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by ptaipale 9y ago
EU was planning to explicitly regulate against such caps. If you provide unlimited data in your local operator's network, having caps when roaming would be in breach of this regulation. Has that changed?
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Is this a recent change? I hadn't heard of such. So, e.g. Telia doesn't have to pay any roaming charge to WIND Hellas if a Telia customer from Sweden goes to Greece and connects that network? Previously I heard a cap of 7 € per gi
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I would say there's space for competition, but the EU chose to not regulate to help competition, they chose to regulate to help incumbent South European operators, which are cash cows for well-connected partners.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
However, now EU regulates the price to consumers to be lower than the wholesale price of roaming charges between operators. That is a failure. They should regulate the wholesale price. In practice: I pay 20 € per month for unlimited mobile
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Yes, poverty of parents is predictor of poverty of children, but for a large part, it isn't about money. It's about those contagious factors - for instance, how much the parents want their children to do well in school, how much t
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Your comment however leads me to ponder the rhetoric: poverty is indeed not a disease, but like diseases, in modern societies it is contagious. Patterns and behaviours that make poverty deeper and more destructive are spreading from person
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by ptaipale 9y ago
But I guess California prison guards and their unions - probably not an insignificant contributor to election budgets of some politicians - would not like that? They would bring up issues like isolation of prisoners from their friends and f
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Is this the same regardless of your role in the trial? Over here (Finland), if you are witness, you are compensated (meagerly, not always reasonable). If you are the accused, you pay for your own travel - so the professional criminal class
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Perhaps better English might be "Tell them they're being naughty when they behave naughtily". That's the idea, and I don't see anything wrong with it.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Or "now you're naughty". English is not my mother tongue, but obviously it shouldn't be rocket science to tell to your kid that what they did just now was naughty, not that I as a parent hate him for being infested with
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Tell them they're naughy when they behave naughtily, tell them they're nice when they behave nicely. That sounds like a solid plan to me, and there's no reason to see why it would then be a problem to ask them to behave thems
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Implicating (wrongly) someone else's $50m to get $2m. A tempting deal for some.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
The issue would be more like "I see my neighbour left his door open when leaving for work; I go in, leave a note on the kitchen table and shut the door". This might be OK or not depending on community, but at least it wouldn'
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Yes. Some of us still remember the days when RAF and Red Brigades worked together with PFLP, PLO and whatnot. Since plane hijackings are now more difficult, we'll be seeing the left and Middle Eastern radicals working together to bomb
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by ptaipale 9y ago
This reinforces my opinion that it's a good idea to restrict warfare to state actors and make it a criminal offense to join armed movements in foreign countries. I have a lot of sympathy for Kurds in their struggle for a nation of thei
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Not being familiar with the name (though I knew the concept), "afsluitdijk" sounds like what you get when a cat swipes across the middle of your keyboard.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
If the desalination is needed at another place where the power grid extends but water pipes not - might be a useful idea.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Hey, it's The Guardian and "lifestyle".
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Or how Asimov's "The Caves of Steel", from 1953, was set on an Earth of 3000 years from now, and that was overpopulated, horribly full of people, living on contiguous, adjoining underground cities covering entire continents.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I've seen it a lot, and the first use of SF was naturally right to me. That's why the second one was so confusing.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Indeed. At a local nuclear power station there's a visitor center where one can experiment how to generate electricity with an exercise bike. With moderate power you can power a tablet computer or an incandescent light bulb, but the wa
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by ptaipale 9y ago
The tragedy of taxing bad things is that if the taxation works, and the bad things (e.g. pollution) start to go away, then the government loses tax revenue. And for the government, that's worse than any pollution. So we see all governm
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by ptaipale 9y ago
> you mean when you say that "sometimes deceptive conversions are the problem, I mean conversions where the index for conversion is chosen deceptively. The general inflation index is almost always at least tolerable, but occasiona
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by ptaipale 9y ago
And there was also a Kingdom of Dublin, ruled by the Danes. It lasted from 853 AD to 1171 when the Norman conquest finished it off -- in fact, this is a longer time than what the Acts of Union of England and Scotland have lasted so far.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I think this is perfectly fine if the data just states whether the sums are in adjusted or nominal currency. Doing the conversion is an elementary school thing. And not even that: just type "1000 dollars in 1947" to Google, and yo
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I think in this case the correct technical term is "denied entry". You haven't passed immigration to the country. Deportation is the expulsion of someone who's actually in the country, past the border, and resident or vi
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Partially that scheme seems to be an attempt to engage DPRK in some kind of dialog to prevent an unstable dictatorship with nuclear weapons and a lot of artillery that can reach Seoul from causing bad damage. But given that utilising or eve
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by ptaipale 9y ago
The unpleasant, unintended side effects of many "good" policies often surprise activists: protectionism and orthodox equality leads to decreased trade and removes incentives to increase productivity. This is a surprise to many pe
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Zimbabwe, North Korea. And of course many poor African nations where global capitalism doesn't operate that much and which are therefore largely in a subsistence economy. Venezuela wasn't a poor nation to start with, but is becomi
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Cold war wasn't such a lame thing. As a third-worlder (Finland), I'm quite happy that the US was there to help with the "cool kids".

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