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by jnurmine 8y ago
Figuring out "innovative ways to overwhelm adversaries", "create multiple dilemmas" and "get inside and disrupt its leaders’ decision-making processes" sounds like a re-discovery of maskirovka and reflexive con
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This sounded quite interesting and surprising as a result. I could not access the results so I did some quick googling. The source is JD Power and they are claimed to have bad methodology. From what I read they don't weigh issues, so a
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by jnurmine 8y ago
I had never seen a palm oil operation. However, I read through and started following the blog of Taneli Roininen ( http://www.gonebikefishing.com/ ) who is bicycling around the world before his major heart operation. There ar
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by jnurmine 8y ago
Yes, of course, they'd have to provide a port on day 1, or people would not use that mobile OS. It's the same thing if the mobile OS lacked, say, Mobile BankID (a 2FA app used for a lot of things in Sweden). Those are simply hygie
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Sounds more like Canada needs something like Swish which does not share any payment/merchant data with the US. But isn't there something like that already for Canadians?
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I suppose the oldest part can get a card like SL has and occasionally load it with cash and then just beep it when entering the bus/train? It is no more difficult a concept than having a library card. They'll certainly get help wi
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by jnurmine 8y ago
If the government wants to "unperson" someone, cash or no cash or electronic money, they will just come and collect you. You having pieces of plastic/paper and/or metal trinkets in your pocket plays will not save you fro
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by jnurmine 8y ago
Why is Swish worrying you? It is basically a payment overlay on top of whatever technology runs in the mobile devices. If tomorrow the dominant mobile OS is Foobar, there will be Swish for it and things just keep on working. It is not tied
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by jnurmine 8y ago
Did you use "foreign payment" or just pay as if it were a domestic payment? I don't remember seeing issues in SEPA area, if I just use the IBAN and pay like any normal payment. If I am specifically doing a "foreign payme
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Some of those embedded devices are not even designed to be updated on the field. And some have support planned for a limited time and then anything resembling support is dropped. No company is going to support a product forever without gett
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by jnurmine 8y ago
Why the yellow background though? It'd look nicer with the light cyan background. Save the yellow and red for some kind of attention colors. Even with the "right colors" one can go wrong if the colors are not used in a smart
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Exactly. Pension systems where generation i+1 pays for generation i are fundamentally broken. If the population size sinks, generation i+1 will pay more. If paying more and thus having less disposable income makes them defer having babies,
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Any nontrivial component, which today does whatever its job is today, but is very brittle and resistant to change and is centrally located in the overall system architecture/structure, certainly can become tomorrow's untouchable 2
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by jnurmine 8y ago
A system of economy based on continuous growth and limited resources is simply not viable. That is nothing new, the Club of Rome presented their findings already in 1970s. Their conclusion was a rapid and uncontrollable decline in populatio
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by jnurmine 8y ago
When I was shopping for a computer I was actually disturbed by all the LED-enabled boxes with pseudo-scifi-militaristic bulging edges with a "spaceship" look and especially that window on the side. Of course, some people like that
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by jnurmine 8y ago
All places have some limits on free speech. EU places some exceptions, just like USA does, on the freedom of speech. In the USA things like defamation, incitement to riot or lawless action, speech covered by copyright, terrorist threats etc
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by jnurmine 8y ago
I did skim that file through but missed it, sorry. It's worth pointing out in the comments here in case others miss it. The comparison is interesting since your rectangle version has superior image quality compared to Alsings. If I squ
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by jnurmine 8y ago
Roger Alsing (Johansson) did this in 2008: https://rogerjohansson.blog/2008/12/07/genetic-programming-e...
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by jnurmine 8y ago
Yes, indeed. You are correct. A better term would have been "climate engineering". Though I wonder if "venusforming" is also apt, keeping in mind what the results are said to be down the line.
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A thought. Bear with me, I might be catching a cold. When a planetary climate is being intentionally altered in a large scale, it is called terraforming. But just who benefits from terraforming the Earth to be more hostile to human civiliza
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by jnurmine 8y ago
Hey, the berries of some species like Sambucus Nigra are poisonous so don't go foraging them just like that. The flowers of S.N. are OK and can be made into elderberry juice. Your local Ikea probably even carries it ("flädersaft&q
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by jnurmine 8y ago
Just a note, the world runs no risk of malnutrition even if we produce less food with cleaner forms of production. The world already produces more than enough for everyone. The problem is distribution, not production.
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by jnurmine 8y ago
I used to think of Mercury as a rather uninteresting hot clump of rock. It turns out Mercury is not really uniformly that hot at all. And it has water ice at the poles. And not only water, but there are organic compounds too in the polar sh
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by jnurmine 8y ago
In the film it's translated like they say in English, if I recall it right. But if it were from real life from after 1950-1960s (when people used the third person as a polite form, still happens but rare) the dialogue would be like thi
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Option three: improve mass transit, to move more people per fuel unit. Option four: reduce need to drive around by bringing services closer to people and promoting remote working etc. Option five: remove need to drive for shopping and such
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I think it will help once they release the new firmware that lets you more easily access disks stored on a USB stick. Doing LOAD "$",8,1 etc. is rather tedious with the virtual keyboard. Also, they have promised a bigger version w
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by jnurmine 8y ago
But in Europe there are several fighter programs. These include JAS 39 (from SAAB in Sweden), Eurofighter Typhoon (from BAE, Airbus and Leonardo; Great Britain, Germany, Spain, Italy), Raphael (from Dassault in France). They are not strictl
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It sure is silly to buy an expensive military plane if one cannot produce all parts including the engines domestically... how is hauling spares from across the Atlantic going to work in a hot situation?
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Well, you must understand the historical context... It wasn't like Finland wanted to roll with Hitler. They were forced to, by the aggressiveness of the Soviet Union and the inaction of the Allied forces. First, the Soviet Union had ju
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by jnurmine 8y ago
Latin is still spoken today, on the radio of all things. The Finnish national broadcaster broadcasts Nuntii Latini, or the News in Latin. The interesting part is they do not invent new words but find existing Latin expressions and combine e

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