skeletal88

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by skeletal88 4y ago
Rust is a major problem for northern countries, cars that would otherwise work ok for long just.. rust through if the body was not properly manufactured
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by skeletal88 4y ago
If it was about intellectual property then it would not be tens of times cheaper in the EU and other countries. Insulin is not something new and advanced that needs special protection
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by skeletal88 4y ago
Gnome and customise? The DE that hates giving users any options to change stuff because they (Gnome) knows best?
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by skeletal88 4y ago
Referendum? Which one? After they had forced their military bases on us, there were elections where only one candidate for each district was allowed and of course only candidates who supported the soviet union could be elected, it was a tot
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by skeletal88 4y ago
For context: there were about 2-3% russians of the total population before WWII. Russia imported hundreds of thousands of them, with the explicit goal of replacing us local estonians. Unfortunately we now have this.. large minority and a pa
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by skeletal88 4y ago
Some experts have defined russian colonialism as "internal colonialism", they didn't conquer and abuse overseas territories, but expanded by taking over their neighbours and then used the resources of the territories taken ov
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by skeletal88 4y ago
In normal countries these are only valid when the previous employer pays for the time you are not allowed to work. If I work at a bank as a developer then I can go straight to the next one, if the previous employer doesn't keep paying
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by skeletal88 4y ago
This is just weird. Not living on the US and people here take taking antibiotics seriously, because they often have nasty side effects like messing around with digestion, making you otherwise feel like shit. People don't ask for strong
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by skeletal88 4y ago
The only reason why I let my car idle is because the windows are covered in frost outside and I don't want to daname them by scratching the ice off every day for 3-4 months every year. Better to heat the windows and let the ice melt fr
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by skeletal88 4y ago
Can you not use random acronyms without explaining what they are? Why do you expect that everyone knows what SAD means in your current context? I get it when someone mentions AWS or MSFT or LED on a tech site.. but "SAD syndrome"
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by skeletal88 4y ago
What? You are advocating for inefficient bureacracy because otherwise the time-wasting bureaucrats would be laid off? Is this sarcasm or you are serious with this?
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by skeletal88 4y ago
Can you explain why? Why would having every government department, hospital, doctors/dentists office keep your data separately, probably in some unsecured excel file or whatever? When we have one registry for everything, they can keep
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by skeletal88 4y ago
Even without my number the retailers know my e-mail or whatever else I used to sign up for their loyality cards or benefits, they already know what I buy. If they know my personal number, then they can't know anything in addition to wh
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by skeletal88 4y ago
Calm down, there still are physical offices where people can go and do their stuff, nobody is forcing people to use the online services.
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by skeletal88 4y ago
Correct. There are still physical offices where people can go to do their stuff, with clerks sitting behind desks, etc. Nobody is left out, doing stuff online is just an option 99% people use.
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by skeletal88 4y ago
When finland is mentioned on the internet then people post "torilla tavataan" - "lets meet at the market!!". So we estonians started saying "hiiele!" - lets meet.. at the sacred forest on the same occasion.
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by skeletal88 4y ago
My 90 year old grandfather is doing lots of stuff online, needs help with the computer occasionally, but otherwise is doing ok. Well.. he finished the Technical University with cum laude in mechanics, that maybe helps.
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by skeletal88 4y ago
The success of our Estonian digitalized government services is possible because we have: A nationwide digital ID, that can be used to authenticate someone, We have a National Id Number for every citizen and residence permit holder, that act
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by skeletal88 4y ago
What? Driving 20 min to fill the tank? Who and where does that? I fill it in a few minutes on the way from work to home.
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by skeletal88 4y ago
The source code is available, when someone says something is closed source then it usually means that the source code is not publicly available. Do you want amazing things? Everything can't be "free as in beer" wtf does that
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by skeletal88 4y ago
Someone I know who worked there said that after the sale to Ms they had 4 levels of managers between a developer and Ballmer. A year later it was 8 levels. Maybe he was exxagerating, but that was also adding to the problems
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by skeletal88 4y ago
Work for a small consultancy. Our project's manager at our customer fought with others so they don't force him to get Accenture. Their argument was "when the project fails and we have taken Accenture, then it is not our fault
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by skeletal88 4y ago
There is no such thing as "capital gains" tax, everything is covered by income tax, at the same rate. You can't use the US tax system to cheat Estonian taxes:)
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by skeletal88 4y ago
What makes it secure is that by law government entities (ministries, departments, etc) should not store data that can be queried from other available registries. So when I go to some official then they look at personal number, look up where
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by skeletal88 4y ago
And then after taking your money I can vote again as many times as I want for someone I actually like. Only the last vote counts. And I think that next elections it will be possible to override your electronic vote on paper at the polling s
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by skeletal88 4y ago
No, there is no biometry. To do anything with your electronic id you need your id card with the chip or your phone with a sim that stores your private key, and you need to know your PIN-s. What other kinds of verification do you need? It is
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by skeletal88 4y ago
Private persons have to pay income tax when they sell their shares for a profit. So there is no way to avoid the income tax and getmoney out of the company without taxes.
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by skeletal88 4y ago
Yes, but how long can you do that? Also, our local stock exchange has listed only a few dozen companies.
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by skeletal88 4y ago
Umm.. what does Gnome have that KDE doesn't? To me they are equal in functionality, just that KDE isn't forcing the opinions of their developers on me and lets me choose what and how I want to do stuff. And has more features (file
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by skeletal88 4y ago
I care but I don't understand the craziness about tiling wms, xfce etc. I like the convenience that KDE provides for me. To me the guys who casually always mention "btw yeah I'm using this tiling wm and ..." are just smu

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