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by wott 8y ago
> The fact that they fucked up their economy again Uh? Their economical politics have been dictated by EU since the crisis. > even with unconditional free money Uh? You mean mostly extra loans that they had to repay, like any loan. An
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by wott 8y ago
I see the marking style is official ("Two-Way Left Turn Lane"): https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/services/publications/fhwaop02090... ... but it is still a weird choice that it re-uses the marking for "Pa
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by wott 8y ago
> They took out a lane, put in a turn median turn lane and a bike lane. > https://goo.gl/maps/736bR7HMats It is unrelated to the original subject, but how does this "median turn lane" work? For me, the
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by wott 8y ago
People fleeing city centres is often not a matter of affordability but a choice on other criteria.
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by wott 8y ago
> Take the Boulevard Périphérique around Paris for instance: a nuisance for people living nearby, often gridlocked, super dangerous and atrociously ugly. People realized that this approach wasn't sustainable and now more and more w
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by wott 8y ago
> No, it’s more convenient. I personally would argue that AWD can make cars less safe because of the false confidence it provides. > The most important thing you can do with a car is brake and turn, as those affect safety the most.
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by wott 8y ago
No, I confirm what jbob2000 said: in my country (which is probably different from his), the local taxes ( and the state subsidies) go up as density goes up. Those are per inhabitant (and they don't comprise funding for regional equipm
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by wott 8y ago
There has been dozens of "safe" additions, variants and extensions to C along the years (from commercial companies, from individuals, from university labs, ...). Not one of them ever took off. This one did not either. We always ju
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by wott 8y ago
<sarcasm> Oh yeah, last campaign of the kind worked great. Members of Parliament really appreciated to have their mailbox (and their voicemail) mail-bombed by hundreds or thousands of such spam and reacted super well. </sarcas
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by wott 8y ago
He said he has been working remotely for 10 years.
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by wott 8y ago
It is just ridiculous when I watch American TV series. Lonesome woodmen are body-built and have their chest shaved. Post-apocalypse survivors and cavemen are body-built and have their chest shaved. Zombies are body-built and have their ches
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by wott 8y ago
> Fantastic! Changing the clocks wrecks people's sleep cycles By this logic, let's suppress week-ends, and holidays. And evenings out as well.
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by wott 8y ago
There was no referendum, it was just an Internet consultation. As representative as a so-called poll on any newspaper website... Oh, and the EU server broke when I tried to validate my answer...
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by wott 8y ago
I don't understand the base of this debunk. Nowadays, food 'collecting', food processing, DIY (taking care of tools) are not counted into working time but come extra and are taken from 'free' time. And they amount t
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by wott 8y ago
> Nobody would want to live in the world like 100 years ago I for one would definitely want it. That's my favourite period of time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_%C3%89poque and https://en.wi
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by wott 8y ago
For 2050, they expected: * in 1998: 8.9 B * in 2006: 9.2 B * in 2010: 9.3 B * in 2012: 9.6 B * in 2017: 9.8 B That means that they constantly have to revise upwards their scenario because it does not happen as expected and the population gr
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by wott 8y ago
1. It is not a matter of "need", rather a matter of comfort and practicality. (I leave in mountains). 2. I do have half a dozen different types of shoes (something like 1 or 2 pairs of army boots, 1 for cycling, 1 for MB-hiking-ga
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by wott 8y ago
I noticed it was often the case: I read (or listen to) an interview, or a short article by some author, and I tell myself "this is brilliant, I'd like to read a deeper development about this theory/point of view/..., oh,
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by wott 8y ago
Well, why do you think we have so many re-designs (and re-structuring, and re-packaging, and re-writing, and so on)? To keep people busy and believing that they matter. You don't need to imagine, it is right here, everywhere around, in
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by wott 8y ago
They have a deal with Corsair and Micron.
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by wott 8y ago
> M4 is an interesting macro language, but developed (IMO) a somewhat undeserved reputation for being awful because it is how you build autoconf inputs as well as sendmail configuration files. Guilt by association. Hmm...well, I rememb
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by wott 8y ago
> This connection with the Doubs was only discovered in 1901 when a spillage from the Pernod factory into the Doubs was transmitted into the Loue. Suits my definition of drinking water.
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by wott 8y ago
Those companies (and capitalism in general) excel at identifying your sloths (as any other vice), encouraging and developing them in order to turn them into money. They thrive on such mechanisms.
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by wott 8y ago
> It seems we're substituting "ownership" with control. But you do not control anything any more with those companies. They can revoke your accesses, they can ban you from using their services for any reason, they can ch
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by wott 8y ago
If there is one place in a country where finding a cab has always been straightforward, that's an airport. I mean, it is easier to find a cab by walking through the airport doors than avoid the cabs there :-) That's really the
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by wott 8y ago
A couple of days ago, EasyJet cancelled a flight from Spain to France at last minute, told the passengers there would be another flight available... 7 (seven) days later , did not offer or propose to cover the expense of the stay (supposin
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by wott 8y ago
Since the beginning, they have been rather heavily underestimating delays and potential problems for each step on the hardware side. In this case, if we consider that it is still the 1st half of August, so a lot of companies are closed or o
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by wott 8y ago
Wonderful. My family and I have been living for the last 80 years exactly 20 miles away from the Andorran border so I am 100% comfortable calling your statements a bunch of baloney , no matter what the mod may say, thank you. And thanks as
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by wott 8y ago
More substantive than the one I answered (OP named random small European countries without any idea of what they are), and intended to have people question the nonsense of that association of Andorra and Albania and thus the pretended knowl
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by wott 8y ago
> And sadly, as long as there's a market, there will be products. Moreover, if there is no market, one will soon be created to fill the void and make some money of any 'underused' resource until it saturates. > I often

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