samiru

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by samiru 2y ago
No. The way we have built our healthcare system on top of private actors (at least here in Finland) has very little to do with capitalism. Successful lobbying, if not straight corruption, would be closer to the current situation.
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by samiru 2y ago
To me this Windows hate feels like a form of a group think. But I find myself on the sidelines on many other issues, too.
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by samiru 4y ago
> For video or text chat or both? To keep things simple, I would like to use Teams for both. I do not recall any issues on using Teams on Windows. On Mac neither, but most of my work is done on Windows, so even I am a Mac user I do not h
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by samiru 4y ago
I wonder if those who complain about Teams actually use it. They might not. My company forces us to use Google Chat. I would take Teams any day.
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by samiru 4y ago
I have a feeling that singular events are more often picked in favor of climate change? Same goes with the scientific evidence too: some time series are used while others are dropped in favor of the argument. Or some time series adjustments
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by samiru 4y ago
> The problem with USB-C is that you can't just pick up a device cable and power brick and expect them to work together. We clearly need more regulation.
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by samiru 5y ago
...and language!
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by samiru 5y ago
Logic…
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by samiru 5y ago
I have had a flu the last year twice, both times tested negative.
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by samiru 5y ago
In Finland Covid can be diagnosed just by flu like symptoms, even with a negative test result for Covid. Not sure how much this affects rhe stats. Practically no cases of influenza are recorded, though.
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by samiru 6y ago
But still, the action happened on political basis. This feels something I used see happening in Eastern Block or USSR some 40 years ago.
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by samiru 6y ago
What if his claims were true and this happened? Wouldn't that be a tricky situation too? I mean, really tricky? At the same time I think Youtube has the right to do this (and whatever they want, basically). Currently there are no real
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by samiru 6y ago
Well, a crisis situation (be it real or manufactured) is a perfect vehicle for driving all kinds of agendas. It is natural there is some opposition.
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by samiru 6y ago
Yes. Check the Yamal Peninsula in Google Maps and you realize this kind of cratering is a process that has been going on for thousands of years (since the ice age really!).
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by samiru 6y ago
I agree. I also have a hunch that you are in a very different bubble than I am, and the worldview that I convey from your bubble does not make sense to me at all. I think I used to be in ”your” bubble when I was a lot younger.
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by samiru 6y ago
Last year I have regularly had calls with participants from US, Italy, Finland and Australia. Never had any issues so go figure...
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by samiru 6y ago
So it is not really an alternative! :)
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by samiru 6y ago
The problem is, the "protection" and "regulation" quickly become tools to eliminate your political enemies. In some ways this is already happening in the western world. We are becoming what we used to oppose against to.
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by samiru 7y ago
English might not be his first language. Not mine either, so I did not notice the bad grammar! I have noticed in my own use of English language that after getting into a level where I get understood well enough in work situations and such,
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by samiru 7y ago
Are you sure? The motivation for this could be interpreted as pro-Islamic too, in the sense that old religious symbols (in this case Christian) are removed from public places as the proportion of muslims in the population grows. This is hap
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by samiru 7y ago
To me the most voiced people in Hacker News represent a strange mix of logic (engineering) and delusion (group think regarding the climate change). Yes, you can count me as a denialist.
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by samiru 7y ago
No, it’s not all of Europe. In Northern Finland we’we had even snow in the last few days and typical day temperatures hang around ten degrees Celcius (EDIT: which is actually typical).
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by samiru 7y ago
Many times the consensus has provided scientific evidence (e.g. geocentric model) and has still been wrong. For some reason, I feel that something similar is going on with the climate debate. Mix money, politics and some aspects of religion
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by samiru 8y ago
The money would be taxed away, of course.
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by samiru 8y ago
What is wrong with composting toilets?
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by samiru 9y ago
In Finnish WC morphed at some point into a proper Finnish word, ”Vessa”.
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by samiru 9y ago
And you sound like a populist. How one can have a meaningful debate when nothing you say is strictly true?
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by samiru 9y ago
Just thought about this game when I read the first comment, scrolled and here I was! But I concur.
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by samiru 9y ago
Exactly. Somehow we humans are built in a way it is very easy to plant ideologies and make them spread in the society. If you somehow get a group to feel collective guilt for something, you are already halfway of achieving your goals. Group
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by samiru 9y ago
I think it has something to do with different kind of processing in the left/right hemispheres of the brain. For most people left brain type of thinking (attention to detail, focus on process) dominates, it also may be harder for them

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