Benji_San

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by Benji_San 5mo ago
I agree here that it can depend on the infrastructure which option is better. But one way to look at it is that if a car is parked in the bike lane then the bike will be in the car lane == more risk for the bike. The bike is also at risk fo
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by Benji_San 5y ago
Yeah I kind of agree, Netflix still seems to be the only streaming service that actually offers a better service than just pirating the content and watching it through Kodi or Plex. There is always some minor or major technical issue or mi
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by Benji_San 6y ago
Seems really cheap tho. I wonder what the Medical cost + opportunity costs for avoiding e.g. 50% of crashes in the junction would be over e.g. 10 years. Probably a lot more than 100k for fixing the junction.
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by Benji_San 6y ago
As someone who runs red lights from time to time both as a pedestrian and cyclist I more or less think this is the general view, especially if we take into account that bicycle lanes, at least in my country, often are linked to the pedestri
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by Benji_San 6y ago
Jehovas witnesses in Finland were exempt from the military service until last year. Someone took it to court and the ruling was that you can't discrimate certain groups based on their religion. I think it's only a question of time
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by Benji_San 7y ago
I'm currently using a 10m (~33ft) HMDI cable to connect my desktop PC to my TV @ 4k/60hz. It works well without HDR but does cut out from time to time with HDR enabled so I mostly leave it turned off @4k. I spent quite a long time
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by Benji_San 7y ago
There are also quite a few all-you-can-eat-sushi buffet places in Turku, all with the same price of around 10€ during lunchhours. A interesting part that was left out from the initial post is that we have these "lunch coupons" in
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by Benji_San 7y ago
The "copying fees" on storage (this includes harddrives/SSDs, phones, CD/DVD/BD or pretty much any storage medium in some countries) is actually a fee for "private copying" ( https://en.wikipedia
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by Benji_San 7y ago
I'm still waiting for "Steam for TV series/Films". I've always felt that that approach would work better as we're unlikely to get a single streaming service with "most content" akin to music streaming
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by Benji_San 7y ago
"Voice and subtitles not available in your language" For literally the first recommended film on Google play movies. Scroll through it a little bit and it seems like original languages are not available, closed captions are never
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by Benji_San 8y ago
Why not? It doesn't cost anything extra except some time for the initial setup and you get a guaranteed short term return on your parked money.
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by Benji_San 8y ago
I would be OK with occasionally paying for other streaming services than Netflix if they actually worked, I.e. better than torrents and preferably on Netflix's level. The other services available in the Nordics are not even close with
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by Benji_San 8y ago
Yeah, youtube red/music key has been "coming soon" to some European countries for years already (though it was initially available for play music subscribers for a few months during some limited release/pilot).
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by Benji_San 9y ago
Well it is quite similar in Finland. It seems like the government does everything in its power to pull the social security net out under entrepreneurs. A more pessimistic view is that the government does everything it it's power to pul
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by Benji_San 9y ago
I'm kind of surprised that some people don't eat leftovers. While it's understandable from a taste perspective the time required to cooking fresh food every day, assuming you cook most meals, seems staggering.
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by Benji_San 10y ago
BMI isn't really reliable on a individual level as it doesn't take body composition into account. Athletes are generally "overweight" according to the BMI cutoff.
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by Benji_San 12y ago
I don't really think a justification is needed. Yes it's illegal but so is driving faster than the speed limit, yet most people does it because they feel entitled. You can ticket people for breaking the rules but it isn't ver
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by Benji_San 12y ago
Allegations of rape are generally really problematic in a society were rape is normalized and the justice system has a skewed view of what a "legit rape" is ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_culture ). I&#x27
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by Benji_San 12y ago
This is sadly also true for the Nordic countries. There's a bunch of contenders in the streaming business and huge pushes for cable-TV from the major broadband providers. The sad part is that most services are utter crap and suffer fro
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by Benji_San 12y ago
The current overly bureaucratic welfare systems are reactions on the idea that everyone is supposed to have a "job". If you don't have a job your job is to navigate the welfare system to "earn" your welfare income w
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by Benji_San 12y ago
It shouldn't really be a tough choice. The "suburbia" dream is flawed on so many levels that it isn't even funny. Yet people are clinging on to it like leeches because they've been told it will make them happy.
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by Benji_San 12y ago
Both articles seem to tackle the problem merely from the perspective of middleclass suburbans who want a "cozy" fireplace. An open fireplace is more of a decoration than a effective way of warming your house. Warming spaces with
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by Benji_San 13y ago
Personal use as in you're not selling bandwidth to a third party. There is most likely no problem running a mail och minecraft server, but they definitely don't want you selling bandwidth to your neighbours or hosting your video s
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by Benji_San 13y ago
Turku here, which is also considered to be a cycling town. I was really shocked to see Finland placed fourth on the list of bike friendly countries. I'll admit that most bike lanes on the countryside are great but the bike lanes in cit