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by ptaipale 10y ago
On the other hand, here at the great socialist Nordics, if I go to the public health care and say I want a check-up, they'll laugh me out. I won't even meet a doctor. And I guess they are right. They say our public health care sy
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by ptaipale 10y ago
I don't even really know Russian, I've never studied it; but I have learned the alphabet, and I can typically understand some part of newspaper articles etc simply because there are so many loan words from languages I know (Engli
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Languages borrow words from neighbours, just as peoples get influences from neighbouring peoples, so it is hardly a surprise that Latvian language has Slavic words - and Russian language has borrowed lots from neighbours, as well as substan
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Which of course tells about the thinking of boards of regents. Myself, I've often personally hired people who I have to pay more than I get paid.
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Indeed. Does Tesla actually do that control via touchscreen? I haven't driven one; I once got one for a taxi but didn't take note.
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Renault has a bit of history with slightly exotic controls. Take for example the Renault 4 shifter: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Renault4inside.JPG When I got a ride from a friend long time ago, I was puzzle
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by ptaipale 10y ago
And when driving, they are downright dangerous. Many are tempted to say "then don't operate the touchscreen when driving". But if e.g. air conditioning is controlled via touchscreen, you have little choice in case the windscr
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by ptaipale 10y ago
But then the same limitations are passed on to the outsourced services, and it's even less flexible because it's not just a "because I say so", it's also a contract...
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Yes. If you add two -2x programmers to the project, you decrease its productivity by 4 programmers. You don't multiply it by 4. I started my professional career in a project where the previous developer had been given incentives per li
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by ptaipale 10y ago
That obvious workaround doesn't give you a 24/7 hole from the Internet. To copy information, you need a person to knowingly do it. This decreases the attack surface tremendously.
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by ptaipale 10y ago
The VPN clients offer a "hotspot login" or such functionality so that you can open the access. It doesn't work for other use, just opening that VPN so that your company computer can connect to company network.
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by ptaipale 10y ago
They can't, really. So much of the Web has fortunately moved to HTTPS that then they should just forget about Web access.
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by ptaipale 10y ago
In an interview published soon after this Swedish government press release, the head of Swedish ambulance workers' union says: "I know it's sensitive and controversial ... But for us it's really a no go because we have
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by ptaipale 10y ago
60-70 m of books, assuming he uses only one layer in Billy. I have two, and occasionally three (though it's not Billy but another higher-quality shelf maker Lundea).
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by ptaipale 10y ago
It wasn't that common, but it was a real phenomenon that personal income marginal taxes could exceed 100 %. The Social Democrats in Sweden got angry when Astrid Lindgren pointed it out, and it seems some Hacker News readers with a down
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by ptaipale 10y ago
> Immigrants don't commit crimes. Poor people commit crimes. As I already wrote in in some other thread, Swedish national economist Tino Sanandaji (himself of immigrant background) has shown this is not the case: there is actually
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Programming languages don't use keyboards; they use some sets of characters, typically a subset of ASCII. Keyboards then can produce those characters. And yes, typing [\]{|} and so on is inconvenient on my keyboard. I particularly dete
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Yes, but j is where my right index finger sits in the basic typing position, so hitting j four times is still better...
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by ptaipale 10y ago
But of course choosing well-timed pictures, also known as "photojournalism", is a long-established method of applying political influence of media. It was done to Hillary Clinton, it's done to Trump.
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by ptaipale 10y ago
It's not only inequality. There are places with large income and wealth inequalities but little crime (e.g. Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore). There is correlation of income equality and crime, but inequality is far from the only factor
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by ptaipale 10y ago
This particular example makes assumptions: that hitting j four times is worse than entering } once. This depends on typist and keyboard; I use Swedish/Finnish keyboard and touch-type, and hitting j four times happens without looking or
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Personal gain is not always a sufficient explanation, either. Often people do what they do because they think it is right, not because of other motives that you wish to pin on them.
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by ptaipale 10y ago
That list is global, not just US, and seems to include also minor injuries. But yes, there are definitely lots of occasions where people are injured by turbulence and just being buckled up helps a lot (see how many of those injuries are to
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Interesting that you get downvoted for stating this. As if rich people couldn't have genuine interest and even altruistic ambitions.
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by ptaipale 10y ago
More like #1? Like someone at a dance hall who is not asked to dance and stands at the wall when others go to the floor?
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by ptaipale 10y ago
In the U.S., about a dozen people have serious injuries each year due to turbulence in airplanes. It's quite a while since the last fatality, but a majority of injuries incurred while flying are due to turbulence. The injuries are so r
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Just in case someone is interested, here is Tino Sanandaji's piece on this, published today. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/445237/sweden-crime-ra...
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by ptaipale 10y ago
PDF is not very fine. Copy-paste from PDF very often results in complete rubbish, even when it is not deliberately prevented (which the format allows, and then you have to do OCR).
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by ptaipale 10y ago
I would rather sit in my seat with the belt buckled and not have another passenger bounce all over the cabin and hit me in case of turbulence. Not to mention capacity, balance and evacuation efficiency issues.
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by ptaipale 10y ago
> One of the reason Sweden is welcoming migrants is because the birth rate is becoming really low, so there is need for new workers paying taxes. People have a hard time believing that because the current migration does not bring in m

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