NeoTar

> The ß sticks around in German

Some German. I believe it’s basically abandoned in Swiss German.

Possibly you may have come across it under the term an 'incomplete sentence' - as others have stated, it's a set of words which don't form a complete thought.

I'm also a en_gb speaker, and I'd never heard of the term until my teen years using the Microsoft Word grammar checker.

It must be hard to do research on this since I can imagine that prosecutions were possible even if homosexuality were not actually illegal (one can find other crimes to prosecute such as 'corrupting the youth') and the conflation between various sexual acts in law (e.g. consentual versus non-consentual sexual activity).

I do appreciate the idea that it may have been prompted by anti-homosexual moral panics though. That resonates.

Possibly the Free City of Cracow (Kraków) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_City_of_Cracow - which was arguably the only 'Polish' state that existed at the time, surviving until 1848?

Although I suspect it may be coming from the Wikipedia article, or its source (which is in Polish so I can't verify exactly what it says) - reproduced below.

> The Napoleonic Code, introduced in the Duchy of Warsaw in 1808, was silent on homosexuality. After 1815, all three countries that partitioned Poland explicitly declared homosexual acts illegal. In Congress Poland homosexuality was criminalised in 1818, in Prussia in 1871 and in Austria in 1852. Russia's new code of law (called Kodeks Kar Głównych i Poprawczych/Уложение о наказаниях уголовных и исправительных 1845 года) in 1845 penalized homosexuality with forced resettlement to Siberia.

Fingerprints are less accurate and reliable than often portrayed in the media.

I'm not sure why, but that website is beautifully broken for me

- it asked for my birthday (e.g. 25th Feb 1986) using a day / month / year form

- then converted to the m/dd/yy form (i.e. a string 22586),

- found that string in Pi,

- forgot my birthday and messed up displaying that somehow when converting back - saying that it found my birthday of 22 / 5 / 86

There are techniques which allow you to, for instance, calculate the 'n'th digit of Pi in base 10 (or binary, or hex, etc.) These are generally more computationally/memory expensive than the techniques used to calculate as many digits of Pi as possible.

So, you run your big calculation to get all XXX trillion digits on one machine, and run a completely different calculation to check, say, 1000 of those digits. If all match it's a pretty convincing argument that the calculation is correct.

Undisclosed minimum length is particularly egregious.

It's very frustrating when you've got a secure system and you spend a few minutes thinking up a great, memorable, secure password; then realize that it's too few (or worse, too many!) characters.

Even worse when the length requirements are incompatible with your password generation tool.

I assume they would need to rap on the main entrance door, which could be five floors below this individuals apartment - not just their apartment door.

(I.e. this is an entry phone that permits you to remotely unlock the street level door which is being replaced with a mobile app / phone call)

Some people enjoy working in an office, and (so long as you aren't imposing your desires on anyone else) that's just fine.

I think every subscription should be required to have an information label, akin to the Broadband Consumer Labels (https://www.fcc.gov/broadbandlabels) that contains basic facts about the subscription, e.g.

- Price (only Monthly/Annual prices are acceptable),

- Additional data if this is an introductory rate,

- Minimum length of contract,

- Whether the contract auto-renews,

- How to cancel,

- Cancellation period (i.e. 30 days in advance of renewal),

- Any cancellation charges,

Communication requires thought and input from both sides - if I use a numeric abbreviation with someone who is unfamiliar with it, I am communicating badly.

I think where we differ is that I see such abbreviations as no worse than any other - TLAs (three letter acronyms) can also be as impenetrable.

Yep - pretty-much, aye-el-ev-en-why although I may have miscounted the syllables in eleven in my parent post.

It's most pronounced in aye-ate-een-en, internationalization is a word I find myself stumbling when saying in full.

It’s shorter to say (4 vs 6 syllables), and to write - how is that ‘no gain’?

I18n is 4 syllables, internationalisation 7. It may not be pronounceable, but many abbreviations are not, and it’s still faster.

But yes, like every abbreviation, do use the full word the first time you use it “Considering the topic of internationalisation (i18n)…”

I’m using „our world in data“ - the link in my first post.

A difference may be that my figures are not just electricity, but „primary energy“, defined as:

„Primary energy includes energy that the end user needs, in the form of electricity, transport and heating, plus inefficiencies and energy that is lost when raw resources are transformed into a usable form.”

Strava has a global heat-map for running, cycling etc. although I believe it is a subscription-only feature. There is also your personal heat-map which is cool to see if you use the app enough.

And create a housing crisis which is deadly - I cannot imagine the carnage that a major fire or earthquake would cause in a Kowloon Walled City like environment.

But I do think that some building regulations need a rethink - I believe there is a requirement in many American cities/states to have two staircases in apartment buildings, which really restricts how you can organise the building

It depends on where the parent commenter is living - in Berlin I was paying over 80 EUR a month for a travel card which only applied in the state of Berlin before the Deutschland ticket () - I could believe that a monthly pass for other cities (Frankfurt?) could reach 150 EUR.

( Not directly before, there was the 9 EUR ticket in summer '22, and then BVG offered their monthly ticket for 29 EUR for a while).

Not really.

Let's use the UNCTAD definition of developing countries - there are a number of countries which exceed Canada's per-capita energy usage (the highest of those I mention above) - Qatar, UAE, Trinidad and Tobago and Kuwait.

But those are all small countries, the highest per-capita energy usage by a larger nation is Turkmenistan (exceeding all of the European countries mentioned in the parent - UK, France, Germany - and Japan).

But that's not really the point. Doubtless there is a correlation between energy usage and standard of living. But it's not a 1:1, and there are some huge benefits to be gained - e.g. the US (77,028 kWh / person / year) has triple the usage per capital of the UK (28,501 kWh / person / year). Even in Europe, France and Germany could reduce their usage by a quarter to bring it to the UK level.

The United States, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom have all reduced their per-capita energy usage since the peak (earliest peak usage was UK in 1973, latest was Canada in 2007), and I think we can argue that quality-of-life (by at least some metrics) has increased since then.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-energy-use?tab...

For anyone lacking European geography knowledge, the airports involved are very close - Maastricht Aachen airport to Liege Airport is a 40 minute (49km, 30mile) drive.

True, but the pattern would break down with (the long-scale) definition of trillion in any case.

The long scale makes sense because it is powers of a million -

- one million - 10^6,

- one billion (long scale) - 10^12 - ‘bi’ meaning two, is a million squared,

- one trillion (long scale) - 10^18 - ‘tri’ meaning three is a million cubed,

- one quadrillion (long scale) - 10^24 - ‘quad’ meaning four is a million to the power four.

You are not correct.

Having a monthly fee for a bank account (typically around 5 EUR) is common in Germany.

Add to the cost of handling cash:

- dealing with fake notes,

- mistakes in handling notes and change (mistaking a ten for a twenty, etc.)

- theft from the store (not just mugging on the way to the safety deposit box)

- employee theft,

- reduced transaction capacity; cash transactions can take much longer (customers finding the cash, employee counting it, employee making can age)

- requirement to ‘cash up‘ at the end of the day (I.e. ensure the till takings match stock sold)

- occasional trips to the bank to get change (which must be during bank working hours)

For an independent guitar store some may not be relevant, but for some businesses they could be significant.

People do consider it.

But one of the issues with the tax system is that it’s not just a revenue generation mechanism. It is also used to encourage ‚good’ behaviours (e.g. saving for pensions) and discourage ‚bad’ (e.g. gambling).

So, whenever you make a change to the tax system, you are not just changing revenue generation, you are also adopting a political position. Are you „hurting frugal savers” by removing their benefits, or „supporting gamblers” by removing their taxes.

I encourage everyone to read the original versions of the fairy tales, as told in the Grimms, Perrault, etc.

These stories sometimes read like something from another world. Like they are set in a world with hidden rules and assumptions, that we do not understand and seem alien to us.

I think a rule which says that once a price changes, the POS system must universally use the lower price for the next two hours (for the largest supermarkets, maybe 1 hour for a mid-sized, and 30m for a small metro sized shop) would be appropriate.

So, if a price increases it’s very unlikely a customer who has seen the lower price will be charged it, and if a price lowers, it must be implemented instantly.

To get in first with the joke answer - Surely it must be something created on 1970-01-01 00:00:00

My only problem with your comment is that human forecasters and decision makers are also often not held accountable for their work.