narvval

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by narvval 4y ago
Many aircraft, particularly those flying IFR, are required by law in many jurisdictions to broadcast their location to reduce the risk of collisions and facilitate air traffic control. Check aviation transponder interrogation modes and ADS-
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by narvval 5y ago
I'm no native English speaker but at least in my experience average is used to mean any "central tendency", and not the mean in particular. We probably should just avoid saying "average" and use "mean", &q
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by narvval 7y ago
> ... or uphold our end of the deal to mutually cancel debt? What do you mean "mutually"? the government is the debtor and the banks/funds/citizens the creditors. There's no mutuality. > Send in military, seiz
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by narvval 7y ago
That's an unrelated question isn't it? Of course a country can default on it's debts if they so choose. I'm just describing the nature of the debt, and pointing out why countries' debts don't "cancel each
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by narvval 7y ago
> each country can either: a) mutually agree to cancel all debt Sovereign debt doesn't mean that countries owe money to each other. Most of the debt is owed to private investors (banks, funds, etc).
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by narvval 7y ago
Sure the design is different, but the risk that the "first couple of times people usually fall off. Instant lawsuit overe there, I'm sure" looks the same to me. And yet t-bars and the like do exist in the US.
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by narvval 7y ago
> At least this design for a bicycle lift would never be allowed in the US I don't think this is very different from a "surface lift" used in ski resorts all over the world including the US?
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by narvval 8y ago
> Which is why I can't see how you're surprised. What I am surprised at is the fact that the parent literally says "I don't believe you" regarding something that I experience myself all the time. It's like t
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by narvval 8y ago
> You are going to be the only one of 20 people on the plane doing this, for jump after jump, no matter how experienced you become? I wish there was a way to test this. I don't believe you. I'm really really surprised by these
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by narvval 8y ago
This is the case in most European countries: - Florentine Italian displaced Sardinian, Napolitan, Romanesco, etc. - Ille-de-france French displaced Provencal, Occitan, Breton, etc. - English displaced Scots, Gaelic, Welsh, etc. Even countri
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by narvval 8y ago
> Portugal aside And -the republic of- Ireland! A "timezone" border to be added to the one already introduced by Brexit
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by narvval 8y ago
In my case, my opinion is based on: - All (newish) thinkpads having spill-resistant keyboards. - The best-selling ones (X & T series) meeting the Mil-SPEC 810G standard. I use a Mac though, because I got tired of fighting to get Linux p
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by narvval 8y ago
You could pass a tie-off if you had two carabiners, as you do in via ferrata. Don't know about the entanglement risk though... I'm not a diver but that sounds way less dangerous to me than losing the cable altogether, since worst
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by narvval 8y ago
Waking up at 5 am doesn't imply sleeping any less (just going to bed earlier). In the similar way, taking a nap doesn't mean that you sleep more, just that you schedule your sleep differently.
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by narvval 8y ago
We are not talking about self-applied labels, since parent explicitly says "are referred to as". So I think it is a very valid point to wonder why some regions came to be referred to (in american english) as latin america, where o
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by narvval 8y ago
As a side note, most of Spain itself is in the Western Hemisphere.
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by narvval 8y ago
I wonder what the argument of the people who downvoted you would be?
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by narvval 8y ago
> If you take feelings out of it and focus on the information -- Linus is either right or wrong That's absolutely not true, and in fact the main issue here is that Linus is very much driven by feelings and not focusing on informat