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Re:UK 2022 rail station flow images on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @08:43AM (#38853935)
Can anyone explain how to see the images?

All I can see is text, something like: ``` version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 oid sha256:c113251a7c1a67eff152777018926de038c3a78723ec16b611a45a030b8b4d8b size 294284 ``` https://github.com/anisotropi4/kingfisher/blob/main/image/A/...

"Left side" and "right side" is unambiguous, because there is one given direction (forward). It is the same as "left bank" and "right bank" of a river (it is always looking downstream). For example, Slavic languages usually just use some sort of "left side" and "right side".
Re:How Gmail Happened (2014) on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @07:12PM (#19568016)
Just wondering how you would know that they do or do not do that?
Re:Kofola, the Cold War Drink of Czechoslovakia on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @07:00PM (#19567930)
Kvass is very uncommon in Slovakia or Czechia (it's only known as Ukrainian or Russian drink, one can buy it it shops with UA and RU products, which are oriented mainly on UA and RU expats)
Re:Kofola, the Cold War Drink of Czechoslovakia on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @06:56PM (#19567917)
Kofola originated as a by-product of pharma industry.
Re:Can you buy your own train? on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @06:01PM (#19506578)
There was even a hackathon on Prague (Czechia) - Kosice (Slovakia) train a few years back. It's quite easy (but not very common, for sure) and not so expensive to rent a car or a whole train in CZ (from the train companies). There are also some historical trains for rent (run by enthusiasts, usually).
I was looking once (about a year or two ago) on Czech (EU member state) government websites and about 90% of them were using something from Google, usually Analytics. But some of them required even Captcha (so no way to access it without being vetted by Google, an US company).
Being from Europe: Many more tourists from Asia, beginning of touristic boom from Africa. Many Europeans (and Americans) will be priced out from vacations they can enjoy now.
Re:How to self-publish a book: A handy list of resources on Monday November 12, 2018 @08:45PM (#18437719)
$125 for ISBN seems like a ripoff to me - the ISBN are given for free where I come from: the Czech Republic; and the system is administered by the National Library
Re:How Children in a Maya Village Do Chores on Monday June 11, 2018 @05:24AM (#17282915)
I'm from central-eastern Europe and I feel the same. I've spent a few years in Latin America and I'd call both the regions "new" or "satellite" or "not-core" West. Germany or the US may be the original core West, but LatAm and CEEurope are West, too.

Whether to include also Russia, that would be my question.

Re:Facebook is banning all ads promoting cryptocurrencies on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @05:48PM (#16269817)
Still better than "natural resources"
I use postgrest for several projects. I have an issue with crashing occasionally (once in months) for no obvious reason (to me). I solved it by continously checking the status and automatically restarting it if it's down. Otherwise great.
Re:I Was Suspended from Facebook for My #MeToo Post on Thursday October 19, 2017 @10:26AM (#15508165)
It depends very much on context, doesn't it? There are probably not many social circles suspending you for photos like this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Thi_Kim_Phuc (or those in the OP's article)
Re:I Was Suspended from Facebook for My #MeToo Post on Thursday October 19, 2017 @10:23AM (#15508128)
"The algorithm" should never be an excuse. There are many real people on many levels of responsibility behind "the algorithm". Facebook restored it only because the story gained a traction (it is even on HN, right?). What is the rate between restored and not-restored in such cases if the story is not as prominent as this one?
One possible explanation is in the popular book Las Venas abiertas de América Latina (Open Veins of Latin America) by Eduardo Galeano.
Re:An open source email campaign management tool for nonprofits on Saturday September 16, 2017 @04:29PM (#15266582)
We (very very small EU NGO) do it. I run an emailing of dozens of thousands emails about once a year - before some elections, we prepare some pre-election tools for people. I use simple php for that, so the setting is actually quite bad with regards to spamfiltering. But we get several percents response rate - people coming to our website and using the tools - the very day I send it, which is very good (and more people later), most of businesses would really like to achieve that, imho.
Re:How the GDPR Will Disrupt Google and Facebook on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @05:57PM (#15136428)
Using DuckDuckGo is fine for let say 98% of my searches (most of them probably IT related). For the rest, I go to Google or Bing or others. Is there Britannica on flash drives? I should add it to those 2%.
Re:How the GDPR Will Disrupt Google and Facebook on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @05:51PM (#15136370)
Talking from experience from a "new" EU country with solid IT scene: the "cookie law" is not enforced at all. Google would be probably the only one theoretically enforcing it (most of websites do show a message because they use Google Analytics), but it would go against Google's interest, so they are not really enforcing it either.
There are many languages in India, not just Hindi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_India

There are apps - e.g., "Mushrooms app" for Android. It is probably targeted mainly on (central/eastern) Europe, it is the region where mushrooms picking is pretty common. There are a few others, too.
Czechia. It's the EU country with the newest English name hard to beat (-; And after some 2 years you will be happy to move on(-; Just avoid Prague-this city hates itself
Shouldn't the next question be obvious? - "What is a REPL?"
I am using Telegram for such notifications. I made a simple Telegram bot, it does not do anything itself, I just use it as a sender of my messages to my phone. And I have a particular web address, which collects requests from any of my scripts and it just resends it (it is a simple python script) through the bot to me.
Re:Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @05:03PM (#14037183)
I've never understood why people (particularly outside UK) care about some "sirs" at all. "Mr. Tim Berners-Lee" sounds just fine to me.
Re:The High-Speed Trading Behind an Amazon Purchase on Sunday March 26, 2017 @09:54PM (#13964560)
Carrefour in France was using it already some 10 years ago. More current photo: https://theworklife.com/graham-miln/files/2013/12/2013-09-ei...
Re:The High-Speed Trading Behind an Amazon Purchase on Sunday March 26, 2017 @09:48PM (#13964536)
What places do you have in mind talking about Eastern Europe? "Grocery market" for 99 % of people (from Eastern Europe) is a "shop"/supermarket/mall (think of Lidl, Tesco or Carrefour as examples) and even outdoor markets, if they exist at all, usually have set prices (which may change during the day, of course).
Re:Scotland to seek second independence referendum on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @01:01AM (#13865143)
Bulgarian or Bosnian currencies as well as many central African ones are pegged to Euro since the times of German mark and French frank. And suggered no "Sorosian" attack so far.
Not only KGB, there are such victims jailed in Guantánamo even tonight.
The point is that the US can arbitrarily keep the number of people who are refused visa as high as it wants. And than it can argue that this number is too high for visa waiver (and I bet the US is doing it for countries like Poland)

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