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by Ras_ 16y ago
Otto von Bismarck was also instrumental: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck#Bismarck.27s_...
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by Ras_ 16y ago
This might also be true in education (e.g. Finland has the least amount of school hours in OECD-countries, while its results are the best according to PISA).
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Intel, Nokia Create Joint R&D Lab in Finland(blog.laptopmag.com)
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Clausewitz might be practical compared to Sun Tzu, but his assertion that the enemy’s center of gravity (strongest point) is the point which all energies should be directed sounds stupid. He is also too intent on single deciding battles. Su
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In Finland (legislation and society modeled from Germany), you are not allowed to acquire personal information from third parties, like internet in general, without applicant's consent. Only the information provided by the candidate and his
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Grass roof... they have a slightly bigger one at Ford Rouge River: "The roof of the 1.1 million square foot (100,000 m²) Dearborn truck assembly plant was covered with more than 10 acres (40,000 m²) of sedum, a low-growing groundcover. The
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Finnish retailers are also converting en masse to refrigeration units which have a cover/door. It is a big investment to convert, but it also saves about 35% of the energy. All new installs are of course with the doors.
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In Northern Europe it's similar to Germany. Actually in my home town (Kuopio, Finland) the first passive/zero energy student housing (a 3 floor block of flats) is nearing its completion. The US Ambassador to Finland Bruce Oreck visited the
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by Ras_ 16y ago
According to PALPA, those single-use bottles do get returned (89%) nearly as well as the sturdier ones did. They just aren't reused as such but in production of plastics. Finnish numbers: Aluminum cans: 92% recycled (Germany 96%, Belgium 93
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My candidate for a valuable idea with no real need of exceptional execution: The Million Dollar Homepage "Many other sites sell advertising by pixels. Tew said of the sites, "[they] popped up almost immediately; now there are hundreds of We
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Bonus: Dopplr's Marko Ahtisaari previewed Nokia X3 today http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmqf_nktDag Looks almost like one of Jonathan Ive's design talks.
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Dopplr turnover in 2009 only 754 euros(translate.google.com)
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More interesting details: http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=15369167&#38... "The corruption situation is so dramatic that the report authors singled out corruption-related losses of Russian economy. They estimated these loss
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Russia's Corruption Generates Equivalent Of 50% GDP(nasdaq.com)
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The World's Best Countries (data-rich infographic)(newsweek.com)
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http://www.islandia.is/lhm/images/parking-houston.jpg (from 1980s) More here (eg. aerial pictures of Hartford pre and post Interstate): http://theoverheadwire.blogspot.com/2010/02/parking-bombs.ht...
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by Ras_ 16y ago
True. I also know a few who have relocated from Budapest (Hungary) to Prague (Czech R) after completing university. More jobs, better wage, better living standards. Slovakia has improved a lot lately. Some thing which I didn't expect before
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by Ras_ 16y ago
There are places for everything: Åland Islands (Fi) - no VAT Jersey (UK) - no VAT on goods sold, as long as items cost less than £18 and are posted individually, no import taxes to mainland UK Estonia - no corporate profit tax (flat 21% tax
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by Ras_ 16y ago
"Between 1949 and the cessation of atomic testing in 1989, 456 explosions were conducted at the STS, including 340 underground (borehole and tunnel) shots and 116 atmospheric (either air-drop or tower shots)." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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Modern (fission-)fusion bombs are cleaner and more efficient than old fission bombs. Low efficiency means that the nuclear reaction doesn't end with the explosion. The remaining heavy nucleus decay at their normal rate and radiate. The bigg
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Basic income aka perustulo is popular topic in current Finnish politics. I believe the Green League (which is unusually large party here - nearly 10% share) adopted it first. Recent polls indicate that the idea of Basic income could be favo
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First Generation III+ reactor is still being built in Finland. Gen IV (thorium, LFTR etc.) should arrive after 2030. It seems that there's considerable distance between getting an approval and building one. Areva's EPR-proto has proved that
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Testing, ranking and inspecting have become all too pervasive? In Finland national testing, school ranking lists and inspection systems do not exist. Unfortunately behind this facade it still manages to focus quite heavily on rote memoriza
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Finland: 31$/mo. for iPhone4 + 13$/mo. (dur. 2 yrs) for unrestricted 3G data until 1 Gb transferred, after which the speed is capped to 64 kbit/s. or 26$/mo. (dur. 2 yrs) for HTC Desire including unlimited 3G data with unrestricted speed, f
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Somewhat similar bill in Finland failed recently, because they couldn't reasonably define "a startup".
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Founding IRC: http://www.mirc.com/help/jarkko.html Very similar to the birthing of Linux.
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"Eight Americans were killed and 23 were wounded when 175 to 200 insurgents outnumbered and attacked this isolated command outpost in Nuristan Province. This report shows how insurgents were successfully able to cut off small, isolated outp
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>> extra attention "One German community removes lights and signs in a daring experiment and sees accident rates decline." http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2008/0912/p07s03-woeu.... Der Spiegel found seven affirming examples:
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Pradhan's dissertation: http://epublications.uef.fi/pub/urn_isbn_978-952-61-0062-3/i...
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Human urine shown to be an effective agricultural fertilizer(scientificamerican.com)
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