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by manarth 10y ago
my understanding is that they are generally granted in limited numbers to politically powerful entities Taxi licenses would comply …if they were freely available to anyone who met the safety and service criteria In the UK, that&#
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by manarth 10y ago
But when "the ends justify the means"?
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The Académie française predates the Office québécois de la langue française by over 300 years. That discussion has been going for a long time.
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I think of Singapore Airport. Which - being an airport - is about as transient as you can possibly get. No community, no common culture, no (historical) shared experiences…just a brief fleeting visit in the present moment, on your w
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by manarth 10y ago
And ferry.
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"I feel this journalist is trying to hurt the Uber brand more than reporting the facts" "Brazil has a very high crime rate." "If you consider the crime problem in Brazil, Uber is quite irrelevant on all o
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by manarth 10y ago
Totally irrelevant, but (assuming you don't have a tame vampire) I'm amused that "bloodsugar" gets autocorrected to "bloodsucker" :-D
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by manarth 10y ago
not having a bite for a few days or even a week won't be the cause Unless you're diabetic. Although in that case you were probably already dead.
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by manarth 10y ago
Apologies, I didn't explain my response very well. You're totally right to say that in the context of TZSET, to load the timezone specification from a TZ-formatted file it needs to be prefixed with ':'. Rather than sayin
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by manarth 10y ago
TZs should be defined in the form "Europe/London", "Asia/Beirut", "Pacific/Auckland", etc. Although the hour offset can change at extremely short notice (e.g. discontinuing Daylight Savings durin
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by manarth 10y ago
How about a shield UNDER Chernobyl? They recognised the issue right away. Firstly, the bubbler pool was emptied of water (there was fear that if the core reached the water, it would cause a steam explosion). They started using liqui
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is that the same as the time when an abort sequence was initiated? You can watch it on SpaceX' video - the instruction 'hold hold hold" is given at T-00:00:15, the clock freezes a couple seconds later, and shortly aft
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by manarth 10y ago
When was the shield moved over Chernobyl? November 2016, although the side walls won't be up until August this year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_New_Safe_Confinement
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The '10,000 times' is a quote from the CRIIRAD PDF: "It detected the fallout from Fukushima which was about 10,000 times higher than those measured in January 2017 on France." Il a permis de détecter les retombées
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NASA provided a live video of the launch prep. Maybe an hour before the launch, the commentator discussed two issues, and said that for both of those issues, they would make a call on it at T-1 minute. Later on, the video showed SpaceX laun
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by manarth 10y ago
The Day After Tomorrow shows Mexico offering refuge to the USA. Shame someone's building a massive wall the length of the border…
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uBeam's USP was charging via ultrasound, rather than wireless charging per-se.
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the major war prior to the Falklands was Vietnam, and the British didn't help out in that one Technically, that war was between North Vietnam and South Vietnam, not against America, which means there was no NATO obligation to j
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by manarth 10y ago
is being a generalist considered a bad thing? I would argue that having a general knowledge of the related fields is a very positive thing. That said, if the knowledge is at a fairly basic level, it'd be hard to find much more
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by manarth 10y ago
Red flag - Misuse of css classes. <span class="star">*</span> I'd also ask if that markup was necessary. Is it to represent a bullet? If so, that's already implied in the markup by the use of
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Which I wouldn't consider rich Perhaps this is a sign of the severity of income and wealth inequality: that even having more income than 95% of the country isn't enough to be considered 'rich'.
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Outflow rates should have an associated catastrophic failure probability estimate The emergency spillway was originally rated for 350,000 cfs (cubic feet per second), but when it came into use, the erosion started causing a risk of
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by manarth 10y ago
Wouldn't the token-finding script be even more of a risk? If the token is XYZ and the script is searching https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=XYZ&type=Commits&... : 1. It's sharing the token with
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I vaguely remember having a rock with some sort of purple crystal formation, probably bought from the gift shop of a show cave, but I've never come across that as a hobby before. I guess I never really thought it through - they have to
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It's an accessibility thing. If I designed a new web system that blocked off 10% of the populous, for whatever reason (deaf,blind, not able bodied), then people would call me out on it. Rightly so, because that's a con
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there is literally ZERO reasons that camera needs to say GoPro, Nikon, Garmin, or Sony when the Chinese version will do the same for a fraction of the cost. Brand and trust still have a big factor in consumer sales. Price is also
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sitting inside of a highly dangerous mine while trying to extract 20+ pound chunks of fluorite Tangential aside - is this a thing? A hobby? Research? Paid employment? I'm aware of things like caving, exploring mines, and amateu
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A programmer working on something like the OPERA neutrino experiment would need to account for those factors [1]. GPS devices also have to account for relativity [2], so programmers working on those also have to factor that into the logic.
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The damage to the main spillway was "first reported" on 6 February [1] (although it could have existed for longer and gone unnoticed). They had to leave the spillway in use because of the amount of inflow, but on Friday they reduc
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by manarth 10y ago
There were concerns about the emergency spillway 12 years ago, but the request (to pave the emergency spillway with concrete) was rejected [1]. It was supposedly designed to handle 350,000 cubic feet per second, but began to fail at around

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