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Also, few phones produce good raw files which are essential for archiving. I can get better results from 15-year-old raw images shot with an EOS 30D than I get out of my flagship smartphone.

This reminded me of Finnish folk racing Jokamiesluokka[1], where the owner of the car has to entertain offers for the car after a race and must sell the car if there's a willing buyer. This is to keep the cost of cars down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folkrace

A budget cap is one solution to keep design regulations to a minimum and ensure that smaller teams can compete. F1 introduced a $145 million budget cap for the 2021 season, going down to $135 million for 2023-25 seasons. Right now the three biggest teams (MB, Ferrari, Red Bull) spend somewhere around half a billion or so per season.

Also, a good driver might not be a good team member which might put them in a disadvantage. Räikkönen was considered one of if not the fastest on the grid during his best years but iirc wasn't very good as a team member in the car's development phase which hampered his and his car's performance

One of the advantages of a legged machine is its smaller footprint on the often very vulnerable (at least in boreal forests) forest floor. Wheels and tracks tear and dig into the soil and cause a lot of damage that can take years to heal.

Here's another clip to illustrate the speed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_0RME99Iik

I would say Finland has a moderately strong horse culture. Harness racing [1] events remain popular, and using horses in low-impact landscaping and forestry has seen some resurgence [2]. Finland also has its own breed of horses, the Finnhorse [3].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harness_racing 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hylOZ8M68iY 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnhorse

As far as I know California is already short on water. Would a sprinkler in every house system be sustainable or even possible in such conditions that everything burns?

But the time period of such migrations could have been thousands of years.

It might not be cheap, but it isn't more expensive than in other comparable countries. I've lived in Brussels where it's cheaper to ride a short distance, but as the distance increases the fare is comparable or bigger because the fare/km is higher than in Finland where the pick up fee is higher.

(Finland: pick up 5,90€ + 1,6€/km/1-2 people vs. Brussels 2,40€ + 1,8€/km/1person or 2,70€/km/2 people).

You’re confusing taxi driver’s permit (which requires exams, not courses) with a taxi licence/permit. Uber drivers didn’t have either and the latter is where the law is very strict. Licenced taxis pay much higher insurance and the cars have to be inspected more often, meaning the costs of a legitimate taxi business are much higher than unlicensed Uber drivers.

Taxis aren’t that expensive in Finland compared to other Nordic countries or countries with similar living costs as Finland.

Swedish taxis are unregulated and there fares have risen faster than in Finland.

And Uber as a ride hailing service was perfectly legal in Finland. The issue was they were hiring drivers that didn’t have taxi permits (and didn’t pay taxes).

The Economist wrote about Kamprad's foundation and IKEA's structure a decade ago: http://www.economist.com/node/6919139

>Much has been written about IKEA's remarkably effective retail formula. The Economist has investigated the group's no less astonishing finances.

>What emerges is an outfit that ingeniously exploits the quirks of different jurisdictions to create a charity, dedicated to a somewhat banal cause, that is not only the world's richest foundation, but is at the moment also one of its least generous. The overall set-up of IKEA minimises tax and disclosure, handsomely rewards the founding Kamprad family and makes IKEA immune to a takeover. And if that seems too good to be true, it is: these arrangements are extremely hard to undo. The benefits from all this ingenuity come at the price of a huge constraint on the successors to Ingvar Kamprad, the store's founder (pictured above), to do with IKEA as they see fit.

>Why is this the knee-jerk response of many journalists in response to technological progress?

Maybe because our society isn’t ready for such changes. The American system especially lacks safety nets and social security systems to support those without a job. The way things are now is that one needs to have a job to be able to “play”.

One solution would be to tax the robots that replace the working class. Otherwise the only ones to gain are the ones who own the robots.

>I am very curious about what kind of warfare they are expecting from the east though.

What they're prepared for is a "strategic strike" and/or a limited scale invasion which is a part of a larger conflict in Europe. Combined arms and fast pace, but not a hybrid war like in Crimea or a separate war where Russia is only engaged in Finland. The Finnish Army reformed their doctrine quite recently [1] with the goal of ensuring adequate performance with lesser troops (war time strength has been reduced significantly in the 2000s).

[1] video with Eng subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2crAx8kibis

I use Firefox containers for this. They’re not incognito, but they allow opening more articles in my main window.