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4y ago
That's 16 MW for all of Europe, which would be provided by the one nuclear carrier in the EU, the French Charles de Gaulle. That's basically a drop in the ocean, not enough to even consider that "every little thing helps"
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4y ago
> With European privacy regulators laser-focused on Silicon Valley, the California regulator picked a case against Champs-Elysées. To be honest, Sephora has already been fined for GDPR violations in Europe as well. It just happens that
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4y ago
I simply print the photos I want to keep, and put them in photo albums like my parents and grandparents did before me. I don't expect my children to be able to explore my digital archives when I'm dead in 50 years or so, so anythi
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4y ago
Although Belgium certainly isn't as rugged as Pakistan, it's far from flat and especially in Wallonia population is very concentrated along one valley (the sillon Sambre et Meuse ): https://www.researchgate.net/pr
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4y ago
> I cannot imagine living in a population density of of 742 people per mi² (287 per Km²). That's a significantly lower than here in Belgium (376/km², and 490/km² here in Flanders). I'm not sure which country you li
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4y ago
> The Catholic Church didn't survive the printing press. It's a little bit off-topic, but you have to live in a very different world to believe that, as the Catholic Church is by far the largest Christian church still today.
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4y ago
> the wind would have to have been going 15mph or more 15 mph really isn't much for wind, though? In fact that's about how much wind there is where I am right now, so that doesn't strike me as an unreasonable condition.
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4y ago
If mortality of seeds by fungus infection is more important than seed dispersal by mammals, then it makes sense to produce capsaicin. Since birds are likely better at dispersal than mammals (and don't have teeth) preventing mammals fro
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4y ago
> The plant has evolved capsaicin as an animal deterrent as only birds can disperse chilli pepper seeds while animals digest the seeds. That's a common explanation but the article links to a study that supports another explanation
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4y ago
I don't think this would be compatible with Schuko sockets because the plug would need two notches to accommodate the Schuko ground pins and the lateral guides in the socket. It's just regular old type-C to me, I have some very si
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4y ago
> France electricity bill The address is in the left-hand block, under the section called "Lieu de consommation": https://prix-elec.com/sites/prix-elec.com/files/2020-04/fact... That's
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4y ago
Japan is probably the second rich country with the lowest fertility rate after Korea. It's really the worst country to look at if Korea wants to improve their fertility rate.
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4y ago
I know what they're saying and I've often found it annoying as well. If such a car is following you and you get to the left or middle lane to overtake a slower car then the car behind you first accelerates to your right as if th
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4y ago
> * I would pay $25,000 cash for a new manual transmission '00s-style mid-sized pickup with hand-crank windows and knobs for the temperature and radio.* Sounds like a Dacia Duster Pick-Up. It's 22 000€ or so (new).
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4y ago
I hesitated talking about this in my post, but I should have. There are two different reasons to consider for pedestrians having priority over cars, unlike over bikes. First, as the sibling comment says, there is no energy personally spent
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4y ago
Well... I'm both a pedestrian and biker (and I generally use a car when outside my city) and honestly, I find it normal for pedestrians to give priority to bikes. It's just a lot more energy expensive to stop and start again for a
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4y ago
There is an e-208 and a ë-C4 in my family. They are the same thing as the non-electric model, just electric. Peugeot has already announced that the coming models will be the same body regardless of whether they are electric or not (I'm
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4y ago
> It's fairly normal for parents to take pictures of their children naked in the bathtub/at the beach/ camping/etc. And what I understand is that each of these private photos of their children that parents take on an
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4y ago
What I'd like to know if if they actually deactivate multiple linked accounts when any one of them gets flagged. I have three accounts, one more for personal things, one more professional, and a third one with my current country as a l
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4y ago
Wanted to try it, but when I try to complete my profile my emoji is apparently invalid, and my city as well. It's just a regular city, though.
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4y ago
> If you don't believe in democracy, can you please tell us what system is better? None that I know of, that is the real tragedy. On the illusion of superiority, I'm well aware of that but do not forget that it does not mea
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4y ago
Since you were intending to reply to me, I'll try to answer you here. I'm really not sure I actually understood what you meant, though. In my opinion, the US war in Iraq was unjustified and the Russian war in Ukraine is unjustifie
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4y ago
I don't even care much about mustard or live in France (though I am French) and I knew it just from reading French news months ago. But I've heard so much disinformation in the last weeks when I was back at home with my family, ma
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4y ago
> The first self-replicating cell (LUCA=Last Universal Common Ancestor) These are two different things though, separated by maybe as much as one billion years.
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It works fine for me on Firefox mobile.
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And the "wave" was a handful of unrelated fires that happened near churches (not even in churches for most of them) over a few years and were mounted as a "wave of arson" by extreme-right websites during the height of Sy
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It happened to me once or twice. It felt great, and I still think about it sometimes several decades later. I also thought about it reading the comments here.
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2009 is when the EU stepped in. They didn't have to set it into law because the industry agreed to it voluntarily except for Apple.
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Point sources work better than arrays, so I use either one or four LEDs (from LG) depending on the power needed for the application (and how much someone is willing to pay). With enough power (more than 50W or so), cooling the negative is r
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I convert old photo negative enlargers to UV enlargers for printing with alternative processes (cyanotype in particular). It doesn't take much space and I do it out of my small European town house basement. Which also serves as my phot
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