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by nisse72 13y ago
"Normal" according to who? :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septemvigesimal And then there's Danish...
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Long and short scales(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by nisse72 13y ago|0 comments
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by nisse72 13y ago
With a system like that, the intersection itself would be capable of logging the passing of every vehicle: time, direction, speed. There is no escape.
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by nisse72 13y ago
Hm, if I were to pirate your software, I'd much rather direct any support requests to you than deal with them myself. As long as I get the app store revenue, that's all that matters. Don't you think that's all they care
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by nisse72 13y ago
Sometimes, the only way out is through!
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by nisse72 13y ago
Interesting comparison, considering it was with help from the USA that Pinochet got into power after that "other" September 11. Sad perhaps, but maybe not entirely unexpected.
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by nisse72 13y ago
I get the point he is trying to make, but my problem with this argument is that it seems to be based on an idea that the default is that a thing is illegal until a law explicitly allows it, which is contrary to the way I've always unde
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by nisse72 13y ago
One of my cats has actually done this a couple of times. He walks along the ledge around the bathtub and squeezes past the shower handle, forcing it away from the wall and turning on the water. It's a problem that seems to have solved itsel
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by nisse72 13y ago
http://johnpilger.com/videos/the-war-on-democracy
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by nisse72 13y ago
Google Analytics is like loyalty cards for the web: they track user behaviour for the benefit of the service provider, not the consumer. But a "real" loyalty card at least pretends to serve the user by offering an occasional special deal or
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by nisse72 13y ago
And presumably, there are nearly 10 times as many taxpayers in the US to fund such a system. Why do the absolute numbers matter? In fact, shouldn't there be better economies of scale in the larger country?
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by nisse72 14y ago
I'd guess SICStus: http://sicstus.sics.se/
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by nisse72 14y ago
I like the idea, but the entries in the citizenship dropdown seem to be "not quite" sorted. Some examples of out-of-order entries: Ivorian (between Costa Rican and Croatian), Salvadorian (between Egyptian and Equatorial Guinean), Burmese
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by nisse72 14y ago
NZ post is introducing a similar service, currently on a trial basis: http://www.nzpost.co.nz/products-services/online-shopping/pa...
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by nisse72 14y ago
We have a cafe style coffee grinder (next to our manual espresso machine) that has two hoppers: one for the beans, and one where the ground beans end up, from which you dispense into the porta filter. I am guilty of filling the wrong hopper
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by nisse72 14y ago
"His" home, the one in Coatesville, is actually a rental. I don't doubt that he could afford to own it, but he was prevented from buying it by the NZ overseas investment commission.
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by nisse72 14y ago
Back in the early 80's I became the owner of an IBM light pen, IIRC salvaged from a 3270 terminal. By replacing the connector, I managed to get it to work with the CGA card in my IBM PC, which had a light pen connector and a couple of suppo
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by nisse72 14y ago
> pretty corrupt Based on those two examples? According to this: http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2012/results/ ...4 nordic countries place in the top 7. Sweden is nr 4. The US is nr 19.
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by nisse72 14y ago
At least in the case of Megaupload, that remains to be seen.
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High Court rules Dotcom can pursue case against police and GCSB(nzherald.co.nz)
3 points by nisse72 14y ago|0 comments
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by nisse72 14y ago
Learned something today: Macy's has an "official confetti".
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by nisse72 14y ago
> Why is nobody using the ISO format for dates? Sweden uses it. In informal situations you often see d/m but whenever a year is present it's always y-m-d. In fact people identify themselves using this format as part of the national ID
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by nisse72 14y ago
This reminds me of the old guy in Ghost World who waits for the bus that doesn't run anymore, until it picks him up at the end of the film.
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by nisse72 14y ago
Germany and Europe Hmm...
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by nisse72 14y ago
If waffles cost $450, then $1000/hr wouldn't seem so unreasonable. Oh wait...
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by nisse72 14y ago
Something else they often do is say something like "I'm thinking it's B, but I'm not sure so I'll ask the audience". Well guess what the audience guesses after hearing that?
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by nisse72 14y ago
> It's enhanced dramatically by it. Not everyone would agree with your assessment. Case in point: http://blog.fogcreek.com/why-do-we-pay-sales-commissions/
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by nisse72 15y ago
Here's another take on that, a scale model of the solar system that stretches across much of Sweden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Solar_System The sun is 110 m in diameter ("including corona" they say). A 65 cm Earth is 7.6 km away
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by nisse72 15y ago
You mean like this? http://www.gizmag.com/bumpfree-dynamic-speedbump-gives-you-a...
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by nisse72 15y ago
"While animals get rid of excess heat by panting, they can’t pant when they gallop" Why can't animals pant and gallop at the same time?

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