AnssiH

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by AnssiH 8y ago
Yeah, I don't personally see a problem with this. Having OEMs pay a licensing fee to Google seems better than having Google stiffle competition by bundling Google Play and Search and requiring OEMs to not ship alternative non-Google AO
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by AnssiH 8y ago
Any source for ride-sharing ban by Helsinki? AFAIK no such ban ever existed. The Finnish law does require commercial drivers to hold taxi permits, though, but that is not specific to Helsinki.
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by AnssiH 8y ago
> the MPEG LA (which standardised x264 and HEVC) is also responsible for the MP4 container. The MPEG LA is just a licensing administrator formed by companies owning MPEG patents, they didn't standardize anything nor are they respons
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by AnssiH 8y ago
The name of the feature is usually AF (RDS), all my car radios since 90s have supported it and all multi-transmitter FM stations here make use of it. I'm in Finland - no idea if it is less common in US. https://en.wikipedia.
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by AnssiH 8y ago
> segmented the market for no reason This probably allows them to maximize profits, e.g. most French people probably won't go look at Amazon Spain to see if the graphics card they want is cheaper there... You are correct in that Ama
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by AnssiH 8y ago
> Amazon doesn't even have a polish website, as amazon.pl redirects to amazon.de They have multipe logistic centres in my country, employing thousands of people though! I guess it's for Germany so I can buy at amazon.de with in
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by AnssiH 8y ago
All providers/plans here (Finland) provide near-global non-free roaming. Is it different where you live? My provider lists ~190 roaming countries, not counting satellite/planes/ships, on their roaming rates page: https:&#x2F
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by AnssiH 8y ago
Finland: Yle: http://yle.fi/tekstitv MTV: http://www.mtvtekstikanava.fi/ Some random picks: Pollen map: https://yle.fi/aihe/tekstitv?P=418 - Statistics graph on an article about road t
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by AnssiH 8y ago
Yeah, have noticed the same. From my home connection in Tampere, Finland http://www.gcping.com/ shows 34ms to Frankfurt and 64ms to Finland region.
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by AnssiH 8y ago
Also, operators can request (yearly) authorization to apply limited surcharges in case the roaming rules would cause "unreasonable losses", example: https://www.viestintavirasto.fi/en/ficora/news/201
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by AnssiH 8y ago
Yes, reviews that are not of the genuine product are against Amazon rules and removed (often automatically). Such situations are considered as seller-at-fault (they sold/shipped an incorrect product) and not generally applicable to the
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by AnssiH 8y ago
Just realized one possible cause - maybe your card isn't chip-and-pin like Swedish and other European cards? I guess some terminals/processors smaller places use might not be prepared to (or are configured not to) accept non-chip-
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by AnssiH 8y ago
> 4. Buy from several various mom-and-pop shops that also only for some reason have card machines that support Swedish cards. That seems unusual to me, Swedish debit cards are AFAIK just VISA/Mastercard cards so I'd think those
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by AnssiH 8y ago
Note that that bug was just a documentation issue (see comment #21) - Firefox already used form #15 even before version 59. Version control shows Firefox has used form #15 for Macedonian at least since 2012: https://hg.mozilla.or
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by AnssiH 8y ago
I think the problem with that is that Amazon already has the US streaming SVOD rights, which Netflix would also need. That IMO makes Amazon the more likely party to purchase the US rights that Syfy had.
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by AnssiH 8y ago
They did have a Finance app, but they dropped it from Play Store in 2015 after not updating it for years. https://www.androidpolice.com/2015/04/01/google-quietly-remo...
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by AnssiH 9y ago
> When a communication system silently drops messages, this is unacceptable. But people are ok with it because they're accustomed to it being shit. Or they are OK with it because they have never had their SMS messages dropped, like
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by AnssiH 9y ago
There are deductions to capital gains tax, but they do not apply here as cryptocurrencies are not considered property but instead an agreement between the users, if I understood correctly. But regular currency trading losses are not deducti
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by AnssiH 9y ago
> If it is only for crypto I'm no expert, but from what I understand, you can't deduct losses from regular currency deposits, either. Here is a decision from the Supreme Administrative Court in a case where someone had converte
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by AnssiH 9y ago
Amazon Japan and Amazon China are the only ones that have separate accounts from the rest of the Amazon sites.
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by AnssiH 9y ago
The pricing of the most common merchant service provider (Nets) in Finland is 0.31% for EU VISA/MC debit cards (max 0.75 EUR per transaction) and 0.90% for EU consumer VISA/MC credit cards. For reference, approx. 80% of card trans
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by AnssiH 9y ago
For an explanation of __is_constant(), see the thread where it was suggested: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/20/845 (this was also indirectly linked to in the article) tl;dr: If one of the expressions in a
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by AnssiH 9y ago
Scheduled public presentations, or appointments.
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by AnssiH 9y ago
Commonly apartment complexes here (Finland) are owned by building-specific limited liability housing companies that do not make profit, with shares corresponding to apartments. Those shares are then owned by various individuals or rental co
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by AnssiH 9y ago
OK. Here such companies just have one central office per city/region, no building-specific ones. The largest companies here manage "only" tens of thousands of rental apartments, though.
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by AnssiH 9y ago
> If you live in an apartment building, the leasing offices which sign for packages Somewhat OT, but are these common in US (or wherever you are)? If so, out of interest, what other duties to they have? In Finland, I've never seen s
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by AnssiH 9y ago
Amazon, specifically, never asks for CVC/CVV in the first place. It is not required for charging a card, it is for reducing fraud.
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by AnssiH 9y ago
The bank account credentials are also commonly used for ID verification online, for e.g. government services, contracts, password recovery, etc.
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by AnssiH 9y ago
English version of the link: https://www.fingrid.fi/en/electricity-market/power-system/
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by AnssiH 9y ago
I've received such sold-by-Amazon items as well, but I had assumed it was simple return fraud (customer returns wrong item in a packaging that looks unopened so Amazon puts it back on stock). Of course I can't know for sure if it

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