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by Ras_ 16y ago
Fun fact: Finnish Frontier Guard is currently training their Turkish counterpart in border control / illegal immigrant prevention. I heard it yesterday in person from Finnish Minister of Interior. Geographically it makes no sense, but immig
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by Ras_ 16y ago
Well... I heard about this on Finnish public radio (after reading here). They should know better.
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by Ras_ 16y ago
Bureaucrats can bring it back. They (and among others, arbitration committee) can access deleted articles, deletion logs etc. as they please. Undelete has its own process. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Undeletion (for articles wh
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by Ras_ 16y ago
In en.wikipedia it is not. But in some others, like fi.wikipedia, it is.
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by Ras_ 16y ago
N. Europe: I have 110/10M (cable-tv network) in Finland for $53. More widely available 24/1M DSL goes for $46. Usage caps are unheard of in cabled internet. Cheap, non-capped mobile internet has recently exploded - caps will be introduced.
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by Ras_ 16y ago
Finland: Start-up notification by private trader 75€ Start-up notification by private limited company (min. 2.5k€ share cap) 350€ No liability to collect VAT if annual sales do not exceed 8,5k - unless you are a foreigner with
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by Ras_ 16y ago
Here in Finland it seems that marriage is seen as a "standard contract", as in the easiest way to organize common issues regarding inheritance (e.g. non-married couple: kids get their share by birthright, but spouse not without separate agr
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by Ras_ 16y ago
A few more: Teachers are given freedom to design curriculum and choose textbooks, i.e. quite entrepreneurial approach No national tests of learning outcomes No school league tables or rankings Plenty of (early) attention focused o
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by Ras_ 16y ago
In Finland Galaxy S was free with 16,90€ 24mo contract with 384kbit/s non-capped data. We probably have the smallest operator margins (and/or most network overcapacity) in the EU. The US mobile communication prices seem unbelievable, esp.
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by Ras_ 16y ago
Finland & Sweden surprised me in the previous question (country). Both have more than France, Spain, Brazil or Poland. Argentina also stands out.
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by Ras_ 16y ago
elblanco: Please contact me (email in profile). Fi.wikipedia (I am an Arbcom member there) would very much welcome new content related to Demoscene. It is quite appreciated popular (not really underground here) movement in Finland. Many of
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by Ras_ 16y ago
Second opinion (with stats) by Wikimedia Foundation Data Analyst Erik Zachte: http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/12/new-editors-are-joining-e... (addendum: http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/12/why-i-changed-the-title-o... )
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by Ras_ 16y ago
Rovio Mobile: Angry Birds. For popularizing phone gaming. Having franchise potential in other platforms and even past games.
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Perhaps they needed help with promotion? Anyway according to Rovio's press contact Ville Heijari, they used Chillingo to reach the US market. Rovio and Chillingo had a deal for two versions of Angry Birds for iOS. Angry Birds for Android a
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by Ras_ 16y ago
AK-47 is not one weapon. There are many different types of construction and even more derivatives. Stamped (cheap) or milled (expensive, more accurate, does withstand abuse like sitting on the gun) parts, it does make a difference. Open sig
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List of statutory minimum employment leave by country(en.wikipedia.org)
48 points by Ras_ 16y ago|52 comments
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by Ras_ 16y ago
Team building 101: Find common enemy. But beware, the team easily turns inward and loses the interest to create value. Simply beating the enemy isn't necessarily enough.
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Hack: Milling machine playing MacGyver theme(youtube.com)
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Six weeks... quite long compared to Finland. Here the employer has to pay full wages for 10 first days of sickness, after that the state (Social Insurance Institution) covers about 70%. Ongoing sickness is an acceptable reason to fire an em
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>>They pre-decide the direction of the project with no or minimal data and then go about collecting selective data supporting their direction. I associate this behavior with (impulse) buying. Some like to think they are buyers who b
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That's bribing.
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Really? They still do business with Google, Ebay, Facebook, Amazon etc. daily.
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"Hitachi manufacturers the safest and most reliable hard drives, according to the Storelab study. Of the more than 200 Hitachi hard drives received, not a single one had failed due to manufacturing or design errors." Study: A Look At Hard D
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by Ras_ 16y ago
The Finnish Government is preparing just this kind of a system. Launch is expected at earliest in 2011. Planning was started after the 2004 Asian tsunami. In 2007 the upfront costs of an emergency alert system were estimated at 1,5 to 6 mil
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by Ras_ 16y ago
Nokia's product line up in 1936: http://www.flickr.com/photos/puijo/4997269178/
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Whoa! It only needed four letters to pinpoint my home street in Finland.
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Ollila has stated that he will also exit after a short transition period. The analysts think that it will happen in Spring 2011 at Nokia's Annual General Meeting.
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Logistics is often forgotten when core competencies are listed. I'm not sure about Nike, but generally in fashion/retail the key to success seems to be a combination of brand management and strict control of logistics chain. Obvious cases:
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by Ras_ 16y ago
Cheaper alternative to SSD: Compact Flash card with an adapter. I'm currently working on installing one into my iBook G4.
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Perceived value: customers are willing to pay a premium for pink color. That is only skin deep. How much would they pay for truly game-changing features? The article also talks about anchoring. Radical innovation can be priced quite freely

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