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  1. Re:Put the money into new Nuclear Energy by orzetto · · Score: 1 · on Trump Administration Wants To End Subsidies For Electric Cars, Renewables (reuters.com)

    Yay, more subsidies to nuclear! An industry that has lived on gigantic subsidies since the 40's and has never spouted out a single fully non-subsidised, private-funded plant anywhere in the world, that still promises only economic disaster with yet another generation of miserable failures like the now-legendary 3rd+-generation Olkiluoto 3, 10 years late and procrastinating (I am thrilled to see whether they break the record of Duke Nukem Forever, they are quite close), while renewables have a proven track record of plummeting CAPEX and OPEX, are already competitive with ridiculously low prices (seriously: they hit 17 $/MWh in Mexico, and this is a company committing to deliver this and putting their money behind it, not an estimate).

    The most obvious proof that world leaders know nuclear power is just a boondoggle, good only as a support to military nuclear? When Iran announced they wanted to build nuclear power plants, no one believed them for a second. They knew the economics.

    No no, let's China take control of the world's renewable tech, just like we did with rare earths. What could possibly go wrong?

  2. Re:Christ, the things that get modded up on /... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on University of Helsinki To Lay Off a Thousand People (yle.fi)

    No, they sell $5Billion worth of oil annually: http://www.helsinkitimes.fi/bu...

  3. Re:Stop Hazing Us by TeknoHog · · Score: 1 · on Software Engineer Liz Bennett Talks About Being a Woman in a Nearly All Male Workplace (Video)

    Tech is 90% male,

    Everything is 90% of something when you're Finance Minister of Finland.

  4. Re:Sounds like a translation error in the article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Finland Dumps Handwriting In Favor of Typing

    Here are some original Finnish sources in English:

    http://www.helsinkitimes.fi/fi...

    http://yle.fi/uutiset/tuesdays...

    It is only about cursive writing ('calligraphy'). You know, the form of writing that's not meant to be used with pencils, but quills and the like.

  5. Re:Funny... by Parafilmus · · Score: 2 · on LulzSec Document Dump Shows Cops' Fear of iPhones

    Essentially every Nordic country? That's Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark and Iceland?

    Meanwhile, in the aforementioned Nordic countries....

    Mind you, I don't doubt that each of these countries has a better police force than the US. I'm sure they have the best police on Earth!

    But even so, it seems to me that Nordic civilians might occasionally have cause to record their own generally-trustworthy police.

  6. You only need one by Rithiur · · Score: 1 · on OAuth, OpenID Password Crack Could Affect Millions

    Are there still sites out there that don't do this? Really?

    Unfortunately, yes.

  7. News in English by kaip · · Score: 4, Informative · on Finnish Court Dismisses E-Voting Result
    Some news in English about the court decision:

    Finnish e-voting results annulled, municipalities to hold new elections by Electronic Frontier Finland ry (Effi), the best summary in English, IMO;
    Helsingin Sanomat;
    Helsinki Times;
    The Brad Blog;
    NewsRoom Finland;
    YLE; and
    Turre (the lawyers that won the case).

    The voting system was provided by Tieto and Scytl. In their News Page, Scytl declares: "Scytl's Pnyx.core successfully used in local elections in Finland" Shouldn't they update this...? It is even possible that the 2% of the votes lost was due to the Pnyx.core, instead of usability issues with the voting terminals, as has been commonly assumed - who knows.