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by ptaipale 9y ago
>Statistics show that in the large majority of cases of accidents between cycles and motor vehicles, the driver of the motor vehicle is at fault. Requiring a license for cycles will do just about nothing to fix this. As a regular cyclist
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Interesting construction. This wouldn't be legal in Nordics, there can be no direction in give way signs indicated, and there can be no 4-way give way junctions.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I have to disagree here. Americans drive pretty nice and relaxed. Not much different from e.g. Sweden or Germany. But much more relaxed than in Greece, Italy, China, or Thailand, or even Russia.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
It's not at all a 9/11 because not very many of traffic accidents are intentional homicide.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
You're proposing to punish people for just bad luck. Not a good idea.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Agreed. Over here (Finland), parents still put babies to sleep out in a cot in the winter, and leave them in a pram outside the grocery store while they go shopping. Schoolchildren walk or cycle to school starting from grade 1. (Sadly, the
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I don't think your comment should be downvoted, but Bromium also adds a revolting lag, clumsiness and instability.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Not essentially zero. Around 10 % of road fatalities in Sweden are pedestrians (somewhere around 30 per year) for a population of 10 million. Swedish: http://www.vibilagare.se/nyheter/260-doda-i-trafiken-2015
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by ptaipale 9y ago
It's slightly wrong, proposal for improvement: Spectre fools the processor into running speculative operations -- ones that it usually executes "just in case" and then throws the result away if it is not needed -- and then us
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by ptaipale 9y ago
True. Even terror organisations like Daesh (ISIS) or Hamas use social programs to justify what they do and attract supporters.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I'd guess more likely "pay as much as you can, and a bit more". A bit like the tax authorities in any country, but even more callous and without public scrutiny.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I thought the story headline would draw from the famous quote misattributed to Bismarck: "Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made." Perhaps the same applies sometimes to Web content.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Yes, that was my point. And I might add that the inefficiency (in terms of national health outcomes vs. national public and private spending) is partially the reason, or explanation, that U.S. is the forefront of medical technology. The U.S
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Sorry for that, but I don't think dementia is caused that way (although the claim is usable as a hyperbole in conversation).
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Looks like you had so much to say about billionaires that you didn't have time to read the headline. It doesn't say anything about spending on other nations. The U.S. spends more on health care of its own citizens than other n
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Indeed: places with higher beer tax and overall higher price levels such as Norway, Iceland, Sweden, Finland were "accidentally" not included on the chart. So it looks like the author did some cherry-picking of data points.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
This was interesting. I'm myself 0- or O-, which I now learned actually means I'm O type in the ABO system and D- in the Rh system, but there are many other factors at play. And I've considered myself a "universal donor&
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by ptaipale 9y ago
> The police had complete control over how they approached this. Why then are they even in a position where they feel threatened? The police is also under an immense pressure when they are assigned to a hostage situation. Yes, I suppose
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by ptaipale 9y ago
That case made me quite concerned: our national wealth was actually managed by people who were as gullible as this. OK, he might have tried the old age defense: he was over 75 years old when he fell for the letter scam. And he was actually
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Which is slightly odd, considering that in hyperinflation, paper cash was losing value just as fast as intangible money. However, the privacy aspect makes cash usage understandable. But it is somewhat inconvenient sometimes - for example, y
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by ptaipale 9y ago
It is, but I understand that not very many people live on Wall Street. (Yes, recently the population of Manhattan has gone up, although it hasn't fully recovered from the downs of 1980's and is still much lower than 100 years ago)
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Actually, about 1 percent of children in the United States suffer from chronic malnutrition. And malnutrition occurs in people who are either undernourished or overnourished. In the United States, more children suffer from malnutrition due
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by ptaipale 9y ago
The "dollar" has been adjusted over time, though, and is currently actually USD 1.90. Your tone sounds sarcastic but I don't see the justification for it. The number of people who are actually hungry and malnourished has gone
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I am not entirely sure if you are trolling. People being brought out of destitution is progress, absolutely. It's the very first and most important step of progress. If people don't have enough to eat, even their brain won't
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Since the parent was commenting a quote about "billions of poorer people across the world have seen their wealth standstill or decline", it is rather obvious that the Guardian was commenting not on US poverty but global poverty. A
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by ptaipale 9y ago
It's not even controversial, it's wrong. Poverty, particularly extreme poverty, has been decreasing rapidly over the past 25 years. Of course, this doesn't mean that everyone is better; there are always winners and some los
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Obviously, a vast majority of passengers are just changing planes in the hub to go to other destinations.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Hardly. Even if it is big, it is just one company. A country's economic policy cannot be based on expecting perfect performance from one company. Saying it is more significant than abandoning the possibility of own monetary policy sou
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I'm beyond "informed" opinions, I only can offer infected ones. The cookie directive is an infuriating irritant which is completely counter-productive.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Likewise, I received a few congratulation telegrams upon my marriage long ago, and still got some for condolences for my mother's death in 2013. The telegram service was discontinued here in 2014 due to low demand (even then the transp

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