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The icons being tiny pictures of the actual trains is cute, but makes the map quite confusing to look at! Edit: I just noticed that the marker style changes if I choose something o…

Just to add to the list, we have this in Norway: https://togkart.banenor.no/ Train movements between stations are simulated based on the expected speed between two points and not b…

Another possible factor is specialist availability. As I assume is the case in all public healthcare systems (and in some way or another, e.g. through price differences, in private…

Unlike seemingly everyone else who has commented here so far, I actually took some time to read through the results. There are some interesting findings, like whites being the raci…

Could you elaborate a bit? My parents live in a not-very-well insulated wooden house from around 1900, and use a heat pump as their primary means of heating the house. This is Scan…

The difference between the quality of the infrastructure (esp. roads and rail) in the Netherlands and Belgium must surely be the most convincing testament to what a country loses f…

Eixample is alright, and supposedly a decent place to live, but the main touristy part of Barcelona is the old town, Barri Gòtic, which is a typical chaotic maze of streets. Eixamp…

Sounds like a process similar to how you would debug a difficult bug in a big and/or complicated codebase – through trying to isolate the code causing the bug, comparing the buggy …

>Moviegoers don't really like "squeaky" in lead male actors. Unless you mean something different by "squeaky" than what I think you do, then Joseph Gordon-Levitt is an example of a…

Can someone explain the logic behind this excerpt? I don't understand the connection between rising inflation and interest rates and online-only banks being outcompeted. > "Rising …

I don't think you're right that society doesn't have canned responses for this sort of situation. There's no canned response as brief as "my condolences" or "I'm sorry for your los…

That chronic pain can have a central, neuropsychiatric origin is likely to have been considered at least briefly by anyone who's learned that (or who has been prescribed them) anti…

It's not exactly true that your salary is public -- what's public is your taxable income, taxable wealth, total estimated tax, birth year and postal code. Various deductions apply …

While I don't think anything in the linked article is wrong per se, it's a very brief look at a complicated and interesting topic. I'm slowly working my way through Ratcliffe's Exp…

Video games are an active form of entertainment, while movies are passive. There is a spectrum from forms of entertainment requiring a great deal of active involvement and attentio…

I'm quite happy with my current salary – the problem is that I don't know anyone with my level of experience who earns more than me, and I'm certainly not the person among all my f…

The point is that because of the mentioned factors, artificially little of companies' revenues flow to developers (in the form of wages or other compensation). If the general salar…

I work as a software developer in Norway. I've long had the impression that there are a lot of workers in my industry – particularly older people but not exclusively – who simply d…

Lovage isn't quite as obscure as the article makes it out to be. I didn't recognize the English name of the herb but I remember having seen the Norwegian name on restaurant menus a…

> This seem to be the reason that in some places people often refer to "catholic" as "roman catholic". That's not really why, is it -- it's because there are also the Eastern Catho…

> On average, customers go to physical grocery stores 3.2 times per month This seems crazy to me -- not only must be purchases be enormous , but fresh meats and vegetables don't ke…

Does anyone know why most machine learning libraries (notably scikit-learn) implement trees and ensembles of trees based on the CART algorithm? It seems like using other types of t…

Bachelor's level courses are in Norwegian.

I disagree: try comparing pressing immediately after pouring water into the Aeropress versus pouring after waiting for 20-30 seconds or so. (If you press immediately you're going t…