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fransje26

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    Comment #49254826

    Reminds me of the Adulteration of Food and Drugs Act passed in Britain in 1860 to try to stop bakers from adulterating bread in all kind of unhealthy ways.. In the best case, you m…

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    Comment #49041866

    > The next generation of doctors and Nobel Prize winners probably won't be watching boobies videos and Minecraft play-throughs. Or they will be, and we will have an even bigger pro…

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    Comment #49032931

    From a Wikipedia comparison - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttgart#Climate - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Budapest#Data (I took Budapest, for the sake of generality,…

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    Comment #49026110

    So, for a Dash 8-100, at 13,000 kg, disregarding drag, engine efficiency, etc, to take-off and climb to 1000m and accelerate to 150 knots (77 m/s), you will need: - 13000 * 9.81 * …

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    Comment #49019439

    > This is the new reality for all airliners now that there are much more rigorous mandatory safety analyses in place. That's an interesting roundabout way of saying that they were …

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    Comment #49009266

    Is that the plane that is already 7 years late due to certification issues?

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    Comment #49003695

    > https://www.xteink.com/pages/shipping-policy First country in the list: Australia

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    Comment #48978757

    Great little game! Thanks for sharing! Just two little niggles: - I feel like I should be able to fly over a runway without crashing in a landing/taking-off airplane. The vertical …

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    Comment #48976908

    The climate in Hungary is really not quite the same as in Stuttgart...

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    Comment #48931857

    And the majority owner of Bosch is the Robert Bosch Stiftung (Robert Bosch foundation), which uses its dividends to fund projects in social sciences, public health and education.

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    Comment #48908230

    > And I was in Serbia lately [..] With OP postulating that it is to enable corruption, and a sub-reply affirming that it is therefore the trait of a country in decay, bringing in S…

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    Comment #48833109

    Does Synology with its beeps and bops catch that?

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    Comment #48830154

    > 90-95k euro annually. [..] but is not something you can save up and build a future with or transfer to another country. Nice disconnect from reality. 90k is more than twice the m…

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    Comment #48829345

    > Blaming people for not speaking English in Germany is pretty weird. How about learning German instead? As the poster wrote: >> At one point I ended up in the weirdest situation o…

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    Comment #48772627

    > That's the way to do it, will work for Germany as well. Yes, but please think of the Telekom and Vodafone et al shareholders.. Even if those companies did, eventually, relent to …

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    Comment #48772536

    Don't look up!

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    Comment #48772526

    As posted above, for information. In Switzerland, fresh from their website: - Init7: 1 Gbit: CHF 44/month, 10 Gbit: CHF 77, 25 Gbit: CHF 222 - Salt: 10 Gbit: CHF 49.95. (CHF 39.5 w…

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    Comment #48772502

    Just for the sake of information, related to the article being discussed. In Switzerland: - Init7: 1 Gbit: CHF 44/month, 10 Gbit: CHF 77, 25 Gbit: CHF 222 - Salt: 10 Gbit: CHF 49.9…

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    Comment #48763907

    > [..] cruised at a slightly higher Mach number, I assumed that was enabled by the center of pressure being moved back a few metres. In high-subsonic cases, it normally points to s…

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    Comment #48763066

    Thanks for the tips!

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    Comment #48751020

    > [..] There’s plenty of other ways to learn about the ideas that are more concise. Would you have any good resources to share?

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    Comment #48744289

    Thank you for sharing! Just having went through a few episodes of violent thunderstorms with hail this month, I cannot help but wonder how resistant those glasshouses are?

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    Comment #48739349

    Interesting! I did not know that, thanks!

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    Comment #48739327

    Ah. It was based on a series of performance graphs from Boeing, dating back to my aircraft-design days where that very question was discussed and I was baffled enough by the contra…