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by ptaipale 14y ago
Indeed. The news here is not that a junior developer made an error with SQL db (everyone makes them, eventually), nor that the company did not have proper safeguards against problems (this happens far too often). The news is that despite su
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by ptaipale 14y ago
Or: in the US (and Europe, and other "developed" countries) you don't have to go to any school at all to learn that whenever you can blame a big company, that trumps any requirement for having sense. For instance, take http://www.telegraph
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by ptaipale 14y ago
This is getting long and probably not interesting for anyone else. Sure, much of the more extremes in the U.S. is simply that with a larger number of people, the extremes are also further away. But the extremes are there. Why there are not
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by ptaipale 14y ago
The political systems in U.S. and Nordics are different, much of it coming from election systems. The U.S. "first past the post" guides to a two-party system where the different views are merged to one political party and battles are fought
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by ptaipale 14y ago
Well, what I meant is that fundamentally, Swedes are - or at least have been - very homogeneous, when compared to Americans. Even where people have labeled themselves with various extreme political affiliations, their way of thinking has be
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Cant wait for the Chernobyl Country Park Actually, the Red Forest in Pripyat is a place where many people can't wait to go. The exclusion zone has created a very interesting nature reserve.
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parties each had their own march Sure, but they were all Protestant Social Democrats, nevertheless. I mean, they may call themselves Marxists or Sweden Democrats or Red Front or whatever, but still they'll fundamentally believe in a so
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Fearing that your child will be stolen by a stranger is ludicrous. Well, almost. I remember one case in Finland where a stranger took a baby who was sleeping in a pram outside. It was such an uncommon occurrence that it made national news
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by ptaipale 14y ago
Was about to say the same, Stockholm surely sometimes gets colder than -16°C. Without looking any stats, probably -16°F (which is -27°C). For Helsinki, which not much further to the north, but closer to continental Russia, the record lows a