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by pasiaj 8y ago
https://www.foilchat.com/
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by pasiaj 8y ago
When the benefits stop out-weighting the disadvantages.
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Netherlands, Finland, Luxembourg, Poland and Italy Oppose EU Copyright Directive(permanentrepresentations.nl)
439 points by pasiaj 8y ago|155 comments
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by pasiaj 8y ago
Doesn’t the spec specify, that the link points to the first instance of the selected text? Does that not accurately define what happens when you try to link to a latter instance: It links to the first one.
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by pasiaj 8y ago
I took part in Helsinki University China Law week last spring, with prominent Chinese law scholars taking part. A professor from Peking University Law School told the audience how he had asked during a lecture is there anyone who cares abou
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by pasiaj 8y ago
There’s a net addition of ~300.000 games per year in the iOs app store.
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by pasiaj 8y ago
I recently had a discussion with a board professional, a female, who has sat in boards of publicly traded companies in Germany, Finland and Sweden. Finnish law does not dictate board composition of companies in any way. In Sweden, companies
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by pasiaj 8y ago
Well, the Nordics employ this "stupidest idea ever" and outcomes are definitely better than in the US.
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by pasiaj 8y ago
.. rewards people for their contributions, not based on their identity.
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by pasiaj 8y ago
Because they want to suppport the creation of high quality journalism? Or because getting around the paywall is not trivial for everyone. Or because of the other benefits that subscribers get that others do not. Or because, for some, using
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by pasiaj 8y ago
We don't allow everyone firearms in Scandinavian countries. We're quite strict, actually. Finland has a very high number of (hunting) weapons. It is significantly harder to get a pistol or a semi-automatic weapon. Switzerland, I t
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by pasiaj 8y ago
It would not be a miracle. The new 13.5 kilometer subway section in Helsinki cost 88M€ per kilometer, corresponding to $165 per mile.
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by pasiaj 9y ago
I think what he meant is that Wikipedia does not have an explicit requirement. The password has to exist as a string so there's an implicit 1 character requirement, but there exists no explicit requirement.
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by pasiaj 9y ago
I just came from 14 day trip to Shanghai-Beijing-Shenzhen. Here's a couple of more pointers: - DiDi is the Uber of China. Wonderful UX, English language UI with automatic two-way translation of messages and support for western credit c
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by pasiaj 9y ago
Toilet has an automatically refilling water tank. Now all you need is a hose!
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by pasiaj 9y ago
I thought Tit-for-tat was the strategy that always repeated opponents last move. "Tit-for that with forgiveness" was the strategy that would occasionally cooperate even after an opponents defection.
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by pasiaj 9y ago
The shoemaker's children go barefoot.
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by pasiaj 9y ago
Because alt-right carries carries more information and is more accurate. Even though "alt-right" is less precisely defined, it is in many cases more accurate a term than "facist" or "far right". To me, alt-righ
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by pasiaj 9y ago
Doubt it. You can't use those methods to identify users if the phones are just being used to mine new accounts. I'd assume the miners just wipe a phone clean, reinstall Uber & create a new account. There are no special setting
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by pasiaj 10y ago
Some reaction from many has more value than thougthgful one from few
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by pasiaj 10y ago
I actually believe the exact opposite. That so many useful innovations are lost & forgotten, because there was no incentive to market & distribute the innovation. It is lost on many, that the usefulness of an idea does not guarantee
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by pasiaj 10y ago
There is no year-over-year growth in Mac unit sales. It took 2-3 years for Nokia's handset revenues to collapse, from when people started noticing warning signs and complaining that they were falling behind.
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by pasiaj 10y ago
I believe strongly, that the important wage comparison is not between the Finnish teacher and the US teacher, but between the US teacher and the US MBA, and the Finnish teacher and the Finnish MBA. In US a teacher makes about a third of wha
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by pasiaj 10y ago
There is an interesting dynamic in Finland that arises from the substantial wealth transfers and the small size of our economy. This creates a situation where the difference in income between a teacher and a lawyer or an MBA is not very big
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by pasiaj 10y ago
The video on the website is hilariously bad. Feels more like a parody skit than a real presentation of the service. Here's a better one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZCv696rMCk
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by pasiaj 10y ago
You can easily go to a sauna with temperatures exceeding 110° C. Hot as heck, but even kids do it. The starting temperature of World Sauna Championships was 110° C, with water/steam added every 30 seconds. The competition ended up kill
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by pasiaj 10y ago
-> Trump
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Translations anywhere with Hammerspoon(github.com)
2 points by pasiaj 10y ago|0 comments
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by pasiaj 10y ago
A funny hack to save money on your accommodation with the Interrail pass is to use night trains for sleeping. Many interrailers might stay in Paris for a week, but every night they jump on a random train towards somewhere, sleep for 4 hour
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by pasiaj 10y ago
It would make for a rather interesting sociological experiment to uncouple the daily book keeping of time from the phases of our planet in relation to the sun.

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