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by matt4077 8y ago
How would this work? You cannot know the exact flow of text on each and every platform, so you would end up just manually specifying every possible hyphenation. That would seem to be a lot of work to create something that's almost defi
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Almost all screens are far too wide for a single column of text. Most publishers with long-form text currently opt for a fixed maximum width. Considering the magazine standard is and has long been columns, it's not implausible to consi
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Overcoming our nature, in which life is famously solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short, is sort of the defining feature of humanity. The sum of everything that is not nature is referred to as "culture". It includes democracy,
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Having had the same sort of thought, I believe what I was reacting to was the feeling that this idea seemed just slightly too convenient to be the result of entirely open-ended inquiry. But then again I have seen the terrible devastation th
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A less cynical interpretation would be that democracy is still working somewhat well, even in Poland.
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Just look at homicides. A dead body is somewhat impossible to hide from the statistics. Then, overlay that data with any other category of crime. Here's a google image search: https://www.google.com/search?q=murder+assa
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I love how there's always someone citing some future reactor design in response to criticism. Of course it's different future designs for each specific argument against nuclear technology. For thorium, the wikipedia page lists 22
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Two quotes from the article contradicting your outdated talking point: > “The battery pipeline has grown exponentially,” Dixon says > Other projects include the 4GW Walcha project in NSW, proposed by Energy Estate and Mirus Wind, whic
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by matt4077 8y ago
The morality of such choices is complicated. Airbags and, to a lesser degree, ABS definitely add substantial costs to cars. So it wasn't entirely unreasonable to ask customers for extra money. Yet subsequently, as they became cheaper a
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I seem to remember reading about an incident recently where pilots noticed divergent sensor reading and aborted take-off. It would seem that AoA disagreement would be the very first symptom of the failure that lead to these crashes. Since p
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I believe the Article 13 protests have so far been a very good demonstration of the mechanisms of democracy still working quite well. Even though only a rather small minority of citizen has any interest in the topic, they have been effectiv
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No, these airlines do not have bad safety records, unless you go back into ancient history. They are licensed to fly anywhere in the world. Their safety rating is better than easyjet, Ryanair, Spirit, and Southwest: https://www.a
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I was using economic activity (i. e. revenue) in the EU , not worldwide. A company not operating in the EU shouldn't be fined, obviously.
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Isn't it beautiful that there is a meaning of "benign" that does actually apply to these emails?
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No, of course not. Intact cells have a really hard time getting into the bloodstream. If they do (say, from handling it with an open wound) the immune system might complain about being bored by such an easy challenge. Cancers can theoretica
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sitemaps easily run into the gigabytes for larger sites. I just checked https://www.nytimes.com/sitemaps/www.nytimes.com/sitemap.xml... and it contains 2000 urls of individual weekly sitemaps of 1 or 2MB each. And
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The only time I ever noticed a difference in input lag was when I had to fumble my way through the UEFI console. I had no idea what I was doing, but the speed was eerie.
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One of the measures is a public archive of all ads in these categories and their targeting. That allows third parties to analyse ads for any remaining bias.
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? HSBC is a British bank. Yet, skimming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSBC#Controversies it appears almost all investigations and fines were the result of SEC and other US investigations.
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It would need to be stronger than EU member states' influence, which seems unlikely. I also don't remember ever hearing of even attempts to exert influence on these investigations. Note that such agency actions are firewalled fr
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"It will also take three new steps to prevent advertisers from engaging in unlawful discrimination around employment, housing, and credit ads on Facebook. [..] As part of this process, Facebook is further cutting the number of options
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A good faith interpretation would be that the US has the most advanced system for financial regulation, while the EU is better (or emphasises) antitrust and privacy regulation. Both seem to perfectly consistent with New York being the world
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around $70 p. a. IIRC.
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That happens to most fines, everywhere. In case this is in accusation of corrupt practices aimed to increase the EU budget, note: - Fines account for <5% of the EU's budget - The EU budget is relatively small compared to national go
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How would it even be possible for US pilots to sustainably have „much higher levels of experience“? Do non-US pilots fly only two days a week? Do they all die before age 40? This stereotype of dingy third-world airlines with incompetent, un
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Who Still Buys Wite-Out, and Why?(theatlantic.com)
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It's not necessarily terrible. Boeing obviously has a strong financial interest in safety. The Fight Club theory of managing an acceptable number of fatal mistakes really doesn't hold for the airline industry, because their fail
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The strong correlation between more automation and increased flight safety over the last few decades should be strong prior for continuing to increase it, current events non-withstanding. After all, since 1970 airline travel has increase 10
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„No one owns the oceans“ = commons
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> The regulators can (and do) take enforcement action against government bodies. I did not dispute this. I merely said enforcement is usually not accomplished via fines when targeted against government bodies, because those are inherentl

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