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SmoothOperator

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  • Danish postal service to stop delivering letters after 400 years

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  • It does. And yes, it is. The logistics and pricing are very different. For one, by shutting down the letter system they can nix the mail drop-off boxes that were all over the place.

  • Danish postal service to stop delivering letters after 400 years

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  • How is it not the opposite? The only reason we can do it is because of the reasons we're unlike the US. Centralised, digitized, with a trusted state and a coherent public sector.

    If the US were to shut down their postal system, it would be to weaken the public system and enrich some billionaire by holding critical infrastructure hostage.

    In Denmark we're doing it because we've invested so much in a comprehensive national digital post system, which is so good that the volume of letters is so vanishingly small that even a private actor will barely be able to turn a profit from delivering them.

  • Danish postal service to stop delivering letters after 400 years

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  • Sure.

    I thought you were talking about the closing of our postal system.

  • Danish postal service to stop delivering letters after 400 years

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  • I don't think 95% is right, but in any case, when does it then stop being critical infrastructure? At 99% digital correspondence? 100%? Never?

    Must we maintain a working national postal service, with all its employees and logistics, just in case?

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  • At some point, the relevance of the system becomes so low, and the cost so high, that it doesn't make sense to maintain. Imagine still maintaining horse feeding stations along the roads.

    I agree, the point of post isn't to be profitable. But when it's no longer critical infrastructure, and the state can't maintain it without extensive losses, then we should privatise it. If the private sector can't maintain it with a profit, and it remains non-critical, we should shut it down.

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  • We really haven't. This is the opposite of American culture. Our healthy, centralised public system has evolved beyond physical mail, and there is no reason for the collective to carry the cost of an irrelevant infrastructure.

    This can be done responsibly because we have spent decades developing a public, secure, national digital alternative

  • Danish postal service to stop delivering letters after 400 years

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  • Denmark is highly digitized. Mail is no longer a critical infrastructure, no need for the state to maintain it.

  • [2025-12-19] Fri snak fredag

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  • Det behøver ikke være metal, jeg er bare nysgerrig på hvad metalhoveder synes god minimalistisk musik generelt lyder som

  • [2025-12-19] Fri snak fredag

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  • Jeg tænker hvad som helst du føler passer til beskrivelsen "minimalistisk". Min kammerat og jeg har vidt forskellige ideer om hvad det betyder, men "minimal-maksimal" aksen føles alligevel rammende for forskellen i vores smag og forståelse af æstetik.

    Så jeg har brug for bred indsigt i hvad "minimal musik" kan betyde for metalhoveder!

  • [2025-12-19] Fri snak fredag

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  • Definitionen af minimalisme er del af diskussionen, så bare hvad du føler er minimalistisk.

    Meget metal føles "maksimalistisk", som i at der sker enormt meget hele tiden, og man bliver revet rundt med rytmer og distortion. Men hvad det modsatte skulle være er uklart.

  • Positivity 😇

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  • The largest amount of energy is released from fusing two hydrogens into helium. The atom in the comic looks much heavier than hydrogen.

    Also a chain fusion reaction is required for an explosion. The comic just shows non-explosive ionisation.

  • [2025-12-19] Fri snak fredag

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  • Nogen metalhoveder i huset der kan anbefale noget "minimalistisk" musik de er vilde med? Det behøver ikke være metal.

    Er i en efterhånden mange uger lang diskussion med en kammerat om æstetik, har brug for mere data!

  • For those of you that made new friendships this year

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  • Befriended a colleague and her husband. They recently moved to my country, and we're both new on the job, so felt like a perfect setup.

    Also met a British woman who recently moved to the country at an event recently where I was giving a talk. We don't have the same background, but looking forward to inviting her out to hang!

    I've lived abroad a few years myself, and I am in an international relationship, so I know how important it is for new arrivals to connect with locals. And I love getting new friends from across the world!

  • Chain rule (not that one)

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  • How do I know I've moved far enough? What if the walls and whip have just moved?

  • Chain rule (not that one)

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  • How will you know when you're free then?

  • No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog

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  • To be fair, it's way better than 50/50, but of course no guarantees still.

  • Danish intelligence accuses US of using economic power to ‘assert its will’ over allies

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  • The legal framework for Greenland to declare independence has been in place for decades.

    They're currently a self-ruling territory that is part of the Danish realm by choice. Not saying that forgives old colonialist crimes, but it hasn't been a Danish colony for a while now.

  • Seed ball (technique often used for rapid dispersal of seeds in damaged sites, such as in guerilla gardening)

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  • Also depends on your goal. If you just want a plant, plant will come. If you want the prettiest, strongest plant in the neighborhood, you can nerd out about the conditions to an almost fractal-like level of detail.

  • Steam Deal: Save 34% on Blue Prince on Steam(New Historical Low)

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  • Great game!