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zidel··on Tesla Faces Accelerating Rate of Model 3 Refunds
The same applies to the Norwegian numbers, 20.9% battery electric, 18.4% plugin hybrid, 12.9% other hybrid
zidel··on Mortgages Are About Math
Norway has prepayment of any amount without penalties (for variable interest loans, the most common variant here) by law.
zidel··on Freemail
Freemail only works inside Freenet, so to do that someone would have to run a bridge for you much like Tor needs people willing to run exit nodes.
zidel··on UrtheCast’s Ultra HD video camera installed on the ISS [video]
The space station orbit is inclined at 51 degrees so the ground track goes as far north as London and almost all the way to the southern tip of South-America. The earth also rotates roughly 23 degrees per orbit, so eventually it passes within 10-15 degrees of most places between 60 and -60 degrees latitude.
zidel··on The Norwegian prison where inmates are treated like people
The 16% is for Bastøy, not for everyone. Statistics Norway has a better article on the recidivism rate (from 2005), but not in English unfortunately[1]. Among released prisoners 20% went back to prison at least once because of a new crime (33% after 4 years).

The closest comparisons I could find between your link and mine were:

* Reconvictions of released prisoners after 3 years: 46.9% vs ~38% (fig 3, yellow line)

* Resentenced to prison after 3 years: 25.4% vs 30% (fig 3, red line) (US numbers from 1994, Norwegian from 2005)

Translation for the figures from SSB:

* Fig 1: People who were charged with a crime

* Fig 2: People who were sentenced

* Fig 3: People released from jail

* Blue line: Charged with new crime

* Yellow: New sentence

* Red: New incarceration

[1] http://ssb.no/sosiale-forhold-og-kriminalitet/artikler-og-pu...

zidel··on Girl unaware all her pictures are sent to journalist
The translation is correct, so she might be living somewhere else.

On the topic of translation issues, "We" in the first sentence of that paragraph is "Google" in the original which changes the meaning a little.

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