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by nisse72 7y ago
> all you can usually find online are snippets I haven't looked too closely, but what's this then: https://120minutes.tylerc.com/
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by nisse72 7y ago
How to ruin a great hobby: make it your job.
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by nisse72 7y ago
My manager sits on one at work. He also rolls it around the office as he goes to meetings, etc. Nobody thinks he's acting weird, and recently I saw that someone else had brought one in.
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by nisse72 8y ago
And packet collisions are not unusual. But then you simply wait a short time, and try again.
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by nisse72 8y ago
up to 10 square acres I cannot fathom this 4 dimensional unit!
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by nisse72 8y ago
Absolute classic, I came here to post that very thing. But those people wouldn't really take a swipe at Bambi or Thumper, she says.
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by nisse72 8y ago
Like Pinochet? Supported by the US while he tortured the chileans who opposed him?
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by nisse72 8y ago
We don't pay the mental tax of always ensuring i have dollar bills on me to tip left, right, and center. That has never been necessary in Sweden, or (AFAIK) most other places. I have never known anyone outside of the US who carries c
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by nisse72 8y ago
Based on the footnote I'm fairly certain it was Ellemtel, a joint venture between Ericsson and Televerket (the Swedish national telecom before it was privatised), and the project was AXE-N: The AXE-N venture was to be the most expensi
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by nisse72 8y ago
Auckland has one too, over one of the country's busiest motorway junctions: https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/86702560/Aucklands-hot-pink... However we are also looking forward to a new cycleway alongside the
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by nisse72 8y ago
To get the free coffee, university students must [...] Funny, the definition of "free" seems to have changed. It may be that no money changes hands, but the coffee is certainly not free.
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by nisse72 8y ago
In New Zealand, EFTPOS costs the retailer a fraction of what credit card transactions do. When you swipe/insert your debit card, it goes through the EFTPOS system. But when you use the same card contactlessly, payment is processed by t
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by nisse72 8y ago
Here's a particularly dramtic asperitas cloud, from NASA's astronomy picture of the day: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130227.html
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by nisse72 8y ago
New Zealand: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1HDtmvU4XemdY0bDLDf...
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by nisse72 8y ago
Not ferrying per se, but an interesting story of flying a Boeing 314 from Auckland to New York "the long way round" in December 1941, just after the Pearl Harbour attacks, with the challenges of refueling and avoiding the war, and
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by nisse72 8y ago
Haha I read the article but didn't actually remember the subway woman's name until I googled for the story.
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by nisse72 8y ago
I'm reminded of Lenore Skenazy who in 2008 let her 9 year old son ride the NY subway alone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenore_Skenazy
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by nisse72 8y ago
In Swedish as well. The fruit is apelsin. The colour is traditionally brandgul (fire yellow) but orange (pronounced like in french?) is not uncommon.
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by nisse72 8y ago
Are you also annoyed by Under Armour?
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by nisse72 8y ago
I found the story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Knight_(filmmaker) http://www.dmlp.org/threats/viacom-v-knight
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by nisse72 8y ago
About 10 years ago there was a widely publicized case of a small town policitician in the US, who had posted a nutty campaign video to his own website, and which later got picked up by a TV program (like AFV or somesuch). He thought it was
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by nisse72 9y ago
Etymology is your friend here: Libel has roots in the latin for "document". Think of "library".
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by nisse72 9y ago
When I studied computer science in Uppsala ~ 25 years ago I remember a number of textbooks (in particular, from Pagina) that used Swedish words for absolutely everything ("betjänt" (server) comes to mind, I can't think of oth
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by nisse72 9y ago
Well I don't claim to be an expert, but I've read elsewhere that there are a lot of different qualities of sand, and that desert sand is not (as) useful as building material due to its shape and structure. https://www.q
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by nisse72 9y ago
> concrete Actually we have been depleting the planets sand resources for a good while now, and could be facing a "sand crisis" in the not distant future, largely thanks to concrete: https://www.smithsonianmag.com&#x
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by nisse72 9y ago
He tells the story of his ordeal in an article in the NZ Herald in 2006: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objecti... It was also made into an episode of "I shouldn't be alive&quot
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by nisse72 9y ago
Bees provide a service to society, not just to the bee keeper. Why shouldn't society help offset some of the beekeeper's risk?
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by nisse72 9y ago
Here's what it looked like just 44 years before the olympics: https://www.tranbc.ca/2015/09/10/bc-road-trip-time-machine-h...
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by nisse72 9y ago
Solution: become a debt collector, and buy your own debt!
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by nisse72 9y ago
No more having to glance at the clock on the wall (or the stove, or the microwave, or whatever) and mentally noting "in 20 minutes, it will be half-past".

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