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by vlehto 11y ago
What exactly causes the blue? I recently discovered that the people/subjects I don't understand frighten me. And that causes load of other negative feelings. Exploring those subjects removes the fear at some point. And they are al
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by vlehto 11y ago
I've been wondering why passenger planes and military cargo planes have so different layout? So far my best guess is that it's related to landing gear. Landing gear makes significant portion of the total weight, you want to keep i
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by vlehto 11y ago
I'm pretty sure Swedish would be easier language to learn than English. But Hollywood changes that picture completely. EDIT: Actually I'm not so sure. Swedish has genders and most of time it's not based on anything. I'd
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by vlehto 11y ago
Not picking a side is not knowing what PLO wants? I really thought that everybody would consider "wiping Israel our of Levant" outright ridiculous idea. I will try to be more specific next time.
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by vlehto 11y ago
My agenda. :D I got the idea of wiping Israel off the map from PLO "peace suggestion". I'm not going to pick a side in that stuff. I'm just extremely cynical that there would ever be peace.
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by vlehto 11y ago
I didn't quite understand. Who is growing biggest terrorist zone? What what army, what cash?
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by vlehto 11y ago
It's not just morally questionable, it's outright wrong. Unfortunately trying to stop genocide with violence and failing miserably is even more wrong. On the other hand using supposed genocide as excuse to forward geopolitical int
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by vlehto 11y ago
I'd like to be wrong on this one too. Functional democracy is as intelligent as average voter is. Hopefully education can make the world better place. But it's going to take a long time to do it.
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by vlehto 11y ago
If the attackers are saying that, their real message is probably "Look, the French are not safe. We are capable of revenge." to other ISIS fighters in Syria. Morale of your own troops is of paramount importance in a war. I think F
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by vlehto 11y ago
Thanks. I was genuinely curious. To me "power projection" in itself is morally very questionable. Even without terrorist attacks. Unfortunately modern geopolitics is more Machiavellian than Machiavelli himself was.
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by vlehto 11y ago
I didn't try to do that. I just think that conflict fueling unrest more than anything else. And it's lot easier to imagine Israel to disappear than to imagine half of Islamic world to disappear.
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by vlehto 11y ago
Sorry, I guess I read too much into your comment. Democracy, equality before the law and freedom of speech need each other to work. To me it seems self evident and I assumed it to be no-brainer to large majority of HN. I thought that we we&
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by vlehto 11y ago
I didn't know France was doing that? Anyhow it works relatively nicely here in Finland. We only take part in UN operations as peacekeepers. And we don't have radicalized Muslims doing strikes in Finland. But for some reason Finnis
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by vlehto 11y ago
It's completely possible that the message sent here was not aimed to anybody living in France. It's also likely that certain large portion of French are not going to be satisfied unless something drastic is done. To them it's
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by vlehto 11y ago
Your comment tells more about your identity than anything else. Not that there is nothing really wrong with that. Democratic state could take any stance on the subject. Probably one that is easy to sell to people. This stuff comes interesti
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by vlehto 11y ago
It seems impossible to predict what will happen. But I don't think we will see anything that doesn't have some kind of historical precedent. The thing is that nation state is changing. It is fundamental construct of European democ
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by vlehto 11y ago
I agree. Criticizing kindle reader because it lacks desktop functionality is comparing apples and oranges. But we are talking smartphones here. If you claim that smartphone is no more than kindle reader with ability to call, then why is it
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by vlehto 11y ago
Patent. It costs about 10k. March to bank and negotiate it. That sum is somewhat easy to earn if you fail, they have almost no risk. Once you have "pending" you have your idea protected enough. Marketing should start as soon as it
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by vlehto 11y ago
Finland already has high rate of refugees compared to Estonia or France(?). I don't think UBI changes that picture at all, as the refugees already get any money citizens would. At very least the perverce incentive of wellfare to non-ci
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by vlehto 11y ago
My impression is that this "permanent recidence" stuff is justified with Finnish constitution. It states that everyone how can't earn enough money to live on it, has right to wellfare. This "everyone" is basis for
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by vlehto 11y ago
>The budding asshole has learned, perhaps subconsciously, that other people interrupt them less if they use stronger language. But there should be some underlying reason why stronger language warrants more airtime. I have another hypothe
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by vlehto 11y ago
I assumed that I was talking to international crowd. Who don't really care too deeply about Finland, but would appreciate perspective. I really didn't think anybody would be scared, save maybe other Finns. I started those two sent
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by vlehto 11y ago
If solely on advertisements, then you're correct. But if you get some kind of intuition of normal price range of bicycles, then notice add of cheap bicycle, what's the problem? Originally adds we're about providing informatio
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by vlehto 11y ago
Could you explain me what there is assumtions? And what there is scaremongering?
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by vlehto 11y ago
Are you a Finn? I am and would definitely call this homogenous coutry. But I know Finns who would never agree on that.
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by vlehto 11y ago
>citizens only No it's not. Currently all wellfare in Finland is based permanent residence. But if you don't have permanent residence, the social services will get you one if you just are in Finland "permanently". Whi
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by vlehto 11y ago
It may sound weird, but this is not that big problem in Finland. We don't have too much that sort of arguments. Our politics is lot more consensus/compromise based than U.S. politics. This means people disagreeing in quantity can
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by vlehto 11y ago
Yes, your point still stands. Further problem is that most people would probably prefer adds, but only in very narrow subset of all products. And they might not want to share that subset, not with modern privacy concerns and rogue advertise
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by vlehto 11y ago
"It only really makes sense if you view writing as a fungible commodity" I have no sympathy for writers here. You view us readers as fungible commodity. I use Reddit, HN, Facebook and twitter to weed out the worst bullshit. There
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by vlehto 11y ago
>sort of person who would be willing to pay to remove adverts is the sort of person advertisers most want to reach People who wish to buy shit also exist. Some of them might actually want info about their options. Then there are people w

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