Related: Starlink was still online and its usage surged during the outage: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1919360047005528193
Would it be possible to sign up for Starlink __during__ an outage like this?
Internet usage pattern during power outage in Spain and Portugal
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#22> Germans take a 1 hour lunch from 12-1pm. Spaniards have a later lunch, starting around 1pm, and going on until 4 or 5pm. This could possibly be due to the tradition of afternoon siesta. NPR had a podcast episode (Planet Money maybe?) about how the EU was supposed to make it easier for firms to hire cross border and employees to move around. The idea was to be more like the United States. Apparently, this didn't qui…
> lunch … starting around 1pm, and going on until 4 or 5pm So wait when do they get work done? Do they just work later into the night?
yes, shops are also open later.
Re: Internet usage pattern during power outage in Spain and Portugal
#23> Germans take a 1 hour lunch from 12-1pm. Spaniards have a later lunch, starting around 1pm, and going on until 4 or 5pm. This could possibly be due to the tradition of afternoon siesta. NPR had a podcast episode (Planet Money maybe?) about how the EU was supposed to make it easier for firms to hire cross border and employees to move around. The idea was to be more like the United States. Apparently, this didn't qui…
> lunch … starting around 1pm, and going on until 4 or 5pm So wait when do they get work done? Do they just work later into the night?
Yes. The historical siesta is about mitigating the hottest part of the day, spaniards tend to work both earlier and later.
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#25Related: Starlink was still online and its usage surged during the outage: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1919360047005528193
How would it work if people don't have power to run the local antenna.
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#27> Germans take a 1 hour lunch from 12-1pm. Spaniards have a later lunch, starting around 1pm, and going on until 4 or 5pm. This could possibly be due to the tradition of afternoon siesta. NPR had a podcast episode (Planet Money maybe?) about how the EU was supposed to make it easier for firms to hire cross border and employees to move around. The idea was to be more like the United States. Apparently, this didn't qui…
Also interesting with the sharp 10AM spike on both desktop and mobile in Germany. Video calls, I presume.
I have it on my TODO list to look a little more into that. It caught me by surprise when I pulled up the data for Germany.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
> lunch … starting around 1pm, and going on until 4 or 5pm So wait when do they get work done? Do they just work later into the night?
Yes. The historical siesta is about mitigating the hottest part of the day, spaniards tend to work both earlier and later.
The Northern of Spain has no concept of hot in the Summer. The actual issue is that we are living in the same timezone as Berlin.
And we are like reverse Brits.
Brits: big breakfast, small lunch.
Spain: small breakfast (coffee and a small pastry), and big lunch.
So, we aren't having siesta. We have a big gap at work to be able to feed ourselves on time.
Re: Internet usage pattern during power outage in Spain and Portugal
#29> Germans take a 1 hour lunch from 12-1pm. Spaniards have a later lunch, starting around 1pm, and going on until 4 or 5pm. This could possibly be due to the tradition of afternoon siesta. NPR had a podcast episode (Planet Money maybe?) about how the EU was supposed to make it easier for firms to hire cross border and employees to move around. The idea was to be more like the United States. Apparently, this didn't qui…
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Re: Internet usage pattern during power outage in Spain and Portugal
#30> Germans take a 1 hour lunch from 12-1pm. Spaniards have a later lunch, starting around 1pm, and going on until 4 or 5pm. This could possibly be due to the tradition of afternoon siesta. NPR had a podcast episode (Planet Money maybe?) about how the EU was supposed to make it easier for firms to hire cross border and employees to move around. The idea was to be more like the United States. Apparently, this didn't qui…
I once heard a Danish head of a university say that they wanted more Swedes to come over and work because Danish workers tend to question orders more than Swedes do. I have no idea if this is true, just sounded funny to me.
When working for a Norwegian company, but with colleague in all of Scandinavia, we where introduced to the notion that as Danes we tend to be a bit pushing, impatient and just wanting to get on with the job. This would clash with the Norwegians who would want to do a lot of prep-work, upfront documentation and generally follow a certain procedure. The Swedes would avoid starting something until very one on the project had been heard and their concerns addressed.
If this is completely true in all cases seems questionable to me, but we did complete a project faster than the Oslo office could plan and document an identical project in Norway, resulting in an audit from the head office.