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by tpm 11mo ago
In heavy trucks? Probably all of them, and I'd say all of them are worth it if we considered the damage each truck can do and the total number of trucks on the road.
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by tpm 11mo ago
> we dig up and remove artifacts whenever and wherever we find them Not anymore, at leats not everywhere. AFAIK there is a stop to excavations of unexplored areas in Pompei. There are several burial sites of kings and emperors in Korea a
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by tpm 11mo ago
But EU membership would be a net positive even without the privileged position.
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by tpm 11mo ago
The European situation is a bit more complicated. It was very well known for a long time that Russia is a ticking time bomb in our backyard yet we made ourselves nearly dependent on their energy supplies and now combined with the push for r
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by tpm 11mo ago
There is a theory that testosterone makes physical exercise fun. No idea if it's true, or to what extent. Anyway it's completely possible you just didn't find the right physical activity yet. It took me some years to realize
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by tpm 11mo ago
I actually did live in "communism" with only state-run enterprises and let me assure you that scale is very far from the only difference. > in countries that don't even have "states" (eg. China) China is the stat
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by tpm 1y ago
> You see this type of usage elsewhere, for instance "state" schools[1] Schools operated at the city/county level are called public schools in the US, no? So in the same vein these stores should either be called public or
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by tpm 1y ago
"state run" is also probably incorrect. AFAIK Mamdani will be the mayor of New York City, which is a city, not a state. Cities in Europe tend to run businesess outside of their core competency quite often. Is that not the case in
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by tpm 1y ago
In other words it's the same as the OP says about established vs not-yet-settled parts of physics.
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by tpm 1y ago
> In a not so well established field like Climate Science, where there is a lot of disagreement Is there? In the actual science, not in the I'm-a-contrarian-because-fossil-pays-well scene.
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by tpm 1y ago
> I've never had my fingerprint or DNA taken. Automated passport-and-fingerprint (sometimes also iris) scanning is now often the default route at many airports.
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by tpm 1y ago
> Now Germany Poland, Austria and also other EU states introduce "temporary" border checks. Which they keep extending. Great. Yeah. Though I live close to a Slovakia-Austria border crossing and use it frequently and it is quite
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by tpm 1y ago
Schengen is absolutely an EU achievement, although for some time it developed separately; it is now absorbed into EU law. Note that every Schengen country outside of the EU is a member of EFTA and to be in Schengen has to sign an associatio
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by tpm 1y ago
> No matter what, the canopy solar system will be more expensive than ground mounting. > Better to replace some farmland South Korea is very hilly, farmland is too precious to replace with PV and I don't think they have been grow
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by tpm 1y ago
That's too easy, glutamate is neurotoxic in high doses.
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by tpm 1y ago
it's not "at minimum one quarter of the country", the turnout was 52.56% of registered voters, so its at minimum 22.94% of 52.56% of 18 million, which is 11% of the total population of Romania.
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by tpm 1y ago
That was before Nobel prize was established.
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by tpm 1y ago
I can't really imagine navigating huge Java codebases with vim or bash. OTOH I used vim to work with Perl (that was not a small codebase either but had a very different structure).
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by tpm 1y ago
2035 in the EU, if nothing changes, will be the end of sale of new ICE passenger cars. It's not that far. (Technically they will not be banned, there will only be a huge fine for the manufacturer for each one sold.)
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by tpm 1y ago
Yes, and the language, as well as the state are both culture-specific things too. So once the topic is "what is the value of the 'sex' field in Indian passport for a member of the hijra community", the answer might be &#
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by tpm 1y ago
> Your comment presupposes that sex is some sort of a narrow thing which is so hard to apply to humanity that millions are falling through. "... The Humsafar Trust estimates there are between 5 and 6 million hijras in India."
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by tpm 1y ago
It's about a passport field than can represent anything the issuing country wishes. So for example a traveller that has the value of this field changed according to a German law [0] to anything different than M or F (most probably othe
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by tpm 1y ago
Yet he is also one of the riders of apocalypse. Techbros who only applied rules that suited them and abused everything else. It's one thing if we had some mythical true freedom fighters, or guys from Signal, against The State, but if i
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by tpm 1y ago
we absolutely need to stop pushing CO2 into the atmosphere ASAP.
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by tpm 1y ago
> It's like in the 60s everyone decided that more modern means more simple and we've only stripped back from then on. That actually started way sooner than in the 60s. For a good starting point see the 1910 essay Ornament and C
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by tpm 1y ago
Well I hope the reader now understands that it is sometimes possible to make money by betting.
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by tpm 1y ago
> A comfortable life in which country? Not that important, if you are able to win 150k USD/EUR a bet several times in a year. > So, this doesn't sound like just ordinary people who have lost hope. Not sure where the 'ho
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by tpm 1y ago
> This is highly unlikely. It is my experience from working in the sports betting industry for several years, including the risk reporting and risk managing part. In fact I'm pretty sure several people lived comfortable life by goin
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by tpm 1y ago
I have worked in the betting industry for several years. And the reason I'm writing is to tell you that while (2) sound logical, it was not used during my time in the industry. Or to be more precise, of course the odds are adjusted all
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by tpm 1y ago
You are right customers are not getting rich from sports betting, but the true reason is that once 'the house', the betting company sees a consistent winner, it will ban them or lower their betting limit to discourage them from be

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