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by vlehto 10y ago
I don't think it's that clear cut. Germany had multiparty system before turning fascist. But in early 30's elections in Germany, the communist and the fascist had combined popularity of over 50% on two elections. These partie
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by vlehto 10y ago
There is Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat that has internet comments with two boxes: "agree/disagree" and "well argumented/poorly argumented". So far it seems to actually work. There are differences in the s
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by vlehto 10y ago
Here in Finland there has been recent "boom" of pensioners getting part time jobs. They get something to do and bit of extra money. There is very little stress or risk as they can always fall back on pension. The only weird thing
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by vlehto 10y ago
Is this the same location that recently fired anti-ship missile to US warship? There was some speculation on reddit whether it was "someone trying to draw US into the conflict" or "US poking the bees nest, seeking excuse to g
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by vlehto 10y ago
If cryptocurrency gets big, it's the first tax everybody avoids.
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by vlehto 10y ago
The valuable thing here is information. You can't have perfect information in such situation, because people say different things than what they actually pay. If you have very little competition, then correct pricing is relatively less
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by vlehto 10y ago
There was recently Onnibus in Finland. They sold cramped two storey bus trips at very limited lanes. First ticked sold at 1e and price going up so that the last goes for 35e or something. Similar to cheap air travel schemes. You extract mor
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by vlehto 10y ago
>This idea seems so sensible it's a no-brainer. I have not heard any "cut VAT" scheme that doesn't sound really sensible. My suggestion would be to cut VAT alltogether so we can save our souls from endless tax cut jun
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by vlehto 10y ago
>Do you have a cite that says it's particularly dangerous on an absolute scale (rather than just "more dangerous")? I don't have source. Just a reasoning. Kid might run to the street from behind a parked car. Also cyc
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by vlehto 10y ago
To be honest on-street parking is even worse. It's dangerous and often less efficient in practice. I think it would be nice in some cities to have every second north-south going street reserved for pedestrians and bicycles and every se
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by vlehto 10y ago
I'm turning 30 soon, and my female friends seem to get invitations to look at someones newborn. I sure don't any of that.
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by vlehto 10y ago
If you're disabled or kid, just pour that stuff to glass. Sip is not in any way definite measurement. Sheet of paper is somewhat decent. Better one would be this: buy a car. It will automatically stop ignition after 100 000km. Do you r
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by vlehto 10y ago
Could there be some kind of "allowed CP database"? I'm asking because I might donate my old childhood photos to such database. I really would not mind if someone jacked of to that stuff. If that could help to prevent some ped
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by vlehto 10y ago
The fine print in the book is education to completely clueless parent. Basically how to bathe the baby, how to touch him/her and how to play with him/her. As a dude, I'd probably find that useful, as weird as it may sound. An
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by vlehto 10y ago
You have awfully clear image what the public most wants. In my country it's complete opposite. What everybody agrees is that the other guys should stop their populism.
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by vlehto 10y ago
Car speed limiter is completely trivial, cheap and potentially life saving. "Most Japanese domestic market vehicles are limited to 180 km/h (112 mph) or 190 km/h (118 mph)." Almost twice the common maximum speed limit (1
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by vlehto 10y ago
Why lock on 7? (Probably same reason than promoting free 10, but I didn't get that either.)
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by vlehto 10y ago
Interestingly alcometer locks on cars and speed limiters are very rare. Except for minorities, like truck or taxi drivers. Small groups of voters, so politicians can do what they wish with them. Seems like it's "okay" when yo
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by vlehto 10y ago
Come on. Do you really wan't to demonize people from using allegories? User languagewars is in good company. Orwell compared early dissidents in USSR to chickens in his Animal farm. Jesus compared Kindom of Heaven to mustard seed, hims
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by vlehto 10y ago
I'd like to know that too. Never heard anything shorter than 60 years. But my sources are vague. Stuff heard at civil engineering class and my dad who is construction engineer.
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by vlehto 10y ago
Again someone taking looks of opposite sex personally. In hindsight it's amazing how much young people take this shit personally. Like guy getting angry to a woman for her being fat. Guy getting angry because some random woman is not a
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by vlehto 10y ago
It's not false and that trend is nothing but clear. There is no clear trend in countries below 20 000$/person/year GDP (ppp). There is clear trend of lower Gini = higher GDP in countries that fall in range of 20 000$ - 45 000
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by vlehto 10y ago
I get no benefit from black pages. I get lot's of benefit from long sips.
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by vlehto 10y ago
Thats bad analogy. I could easily just sip three times every time and have empty bottle. If that bottle was cheaper than regular bottle, then sure.
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by vlehto 10y ago
So we have bunch of things that correlate together. Now tell me which one is causing it and which ones are effects. It's also possible that all of these are caused by some hidden thing.
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by vlehto 10y ago
Life based on printed pages would be OK. If you actually print the number pages you promise, I can compare the total costs of cartridges and printers. But I think some models also have timer. After 6 months or year, the printer starts to co
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by vlehto 10y ago
If U.S. leads the way, EU, Canada and Japan will follow. Then you have over 50% of world GDP behind ecological embargo. So the rest are not too much of a problem. If U.S. does nothing, then each individual EU country and Japan and Canada wi
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by vlehto 10y ago
Fair points. But still releasing will cost something to Canada. Probably something agreed behind closed doors as a part of package deal. I'm afraid this is one of those cases where you have to trust politicians. Trudeau or some diploma
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by vlehto 10y ago
Yes. Exactly.
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by vlehto 10y ago
>Justin Trudeau Can Restore Saeed's Freedom No he can't. If the reasons for Saeed's arrest are truly as said in the article, it would be immense loss of face to any Iranian politicians to release him. So they won't. I

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