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90km/h? I've come to the same conclusion. It felt too slow at first but I got used to it. It's safer, more economical, speed cameras aren't a problem and traffic pretty much dissappears. I don't think I can ever go back to driving faster, there are too many benefits.
No one has said we should eliminate cars entirely. Cars make sense in rural areas, we should use them there. Cars don't make sense in cities, so we need alternatives.
It is possible for train A and train B to arrive at the same time, and depart at the same time, allowing convenient transfers in both directions. From my brief experience on Swiss railways, I found this arrangement to be quite common.
This time. A fire on board a vessel is highly dangerous and should always be avoided if possible. If a car was the cause of the fire, additional safety measures should be implemented on these types of vessel to potentially save the lives of the crew.
Egypt is mostly desert, the only arable land is on the banks of the Nile.
4c group might be able to help you - https://www.4cgroup.co.za
Unfortunately code that did that would probably not pass the App Store review process.
The downside to doing this is you have to pay the transaction fee twice, once for the $1 and once for the $499,999. The transaction fee is a fixed amount irregardless of how much is being transferred, so it's definitely better to pay the fee twice than risk losing it all if you are even slightly unsure.
Interesting, but what about the excrement and toilet paper that (I assume) ends up in the same tank?
All passengers on any flight leaving South Africa must show a negative PCR test, including those who have been vaccinated.
Source: https://www.gov.za/covid-19/individuals-and-households/trave...
Land is cheap in that part of South Africa, but certainly not that cheap. For reference, [1] is 231ha of almost undeveloped land listed for about $100000.
I suspect it is tax evasion or a nepotism deal.
[1] https://www.property24.com/for-sale/bloemfontein-rural/bloem...
Some countries require a TV license to own a TV. Its a monthly license fee used to fund public broadcasters.
The TV license in the article is for a similar system in South Africa, which funds the local public broadcaster SABC
Probably the regulations of the country the oil rig is registered in.
But are you really locking your car from 5 miles away? I doubt the radio in the key will be strong enough for that distance.
No, in fact the numbers were not drawn sequentially but arranged in order after. The only exception is the powerball, the 10 in this case, which always is last in the draw and positioned last in the final numbers.
This can be seen in the official announcement: https://youtu.be/11RN1pEnrTo
Some insurance companies where I live prevent extortion from tow truck companies by including a list of authorized tow companies as a part of the policy. Cars that aren't towed by those companies won't get paid out (or get less paid out, not sure on the details). Perhaps something similar could help here?
Given this situation though, it seems like the tow trucks might just violently threaten someone until they agree to let them tow their car while they wait for an authorized company to arrive. But perhaps that is easier for the police to deal with than organised crime.
The issue is app stores. Most app developers/companies won't deploy to any stores other than Google's and Apple's, so when it comes to choosing a device that can run most apps its IPhone or Android.
A solution here is to introduce a standard mobile app format, with standard APIs to interact with the OS. Then app developers write one app that can run on any supported device. But good luck getting the duopoly to agree to that.
I think the best compromise is a polite email saying no, but any further "why" questions can be ignored to prevent legal liability.
"crackers" or "security hackers". I'm sure most people on this site would consider themselves to be some form of "hacker", after all, this is "Hacker News".
Similar thing on Android. Doesn't matter what browser you use, it asks you to "continue with Chrome".
What is the app called?
Thank you for not using the cookie notice! This is clearly a better way of following this law, and probably what the EU intended when they created it.
Cookie notices have become a massive pain on the Internet. What really annoys me is that these notices are on websites that don't even serve the EU. The other day I was browsing the website for a local (non-EU) cellphone company, on a local TLD, from an IP address registered to a local ISP, and I still had to accept this meaningless popup.
Uganda is much smaller than the USA, and more densely populated. Country-wide LTE makes a lot more economic sense there, especially when you consider that mobile internet is the primary way of connecting to the Internet in Africa.
If I was aware of someone wanting to fire me without benefits by forcing me to quit, I'd probably try force them to fire me with those benefits. I'd sit at my desk playing games or watching series or some other non-work activity, ignoring any requests from my manager. Eventually they'll have to fire me, or they keep paying me to do nothing.
While autonomous cars might be able to reduce traffic, they cannot eliminate it entirely. There is a limit on the number of cars which can drive down a road in a certain amount of time. If more cars wish to use the road than capacity allows, then there will be traffic.
That can only be solved by increasing capacity, either with more lanes or more roads in the same direction, but this is typically not feasible.
Rolling weekends are problematic because it limits all social events to the evening. If no one has a shared day off, then daytime events which involve groups of people aren't possible.
A 2-day weekend, with one day/half day off during the week for appointments, would be a much better system. The employee could select the day themselves to suit their preferences.