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Incident page: https://www.paypal-status.com/incident/production
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PayPal down for customers worldwide as thousands report issues(bbc.com)
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> I find bikelanes that are integrated with sidewalks incredibly dangerous and give a false sense of safety. As a cyclist, I also hate them. In my experience, what is even more dangerous than small children is dogs. Even if they are on a
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> We have a long way to go for most of North America to become friendly to cyclists. Also for pedestrians, in my experience. When I first visited the US 10 years ago, I wanted to leave the hotel to get to a nearby public transit stop to
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At least where I live, such a type of intersection is used when a residential street branches off a large main road. You do not have a high volume of traffic going into this residential street, and "waiting for a crossing cyclist"
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I agree, the bike infrastructure in Paris is now quite good. If only cyclists in Paris would start to stop at red lights, especially at pedestrian crossings (this is a problem everywhere, of course, but in Paris it seems to be particularly
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> My parents told me later that they secretly followed me the first few times (I never noticed). Ha, not in the Netherlands, but we started doing exactly the same with our 5-year old recently. She wanted to walk to a friend's house
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> Bike lanes are everywhere in most big cities in France too... But they're bad, very bad. We once cycled from Germany to Colmar in France. Cycling through Colmar is indeed a scary experience, especially if you have a trailer with a
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Why on earth doesn't the top answer have more upvotes. Impressive research, with full background, alternative pictures and an original picture of the panzer falling into the river .
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Kind of off-topic, but one thing that really confuses me about Shannon's biography is the following: according to the authors of "A Mind at Play", Shannon was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1983 [0], and the illne
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> Quite the contrary, their job is far more important to society than mine. Non-american here, but I feel pretty much the same way. I also do niche research in computer science. People working in the supermarket, people driving trains an
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One of them reportedly declined to take part because of his "crimes against women".
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I strongly recommend the documentary. But "a little off" is an understatement. By the time of the documentary, his highly intelligent brother Charles is still living with his amphetamine-addicted mother in his late 40ies and rarel
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> I've never kept any laptop as long as I've kept the M1. I still have a running Thinkpad R60 from 2007, a running Thinkpad T510 from 2012, and a modified running Thinkpad X61 (which I re-built as an X62 using the kit from 51nb
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Cormac McCarthy seemed to be quite content with his life.
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> A resident of Nagasaki, Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on business for his employer Mitsubishi Heavy Industries when the city was bombed at 8:15 AM, on 6 August 1945. He returned to Nagasaki the following day and, despite his wounds, retur
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Reading the complete Sherlock Holmes stories a few months ago, I also noticed how casually the frequent use of cocaine by Holmes is mentioned as a small vice, a recreational drug that is also "chemically clean", so nothing to worr
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> If you didn't know any better, you would expect almost all normal users to have [2] and professional engineers to have something like [1], but it's actually the inverse: only few professional software engineers can "affo
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Interesting, what exactly does the Decimator do? (Side note: I don't think it is a particularly clever idea of Decimator Design to fill their logo and homepage with images of large spiders. They are effectively eliminating around 10% o
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Ah, Frau Antje [0], still shaping the image most Germans have of the Dutch. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frau_Antje
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A 2018 paper by the same authors [0] (referenced in this work) references an earlier blog post by the transitapp people on Medium, but the link is no longer working. > One approach that seems to use a model similar to ours was described
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It was a graph drawing problem, solved on a single 16 core machine with around 64 GB of RAM.
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> “In practice they are very efficient. They solve industrial-scale problems all the time,” sometimes with tens of thousands of variables. Although the number of variables or constraints is not a good measure of the hardness of an ILP, &
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I think the philosopher who had the most influence on Einstein (and on other physicists of the early 20th century) was Arthur Schopenhauer: > Schopenhauer was well read by physicists, most notably Einstein, Schrödinger, Wolfgang Pauli, a
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To put this a bit into perspective: long-distance trains in Germany typically travel for at least half a day. "Long-distance" trains in Switzerland can be compared to regional lines in Germany (the country simply isn't that l
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Just compare the colored rings (green = on time, orange = delayed more than 3 minutes, red = delayed more than 9 minutes) between the trains in Germany, Switzerland, and France here to get a general feeling of how bad things have become wit
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> Parasitism is far from easy living; hundreds of millions of years of evolution have prodded parasites to find and manipulate other animals, just as those animals have evolved their own unique methods of survival. Parasites manipulating
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As with most things, this doesn't have to be a binary decision "drinking vs not drinking". I consciously decided to drink very little at social events some years ago. A glass of wine is enough to stop any social anxiety, you
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Wow, these mice were a lot faster than I expected. In the last part of the video, they talk about fans in the mouse that suck the mouse to the ground to prevent slipping.
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If this person simultaneously fucks up millions of kitchens around the world, you do not blame that person. You blame the checklist which encouraged giving a single person global interlocked control over millions of kitchens, without any co

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