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by kiiski 11y ago
> But there is something absurd about the possibility that a person with a demonstrated propensity for mass violence might be returned to society at large without any legal restrictions, psychological treatment, or period of supervision.
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by kiiski 11y ago
You need to subtract underage people (~1 million) from that 5.5 million (as well as non-citizens ~200k). I think some ~1.5 million people will also pay enough taxes to offset their own basic income (assuming the taxes will be set so that th
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by kiiski 11y ago
Which cities have you seen those 200 €/month apartments in? When I was studying in Joensuu (a city of ~75k), a 25-30 m^2 apartment there cost around 500-550 €/month (unless you're lucky enough to get one of few student apartm
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by kiiski 11y ago
To be fair, the Soviet attempt to get to the moon largely failed due to lack of interest. As wikipedia[0] notes: > N1-L3 was underfunded and undertested, and started development in October 1965, almost four years after the Saturn V. The
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by kiiski 11y ago
"More successful" here obviously means that their empire lasted a longer time, since that's what we're discussing. They may have been less successful in other ways. I don't really see what my feelings have to do wit
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by kiiski 11y ago
If we only count the Byzantine Empire, they lasted about ~1100 years (330-1453). Wikipedia says the Shang dynasty lasted only about ~600 years, leaving the Zhou as the longest with their ~800 years. Assuming Wikipedia is correct, the Romans
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by kiiski 11y ago
Basically the crowdsourcing here means that YLE published a article saying (shortened): "Tell us what kind of web trolling you have been targeted by and in what situations. We'll compile an article of peoples experiences" The
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by kiiski 11y ago
A "corrupt shithole" is as bad as tens of millions killed/starved? I don't think you quite understand what Stalins rule was like.
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by kiiski 11y ago
That doesn't work. Browsers are smart enough to limit what you can do with :visited. See for example: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Privacy_and...
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EU's Top Court Rules That Bitcoin Exchange Is Tax-Free(bloomberg.com)
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by kiiski 11y ago
I imagine that would only apply to sites which store PII[1]. The database should be located under the same jurisdiction (which doesn't mean every country, since some will have treaties to allow exporting to certain places (EU for examp
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by kiiski 11y ago
According to this[1], that seems to be true for Germany, but the other rich European countries (western and northern) are pretty close to the USA. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_birth_rat...
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by kiiski 11y ago
I'm sure that every military has its share of cave complexes built into solid rock. My mandatory service in the Finnish Defense Forces took me to 5 such places, of which at least 3 had multiple levels (I can't say for sure how lar
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by kiiski 11y ago
In this context, medieval times are "modern society". They already had social, religious and legal norms against killing. Also, most people lived in the countryside or small villages where they didn't have many chances for ki
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by kiiski 11y ago
I would say that you're exactly correct, when you say that the EU can never lead to a successful federal bloc. The EU is not a federation, no matter what kind of nicknames one invents for it. EU citizens and member states don't wa
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by kiiski 11y ago
Wouldn't having it in the same place every time make it more expensive/difficult for people to go see the games live? When the location changes every time, there will be a different set of people who go watch the games because it&
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by kiiski 11y ago
A small correction to what you said, the allegations (that you quoted) were lowered after Assange appealed (but the rape still remains, although as a "lesser degree"). Your [4]: > The decision was appealed by Assange on 22 Nove
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by kiiski 11y ago
I'm not a lawyer, and I don't know much about Swedish law, but based on Finnish law (which tends to be very similar to Swedish), the maximum combined sentence for all the charges would have been 7 years in prison. The combined sen
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by kiiski 11y ago
As I've understood, the accusation for rape in this case is for Assange starting to have sex with the alleged victim while she was sleeping, without wearing a condom (the "not wearing a condom" is the key part here; otherwise
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by kiiski 11y ago
Is five years evading law enforcement really that much better than ~1 year in prison? (One year based on the fact that the five year limit only applies if the maximum penalty is at most 2 years[1], and presumably a first timer would not spe
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by kiiski 11y ago
And that's why you shouldn't combine arguments from two separate persons. Just because they both disagree with you, doesn't mean they agree with each other.
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by kiiski 11y ago
Wikipedia has this[1] (sourced [2]): > On July 21, 2015, the operators blocked access to the service from all Finnish IP addresses, stating on Twitter they did this in order to avoid escalating a dispute they allegedly had with the Finni
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by kiiski 11y ago
I suppose you're implying that Microsoft sold your new account name to spammers? It could also be that you used a name that you, or someone else, have used at a different place and the spammers simply try sending mail to all the big em
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by kiiski 11y ago
That seems to be a problem with sourceforge. I was trying to download something else earlier today and had the same problem.
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by kiiski 11y ago
Finland, at least for now, doesn't allow mass collecting of data. There is no foreign intelligence either (except of course military sigint along the border). Finland isn't part of any military alliances, so there is no sharing of
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by kiiski 11y ago
How would ad networks respond to that? I can't think of any technically possible way for them to do that (except somehow getting operating systems to build in some crazy DRM scheme).
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by kiiski 11y ago
Why not just use Access (I suppose LibreOffice has an equivalent too)? It probably would be more work to set up, but you would have a proper database with the ability to use SQL for queries.
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by kiiski 11y ago
Considering all the bad things Japan did during their wars, it seems strange that you would bring up Pearl Harbor as an equivalent of Hiroshima. Pearl Harbor was a major military target and almost all casualties there were military (only ~1
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by kiiski 11y ago
How so? I don't have any female friends (I don't have any male ones either). If I started looking for a girlfriend (which I currently don't), I would indeed be looking solely for a romantic relationship, so I don't see h
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by kiiski 11y ago
I'm not sure what that 8% includes (municipal/city workers? military? police?), but in Finland the government claims on their website to employ 79 000 people (~1.5%). No idea if the numbers are comparable.

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