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		maccard on March 15, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Waste of Daylight For anyone living north of san Francisco it's pretty much a requirement. If I didn't use artificial light my winter days would be 6 hours long and my summer days would be 18 hours longm

philwelch on March 15, 2021 | [–]

If that were true, every latitude north of San Francisco would have been completely uninhabited for most of human history.

arethuza on March 15, 2021 | [–]

I remember being quite surprised when I noticed (while I was actually in San Francisco) that its about the same latitude as Lisbon in Portugal. So you are talking about almost all of Europe.

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