In plenty of countries, there is already a tax system to punish "bad consuming choices": e.g. tobacco, alcohol, and in some places even products with excess sugar are taxed more than other products. In Europe, we call it "soda tax" or something. If you want to get academish, you can call it a Pigouvian tax.
I think it's perfectly OK. Peeping on someones digital data is not OK.
According to current consensus, the Finnish population has gone through several bottlenecks. There might have been just two surviving paternal lineages from the bottle neck 4000 years ago. And after that, there were plenty of times when only a 1/3 or less survived the famines related to wars and plunders.
So, interestingly, Finnish DNA is an isolate but highly diverse within itself.
What's interesting and per my present knowledge not yet explained is the fact that the modern Mongolian horse and Finnic horse are genetically and phenotypically the most related modern horse breeds.
As they say in the text, it is not the speed but endurance and resilience of the horses which makes the difference. Just try riding one of them. They barely notice you, until they decide to run. And after that it's like a train.
I can not only understand some species of birds, but they can understand me.
Developed this habit during the COVID-19 lockdows, and I happen to have blackbirds and ducks as neighbours. Was listening to them for some months, and finally decided to chirp in.
I don't give them food but they are truly curious of me. The blackbirds stare at me in silence before breaking into the most difficult sequence in their pocket - and laugh at me when I try to versionate.
The mature ducks come to me when I say qvuaak, and the chicks when I do the high "blivblivlinli" -sound.
I don't feed them or want them to get too attached to humans, but it has been funny experiment.
I thought "doing hard things" would be something like a running Marathon, studying or working while having toddlers, learning to be a pro coder as an adult, taking care of your close ones while they are sick.. But it was about doing basic math.
Proving to yourself or anyone else that "you can do hard things" since you did more or less math in school/collage/university will leave you trainwreck at the first real hard thing that bumps your way.
And why some people don't do the math? I guess, because they are told its boring and/or hard, but they should do it anyway. And people don't like to be told what to do.
I've been looking for an to keep track of my routine for getting my back in order after a broken vertebra. Many of exercises I'm doing can be found in this app already, and using this app is so straight-forward that I take this to test right-away.
Nevertheless, I would like to know if it will be possible to add own exercises also?
Burnout is not classified as a clinical disease per the latest International Classification of Diseases. It is clumped together with other environmental factors such as poverty, and thus does not as such qualify as a reason for paid leave - though national qualifications differ.
"Burn-out is included in the 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) as an occupational phenomenon. It is _not_ classified as a medical condition.
It is described in the chapter: ‘Factors influencing health status or contact with health services’ – which includes reasons for which people contact health services but that are not classed as illnesses or health conditions."
I personally do know the condition called nowadays as burnout does exist, but as current medical consensus, it is a cluster of symptoms caused by systemic faults.
VSCode is free if you self-host it. There are corporate tiers with virtual desktops etc, and you can pay for services as GitHub pilot if you want.
Anyhow there a wealth of free extensions to customize it and the setup is really straightforward. I have version management git in a private GitHub project for version management. You can add extensions for rendering graphs in good quality and importing and exporting stuff is easy.
I have not been able to figure out why some people prefer to use Jupiter notebook as it is.
Yes exactly: tools/libraries such as R, D3.js, or even Tableau can go over the top for the simpletons as, me who don't code for a living. There are many data visualization and analysis tools that claim “to do everything without a line of code” but even importing your data into them can be pretty frustrating without knowledge of SQL, Python or JavaScript.
For simple data visualization with animations, e.g. Flourish is a good option, but it's limited without enterprise access. You can find examples here: https://flourish.studio/examples
So, I really enjoyed Observable's new documentation and tutorials which actually show, not tell how to use the cool examples with your own data.
(Note: I really dislike apps that only have video tutorials. It's hard to follow along and not get bored or lost. Sorry about this rant in advance, and thanks for all the producers who offer clear documentation as text or reasonable guided tours.)
Sorry for failing to understand the sarcasm and taking your comment personally. During the Cold War plenty of the "Western" countries were truly afraid of the Communist powers, and we in the between were afraid of being bombed to dust in a nuclear war between the USA and the USSR.
Also,I felt your comment was not nice towards all the minorities and "divergents" in the Russia and elsewhere. Just Google Grozny, Aleppo, or Anna Politkovskaya if you want to know why your comment could have been interpreted as something else than just a joke.
Yes, we in Finland are not scared. But it is only rational to ally with forces that can protect our sovereignty. I would not bet my life on it, as I live in a country which has the longest border with Russia after Ukraine.
In my view, to say that Russia’s actions are just empty threats is an undervaluation of the price the Ukrainian people and military are paying now. Whole cities have been wiped out of existence, and both the military and civilian population have faced extensive casualties as Russia has resorted to “brute force” attacks, showering bombs wherever in Ukrainian land.
We in Finland have been building bomb shelters for the population that can withstand even nuclear attacks, and we have universal male conscription and voluntary female drafting. About 80% of Finnish male citizens complete the service, which makes Finland have military resources unlike any other European country. This tradition is more than a hundred years old. If someone wonders why, just search for the term “The Great Wrath.”
Yes I agree with the previous comment. I volunteered to teach Finnish to the refugees during the last "refugee-crisis" Finland faced, when Russia opened it borders and "dumped" Central Asian asylum seekers here the year 2015. Obviously some of the young guys from Syria were just taking a fun tour. Most of these folks got the ticket back to their starting point, and accepted it.
But there were many who really wanted to learn the local language, and even if the life at the "asylum seekers centers" was not luxury, they were grateful that they had a place to stay where there was no immediate risk of death.
Some of these people had their families with them, though most of them were young, healthy males, since this segment is most likely to survive the trip. E.g. riding a bicycle in the -30 C/-22 Fahrenheit for 50 kilometres was one common way to entry Finland during this episode.
And regarding Afghanistan, for many, there is not much to be rebuilt. The country was first run over my Soviet army, then the US revenge. The minorities like Hazara have been persecuted during all the previous regimes. These people have no place to go back to.The people I know have instead build careers here, and are vocal against fundamentalist Islam.
Just please flag this if you see this comment as being too political, as in this forum we are mostly spared of these wrangles.
But anyway, I would encourage reading "The Revolution Betrayed: What Is the Soviet Union and Where Is It Going? Преданная революция: Что такое СССР и куда он идет?" by the exiled Soviet Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky to get perspective whether the peaople (Narodnost народность)were really represented in the Soviet nomenklatura (номенклату́ра). At least almost every Finnish speaking representative from Karelia were "neutralized", leaving the previously most prosperious part of Finland in the state as it is now. Finland would not take it back even it was paid for it.
Yes, this was exactly the reason why I, as a Finnish person, changed my view on joining NATO by 180 degrees the day Russia launched its war against Ukraine. Before that, I wanted Finland to be independent from both the West and Russia. I had more friends in and felt closer to Russia than the USA.
But I have been grateful that Finland has been independent. As a child, I visited the Soviet Baltic countries since church choirs were allowed entry. I remember it clearly because I saw for the first time the fear of speaking about certain topics.
Defending the country’s independence took a whole generation, as all men who could be drafted were sent to war and women participated as volunteers. My other grandmother worked behind enemy lines as an underage girl, delivering messages. The other grandmother volunteered to work in prison camps.
When Finland was last attacked by Russia (formerly known as the Soviet Republic), Finland did not receive much help apart from thoughts and prayers and socks knitted by housewives in the UK and US. In the first round, Finland defended its independence but lost a significant portion of its most prosperous areas, including its second-largest and most international city, Viipuri/Vyborg. What happened in the second round of the war was not glorious for Finland, who allied with Nazi Germany since they were the only ones that offered an alliance against Soviet Union aggression.
I have not thought of myself as a nationalist, but I am concerned about the safety of my family and this thing we call Finland. And I don't want us to face again the situation as Ukraine is facing now.
Same-gender compartments in trains or whatever simultaneously make sense and do not. E.g. for "cis-gender hetero woman" - as myself - these policies give me privileges such as more clean toilets but longer queues - except in tech events, where women are nowadays a minority.
In Mumbai the local trains have separate wagons for women, which was nice. There was space, women who talked to me as as "sister" singing and making handicrafts. The other sections of the train were packed as sardines in a can, and men groping each other, in particular those with fair complexion. And please don't take this comment as xenophobic or as an insult against Indian people or culture in Mumbai, this is just how it is.
At the same time, the only time I have been actually hurt by sexual harassment by a stranger happened here in Finland when a girl high on something groped me in a techno party and tried to kiss me. I got amused first, but after a while I tried to detach her. No one come to help me even I yelled that please get this girl away from me. If it had been a guy, I would have kicked him to ground, but for a girl - I could not do anything apart from just trying to push her away. Eventually we both fell down stairs and my ankle got sprained.
Yes sure, but I don't categorise these episodes as losing the plot.
Per my perception I've gone "missing in action" for some months or even a few years during my life. Did not check any inboxes or report to anyone. For me, these episodes have been valuable, but yes, I am guilty of neglecting my family and friends during these periods.
Summa summarum I think in some situations it is the only rational option.
As Bertrand Russell said in The Conquest of Happiness
"One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."
Yes sure, but I don't categorise these episodes as losing the plot. Per my perception I've gone "missing in action" for some months or even a few years during my life. Did not check any inboxes or report to anyone. For me, these episodes have been valuable, but yes, I am guilty of neglecting my family and friends during these periods.
Summa summarum I think in some situations it is the only rational option.
Yes the concept is from Lauren Berlant, who is quite distinguished in her field, affect theory. She has a feminist viewpoint and tends to be blame neoliberalism for of everything awful, but for that genre - which is not usually my cup of tea. Anyway, I think she has written some interesting pieces.
I found interesting this paper which cites Berlant's concept of cruel optimism: "Disinformation as the weaponization of cruel optimism: A critical intervention in misinformation studies".
It discusses the state of disinformation studies with example such why academic interventions have failed to "correct" e.g. people who believe in QAnon.
In Finnish we still use word "mesi", which is a synonym for honey. The word has the same meaning in Finno-ugric and Uralian languages still spoken in Siberia and Volga areas such as Mari and Udmurt - and Hungarian.
At least the Finnish etymologic dictionary says it's related to Aryan words, e.g. medhu in Sanskrit.
The crypto business seems to be a bit on a "Winter is coming, and it will last for years" -phase in EU.
An European Parliament vice-president and law-maker who was the most prominent lobbyist for more lax money-loundry regulation for cryptocurrencies is currently under detention - for money loundering and corruption.
And yes I think cryptocurrencies will prevail in some form sooner or later, it's just not so good publicity that some of the most vocal proponents are caught red-handed with bags full of half a million euros.
I think it's perfectly OK. Peeping on someones digital data is not OK.