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by eldaisfish 6y ago
You've forgotten one major aspect of life so far north - the near absolute lack of sunlight in the winter which is about 5 months of the year. My first year in Finland, i got SAD - seasonal affective disorder - and it was horrible. No
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by eldaisfish 6y ago
>our language is being steadily eroded. If it were any other language being abused, there would be campaigns to stop it happening. I disagree and vehemently. The strength of the English language is its ability to change and absorb words
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by eldaisfish 6y ago
that's not quite a fair comparison. Greece is a bunch of islands with rough terrain in much of the mainland. A better comparison to southern California would be the Iberian peninsula. Spain and Portugal have pleasant weather and are we
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by eldaisfish 6y ago
many of the dead in india aren't tested for COVID. Who's to say what the accurate number of COVID deaths. More info - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01865-w Remember also that India is the only co
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by eldaisfish 6y ago
i would caution against taking data from India at face value. Estimates put the amount of COVID-19 infections in india at around 80 times the "official" count. See - https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/curr
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Netflix, Amazon and Disney+ will self-regulate to avoid censorship in India(engadget.com)
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by eldaisfish 6y ago
my pet peeve with people mentioning Denmark as the poster child of renewable energy is that has one absolutely enormous advantage - access to two large and stable electric grids to account for the variations and uncertainty of renewable ene
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by eldaisfish 6y ago
Jolla are selling sailfish for 50 euros and the official support is limited to Sony xperia phones. Personally, i have never paid for my cellphone OS and neither have the vast majority of people out there. When the instructions involve a bun
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by eldaisfish 6y ago
Nothing makes me more angry than publishers who act like this. I regularly deal with the academic publishing industry and feel the pain of professors and students alike. The usual suspects are involved here - >I call on the executives at
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by eldaisfish 6y ago
the fundamental flaw in your analogy is that there is an authority above both parents and employers - the state. Who will watch the watchmen? Once the state legislates overreach into law, who will challenge them effectively?
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thanks. i misread that and assumed that growth implied economic growth. My other point stands - India's market with any meaningful purchasing power is minuscule compared to China's.
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>India's population is within 50 million of China but has double the growth rate. What on earth are you talking about? India's growth rate in the past decade is nowhere comparable to China's. Even if you argue that China c