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by acoster 3mo ago
IIRC, that's the movie they play on loop at the kids section of Landesmuseum in Zürich.
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by acoster 8mo ago
IME Sanjay responds to CLs way faster than I expected.
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by acoster 2y ago
One of the comments mentions he had a heart attack a few weeks ago and was recovering at home when he passed.
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by acoster 2y ago
Butantan is not a company, but a public research institute run by the Brazilian state of São Paulo.
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by acoster 9y ago
Some South American countries under Mercosur, which is being slowly replaced by the Union of South American Nations.
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by acoster 9y ago
You could add a fourth under certain conditions: Say one parent is German and the other is British, and the child was born in Brazil. If the kid is entitled to Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return, they get to keep all four.
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by acoster 9y ago
There are French and Italian speaking regions too (well, there's Romansh, but that's tiny). But in all seriousness, in the main cities you can get by speaking English.
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by acoster 9y ago
In Switzerland every 10 years the government sends residents within a 50 km radius (previously it was 20 km) from nuclear power plants a pack of iodine pills ( https://www.naz.ch/en/themen/jod_tabletten.html )
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by acoster 9y ago
There were also some privacy/bureaucratic slow downs (my girlfriend had to sign a monster of T&C regarding data sharing with her doctor).
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by acoster 9y ago
My partner is type 1 diabetic, and CGMs were a game changer for her (they started rolling out in Switzerland last year). She's been using the FreeStyle Libre ( https://www.freestylelibre.co.uk/libre/ ), which uses N
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by acoster 12y ago
It probably relies too much on internal technology that is not open source.
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by acoster 14y ago
I've moved my Apple account between 3 countries now - while I can't update some apps through iTunes, the updates are always available on the devices themselves, and if I try to buy an app purchased in another country, it downloads it withou
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by acoster 14y ago
Those are called Mersenne Primes, and are in the form 2^p - 1, where p is a prime number.
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by acoster 14y ago
Yes - June the 30th has a leap second ( http://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/bulletinc.dat ).
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by acoster 15y ago
This is more an annoyance to the 99% that gets such bills (many places don't accept defaced banknotes).