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by ptaipale 9y ago
Occasionally, a few people (foreigners) did stand up for civilians, although in the scale of events, it did not have large impact. Perhaps the most peculiar of them is the story of John Rabe, "a Nazi hero". https://en.w
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Yes, but even taxis aren't "driving to work", they are at work.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
> UPS tells its drivers to park illegally and then pays the resulting tickets in bulk. Interesting. Over here, a company cannot deduct parking tickets (or similar payments). They are not cost of business and are therefore directly reduci
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I'd expect the bike lane blocking problem is not really because of people who "drive to work"; it's because of deliveries, repairs, maintenance and such. (At least where I ride, that's >95 % of bike path disturba
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Although you get downvoted, that is a very valid question. Right now there is a process going on in Sweden to change the country's constitution, thus enabling the government to perform more censorship. It is fueled e.g. by established
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Mainstream media is driving campaigns against Google in many countries. They do need to do some PR and appear to do "good" things, even when it is quite clear that is just gesturing.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I don't really think the rail gauge causes any difficulties for automating the system, though. Tram gauges vary a lot and what manufacturers do is just use the same design and put underneath a different width bogie (wheelset). (The Fin
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by ptaipale 9y ago
There was an automatic light rail to Docklands in London when I last visited. In 1991. Helsinki metro was planning to have automated trains when the western extension opens in 2014. It opened in late 2017, without automation because of tech
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by ptaipale 9y ago
There are certainly many more than that ordinary Icelanders living in other countries, and they still know the language. (I'd guess it's tens of thousands).
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I don't think they're earmarked in Norway (they're not in most countries). Taxing autos and fuel generates revenue which is general tax revenue, and what goes to road infrastructure is up to political decisions.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
That is a worthy point. Some dog owners, particularly those getting their first dog, treat their dogs like humans, which is bad both for humans and dogs.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Let me get this straight. You’re saying that we should organize our societies along the lines of the lobsters?
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I can understand that viewpoint - for Western (as well as Russian) culture, WW II is the last "big good war", with a clear set-up of good vs. evil. Later wars are much more filled with controversy: Korea, war in French Indochina,
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by ptaipale 9y ago
That breaks already at step 1. Government does not have the money; instead it passes a new law to pass control of companies to governing party's proxies (in this case, LO) and expropriate the wealth from shareholders.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Kamprad didn't really move to avoid income taxes; Sweden has all these decades had a relatively high income taxation, even when Kamprad moved back to Sweden from Switzerland. What he ran away from was wealth taxation that showed intent
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by ptaipale 9y ago
No, here the idea was not taxation, but eventual total confiscation.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I think you are missing the point. That nationalization was not going to buy control from stock exchange. The point was effectively confiscating it from the owners. But the social democrat government in Sweden couldn't perform it quick
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by ptaipale 9y ago
For seeking more information, the keyword is "tax incidence". A starter in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_incidence
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by ptaipale 9y ago
It's not only relevant what the sums involved are. It is very relevant whether laws are broken, and how clear the lawbreaking is. Thus you can have large sums involved, but may find out that law wasn't broken, so there is no convi
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Sure, call tax evasion tax evasion, but AFAIK Kamprad wasn't doing it. Authorities go very hard against tax evasion, the illegal thing. Tax avoidance is by definition things that are legal, not tax evasion.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
And what I wonder is whether the label should be interpreted as a warning or as an endorsement. I can think that I'd view it as a recommendation for higher-than-average quality reporting as with BBC or PBS, or I could view it as a warn
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YouTube to Label State-Funded Broadcasters in Drive Against Misinformation(wsj.com)
2 points by ptaipale 9y ago|1 comments
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by ptaipale 9y ago
The Minitel service was rolled out 1978-1982, about a dozen years before widespread commercial adoption of Internet connections for consumers in any country. So the Internet penetration is not really relevant here. Yes, existing legacy tech
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by ptaipale 9y ago
If your AV is not patched, the kernel patches should not be installed because you might get a repeating bluescreen. So get a patched AV. If you haven't installed another AV, then Defender is there and counts.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I'd say that the emissions from logistics (transport) may be quite significant compared to the CO2 stored into the materials, at least post-sales. Take a desk that contains 30 kg of wood material. 50 % of that is carbon, so there is 1
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by ptaipale 9y ago
There are many good examples of DIY approach at the IKEA Hackers blog. https://www.ikeahackers.net/
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Yes, that was remarkable. That paper says he was a large man with some body fat, but from what I recall (an Icelandic colleague once referred to this), the fat type in his body differed from that usually found in people. Children have &quot
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by ptaipale 9y ago
That man must be an interesting sample for the research of human physiology.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Indeed, or at least it misleads; perhaps it should be: Oxford University increases exam times to improve the low scores of women
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Oxford University gives women more time to pass exams(telegraph.co.uk)
3 points by ptaipale 9y ago|2 comments

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