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by jnurmine 8y ago
Ever been in one? In Finland even "sick" people go to the sauna all the time. It depends on the sickness though: fever and sauna don't mix for obvious reasons. But otherwise people do it. Looking at the list of ailments in th
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by jnurmine 8y ago
Yeah! Rain is a good time to go for a walk. Everything is quiet in a way, and there are less people around. It's a bit like walking in a noisy snowfall. (You know when it snows big flakes it gets very, very quiet) The downside is if it
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by jnurmine 8y ago
It was hardly a quite difficult heist. As an example of such check the helicopter robbery in Västberga in 2009 ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4stberga_helicopter_ro... ). This was a smash and grab of a church w
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by jnurmine 8y ago
Not an expert but the "sloshing" construct looks like multiple xorshift* operations. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xorshift
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by jnurmine 8y ago
Of course, but these are historical artefacts (the crown jewels are kept in Stockholm) and their cultural value is way higher than the monetary value, and part of this value is that they are well preserved and have a traceable history. So i
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by jnurmine 8y ago
Yes, a Mars/Moon base would not help the people at the impact site, ELE or not ELE. Nothing would. Those within the ca. 150 km radius would just be dead. Those at the outer edges of the 300 km radius could be helped. Note: this impacte
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by jnurmine 8y ago
The stolen objects could be bent, pierced, scratched, etc. or pieces (like the jewels) broken off. It is not a bunch of diamonds or such.
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by jnurmine 8y ago
Bold but stupid. They have no way to sell these objects. Unless it was made-to-order, the thieves are out of luck with monetization. While the objects will likely be found, the saddest thing is that they will also likely be damaged when han
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by jnurmine 8y ago
A 1 km asteroid would do a lot of damage. It would not be a directly ELE but the consequences would be nevertheless large. Depending on where it hits, it might even lead to a complete collapse of a country or countries. Though the direct ef
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by jnurmine 8y ago
Surviving an extinction-level event would necessitate a fully self-sufficient colony, but could such an underground base keep on sustaining itself, let alone grow and develop for as long as it takes for the dust to settle, so to say? The ti
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by jnurmine 8y ago
The article sounded like the silly Stratfor ramblings by Friedman, but in a kind of reversed way, where USA ends up suffering. In the Stratfor fiction, USA grows and flourishes, while varyingly imaginative scenarios emerge all over the glob
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by jnurmine 8y ago
My 386sx/25MHz also had a turbo button. It was rather useless, as I wanted the machine to go faster, not slower... Here's another turbo-nostalgia memory from further back: The Commodore C64 tape drive had a small hole which let yo
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by jnurmine 8y ago
It does, but actually oil well fires have been put out with explosives. During the first USA-Iraq war Saddam Hussein's troops lit up several hundred oil wells as they withdrew from Kuwait. Some of these were extinguished with the help
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by jnurmine 8y ago
I don't exactly know which countries are nowadays classified by president Trump as a "shithole", but I wonder what is a country that classifies as such and had been "raped and looted" by Sweden in the past? Thinking
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by jnurmine 8y ago
Interesting with zwischenspeicher... In Finnish terminology "cache" is "välimuisti" which seems to be the same kind of word-construction. I have wondered how people came up with translations to computer terminology. In r
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by jnurmine 8y ago
"In the Black Swan, non-financial event category we could list Russia, North Korea, China, Pakistan, Iran, domestic political unrest and the Mueller investigation as market busters." Instead of Black Swans aren't these more l
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by jnurmine 8y ago
Given that it is immaterial property which belongs to me, I should be able to hold on to it as long as I want?
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by jnurmine 8y ago
Perhaps the insurance company will not give you an insurance at all if you are deemed a high enough genetic risk. Perhaps, while the main disease works its way, you will not be covered for the side effects (like pneumonia) either, as you ha
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by jnurmine 8y ago
Yeah, it's a bit of a bother logistically because of where the embassy is located, and one cannot be sure you get processed that day if the queues are long. So I keep just one of the passports as paper version (the country where I resi
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by jnurmine 8y ago
This is like the storyline from a movie, and I mean it in a good way. But I wonder how many big organizations can accept unsolicited iPads nowadays due to anti-corruption rules.
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by jnurmine 8y ago
Doing inertial navigation with the sensors only is not going to work well. In this invention they seem to augment the sensors with external information and deduce the most probable location that way - the article is rather scant on details
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by jnurmine 8y ago
Zim. It's offline, and supports, among other things like a full-blown personal wiki and LaTeX input via plugins, also easy creation of checklists. The wiki features are useful to store progress & notes as one processes the checklis
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by jnurmine 8y ago
Thanks. Of course. I see what you meant now.
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by jnurmine 8y ago
Zim is great. It has grown to be a part of my working process. My TODO lists with tickboxes are in Zim. (use [] to make a box). This way I can check what tasks are left and which are done. When the list of "done"-tasks grows, I mo
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by jnurmine 8y ago
OSM is supreme when it comes to paths, trails and other such details (like wind shelters). Google Maps seems to be devoid of these.
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by jnurmine 8y ago
Also when you are out of the water, roll like a log to thicker ice, instead of standing up. This is to reduce chances that the adjacent ice breaks under the pressure.
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by jnurmine 8y ago
Yeah, inside the forests it is dry and one can really see how some plants are struggling. It is a dry heat, barely any moisture at all. Today it was near +30 C. The ground with pine/spruce needles and moss smells fantastic though, some
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by jnurmine 8y ago
I'm curious... I can see the obvious value of having a testcase for a class of bugs, but a testcase for a particular bug instance which was already fixed earlier does not seem right, so I probably misunderstood something. How often do
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by jnurmine 8y ago
Once upon a time I thought of this and came to a conclusion that in the future software is not written, it is grown. A big hall with computers, churning on calculations to end up with reusable modules/components for some predescribed p
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by jnurmine 8y ago
(Could not edit) % of foreign born in Sweden is highest in Scandinavia, 17%. In Finland it is lowest, slighly over 5%. In the USA the number is roughly 13%.

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