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by pasiaj 5y ago
Finns were segregated to different sports leagues, different youth groups, different stores etc. based on families political leanings for decades after the war. If you go to any small town in Finland, you'll still find an "S Marke
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by pasiaj 5y ago
Here are my two cents: Lots of international pressure was put on Finland due to malnutrition and poor treatment of prisoners in the fall of 1918 that led to mass pardons in October of 1918. My ancestors who fought amongst the "reds&quo
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by pasiaj 5y ago
Why would Facebook care?
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by pasiaj 5y ago
I'm not an expert in this field but I know from experience that when converting buildings into logistics warehouses, the limiting variable most often is the carrying capacity of the floor. I assume this is be the biggest risk factor th
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by pasiaj 5y ago
Gravityloss is correct. It is quite trivial to fire a person if there are economic grounds for doing so. It is somewhat complicated and laborious, tho, to get rid of an employee if they are underperforming or acting in a toxic manner.
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by pasiaj 5y ago
Finns rarely discuss or think about benefits or reasons for taking a sauna. Most Finns are accustomed to going to sauna weekly. It’s such an ingrained part of our live that don’t really think about it. We’ve got 5 million people and 2,5 mi
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by pasiaj 5y ago
You have not been shadowbanned, but based on the quality of your comment maybe you should be.
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by pasiaj 6y ago
I sympathise with what you're saying. As a Nordic person, it does feel like the gig economy is undoing a hundred years worth of advancements in employee well-being. Still, enabling day labor is beneficial in multitude of ways. The prob
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by pasiaj 6y ago
Sure, but I recommend you take a closer look. His articles, for me at least, are the most influential ones on how I think about creation and solving hard problems. Here's a couple Up & Down the Ladder of Abstraction http:/&#x
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by pasiaj 6y ago
Jaakkola – with two a's. Finnish names are weird.
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by pasiaj 6y ago
I find that I benefit greatly from targeted advertising. A couple of years ago I realized that Spotify's recommendation algorithm provides me with a better selection of music than any other method ever has. Lately I've found ads t
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by pasiaj 6y ago
Which tax do you feel is being avoided?
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by pasiaj 6y ago
A lay person is not supposed to understand the law. In Finland, at least, the government strives to keep the criminal code (”Rikoslaki”) simple enough for laypeople to grasp. It is accepted as a general rule that other parts of the law do r
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by pasiaj 6y ago
People judge an experience by its peak and end, not beginning and end. The best (or worst) part and the last part, that is.
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by pasiaj 6y ago
"Kokoomus ... is heavily opposed to the system" There is no "system". There is an endless number of possible implementations of UBI on a spectrum that ranges from communist to libertarian. One of the main UBI stalwarts i
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by pasiaj 6y ago
Qualitative in-person interviews had 81 participants The quantitative employment analysis was based on 2000 participants.
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by pasiaj 6y ago
I'm looking at the report's table of contents. It's in Finnish. The report includes overviews of multiple studies and provides plenty of valuable insight on multiple themes. Here's my rough translation: 1. Introduc
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by pasiaj 6y ago
The basic income study included 2500 participants + the control group.
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by pasiaj 6y ago
You are correct. People also don't seem to take up fulfilling and meaningful jobs /w low wages even with basic income support. One of the arguments in Finland was that basic income would encourage and enable people to take on mean
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by pasiaj 7y ago
Sure, bad things happen. We have chosen a non-direct, representative political system and lobbying is a direct causal result of this chosen system. It is not a side-effect. We intentionally wanted to create a group of people who could spend
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by pasiaj 7y ago
You doubt it?
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by pasiaj 7y ago
Elements of AI was created as a collaboration by University of Helsinki, the Finnish government and Reactor Innovations, a software consultancy. It was well received by the Finnish general populace. The Finnish government currently acts as
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by pasiaj 7y ago
I expect Uber to care a lot about privacy. They’ve burned themselves badly before disrespecting privacy and I assume they’ve improved in that area immensely. Uber’s and their employees’ own interests are aligned with strong data privacy. Th
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by pasiaj 7y ago
I am an Oulu resident. It is very, VERY common in both IT and education sectors to hire people who speak no Finnish. I've personally hired half-a-dozen English-speakers who do not speak any Finnish. Our company (mobile gaming) consists
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by pasiaj 7y ago
Yes, you have to comply with laws in all the countries where they operate. If Facebook were to pull out from France, there is almost nothing that France could do to force Facebook to comply. This is why Google left the Chinese market. They
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by pasiaj 7y ago
Please provide a link to the aforementioned exceptional documentation.
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by pasiaj 7y ago
I searched and found the five demands: one, the bill must be withdrawn; two, the chief executive must resign; three, the government must retract its characterisation of the violent clashes as “riots”; four, there must be a full independe
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by pasiaj 7y ago
Everything you say seems correct. The problem is that movements without specific, clearly defined policy goals tend to fail. It is easy to come together to oppose some bad thing , but it is really hard to find consensus on what to do after
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by pasiaj 7y ago
The DSM-III, published in 1980, established autism as its own separate diagnosis and described it as a “pervasive developmental disorder” distinct from schizophrenia.
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by pasiaj 7y ago
The trade-in value of Tesla is very low in Finland. If you want to upgrade your model, Tesla has been offering 70-80k € trade-in value for a 6 month old 135k€ Model S. This means that those who upgrade their vehicles often will not even con

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