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by kiiski 12y ago
What rights do US expats have to go along with the obligations? The article doesn't seem to mention any.
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by kiiski 12y ago
From the article: Rudenko therefore resorted to including rebars in the bottom and top walls. 'They are needed during the pouring of a variety of cementitious filling materials inside the printed walls.' The cement used, h
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by kiiski 12y ago
Seems like quite many companies have actually survived for centuries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies
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by kiiski 12y ago
When counting something, I (in North Karelia) would say yy kaa koo nee vii kuu see kasi ysi kymppi yytoo kaatoo ... kaksyy kakskaa kakskoo... And when just saying a single number, I would say yksi kaksi kolme neljä viisi kuusi
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by kiiski 12y ago
One might argue that by paying more they could attract better employees and became more efficient at helping the people in need.
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by kiiski 12y ago
> ... it must be litres or millilitres... Why would it have to be one of those? Obviously it's centilitres; at least here in Finland that's the size of a regular drinking glass (although usually it's called "2 desilit
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by kiiski 12y ago
I don't think all (probably not even most) suicides have anything to do with having made a mistake that needs apologising in the first place.
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by kiiski 12y ago
The deadline is August 13th, and the winner (if any) will be announced on the 20th. (According to an Helsinki Times article, but the English translation[1] doesn't have the dates) [1]: http://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finlan
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by kiiski 12y ago
> ... Portugal to Finland ... Not without going through Russia. There is no longer any passenger train connection between Finland and Sweden, so that would require either going through Saint Petersburg or crossing the Baltic by ship. You
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by kiiski 12y ago
I would assume that all first world countries have stored food/medicine/oil/etc. for emergencies. At least Finland keeps enough for six months consumption (was 12 previously, but with the current economic troubles it was drop
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by kiiski 12y ago
Apparently about a thousand. http://www.helsinkitimes.fi/business/11224-microsoft-plans-c...
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by kiiski 12y ago
From what wikipedia says[1], it seems that in India you can't get information that would affect national security, but I highly doubt you can get that in USA either. You brought up BND and SäPo earlier, and from the same article it app
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by kiiski 12y ago
Location: Finland, but hoping to relocate. Remote: No. Willing to relocate: Yes, I'd prefer to. Technologies: - (I've played around with several, but haven't done
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by kiiski 12y ago
In Finland we have a system based on authenticating through your bank (TUPAS[1]). It works pretty well, and is easy, at least for the end-user, to use (you just select your bank and get redirected to their login site; the banks system then
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by kiiski 12y ago
Isn't this just about monetizing the videos? So they could still have videos there for promotion, but they won't get money (without directing the viewer to wherever they are selling their music at).
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by kiiski 12y ago
I'm not very well versed with Android related things, but isn't a Google account required for Android anyway? If so, using it to sign in to an Android app seems like a reasonable choice.
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by kiiski 12y ago
The Helsinki Times article[1 english] says they suspect it was an ex employee. "Information obtained by Helsingin Sanomat from two different sources indicates that Nokia believes the blackmailer to be a Finnish citizen who participated
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by kiiski 12y ago
It wasn't actually Helsinki police (this didn't even happen in Helsinki), but the National Bureau of Investigation (KRP).
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by kiiski 12y ago
I suppose any argument in the internet can feel hostile if you care about the subject, but my apologies for any distress I may have caused anyway. My message is not intended to be about whether you are wrong, but whether the example you gav
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by kiiski 12y ago
What's with the hostility? I was pointing out that WalterBright was down voted for the perfectly valid point that the problem you spoke of is not caused by half-assed use of the metric system. No matter how much I use my brain, it won&
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by kiiski 12y ago
But both oz and gallon are still imperial units. In metric they would use liters. So this isn't caused by half-assed use of the metric system, but rather by not using it at all.
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by kiiski 12y ago
It depends on the country. Guessing from the username, sampo is propably Finnish (like myself) and in Finland you are allowed to make a few private copies of any legally produced and distributed books/media (such as a book borrowed fro
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by kiiski 12y ago
A Macbook Air is about 1 kg. A regular laptop 2-3, and a tablet 0.5-1.
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by kiiski 12y ago
Maybe "well educated, highly intelligent Chinese" are dime a dozen, so it doesn't matter if some of them work abroad.
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by kiiski 12y ago
I live in a small city of 75000 people (in Finland), where the city has ~4400 employees.
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by kiiski 12y ago
People who use adblockers probably aren't people who would click ads anyway. Showing the ads to such people might allow the website owner to leech more money from advertisers, but it wont actually provide any value to anyone. One might
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by kiiski 13y ago
If we are talking about installing these to rural parts of Africa, having to eat more may be a valid consern.
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by kiiski 13y ago
On the other hand, wearing a clown costume when working as one might be a good idea. Not all documents that contain text are "job interviews".
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by kiiski 13y ago
But isn't that exactly a result of trying to be more "USA" (by having an economic union)? Besides, comparing US with a single European country is pretty pointless. One could easily turn the table around by choosing Norway ins
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by kiiski 13y ago
I think it's mostly USA and UK where people are afraid of the police by default. I certainly haven't have any problems with them here in Finland.

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