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by nordify 8y ago
I don't know if all the words in this list qualify. Some of them exist in other languages as specific words as well. For example: Fremdschämen To be embarrassed by something somebody else did German Myötähäpeä in Finnish (alongshame wh
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by nordify 8y ago
"Free" if you pay for the 499€ service tier.
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by nordify 8y ago
0% tax on retained earnings.
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by nordify 8y ago
So don't put in the money as share capital.
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by nordify 8y ago
Finland has unlimited (without the quotation marks) data on prepaid SIMs from all carriers. Usually for about 1€ per day or 20€ per month. Depending on the plan it will also include unlimited texts and talk.
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by nordify 10y ago
Scans do not need to be crazy expensive. In Finland, unsubsidized, undiscounted and no questions asked, just pay prices for scans from a private health company are 258€. Expensive, yes. Crazy expensive, no.
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by nordify 10y ago
That sounds miserable. Give me a good cold winter with snow rather than a miserable non-winter that is damp, wet and slushy. Dry cold is far better than than damp thaw weather.
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by nordify 10y ago
Both Sweden and Finland have hotels in the capital city center which are former prisons. According to reviews they are well regarded.
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by nordify 10y ago
> We have a program that grants a short (4 week) sabbatical every 5 years. You can add an additional 2 weeks of PTO to get to a 6 week break. That's not a sabbatical, that's a normal summer vacation in Europe :)
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by nordify 10y ago
Why always the focus on free Wifi? Germany, like most of Europe, has good 3G/4G coverage. Rates are reasonable, so you can provide your own connectivity. Far more cheaper than renting a space just to get free Wifi. That doesn't me
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by nordify 10y ago
> That's something which is easy to change if there was a will You don't really believe that, now do you? Clearing the usage of new frequency bands is a huge regulatory undertaking involving multiple countries. It takes years
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by nordify 10y ago
> Again that is easy to say but it is meaningless unless there are quantifiable metrics by which you can prove that. Consumer prices. Geographical coverage. Unlimited and unrestricted usage. > If you look at the actual coverage map Fi
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by nordify 10y ago
> EDIT: You can count Ukko out completely they do not provide voice at all not to mention that paying 85 Euros on a 12 month contract for 3-10 Mbit/s without a device is laughable Tell that to somebody who would have to rely on sate
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by nordify 10y ago
Yes.
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by nordify 10y ago
> Don't know about Ukko or what they cover, can't even figure out if they are an MVNO or not their wikipedia entry says that they operate LTE 31 which makes them sound like a rural/remote region operator since that's
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by nordify 10y ago
> Clearly there are some other forces driving cellular communication in Finland other than only having 3 carriers. The difference is that Finland has effective competition, whereas other countries have nominal competition. A good and eff
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by nordify 10y ago
You are sorely mistaken with regards to Finland. Regulation in Finland defines what broadband speeds are acceptable. This includes mobile broadband. Acceptable speeds are a minimum of 50% of top speeds using a 4 hour average or a minimum of
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by nordify 10y ago
> Sonara is Telia, didn't knew about DNA I know that some of the islands and the more remote areas have had setup coop telephone/internet companies but overall there isn't much "competition" as far as number of c
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by nordify 10y ago
Core networks do not use QoS or congestion control in the traditional sense, as they are designed to be run without congestion in normal circumstances and because QoS is too expensive compared to adding more capacity.
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by nordify 10y ago
I feel I missed something. How is the government extorting the telcos? The telcos are of course under no obligation to invest in 5G. Do you know of any 4G provider that isn't?
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by nordify 10y ago
Yes, either via an enterprise certificate or via a free developer account. Especially in China they are big on sideloading via enterprise certificates :) Yes, I know it's not ideal, but at least it's possible.
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by nordify 10y ago
> That was literally the premise of the thread. No it wasn't. The thread starter discussed how broadband connections should be marketed, and the suggestion was to use guaranteed bandwidth as a measure. This then digressed into the c
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by nordify 10y ago
I made no promises of either free or low.
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by nordify 10y ago
> I didn't write that comment, but in my opinion net neutrality is mostly a solution in search of a problem. Net neutrality is (partial) remedy for lack of competition. Cure that and a lot of the reasons for net neutrality disappear
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by nordify 10y ago
It's a well known fact that certain ISPs in France will not peer with YouTube and thus their connections are congested. This is not a technical problem, but a business decision. The at only solution is to vote with your wallet and chos
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by nordify 10y ago
Maintenance is a percentage of the fixed costs. Upgrades replace old equipment as they have been paid off and decommissioned, so just another fixed cost that replaces the old fixed cost. So fixed costs all around.
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by nordify 10y ago
True, but it would still be a fixed cost to upgrade.
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by nordify 10y ago
> This honestly isn't true, because if we had a marketplace for ISPs, most consumers would pick the cheapest option, which would probably be the one that subsidizes it's revenue from charging companies like Netflix. The marketp
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by nordify 10y ago
> If Google decides to pay to providers to speed up Google content. The Internet doesn't work that way. If Google wants their services to work better at particular ISP they pay for bigger pipes to the ISP and/or install content
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by nordify 10y ago
No, but everything that's not transit is a fixed cost and thus as long as the internal network is properly designed and implemented, only transit costs matter. The rest (i.e. the fixed costs) will be covered by the monthly subscription

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