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by pouetpouet 9y ago
I had trouble understanding what's more impressive 18000 feet or 2 miles. 5,4km vs the titanic 3,8km deep
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by pouetpouet 9y ago
some cities experiment with dynamic parking pricing http://sfpark.org/how-it-works/pricing/
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by pouetpouet 9y ago
Ancient Rome grew beyond 1 million inhabitants in the 2d century. Chang'an (Xi'an), China in the 8th century, Bagdad around the 10th century. There were big cities before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of
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by pouetpouet 9y ago
Appart from the the ground floor (for business), it wasn't until the invention of elevators that the top floors were made prestige floors. The bel étage or piano nobile [1] was the first floor above ground level (for relative privacy f
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by pouetpouet 9y ago
The Nerja Aqueduct was built in the 19th century. But yes roman aqueducts were impressive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pont_du_Gard was 48.8m high (160feet).
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by pouetpouet 9y ago
it's because they don't have docking stations and failed to integrate GPS on the bikes to locate them. Also the many copycats mean that all of the sudden there was just too many bikes from many concurrent companies for the market
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by pouetpouet 9y ago
Exactly, as soon as you pay per km and time, you make a choice for each trip about which is the best tool for the job.
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by pouetpouet 9y ago
which episode?
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by pouetpouet 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_drink#Definitions_in_... The UK unit is 10mL or about 8g, French unit is 10g, American standard drink is 14g.
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by pouetpouet 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_drink#Definitions_in_... The standard varies by countries. The UK unit is 8g, the australian and french units are 10g, the american and german units are 14g.
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by pouetpouet 9y ago
Draught beer is served in 25cL in France. But the alcool unit is not defined as in the UK. 1 unit is 10g of ethanol, not 10mL, so I don't know about a European standard. Alcool has a density of 0.789, so about 12.7mL. So just over 5% a
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by pouetpouet 9y ago
This can help to read the map http://www.euratlas.net/cartogra/peutinger/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Extends_of_the_Tabul...
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by pouetpouet 9y ago
The US emit more than double per capita.
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by pouetpouet 9y ago
China+EU have grounds to put tariffs on US products.
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by pouetpouet 9y ago
just fully remove the background video. I have a powerfull desktop and a good internet connection, it feels really sluggish. I just disabled autoplay (disable autoplay extension for chrome, media.autoplay in about:config for firefox). What
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by pouetpouet 10y ago
Attendance: 3.5 million! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_concerts
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by pouetpouet 10y ago
damned if you do, damned if you don't. Want/have to move into ig cities for work->you want to live bourgeois style city center. want to stay in the boonies for cheap housing/nature/lifestyle-> you think you are ent
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by pouetpouet 10y ago
Heard it as "Water make iron stomachs rust". Usually everyday beer as a replacement of water was smallbeer/bière de table with 2-3% alcohol.
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by pouetpouet 10y ago
it's really popular in some European countries. For passengers it's an alternative to trains or bus coaches. It's used for intercity travel, not a taxi replacement. Also it's ride sharing, drivers are not professionals a
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by pouetpouet 10y ago
because if you make a profit you need a professional insurance and or a taxi license. blablacar is a carpool service where the driver is not professional. You use it to recoup fuel costs and tolls. Other justifications are: having company,
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by pouetpouet 10y ago
walking helps too
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by pouetpouet 10y ago
Nextbike a german company offers station less bikeshare, or at least a hybrid model, dockless within a central area and with stations outside. http://www.nextbike.de/en/locations/ zoom in on "red" locati
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by pouetpouet 10y ago
OVH competes well on price. Ikoula has great perf. Gandi also has some offers. Aruba cloud also.
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by pouetpouet 10y ago
An abjad is an alphabet of consonants eg Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac. Cyrillic alphabets have vowels.
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by pouetpouet 10y ago
Not really. France has a ridiculous thing called taxe d'habitation. Which means that unhabited dwellings are less taxed than inhabited ones. The tax on unhabited dwelling units in Paris can just help to recover a part of the unperceive
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by pouetpouet 10y ago
and never will. And there we will never have perfect information either.
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by pouetpouet 10y ago
Also no rebar, so it means big arches, massive vaulted ceilings, domes etc...
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by pouetpouet 10y ago
Baltic Dry Index is for dry bulk not containers.
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by pouetpouet 10y ago
http://www.alphaliner.com/top100/index.php Hanjin represents 2.9% of the world fleet
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by pouetpouet 10y ago
standard in France and Germany too. I don't think cashiers usually stand anywhere.

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