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by ptaipale 9y ago
> Users do report posts, from what I understand quiet regularly. Yes, they do - even when the post has nothing wrong. Perfectly legitimate accounts writing reasonable posts, without any "fake news" content, or any "hate&q
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Is there any real change in the entry procedure to the US after Trump became president? I wouldn't think so. If you were happy to visit Obama's US, you will hardly find any difference in Trump's US.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
151 million records sounds like a very, very low number of phone records for US. Suspiciously low, in fact. I would expect that amount to come out from the records of the domestic surveillance organisations of Luxembourg.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Or the population growth? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/oct/12/london-popul...
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by ptaipale 9y ago
> if the city declares housing emergency Such declarations should not justify extraordinary action if you don't have a clear plan for how you are going to get away from the emergency. They are a tool of political trickery to avoid
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I love LaTeX, but I disagree about that WYSIWYM. It's really WYGIWYAF. What You Get Is What You Asked For.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I think Nokia could have done both Symbian and Maemo and even something else still (if the leadership had not been complacent). But that is all water under the bridge.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Sure, but a 30G company is still not exactly small.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Actually, Nokia as a company is doing rather well. Just the handset business was rebooted.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Airplanes can do air superiority, but you can't take over a country without boots on the ground. The idea of Germany invading Switzerland is surreal.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Any response will not help if the response is just working along with the human traffickers by providing the major part of the trip they sell. In fact the response is currently worsening the issue. People absolutely would not be sent out to
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by ptaipale 9y ago
The adequacy and efficiency, yes. There are good border controls towards regions where they are not that necessary. For flight passengers from the United States, for instance. Schengen borders towards Russia are fairly solid in Norway and F
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by ptaipale 9y ago
> 30 years is not long enough for everyone involved to be dead and no longer influential. In Venezuela, it looks like slightly less than that was enough.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Unfortunately, this secular government is precisely what Erdogan is eroding.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
> Honest question, why should the west care about every single problem that happens anywhere in the world? In this case, West being West Europe: Because European Union decided to build a federal union which has freedom of movement insi
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by ptaipale 9y ago
> How is it possible that, in many EU states, they won which such a majority? Of course one explanation is: "The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do."
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by ptaipale 10y ago
And in the past, you didn't need to pass open ocean. That's a huge difference for stone age technology.
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by ptaipale 10y ago
In Finland, about 85 % use studded winter tyres, 15 % use tyres without studs. Sweden is similar but somewhat less studs. Studded tyres are more noisy, and they do eat the road more. They are more consistent - in snow, there's no diffe
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by ptaipale 10y ago
The difference really is that many French motorways are toll roads (that péage sign) and have far fewer cars and lorries than the German autobahns. In Germany, the logistics clearly utilizes the autobahns a lot. You see constant lines of he
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Indeed. Looking at the local accident statistics and investigation reports where I live (Finland), it is easy to see that small breach of speed limit is fairly negligible as a cause for accidents. In some part of accidents it is one contrib
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by ptaipale 10y ago
> How long does it take for a train to get from London to Paris? A few hours? 2 hours 16 minutes. Of course, as always, this is from station to station, not your real total journey because you don't live at the station.
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Population density varies a lot in Sweden, too. A vast majority of Swedes live south of a line that is slightly north of Stockholm, and the northernmost Norbottens län has 21 % of land area and 2.5 % of population.
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by ptaipale 10y ago
However, you hardly see any grit/sand on the roads. There's a lot of salt. Where I live (Finland) we have lots of sand but much less salt. The salt use is diminished to protect the environment, but the sand eats the road, as wel
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by ptaipale 10y ago
> Ticket them and make money for the municipality. That is a bad idea, because then the traffic arrangements will drift to be optimized for revenue generation, not safety nor fluent traffic.
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Alan Greenspan, you mean?
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by ptaipale 10y ago
... and live long after that in good health, to support your offsprings and help them succeed in their reproduction.
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Sure, but they gave the help to practically anyone who could receive it. The agreement on Oder-Neisse line was indeed not due to magic, it was due to geography and military power. The alternative? Let Patton have his way, and once Germany h
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by ptaipale 10y ago
"Any reason you give for not exercising regularly is not a reason, it's an excuse". Commuting 20-30 minutes to a gym sounds completely absurd [0]. You can use that time for exercising. Just walk or run around your home or off
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Marshall Plan was offered to Poland by the U.S. but not accepted by the U.S.S.R. so the Poles were left without. I can't blame the Americans for that. (I'm Finnish, and we also got none of it, for same reason: Soviets. Edit: Howev
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by ptaipale 10y ago
As well as loss of substantial amount of German property to Soviet Union and its satellites. In effect, Poland was shifted left on the map by 200 km or so, and the space and property claimed by U.S.S.R. Also, lots of industrial capacity of

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