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They would need to know beforehand the precise span between the first and last athletes. I think they did a pretty good job, it's only slightly stretched for an event when there was only 0,12 seconds between the first and the last runn
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2y ago
> self-evidently abrasive, which stands to reason when you look at the scratch marks in glass that has been through too many cycles. Marks on glass are not due to abrasion, they appear because glass is slightly soluble in alkaline wate
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I have built a similar system for myself, but since it's small scale I just have "groups" of similar items that I manually populate. I have the additional problem that I want to compare products across France and Belgium (Dut
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2y ago
I don't know about the US but in most of France and Belgium they are everywhere, they grow like weeds, including on badly maintained brickwork, they seem to be especially suited to urban areas. All these other plants you mentioned do a
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> Arson attacks are actually an extremely French phenomenon, over 1000 cars are often torched a night on New Years Eve As far as I can tell it happened twice, 19 years ago and 4 years ago. I wouldn't call it a "common" o
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I'm not really sure what you mean, changing the timezone of a country is certainly their prerogative and "technical experience" doesn't really have anything to do with it. The EU is one example here but many other countr
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> there's only one prestige Dutch dialect though Which one would that be? AN which nobody actually uses (at least here in Flanders)? I don't know much about how it works within the Netherlands but within Belgium at least the
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> Meanwhile in France, their language regulators fight tirelessly to invent new calques for English loanwords to stop the "Anglicization of French", as if that were a thing that needed to be stopped. That's something one
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> You as an American can move to France, and you'll never be considered French. Doesn't matter if you speak french every day for the rest of your life I wonder why you would think that. France is one of the few countries were
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2y ago
Yes, it's both easier and gives a better end result (unless you have good equipment and technique for casting). That's what we did for ours, and we're happy with the result. About 600€ total for two rings including the 6 gram
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Generally, only undeveloped land is covered by freedom to roam. Forests, cultivated land and gardens aren't necessarily freely accessible by law, if they are privately owned they can be fenced. There is much more expansive freedom to r
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Methane has a GWP of 25 over 100 years (the standard period used for GWP) even though almost all of its warming effect takes place in the first decade. Unless you want to take a reference period on the order of a millennium, methane is al
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The cow transforms the carbon from plants, originating from atmospheric CO2, into methane which has a GWP of 25, meaning its greenhouse warming effect is 25 times higher than that of CO2. So the net result of feeding plants to cows is an in
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I don't think Meet is bundled with Android by Google, it's not there if you use LineageOS. It's probably an individual choice by phone makers (although maybe not a completely free choice). I do agree it shouldn't be bund
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> I have never seen them referred to as human. I have never seen anything else. But then in French, they are called Neandertal men and Denisova men . So pretty clearly humans.
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The article or the report don't give a single example of what they think was wrongly removed when it was just "general expression of opinion". So I'm quite critical of this kind of platform enforced censorship, but I
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> Just waiting for Adobe Store, Amazon Store, Microsoft Store, Epic Games Store, etc. to be installed on every phones soon. Why would it happen with iOS when it has not happened in the 15 years or so since Android exists? There's
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You see Paris as a museum because you visit it as a tourist. I see it as a business place that's cumbersome to reach and navigate because half of the clients I have to visit are there. I have visited Paris for tourism as well, but it&#
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I said that they couldn't have another way to synthesise vitamin D than sunlight, it can only be synthesised by sunlight. So for the Inuit, vitamin D mostly comes from diet. The claim I was responding to was "they [unlike other hu
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> only the Inuit for example do not need sun, to produce Vitamin D btw As far as I can tell, they need vitamin D just like any other life form and can only synthesise it from the sun, just like all other lifeforms on Earth. They might
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> An entire continent with barely a single AI company wants to tell the rest of the world what to do. It tells "the rest of the world" what to do when they operate in the EU . Which is exactly what governments are made for.
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Even deregulation is of course some kind of regulation, but what comes to my mind is: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32... A summary is here: http://publications.europa.e
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It's often public services that have reaffected resources while that place was closed, and found after Covid that they couldn't spare (of justify sparing) these resources again once they contemplated reopening the place. Ie, while
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Just to provide another data point, I also had a "math genius" friend at school and he was a well-balanced, fun and reasonably happy person.
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> version 6 PHP6? That was long ago because I don't even remember it! I don't have much to say otherwise, except you could very well say the same "Go is great" without having to shit on PHP and the project that is b
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> What are they actually doing wrong on the world stage Threatening their peaceful, democratic and de facto independent neighbour, Taiwan, might count. They're doing it right now, encircling the island with military vessels. I don&#
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I don't find it that bad. On my Sony camera, you can click the "transfer" button on the camera and then put the camera in NFC range of your phone. Then the Sony app starts, shows you a dialog to choose the resolution you want
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No, learning from parents is common for the young of most mammals and many birds, at least. Primates are on another level compared to most other animals, and humans are definitely outliers, but learned behaviour is far from unique to humans
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Spiders that hatch without their parents around build the same webs as any other spider from the same species. This behaviour is really not something that leaves any space for being sceptical.
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Don't know about Australia but when I was on Kerguelen island which is at the same latitude as my homeplace on the coast of France, there was a very noticeable difference in UV content, you could absolutely burn in just an hour without
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