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by ptaipale 7y ago
"A government list of everyone" is certainly considered a good thing in most North European countries. Religion would not have to be there, but a population register is taken for granted, and is considered an essential service of
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by ptaipale 7y ago
They do; church membership dues are part of general taxation (if you are a member of the church). Same arrangement in Nordics (dk, fi, is, no, se). Church membership is not mandatory, but membership of the national church or churches comes
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Another article mentioning the use of faxes now that the court is disconnected from network: https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/anhoerung-zu-trojaner-ang... Summary: Berlins Court of Appeals (Kammergericht) kept using
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Berlin court used Windows 95, hit by virus, now uses typewriters&fax (German)(tagesspiegel.de)
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Interesting, thanks. It doesn't say it directly, but it appears that heavy vehicles turning (right) at an intersection are a relatively common setup for fatalities. Unfortunately separate bike lanes don't help there.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
They don't. Safety is often prioritized without deaths. Safety is sometimes prioritized even without any real danger (like with the so-typical "think of the children" argument). Priorization is difficult.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Where do bike deaths happen in New York? On streets when riding straight, or in intersections? (On both, of course, but what is the distribution?)
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by ptaipale 7y ago
I think this brief summary was nice. The title to linked article was clickbaity.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Indeed. Too bad it doesn't redirect to pizza.hut.fi (which was a host at the Helsinki University of Technology, I think it was a Sun box).
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by ptaipale 7y ago
I was writing about the national power grid in Germany and other countries; basically, the lines at 220 kV or higher, or HVDC, that transfers power from e.g. the wind power stations at North Sea to the consumers and industry that needs elec
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by ptaipale 7y ago
There may be substantial digging works to be done if you need to install new power lines to housing, which is not cheap, and various installation works are costly when done afterwards. I live in Finland, where it is typical that blocks of f
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by ptaipale 7y ago
People oppose power lines because they just don't want to have them near their house, or run through a forest where they walk. Some people are afraid of adverse health effects of power lines (claiming cancer issues etc, which are fake
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by ptaipale 7y ago
In Germany - as well as in some other countries - the problem is not only generation of electricity, but the capacity to transfer it. There may be lots of renewables, but not way to transfer it to consumers because of not enough capacity in
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by ptaipale 7y ago
I wonder why the American listings put Volvo at bottom (as there is no comprehensive annual inspection like the MOT or TÜV checks in Europe). In Europe, the bottom quality tends to be American and some French and Italian cars. A fairly deta
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by ptaipale 7y ago
OT, but looking at this neighbourhood, it's not surprising that there's trouble when a hurricane comes.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
The strange thing here is that United States uses more public money to health care than European welfare states. So Americans already now pay more taxes for health than Europeans. Some aspects of the U.S. health care system are incredibl
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Yes. It's to cars what "The Scream" is to paintings.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
It surely was 127 - heftier, but still definitely hand-movable by a half a dozen of adolescents... Fiat 127 is front-wheel-drive and bigger than Fiat 600, but still weighs under 700 kg.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
The microcars over here in Finland are often brands Aixam or Ligier or, well, Microcar. These are French manufacturers. Top speed is limited to 45 km/h, and they are smaller than Trabant, but otherwise they resemble it in many respects
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by ptaipale 7y ago
For me, smell of two-stroke engines is a smell of youth. My father's chainsaw, and later my own moped/motorbike. In fact it is curious how people may associate smells so strongly with negative or positive feelings. A thick smoke o
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by ptaipale 7y ago
No, it's merely a contender for the ugliest...
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Many of us have done that to people like teachers who owned a Fiat 600 or 127.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Most of the time you know your routine, and how much you've driven since filling up, and that tells you how much fuel you have left.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
> The compression is partly achieved by the sound wave reflected by the exhaust. It's more a "backflow" than "sound wave", but yes, it's there. It's been standard in two-stroke engines for much longer t
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Well, many people spend thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars or euros to make their kitchen look nice (even if they don't use it very much). Quality is of course always also subjective and dependent on needs. For instance, th
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Exactly. I must admit that the 39 € oven isn't "beautiful" in terms of artistic design and implementation; it is merely practical and not an eyesore. It is made cheaply, so now after 5 years of use, the paint has chipped in s
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by ptaipale 7y ago
That is correct. Also Russian and other Slavic languages belong to Indo-European family. Russian is linguistically closer to English than Hindi, but Finnish is far apart (and is close to Estonian, and more remotely related to Hungarian). St
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by ptaipale 7y ago
I really like my microwave oven that has just two controls: one dial for power (scale defrost - full power) and one for time (mechanical clock up to 30 min). It is not likely to break because there is no PCB with bad capacitors. It does not
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Exactly. Circulation under floor is good for heat pumps with drilled wells as heat source; there the water is not that hot (often around 40 degrees C after pump.)
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Direct electric heating typically runs on 240 V, but at least in Northern Europe (Finland, Sweden) electric heating is often a central heating via hot water circulation. Here it used to be common that there's a rather large water tank

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