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by seszett 3y ago
Well... growing pears on an apple tree is doable but not really practical, pear and apple trees are generally not graft-compatible and they will need specific interstock. It's rarely done. But coppicing, pollarding and daisugi have not
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by seszett 3y ago
They do allow it, it works fine unless you need one of the not yet implemented features (HDMI out, webcam and sound mostly, although the latter can be enabled at your own risks).
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by seszett 3y ago
Bordeaux should be pronounced like eaux so that part is correct :) I just mean that Bordo would be the same, it's all closed o sounds. In the north and the south east (Toulouse, not Bordeaux) people tend to only use the open o sound th
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by seszett 3y ago
I happened because the phone operators made SMS a paid feature, while Whatsapp over wifi was free. Then the people for whom SMS was not free started using Whatsapp (or Messenger or other apps) and eventually those who used to use SMS switch
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by seszett 3y ago
'o' has two (or more) possible pronunciations: o and ɔ (open and closed), while "au" has only one: o "Bordeaux" is pronounced the same as "Bordo" would be, and "eaux" is the same as "ô&
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by seszett 3y ago
> I stop hanging out with these types of people. It's a natural reaction, but these people are actually suffering from an addiction and for at least some of them (those who can take remarks and act on them) it's better to tel
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by seszett 3y ago
> French and English are languages were you can't be sure of the pronunciation of a word you've never seen. English yes of course, but French pronunciation is very regular and only a few loanwords don't follow the rules.
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by seszett 3y ago
The data (linked in my comment) shows that incarceration rates have decreased in all of Europe as well as all of Northern America and increased in Australia and New Zealand. If you consider "the West" to be (as is commonly adm
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by seszett 3y ago
This comment comes every single time the EU asks Apple anything. And yet, every time Apple gives in to the demands of the authorities of the largest market in the world, unsurprisingly (even if Europe is only Apple's second region pe
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by seszett 3y ago
> So apparently your definition of “western countries” includes sub-Saharan Africa but excludes most of Europe and all of Australia and New Zealand? To be honest the text you are quoting doesn't talk about Western Europe at all, a
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by seszett 3y ago
> I remember one classic one is the "no coffee when pregnant", the study says this causes problems, the test was performed on rats and by feeding them coffee in the amount of 3/4 of their body weight. We can agree that wi
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by seszett 3y ago
> do they expect a dad to raise a kid that is not his? You just need a court order to do a paternity test, they're not banned but regulated by law.
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by seszett 3y ago
France increased VAT from 19.6% to 20% in 2014, I think it is supposed to increase again to 22% in 2024.
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by seszett 3y ago
> If address and POI search could be further improved, I wouldn't see a reason to use Google Maps ever again. For my part this works well enough on OSMand/Organic maps but what they lack is traffic information. On my main rou
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by seszett 3y ago
The name of MaxDB already comes from Monty's son Max.
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by seszett 3y ago
Killing a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil seems like an obvious attack on Canada, I don't think there's any question on this.
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by seszett 3y ago
They have a surplus of vegetables for a day or a week (maybe they have too much lettuce on a certain day to eat before they spoil, or too many radishes, etc) but 50 m² is definitely not enough to be anywhere near self-sustainable.
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by seszett 3y ago
Same, I track the prices of a few dozens of products across the six supermarkets I go to, in France and Belgium (every day, automatically) and this has never happened.
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by seszett 3y ago
> you can buy 500 mg pills, though - I guess the government wants to protect people who can't add 500+500! I know it sounds a bit absurd at first thought, but restricting the amount that can be bought at a time actually works for
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by seszett 3y ago
They are generally only available for professionals, and those that can easily be bought as a private person are much more expensive than the human version. I haven't heard of anyone doing that (why would anyone do that, actually?) ins
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by seszett 3y ago
> It is an Americanism because the term implicitly assumes two things: > 1. That the government is split into branches, following how the US system evolved. > 2. That executive power must be confined to a single branch, also
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by seszett 3y ago
They should, but it's up to each country to enforce EU regulation. The other countries radio regulation agencies have either not made the same measures, not measured the iPhone emissions at all, or have not yet decided what they were g
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by seszett 3y ago
Well not really. People in France don't really care that much about England. The one country that is often blamed for problems is rather Germany, but honestly even Germany doesn't get blamed for petty problems like that.
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by seszett 3y ago
The fast program takes 30 minutes and works fine, I've used it once or twice maybe in the last four years.
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by seszett 3y ago
The topic of dishwashers comes up regularly on HN and it's always the same, comments are mostly filled by people complaining about dishwashers not working well, environmental regulation, etc. I assume most people who don't actuall
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by seszett 3y ago
That's rather off-topic but this article picture, with a woman pointing a gun at her head, finger on the trigger, intrigued me, so I followed the link to Adobe's stock photos. The photo is this one: https://stock.adobe.
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by seszett 3y ago
That doesn't really have the same meaning, and sounds very awkward though, especially because "saluer" needs an object. I'd say (considering the context, the meaning is that she "told me goodbye" too many tim
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by seszett 3y ago
> I don't think they'd learn to speak whale any more than kids learn to speak other sounds in their natural environment. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't work either, but kids do learn the sounds of other animals and the
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by seszett 3y ago
Although this is an interesting dive into the PDF format, just opening the PDF in Libreoffice or Inkscape usually works fine to modify its text.
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by seszett 3y ago
> coke was sufficiently worried about a 2um thick layer Whether they were worried themselves or not is not what made them change, French law (then followed by the rest of the EU, California and China) was the reason.

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