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miniwark
4y ago
Japan would do better against "Hikikomori syndrome" by changing the studding environment culture of their school: bulling against the non-normative people (with closed eyes from the school), super competitive studies, almost manda
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4y ago
Emmaüs also refurbish a lot of used computers, so they maintain a dedicated low specs linux distribution just for this: https://emmabuntus.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmabunt%C3%BCs
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4y ago
Then i need to drop Andrey Vinogradov here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvNZeh6f8vE
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4y ago
I do not agree. Actual 'nuclear' (Uranium fission based) is a proved environmental risk: - Chernobyl, Fukushima Daiichi (INES level 7) are not some sort of small environmental incidents - Kyshtym, First Chalk River, Sellafield (19
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4y ago
1/4 serious reply: except than you can probably heat the house the same with less energy, or put you money in thermal insolation. All in all agree than BTC will adjust is difficulty with long term economics, and so, it will not be quic
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4y ago
There is also the Black Tom explosion by German spy in 1917 how have badly damaged the right arm because of the earthquake it had created. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Tom_explosion
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4y ago
There seems to be a non-playable small one on the right, the image with the mascot bird and text.
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4y ago
They have many disadvantages compared to planes, like they are slower, can't take a lot of passengers and need special infrastructures. But there is a niche for advertisement, aerial photography, observation platforms, heavy weight tra
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4y ago
Indeed, when comparing trains to airplanes, the time necessary to get from the city to the airport and the security checks & boarding time are generally forgotten (repeat at arrival). It's generally around 1 to 3 hours for a single
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4y ago
The price is not know yet, but this Paris-Rome line look like a luxury train, a bit like the Riviera Express line (Nice-Moscow), the Paris-Moscou Express (both on hold since 2020) or the classic Venise-Simplon-Orient-Express. None of them a
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4y ago
I think than some two of the prerequisites are the real problem : * Great cameras * Stock Android OS There are plenty of recent small smartphones with a display under 6". But most of them use Android Go and a not-great camera. I have r
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4y ago
I have done it a lot for around a year, but i think than the block list is very limited, because after a will the same "blocked" channels come back again in the list. I have now stopped to use this fake feature. I am sure of it be
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4y ago
Well, they know beforehand than they are evaluated for an interview... It's a bit like psychological or sociological studies. All the time, for ethics reasons, the researchers must tell the subjects than they are part of a psychologica
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4y ago
- prototyping on a virtual breadboard - quick and dirty Arduino / Adafruit / SeedStudio boards based projects - first time software for electronic learners or in a classroom The breadboard view is the selling point of Fritzing. Ki
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4y ago
- ask my location - ask for cookies but do not allow full refusal (i am in Europe) - can even get and keep my photo if i use a Huawei phone ?
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5y ago
There are smaller dumbphones than the Nokia 6300. For example the Nokia 2720 Flip is smaller wile closed. The Punkt MP02 phone is also a bit smaller. There are also credit card sized dumb phones like the LightPhone (pricey), the Kyocera KY-
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5y ago
Unfortunately this has effectively happened in the past. Artwork destroyed, not by the thief itself but by the mothers. By Artwork i mean Brueghel the Younger, Matisse, Monet, Picasso & Watteau. It was the case with Stéphane Breitweiser
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5y ago
SiFive did had one in the past (HiFive Unleashed). They still offer an Arduino like board for $59. See: https://www.sifive.com/boards/hifive1-rev-b The more RPi like one actually available, seems to be the Nezha, avail
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Enchiridion of Epictetus (and other Stoicism works like Marcus Aurelus Meditations). I myself prefer the epicurism point of view, but this book learn you mainly than there is not point to be to much emotional on the many things in life than
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5y ago
Some comment have given a somewhat correct reply: Some of the maid where indeed expected to also do "night duties" if asked. It was not a racial power stuff. It's was more a problem with a sort of "cultural prostitution&
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I have heard of the same in Ethiopia around the 90's. For white worker it was expected to: - rent a house - hire a house guardian - hire at last one maid - hire a chauffeur if you own a car It was also recommended than they come form t
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It's only partly true, many people indeed have a Minitel at home, because it was free to have one (like it was free to have a landline phone). You only had to pay for the usage. And there was great services not yet available on WWW : f
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We do have the horse one in french : "J'en parlerais à mon cheval". It's generaly used to reply to someone questioning, nagging or bulling you, to face slapping him a bit. I'ts a sort of self-defence tactic and can
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Well it's probably a good idea. man had for years a "gimme gimme gimme" (a man after midnight) in the past. A fun Easter Egg but... See : https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/why-does-man.
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This paper tell, one more time than the actual French constitution is monarchic in spirit, with an "elected king". But historically, this constitution is far more inspired by the two empires regimes than the french monarchies. - T
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I had the chance to stay for a couple of days in Leipzig, in 1990 just a few month after reunification : 1) The city was 100% Steampunk ! There where steam heat pipes everywhere along and over the streets. Those pipes where the main source
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Mainly because both Americas where inhabited way before the pacific islands. For example Easter Island is estimated to have been inhabited around 300 to 1200 CE. This is also confirmed by genetics, with an origin of the Amerindians located
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5y ago
https://freemusicarchive.org/ https://www.jamendo.com/ https://cchound.com/ http://ccmixter.org/ And probably many more
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6y ago
According to Fayçal Ziraoui, the transcription would be "KAYR". http://www.zodiackillersite.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=5216