interfixus

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1201.
by interfixus 11y ago
Greenland is part and parcel of Danish national identity. It has nothing to do with money, almost everything to do with history and something I need a much better term for than cultural consciousness. No Danish government would have survive
1202.
by interfixus 11y ago
I stand corrected. Thanks.
1203.
by interfixus 11y ago
It was true at one stage, according to official acknowledgement form Facebook. There's a discussion somewhere here on Hacker News. Can't find the link right now.
1204.
by interfixus 11y ago
We already know that places like Facebook monitor our every keystroke and store them for posterity. Yes, they hang on, also to the text you regretted, backspaced, and never published. It would seem utterly unprofessional, and potentially de
1205.
by interfixus 11y ago
No, you understand correctly. Living here, you pay, or the almighty tax authority will somehow get you in the end. This goes for nearly everything. Official danish broadcasting channel, DR, collects roughly USD 350 per year from ANYONE with
1206.
by interfixus 11y ago
Yes, there is more than the per-kilowatt-hour figure. There is a fixed charge for being connected to the public grid. That connection, here in Denmark, is mandatory, by the way. But apart from that, there's nothing more. That's th
1207.
by interfixus 11y ago
Alas, as the wind soars, so do our energy costs. Danish electricity prices have only gone up, up, up, and through the roof during the last thirty years or so, concurrent with the massive, statesponsored introduction of wind turbines. Or, to
1208.
by interfixus 11y ago
Reasonable questions, valid points, no clearcut answers. Every country wishing to known as civilized should have strict - and I do mean strict - legislation on all aniaml experimentation. We probably cannot get around it yet, but every sing
1209.
by interfixus 11y ago
For what it's worth, we kept pet rats for more than ten years, and I have seen the brightest of them perform mental feats I'm not expecting anyone to believe. Spatial modelling is clearly a rat speciality. One female, the smartest