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Portuguese group D3 sues Meta, TikTok and YouTube over addictive design(reuters.com)
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by nusq 2mo ago
Those are tetrapods. In Portugal we only use tetrapods, Antifer blocks and rock slabs if avaiable with the right size and density. The weight of the blocks is a function of the design wave height and period, so we have blocks with different
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by nusq 2mo ago
Finnally something I have knowledge of. Dolosse were invent in South Africa many years ago, but they are only one type of concrete block for wave dissipation and protection. Many others exist and some of them are patented and require the pa
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by nusq 3y ago
No, RGPD only applies to EU citizens even if they are abroad or if they are using services not based in the EU.
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by nusq 3y ago
Great site! nevertheless, I believe your soilurce of news from Portugal is more of tourism promoting website. Forgive me but i need to make just two suggestions: Publish your list of sources for each country; Check Euronews.com, it has news
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by nusq 5y ago
They are not gravitational waves but are gravity waves https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_wave
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by nusq 5y ago
You make it sound like the National Data Protection Commission warnings of it being unconstitutional a minor thing.... If you read the commission comments on the law you will see several examples of how the video surveillance systems in Por
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by nusq 5y ago
I have a couple a friends that own a pine cone processing plant in Portugal. Yes harvesting pine cones is labor intensive and the end product expensive but I think one of the main reasons price became so high was the introduction of plague
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by nusq 8y ago
GPDR is essentially some guidelines published by OCDE in 1980 turned into law. So yes we should already be operating like that from the start. I get the feeling that to some countries GPDR is not a big deal and to others is a nightmare, de
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by nusq 8y ago
Cooperation between cities and cartel is no illegal. Cities were caught in a prisoner dilema and forgot to cooperate.
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by nusq 8y ago
Has a huge fan of the tiddlywiki project this is a welcome feature .
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by nusq 8y ago
Actually timber has a nice property of loosing strength gradually and slowly in case of fire, giving time for people to escape. Steel and concrete reinforced structures tend to collapse when a certain temperature is reached.
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by nusq 8y ago
This reminds me of a cool thought that I've read some place else: "imagine a technology so advanced that can transmit thoughts wirelessly between humans and even change the actual layout of the neruons in our brains". We alre
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by nusq 9y ago
Yes please.
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by nusq 9y ago
It is reasonable but it's kinda against an EU directive. The problem was that it was shown that the means to unlock drm were not being provided to authorities thus were not available for users upon request. So we took our own mesures.
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by nusq 9y ago
I can't upvote your comment enough and I would add geology to that list.
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by nusq 9y ago
I'm a fan of Elon but I think geology will hit him in the face.
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by nusq 10y ago
Well..AWSY started a few years ago and many things happend to firefox since then. I cannot tell you exactly what increase corresponds to a memory measurment improvement but i can point you to the blog of Nicholas Netherote https:/&#x
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by nusq 10y ago
You are misreading given that there were big improvements in memory measurment and some of the memory use increase you notice are just firefox measuring better it's own memory
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by nusq 10y ago
I was refering to alkali-silica reactions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkali%E2%80%93silica_reaction...
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by nusq 10y ago
This article is full of FUD. What is the alternative? All these reinforced concrete problems are well understood and studied. if proper construction and design codes and maintenance guidelines are followed these structures can last a very l
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by nusq 10y ago
Just so you can improve your knowledge, Portugal as geo-thermal power plants in Azores.
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by nusq 11y ago
You are underestimating the complexity of water and land mass interactions.
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by nusq 11y ago
Gravity is not the same around the Globe, there is something called the Geoid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoid . Also, sea level is determined by a number of factors including astronomical and predictable, like moon,
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by nusq 12y ago
CFD is improving at great speed, along with the increase of computer power, but isn't yet in the level required to replace all scale model tests and they can still be very computer intensive. I guess that nowadays the state of the art
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by nusq 12y ago
areweslimyet is a tool mainly used to prevent regressions during development and shouldn't be interpreted the way you do. There are many memory usage improvements made in firefox that don't appear explicitly in the areweslimyet te