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by ptaipale 7y ago
Are you also familiar with The Men from the Ministry ? Written by Edward Taylor and John Graham. For some reason, it also made a successful radio show in South Africa, Finland and Sweden. The latter two are translations (but set in UK lik
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by ptaipale 7y ago
There's a point about fuel consumption when travelling downstream though: you can't just switch off your engine and drift downstream, because you'll run aground fairly soon. The ship needs steering, and steering needs engine
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Or relative to time (litres or kilograms per hour).
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by ptaipale 7y ago
And misunderstandings like this can be awkward, but sometimes they also lead to very good discussions. When someone says "How are you?", I simply have it difficult to just say "very well thank you", if I'm just anti
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by ptaipale 7y ago
I seem to recall a Not-nine-o'clock-news episode where truckers were smashing C5's. This was after an episode where they smashed hedgehogs (naturally angering many). The hedgehog thing is easily found on Youtube, but did I just im
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Tend to agree with you. Context is important. If I hear something that amounts to "you idiot, get the schmonck out of my way", I'll understand even if I have no idea what "schmonck" really is.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
At least here in Finland, the cameras take pictures of speeding motorcycles, but they are not used. No front license plate.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
This may be true in US aviation industry (regulation is too weak) but certainly not applicable for supporting a blanket statement like "Deregulation never seems to result in more competition" above. Deregulation is often a key to
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by ptaipale 7y ago
No. That link does not say so. Biometric passport data is collected by national goverments, not EU.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
You claim the data does exist - but where did it come from? There has been no program to forcibly collect fingerprints of all EU citizens. There is some biometric data collected for Schengen passports, but not even close to all people even
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by ptaipale 7y ago
No. That is not what I wrote, nor is it what I implied. I simply mean that the claim about fingerprints of 350 M EU citizens copied cannot be true.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
>"will aggregate" This was an announced intention in April this year. The implementation of this decision probably needs further approvals and ratifications, and even after that, it takes time. The source material does not even
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by ptaipale 7y ago
> "I was able to ask my PhD college, and several other institutions, to see all emails in which my name appeared ..." How are different people with the same name distinguished in these cases? Name might be (almost) unambiguous
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by ptaipale 7y ago
A company can reform, however. At least: if you bring up the leopard as an example of animal having spots, be prepared to document it has them.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Well, that's a 7-year-old article about past wrongdoings, so it's hardly a very relevant method just now.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
How is that (HSBC) relevant? The KYC requirement is still there.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Publishing it like this will make them more likely to be aware of it. They may not read Hacker News but it spreads to Facebook user groups etc. The bad guys (many enough of them) will anyway figure it out right away after the patches have b
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by ptaipale 7y ago
I think "language X is needed in country Z" does not indicate that X is a global language. It just means that because of national/cultural pride, overall ignorance, or many other reasons, language X is needed there (because n
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by ptaipale 7y ago
That is a very recent and not yet a very strong phenomenon, but yes, we're heading that way.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Umm, there's a lot more Latin in medicine, though?
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by ptaipale 7y ago
From article: "So, really, there are only five global languages: English, Mandarin, Hindi, Spanish, and Arabic." I would call all these "big" languages, but I would not call Mandarin, Hindi or Arabic "global" l
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by ptaipale 7y ago
And then the censors' regimes fall back in technical and economical development, while they really can't stop true adversaries anyway.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
The ability to deliver on budget and within schedule is dependent more on political than technological development. Arbitrary delays caused by political meddling (including with pretext of safety concerns) are a significant part of the sche
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by ptaipale 7y ago
There are several models, but they all seem to have dedicated windscreen demist buttons even if otherwise airflow control is via touch screen.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Except that Renault has actually very good controls, with separate physical wheels and buttons, for controlling the heater / ariflow, which is essential for driving. Nothing that is important during driving should be controlled throug
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by ptaipale 7y ago
"- The steering wheel contains two dozen buttons" Actually, one dozen. I also have a Renault, but older, so the configuration is different, but I use regularly three of the cruise control buttons, and three or four of the audio co
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by ptaipale 7y ago
I don't think it's alien, in fact it's more nostalgic/retro, brings to my mind the Renault 4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_4
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by ptaipale 7y ago
And quite many of the dead of course died with a bullet from behind, or in slave labor camps run by Soviets themselves.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Though a substantial part of the steel used to make those tanks came from USA. As did much of the trucks and other equipment used by Soviets. I recall seeing actual numbers (proportion of American steel in Soviet production), but couldn&#x2
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by ptaipale 7y ago
In this case, the presentation of exact and provable facts creates a satisfactory satirical outcome.

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