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by ptaipale 7y ago
There's also a satire page "Ist der BER schon fertig?" (Is BER already ready?) that follows up major items in development. http://www.istderberschonfertig.de/
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by ptaipale 7y ago
For there to be something meaningfully international, there have to be several nations, with something distinguishing between them.
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Not surprising at all, considering that Western nations have been leading the walk on the path of technical development, from discovering the benefits of things like coal, to the discovery of downsides of things like coal. Therefore I would
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by ptaipale 7y ago
We can, we should and in some countries we do, but the increasing reliance of POTS services on internet technology make them vulnerable to the same weaknesses that exist in the internet.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Well, IMS stands for "IP Multimedia Subsystem" and having IMS in the telephone network is, in my view, basically a part of the process of moving POTS services to IP and Internet technologies... of course, that is necessary for man
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by ptaipale 7y ago
It's the other way round: POTS is still the most reliable thing we have. The "intelligent" services in call and dispatching centers are what fail. The more the telephony services are mingled with Internet, the more they are e
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by ptaipale 7y ago
If you read the article, you see that implies full EV (though of course it's not always so clear-cut, with the i3 having the REX model where you have a built-in charger that uses a small gasoline engine).
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by ptaipale 7y ago
I think you are confusing the "passive" here. It refers to heat insulation and minimizing the need for generating either heat or coolness; the house is not "passive" in the sense that it would just sit there. So the &quo
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Not sure what you mean, but the reason for sealed windows is that building code mandates all ventilation through heat exchangers for energy efficiency, and having windows open would completely ruin the designed airflow.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
I think you express it the wrong way round. The windows cannot be opened, because that way they can be made better for thermal isolation, which is obviously a major design criteria in cold climate.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Stockholm doesn't get much sun in the winter. Average for the month of December is somewhere around 20 hours. (per the whole month). https://weather-and-climate.com/average-monthly-hours-Sunshi...
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Often it does, but people sometimes use self-cleaning glass that at least Pilkington makes.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
In the Nordics, houses (that aren't very old) don't get new air through windows; the air exchange is through a central ventilation system in and out, and modern houses have a heat exchanger to collect the heat from outgoing air an
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Yes, but the absolute humidity is the amount of water in air, and particularly n cold climates, this water load can cause considerable trouble in structures. The correct way to design airflows and location of dew point inside the walls etc
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Of course. The point is that you need to have those dedicated controls with ergonomics that support driving, not touch screen.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Climate is not ternary, it's definitely important for driving in cold climates. To the point that if you can't see ahead, you need to stop on the expressway in order to adjust the airflow to windscreen, so that you don't coll
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by ptaipale 7y ago
That is one horrible thing.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Ah, right: cycle paths are generally like this everywhere, but e-scooters going on them not necessarily. They're all over cities in Finland, Sweden and Denmark, though, and I've also seen them in Berlin.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
I understand that rules for bike paths depend on local jurisdiction, but why wouldn't an e-scooter fit a bike path in Venice, CA? Over here (Finland, like all of Europe) we have roads, we have bike paths, and we have pedestrian pavemen
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Everywhere, people say they prefer lotteries where there are more prizes with smaller wins, instead of one winner with huge jackpot. But also everywhere, their actual bahaviour is that when there is one big jackpot, they bet more. And t
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by ptaipale 7y ago
I guess they go through other places much more often, but that's not news. When it's through a suspicious country, it makes the news.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
I do not think that Russia needed to import from US any hyper-capitalism with poor rule of law. It had a good stock of poor rule of law already from Soviet times, and hyper-capitalism - or even feodalism - was what it had before USSR was fo
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Russian government is more keen on exploiting the grievances around Russian graves for political purposes than actually caring for the graveyards abroad. The bronze warrior controversy was one big manufactured outrage. At the same time, the
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by ptaipale 7y ago
I wonder what you mean. Of course there is symmetry between Russian and German invasions and occupations of Baltic (and other) countries. Both powers wanted to establish their spheres of influence over smaller countries, and eventually each
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Manganese nodules contain many metals, not just manganese. In fact they are often called polymetallic nodules. (Learned this from Night of Error by Desmond Bagley; not his best novel, published posthumously in 1984).
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Though this is not the focus in this discussion, I expect the most likely situation where police officers would want to talk to me inside the house - instead of just standing at the door - is because they've come to tell me some family
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Guardian often has little "errors" like this.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Then it's the founding principles which earn the bad reputation for unions. (I presume you mean principles, not principals.)
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by ptaipale 7y ago
And when some of my countrymen fled Fukushima area because of radioactivity, they came back home to Finland, where we have a higher natural background radiation level than the elevated radioactivity from which they fled. When doing so, th
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by ptaipale 7y ago
The "whole disaster" was actually a tsunami caused by an earthquake under the sea, and problems around the nuclear plant are just a tiny side-issue compared to the devastation caused by the tsunami. Perhaps the government - many s

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