smallish online store - the URL contained the PHP session identifier. Thousands of people had instant access to his address + ban
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by lqet 6y ago
Indeed. I have read somewhere that until the 19th century, that moment was often months after birth. It was common to give the newborn away to a nurse if you could afford it until it had survived the first year, and only then accept it as
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by lqet 6y ago
> "is it ethical to bring into the world ... " That's the complicated part - when does "bring into the world" begin? For the parents (at least that is how we felt), this moment is often much, much closer to conce
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by lqet 6y ago
> I think it might be because I don’t want to be standing and moving around when playing a game and if you’re not doing that, the motion is kind of unpleasant. Could this be because of the missing resistance while moving / throwing
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by lqet 6y ago
> Because Gmail is sending a permanent failure, our mail servers will not automatically retry sending these messages (this is standard practice at all email services for handling permanent failures). I fear that this will lead to many lo
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by lqet 6y ago
As a student, when I ate nothing else during the day, my standard amount for dinner was 125g (so you get 4 meals out of a standard package). When combined with vegetables, it is more than enough.
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by lqet 6y ago
Purely anecdotal and unscientific, but a few years ago I watched a documentary in which a TV team followed identical twins. One of them only ate pasta-based meals for a month, the other only ate potato-based meals (if I remember correctly,
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by lqet 6y ago
Extremely fascinating, thank you!
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by lqet 6y ago
According to Patrick Süskind, 18th century Paris smelled like this: > [...] a stench barely conceivable to us modern men and women. The streets stank of manure, the courtyards of urine, the stairwells stank of mouldering wood and rat dro
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by lqet 6y ago
Interesting, but missing words and strange/missing punctuation make this a bit hard to read.
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by lqet 6y ago
I think his letters should always be taken with a grain of salt. He was probably just building his own myth, the article discusses that: > As with most Zodiac writings, it sounds more like myth-building than sincerely held beliefs. Zodia
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by lqet 6y ago
This one is also nice: https://www.google.com/search?q=festivus
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by lqet 6y ago
This is especially frustrating if you consider that Google's own benchmark tool Lighthouse constantly gives you MOTDs like "Company X increased their revenue Y dollars per 100 ms page load speedup." I am on mobile; what are t
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by lqet 6y ago
> This allows constructing pipelines that read from and write to the same file. TIL, how did I not know about sponge before?
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by lqet 6y ago
> For example, this is a valid JSON and web page This is a nice project, but it isn't valid HTML. https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Fwebdatarender...
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by lqet 6y ago
Also an interesting fact: The Swiss packed all bridges connecting Switzerland to Germany with tons of explosives until just recently. The wooden bridge [0] connecting Bad Säckingen with Stein contained hundreds of kilo of TNT until 2015. [0
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by lqet 6y ago
> The math explanation could fill an article itself. If you are interested in how exactly he did it, here is a more detailed description: https://math.berkeley.edu/~kpmann/ellenberg.pdf
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by lqet 6y ago
I am hesitating to ask, but would you mind sharing the code?
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by lqet 6y ago
Ha, I will give this a try. My current setup: I have a Browni portable TV [0] from the 1960ies in my home office (20 EUR on Ebay 13 years ago, still working perfectly), hooked on a composite to coaxial adapter, hooked on a HDMI to composite
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by lqet 6y ago
> Religion is a touchy subject. Oddly enough, as I have come to discover in these pages, so is Apple. This has also been my experience. I know people with whom I just avoid talking about Apple. Personally I just accept that Apple is thei
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by lqet 6y ago
Would use it. I have read too many descriptions of the final moments of Lion Air 610 to ever board a 737 Max again.

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