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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 cont…

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 "av…

> ... 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 mutual…

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' …

> 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 (b…

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 …

> 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 includi…

> 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 mysel…

> 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 bel…

This is the case in most European countries: - Florentine Italian displaced Sardinian, Napolitan, Romanesco, etc. - Ille-de-france French displaced Provencal, Occitan, Breton, etc.…

> Portugal aside And -the republic of- Ireland! A "timezone" border to be added to the one already introduced by Brexit

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 Ma…

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…

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 …

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 …

As a side note, most of Spain itself is in the Western Hemisphere.

I wonder what the argument of the people who downvoted you would be?

> 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 mu…