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by berntb 10y ago
>> How can this sentence even be written? I answered that -- it is not in the Saudi interest to rock the boat. It is fully possible SA is cooperating with the Pakistan government regarding terror against India. But the Saudi governmen
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by berntb 10y ago
>> Some contradiction right there. So just because someone is politically/religiously extreme they are violent? >> Iran has invaded which countries in the last 2000 years 2 minutes with Wikipedia: https://en.wiki
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by berntb 10y ago
Saudi Arabia might export an extremist and hateful variant of their religion, but they don't advocate terror (you don't rock the boat when you're on top of the world). Iran is probably the world's largest terror exporter
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by berntb 10y ago
They are their own worst enemy. It is getting too hard to buy physical stuff from Amazon and not getting fakes. :-( Right now I have a new type of problem: I have waited for a package (in Romania) for a month, which the German DHL won'
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by berntb 10y ago
On one hand -- sure, I've sadly forgotten most of the math I ever learned. But on the other hand, no. I can bounce around modelling with basic data structures (hashes, arrays, structs/objects etc) in my head like a good juggler ca
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by berntb 10y ago
The difference is that the previous government lowered the taxes for the first 20K SEK earned per month. (This was mostly after my time in Sweden.) My point regarding the impossibility of service work at these levels stands. Quite a few tax
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by berntb 10y ago
Seems totally correct to me -- and is also what I had in the first "Edit:", except the details. :-) The taxes were lowered substantially for ~ the first 18K SEK of monthly income by the previous government. (This boon for low inco
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by berntb 10y ago
I know the definition. I also know that just the "hidden" cost not presented to people as "tax" is 31.42% of the salary. The tax rate in itself is generally around 30%. So something is rotten in Den.. Swedish data. :-) A
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by berntb 10y ago
Please see this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-wage_labour_costs https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbetsgivaravgifter_i_Sverige I wrote "a third of the money the company pays for his wages&q
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by berntb 10y ago
You are just too far away. Swedish politics is as sick a joke as in Italy. - The school and high school results are in a state of implosion. No real political reaction. - Because of internal political manoeuvres, the immigration policies we
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by berntb 10y ago
This has probably more to do with Sweden having so high taxes on labour that repairs becomes impossible without a tax break. An average Swede gets ~ a third of the money the company pays for his wages. (30% tax, 30% in social charges etc.)
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by berntb 10y ago
That is also assuming that cancer treatments won't get better with time, right? Also, "Linear no-threshold theory of radiation safety" sounds strange? For e.g. gamma radiation, cancer risk is very far from linearly correlated
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by berntb 10y ago
The GP is (humorously) claiming to make almost exclusively non serious arguments on the internet, so it would obviously be inconsistent for him/her to use the correct term. (I thought it was funny, but both I and the GP should probably
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by berntb 10y ago
That's the point, iTunes don't run on Linux.
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by berntb 10y ago
If you have an iPhone -- iTunes for music. Since I only use Linux at home now (yes, yes -- I should look at BSD variants, another discussion), I reluctantly got an Android this year. :-(
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by berntb 10y ago
You would hope so. In today's news, the police just forgot about when a 72 year old got a gun to his head when visiting a graveyard. Rather, crime in Sweden is deemed important if a case reach the media. That is a more likely explanati
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by berntb 10y ago
Sorry, I thought my point was obvious -- it is hilariously obvious that the tenacity is not about the crime Assange stands accused of. (I'm not certain if Assange should be sent to a prison in the US or not. Releasing information, whic
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by berntb 10y ago
You need a bit more information to see the really funny part. There is presently a scandal in Sweden regarding how bad the Swedish police and the courts work. The justice system write off cases easily. In many parts of the country, after of
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by berntb 10y ago
Companies with this behaviour regarding my work tools lower my personal life quality. It might be Software Business 101 now, but when enough executives note that it makes you hated after a number of years, the course content might change.
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by berntb 10y ago
In sum, you and others seem to describe the present situation as a result of a more violent historical past? And maybe it could be more like an European model? Thanks, that answers my question. (Regarding the equal number of up/down vo
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by berntb 10y ago
Weird, it seems counterproductive. Why doesn't the US police in bigger cities try to integrate with the citizens? Is the violence risk so big or are there legal reasons?
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by berntb 10y ago
I would never get the habit of using !! with sudo. I want to read what I do, before doing root commands... (Alt-. is possible, I guess. Maybe.) But I'm an epic coward that even looks both to the left and the right before crossing a str
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by berntb 10y ago
Yes, but add face recognition and it will be easy court cases... I see new services for the future: + Upload services that gets video checksums every second (and maybe a picture every 30 seconds), so you can prove that this video was not t
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by berntb 10y ago
Terrible? Rather interesting start point, I'd say. It should be trivial to install, maybe come preconfigured on a stick computer or even run directly in a mobile phone? The Dropbox functionality should be encrypted and download stuff o
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by berntb 10y ago
I always wondered what would happen to violent crime if everyone logged what happens? (If there is no obvious camera, it would be enough if 10-15% logged, for the risk to increase.) A button sends the last minute of everything that happened
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by berntb 10y ago
There are crazies of all religions. But to go from that to your claims about US (I assume?) need really good references. I'd say the Obama time contradicts your claims. The intervention in Syria for example, was just symbolical -- desp
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by berntb 10y ago
Sorry, being a day late -- the point I'm trying to make is that we pulled the claws and fangs out of our priests in the west. It was not a nice experience, but now it is done. Globally, at least the Catholics are heavily influenced by
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by berntb 10y ago
OK, I'll buy that... it is not me, it is the administrator(s).
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by berntb 10y ago
I used to hate JIRA. At the present work, it surprises me that I quite like it. I have thought about this (is my algorithm for liking/hating stuff deficient?), but am not certain if it is because I use a later version of JIRA, or if it
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by berntb 10y ago
Those are rounding errors if you compare with the 30 year war, the Huguenots or what Cromwell did on Ireland... Or that the total non Muslim population is being forced out of the Middle East right now ! The Central African Republic was rev

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