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by ptaipale 9y ago
Yep, previous poster should have said Sweden and Denmark as they use their own currencies. And on the other hand, Kosovo and Montenegro use the euro as currency even though they are not in EU.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
That's an irrelevant technicality. In practice, the countries can postpone the adoption of euro indefinitely, simply by refusing to provide evidence for meeting the economic requirements. This is the strategy of Sweden, for instance, t
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Very likely so, it's one of those legends that circulate round and round. I heard it when making a PSTN mux for (among others) UK market in about 1995.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Fair enough, but they'd have to build a voltage-triggered barking device in the gelatin dummy to make it sufficiently life-like.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
When working on plain old telephone system (POTS) multiplexers, I came up with the following story which a service engineer insisted was true: An elderly lady with several pets called the operator to say that her telephone failed to ring wh
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Again, interesting difference. My father died in 1992 and autopsy was mandatory since the heart attack occurred at home (even if he was only declared dead at hospital after I'd done a hard hour of resuscitation). Autopsy was mandatory
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by ptaipale 9y ago
>In Norway for example, an autopsy only happens rarely unless there is a reason to expect foul play, Really? That's interesting. In neighbouring Finland, an autopsy is standard practice whenever the medical cause(s) of death is not
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I don't think much of it: the practice was quite normal until recently when an ombudsman made an interpretation which the parliament apparently had not intended. So the parliament made a specific law about it and the old way is resumed
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Finland has one of the lowest wealth gaps in EU (or world) and it's hardly a good reason for someone to do drugs. Yes, there is a lot of moralizing about drugs and alcohol, but it is slowly getting better. Yes, the head of Helsinki dru
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by ptaipale 9y ago
There is a rather good summary of the settled science here: http://nas-sites.org/ge-crops/2016/05/17/report/
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I think children, 7 years or even younger, move about on their own almost everywhere in the world, except North America.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Come on, it was just normal. Besides wolves - which were hunted down until recent years - what danger would there be? If you have proper clothing, there's nothing to fear in snow covered woods. (I'd guess kids use a kick-sled, tho
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by ptaipale 9y ago
That does not ring true. I live near Helsinki, use taxis quite a lot - mostly to and from airport but also elsewhere - and half the drivers are dark-skinned people. They are never stopped although I always sit at the back. If you're a
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Or, the opposition to those humans who they perceive are using shoddy claims of being in favour of environmental protection when advocating for other reasons their policies which might in fact be harmful for environment. Typical examples of
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Not really. In the Nordics, the right to public healthcare comes with a residence permit. (And nowadays, at least in Sweden, to some extent even with illegal residency). Of course, you may still want to have a private healthcare insurance t
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Finnish government seized 568 k€ of Bitcoin from drug dealer, now worth 15.4 M€
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I haven't had any trouble with Linux desktop on mainstream laptops for the past 15 or so years. The days of hand tweaking your Xfree86 configuration files and refresh rates are gone. Of course there are things that are not working so
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Western Europe is not "socialist countries". The traditional meaning of a socialist state is "means of production are controlled by the state". None of the countries in Western Europe work like this. They are market econ
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I think he's also an "opinion maker", not just an actor. Like many pop stars etc who use their position as well-known people to spread their political beliefs. This is not a new phenomenon.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I'll let whistlecrackers make his own definition, but I'd say: - problem is not that a country has some socialist policies - problem is not that a country has a party with "socialism" in its name in the government - prob
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by ptaipale 9y ago
According to [0] it was 15 gigawatts in 2016 Q3. Very nice wind at the British isles. That's nominal capacity, rate of generation appears to be 24 % of nominal; what can effectively be utilized is then below that. [0] https:/&#x2
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I don't see propaganda as much of a reason, it's simply that it looks sufficiently different. But of course you are right that the alphabet is not so difficult in the end. Different people have different learning capabilities, but
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by ptaipale 9y ago
It's written Stasi (Ministerium für Staatssicherheit). That z you probably get from association with Nazis.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Yes of course. Still, the initial sight of Cyrillic alphabet scares off many people.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
It depends. Generally, you'll find spoken Chinese is easier than written Chinese. Chinese grammar is actually quite simple, and it's one of the most "analytical" languages, which make it easier to learn than languages th
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I don't see marxists here, some socialist tendencies yes. American doctors are good but "best in the world" is a very difficult claim to substantiate. One thing is certain: they aren't provided the best price-performance
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Children are more vulnerable and less able to beware of the risks.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
They moved out earlier, when there were (quite high) property taxes. The tax was abolished in 2007. Ingvar Kamprad moved to Switzerland in 1976; in 2014, when the abolition of 2007 had survived one election cycle, he moved back to Småland.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Yes but that's "paid by the employer" which means that it's on top of nominal salary, but obviously included in the total tax burden. Employer pays $6000 per month, nominal salary is $4565, and employee's income tax
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Sweden has rent controls, which has caused long queues to apartments (we're talking wait times of 20 years) as well as a significant grey/black market in second, third and even fourth hand contracts, because the regulated first co

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