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by taejo 6y ago
I had assumed the Tony Abbott in recent UK news was a different person to the former Australian PM. Thanks for the correction!
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by taejo 6y ago
> I also agree that YouTube's recommendations are pretty good. For example, I like to watch Linux distro reviews which are fairly niche and usually only get a few hundred views but my YouTube homepage is filled with them This is exa
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by taejo 6y ago
Both links end up at the same place. It seems DW basically replaced a whole article with another one.
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by taejo 6y ago
Even better, then you can pay your pals in the consulting companies even more to fix it.
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by taejo 6y ago
The same article was discussed yesterday with 101 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24430145
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by taejo 6y ago
There's no emergency CB system in Germany <facepalm> You have to install the app (which might not work anyway - of my colleagues who had it installed, at least one got no warning).
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by taejo 6y ago
Correction to the article: the annual test day will be the second Thursday in September, not always the tenth. I don't understand why Cell Broadcast is not used. Surely many people don't have the app installed? I'd never hear
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by taejo 6y ago
One of those safeguards is just having more poll observers. Of course, most of the time in functioning democracies it's going to be a lot more boring than that -- in my personal experience you just say hi to your counterparts from othe
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by taejo 6y ago
> Simple math tells us that the typical American circa 2100 is a lot more likely to be descended from Utah Mormons than Bay Area rationalists. Descended from today's Utah Mormons than today's Bay Area rationalists. That doe
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by taejo 6y ago
Performance on the first non-X11 release was unbearable (compared to merely slow for the previous release). I don't know if that's been fixed -- I'm still on the old X11 release.
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by taejo 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltese_language#Vocabulary : "The historical source of modern Maltese vocabulary is 52% Italian/Sicilian, 32% Siculo-Arabic, and 6% English, with some of the remainder being Fre
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by taejo 6y ago
Wikipedia says: > A 2016 study shows that, in terms of basic everyday language, speakers of Maltese are able to understand around a third of what is said to them in Tunisian Arabic, which is a Maghrebi Arabic related to Siculo-Arabic, wh
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by taejo 6y ago
Not sure how I missed that. Thanks for clarifying.
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by taejo 6y ago
I'm not sure if you're using "example" as a metasyntactic variable, or you're actually the owner of example.com. If it's the latter, I do use your domain for forms that require an email but I don't actuall
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by taejo 6y ago
I think they mean "off the main drag" in a more metaphorical sense, something like "far away from the centre"
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by taejo 6y ago
It's not so much a switchover as the end of a switchover. The international foot was adopted in 1959, and everything since (at least in surveying) should specify (but often does not, which is one of the reasons the survey foot needs
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by taejo 6y ago
Masks were dis couraged by many governments in March, even if they were encouraged by others.
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by taejo 6y ago
> There’s a word for it, but can’t remember it off the top of my head. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendaku
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by taejo 6y ago
The same is true of HN comments, it seems :)
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by taejo 6y ago
No, the original metric definition of US units in 1894 [0] made 1 yard = 3600/3937 metre (i.e. 1 inch = 100/3937 metre). The US survey foot is 12 of those inches. The 1 inch = 25.4 mm definition was adopted by the British Standard
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by taejo 6y ago
Curiously, the definition of a foot is changing. Or rather, one of the two definitions of a foot (the U.S. survey foot ) is being deprecated in favor of the other (the international foot ). The two differ by about two parts per million.
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by taejo 6y ago
Measurement-Based Evaluation Of Google/Apple Exposure Notification API For Proximity Detection In A Commuter Bus https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.08543.pdf "We find that the attenuation level reported by the GAEN A
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by taejo 6y ago
I can't find the story now, but painting teeth on train doors reduces the number of people trying to jump through them as they're closing.
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by taejo 6y ago
Be sure to ask the locals how often they get away with that vs. how often foreigners get away with it (especially foreigners who've paid a 5000-euro deposit and explicitly promised not to do it, in exchange for a 1-euro purchase price)
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by taejo 6y ago
Can you throw away owned real property elsewhere? The closest I can think of is not paying property taxes and hoping the state/municipality will seize the property and not come after you for the difference. If the actual value of the p
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by taejo 6y ago
A thermometer against the wall doesn't have free airflow, is typically higher than 1.5 metres above the groud, and may or may not be in the shade; all these will typically account for more error compared to standard conditions (typical
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by taejo 6y ago
deathanatos seems to be referring to predecessors as a document macro system, not ancestors as a programming language
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by taejo 6y ago
In a percolator, the coffee drips back into the water/heating chamber, while in the moka it bubbles into a separate chamber. In the percolator the coffee continues to boil after brewing.
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by taejo 6y ago
K F 94 is a Korean standard. K N 95 is a Chinese standard.
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by taejo 6y ago
Two different meanings of perfect are being used. For eight "perfect" riffles to return to the starting order, you've got to split the deck perfectly in half, and then drop one card from one half, then one from the other, and

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