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by ptaipale 8y ago
Quite, though I think Swedish situation regarding competition is somewhat better than my experience which was in Finland - here there's only the government-owned VR (former Statsjärnvägarna).
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by ptaipale 8y ago
Electric cars are often second cars in family. They're nice for short distances, like commute to work. For long distances - and distances on road in Norway can be very long - internal combustion engine and its range still rules.
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by ptaipale 8y ago
Another point (not in Sweden) is that the rail operators are government-owned companies which often operate like the government does. Couple of months back, I tried to buy a ticket to the car-train to Lapland (I can take the car with me to
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by ptaipale 8y ago
Disagree a bit: selling public domain content is OK, as long as you don't mislead the customer and claim that you own the copyright. It's essential that the customer knows what he or she is buying (for instance, the actual value i
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by ptaipale 8y ago
Thanks - I did not know that. The hostage-taking did make headlines internationally, any subsequent trial less so.
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by ptaipale 8y ago
That's certainly the logic, no doubt about it.
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by ptaipale 8y ago
A do appreciate that browsers provide a standard way to ask for these permissions. For instance, I deny most of the "know your location" queries, but it is not infrequent that I do wish to use a Web service that asks to know where
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by ptaipale 8y ago
I'm slightly baffled by the difference, though, as some other laws are not enforced. For instance, the case where directors of a tyre manufacturer were forcibly taken hostage and physically abused by the workers. Normally, you'd s
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by ptaipale 8y ago
Considering that housing and food is "free", the Finnish prisoner pay of around 5 € per hour is actually quite close to market wage, if not even above... (There's no legal minimum wage in the country, though collective agreem
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by ptaipale 8y ago
Sending ambulances to cars where a heart attack victim is detected is, however, a feasible use case. Where I live, in the order of 10 % of road casualties are actually casualties of heart attack or stroke; there is no actual road accident a
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by ptaipale 8y ago
This gets off-topic, but immigration crisis in Europe is not really about Syria, and it's not over either, despite changes in situation in Syria. (Otherwise I agree that in almost everywhere, people live the best time humanity has had.
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by ptaipale 8y ago
And the downvotes on this comment work as a proof...
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by ptaipale 8y ago
Sort of, but even in Finland, the Moscow treaty was called "interim peace" (välirauha) already before 1941, indicating that it was obvious that the European war will again spread to Finland's borders again. The Soviets occupi
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by ptaipale 8y ago
Well, not "all of Europe" was attacking USSR, Germany had fronts also towards Britain as well as North Africa, and USSR did get an immense amount of material support from the USA. It is quite clear that USSR's surprisingly we
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by ptaipale 8y ago
In 1918, they hardly did understand what they were preferring. By 1939, they did (after land reforms and many other policies that improved the lives of the losing side of civil war). In 1939 Finland was Anglophilic rather than Nazi-aligned,
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by ptaipale 8y ago
On social media platforms, pointing out the common Nazi-Soviet victory parade in Brest-Litovsk tends to get a lot of negative attention from Russia-minded activists (one often wonders how many of those accounts are real, but perhaps it is u
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by ptaipale 8y ago
Finland was there, however, already long before that, as an eastern province of Sweden. It should be noted, though, that if Finland had stayed as a part of Sweden, it might not exist as a country today; Sweden has had a policy of forced ass
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by ptaipale 8y ago
This is a bit of a diversion from topic, but the population of Soviet Union, and how it was calculated, is a very interesting issue. Stalin expected a fast population growth, and when the 1937 census showed that he was mistaken, and populat
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by ptaipale 8y ago
Using Freedome. Main purpose is to get around the stupid geoblocking brought in by GDPR, which often prevents me from accessing web sites from the EU. Also, while I don't think it would entirely protect me if a government agency of a s
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by ptaipale 8y ago
I am unhappy if the civil servants and the machinery of EU keeps preparing bad proposals, even if they are torpedoed by MEPs. This seems to be a constant case of pressure to which organisations then yield at some point. Yes, both elected an
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by ptaipale 8y ago
Deer and hawks may visit a place because it now is different, but anything people normally call "lawn" is irrelevant in size as the habitat of wild mammals or large birds. I hardly think the impact is "huge" for the envi
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by ptaipale 8y ago
The detailed argumentation is made elsewhere, in a longer format. For a declaration, I think half page is just right. Happy with my government for doing this (but very unhappy with the union).
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by ptaipale 8y ago
I went to check if he was caught... and found out that there was another serial pooper in Haapavesi this January. (Ilta-Sanomat January 11). I'm convinced also very many of terrorism crimes are simply copycats who want to see headlines
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by ptaipale 8y ago
No, it's more like that if I leave the front door open, it would still be more secure if the driveway was lighted up so that any inappropriate visitors would be visible. [Analogies may be terrible, but lack of encryption is an addition
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by ptaipale 8y ago
Yes, although the transmission being in plaintext makes it even more vulnerable, because if you get to listen to the network where the call center nurses operate, no one needs to crack anything to find out the location of data, its structur
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by ptaipale 8y ago
It's planned obsolescence. Soon the other one will fail too.
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by ptaipale 8y ago
Sorry, but this sounds a little naive, in the Annie Lööf style: "In Sweden, it's forbidden to be a criminal".
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by ptaipale 8y ago
This probably is due to incentives - carrying a knife may bring a long prison sentence, carrying a bottle of acid or lye as weapon did not. UK changed sentencing guidelines last year. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-4322591
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by ptaipale 8y ago
There are other, more recent cases of acid or threat of it, eg [1], though I'd say acid attacks are not particularly common in Sweden. Many more cases in UK, for instance. There are more actual cases of defenestration ("falling fr
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by ptaipale 8y ago
Such requirements do exist in Sweden, too.

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