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by menybuvico 6y ago
Sweden and Finland are pretty alike, but Sweden's system has a bit less political interference compared to how it's here in Finland. The ruling Social Democratic Party has strong ties with the unions though.
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by menybuvico 6y ago
Good thing collective bargaining doesn't involve politicians, then. Unless the elected politicians decide to uproot the entire Swedish system by changing the laws, there's little they can do to interfere with this process. About 7
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by menybuvico 6y ago
> Well, the exhaust in reality is much more clean then presented in some media. And yet they bought monkeys to prove their point, rather than breathing it in themselves. You're right about the psychopath thing, though. They could si
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by menybuvico 6y ago
Also, out in the countryside, many, many people simply wear workwear most of the day, even after work. It's much higher quality than the cheap garments available in stores like Prisma or Tokmanni.
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by menybuvico 6y ago
And most of those towers provide comparably low-bandwidth connectivity (at least outside urban areas). It's not like you have decent speeds up here, but the legally mandated 2mbps is available in most places.
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by menybuvico 6y ago
Just adding to this by mentioning the situation is similar in distant parts of Europe; there's a lot of areas that aren't served by anything but 2G/3G and where you can't even get dial-up.
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by menybuvico 6y ago
This depends entirely on one's situation. I could easily get as much ice as I wanted from a nearby river, should the need arise during winter time. During summers, it'd be pretty much impossible to get hold of sufficient quantitie
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by menybuvico 6y ago
Well, there is the question of whether we will ever have the possibility of developing this technology again. I see no immediate risks to life on Earth, and considering we're quite hard to get rid of, I suspect the human race will be h
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by menybuvico 6y ago
There is the more generic idea of leaving a track in history, making sure one's offspring survives. If one of my descendants make it off-planet and thrives there once the Zombies attack/the meteor strikes/the nukes go off the
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by menybuvico 6y ago
I'd prefer corporate warfare in the Asteroid belt over international conflicts in Earth. Regardless, unless we manage to come up with a new system that actually works, chances are that commercialization of space is one of the few ways
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by menybuvico 6y ago
I always heard it was a logistic issue more than anything else? Getting from Europe to the Americas and then back in a sailing vessel is easier than getting to Africa's East coast and back.
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by menybuvico 6y ago
Perhaps one day we will let those areas re-grow without interference again, but until we're past the expected peak of 12 billion people on this planet about 100 years from now, we're going to need every calorie we can get hold of
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by menybuvico 6y ago
This is worth pointing out; a lot of the lands used for grazing simply aren't viable for much else, and thus we couldn't really plant anything else there. I suspect on average, we will eat less meat in the future, but that we won&
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by menybuvico 6y ago
Not to mention that you don't need to store 2750 tonnes of it in a warehouse in a harbour in a large city like Beirut.
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by menybuvico 6y ago
Well, won't your pretty cool and useful code make the lives easier for some people, including yourself? The idea is to leave the World a little better place than it was when we got here, and it sounds like you just did something that w
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by menybuvico 6y ago
We're mostly willing to keep enjoying the fruits of Chinese labour because the lifestyle that has emerged in most Western Countries the last 20-25 years depend on the availability of cheaply manufactured goods. Outsourcing of productio
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by menybuvico 6y ago
If you need to do some heavy work then an older system obviously won't do. Editing files with Vim, on the other hand, works just fine with something like a Core 2 or Pentium M. Everyone's use case is different, but in many cases,
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by menybuvico 6y ago
I just want to mention that there are smartphone apps that can measure turntable speed.
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by menybuvico 6y ago
Why would using older hardware be limiting yourself any more than you just described? It just happens to do it by it's nature of being old instead of you deliberately limiting modern equipment. As long as it works, why not use the hard
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by menybuvico 6y ago
I still use an old Acer laptop from 2008 as my private laptop. It's more than enough for my needs, but apart from it being good enough for my needs, there's not really any particular reason for using that specific machine (apart f
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by menybuvico 6y ago
Plot twist: The beams are pressurized lava.
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There’s a Hole in the Boot(eclypsium.com)
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by menybuvico 6y ago
Urbanization can result workforce exploitation, and in large parts of land being drained of it's work-force, driving up the cost of living as more food needs to be imported and as it will be more expensive to get a roof over your head.
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by menybuvico 6y ago
Valhalla is nothing but a training ground for the forces of Odin. Once Ragnarök happens, they will die a final death fighting the forces of evil. If you want eternal life, you want to go to Fólkvangr.
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by menybuvico 6y ago
Somewhat related, although it's not a central part of the plot: Polaris by Jack McDevitt.
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by menybuvico 6y ago
The recent ban on sales of menthol cigarettes might also be a contributing factor. Good news no matter what.
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by menybuvico 6y ago
Definitely. The people who want to work in nursing homes are probably outnumbered by the people that have to, however, and once the others leave, others will too, simply because the job will become unbearable. Combine that with increased nu
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by menybuvico 6y ago
This is going to be interesting, as this renders a number of high-profile service providers (Microsoft, Amazon, etc) unsuitable for anything related to personal data in the EU. I suspect there will be multiple attempts at getting a new trea
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by menybuvico 6y ago
Swedish authorities did a study about this for that very reason. The conclusion was that it's unlikely that people will want to move halfway across the World only go get a job changing old peoples' diapers. Alas, the PDF seems to
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by menybuvico 6y ago
This is the one thing people seem to forget; people who work in places like nursing homes rarely do so because they have a dream of wiping old people's asses for a living. Instead, they do it because they need the money. In a society w

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