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There's the view that republican Rome's military success was due to their public career path churning out OK military commanders at a steady rate. Not necessarily great, just good enough with a solid understanding of the basics.

The fall of that system then came about when politically ambitious characters started developing more personal and long-term relations with their troops.

I'd say that's an argument for term limits: you want them to get good but not set roots permanently.

The Finnish public broadcaster has used a model to predict final vote share for as long as I remember. The stated purpose is to offset the bias that comes from smaller, more rural municipalities reporting sooner.

It usually kicks in when 10-20 % of the votes have been counted and switches back to raw results near the 90% mark.

Didn't find an exact date when they started using it; an article says "dates back to 1960s" but it's definitely been a staple in 2000s.

Cool climate lets you use the waste heat in district heating systems, getting more bang for your buck.

It's not about the trees. We got plenty.

But if the very first thing you do on the construction site is disregarding the local laws and regulations, when they were explicitly told about environment assessment requirement, it's not exactly favorable first impression, is it?

Alas, not anymore. Still got friends there though.

I worked with district heating, no idea what the cooling guys are/were doing. It's a big company.

Modbus is the equivalent of VGA connector in displays and projectors. It does have a TCP/IP version as well, but it has no security whatsoever. Or any features besides reading/writing a 16-bit value (or a single bit, charmingly referred to as "coil")

This is true for many (most?) flavor compounds. A little salt is nice, a teaspoon isn't.

Some sort of clove extract is used in dentistry as an temporary fix if a full root canal isn't feasible at the time. Got the tiniest whiff of that on my tongue during rinsing and it tasted downright toxic.

There are also reflector pedals (see above for reliability etc)

The US doesn't have a population register in the same way as European countries do.

For reference, the Finnish voting experience is such that about a month before the election you get a card to your registered address, telling what the election is and what's your polling place. Then you show up on the day in question, show an ID, they check that against their list and off you go.

ICC was established in 2002, hardly "in the aftermath."

Average density for non-uniform objects is pretty useless, since the cubic volume scaling makes a mess of things.

As an example, I pulled the stats for an electric locomotive. 19x3x4.4 meters, mass 90 metric tonnes. That's an average density of about 1/3rd of water.

Well, Finland's gonna insist on getting Celebrini in the trade.