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Sunday, February 3

3rd Feb - Weekender: Off-Topic & Finnish



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OFF-TOPIC
The Nordic countries: The next supermodelThe Economist
Politicians from both right and left could learn from the Nordic countries

Steven SoderberghVulture
On quitting Hollywood, getting the best out of J-Lo, and his love of girls

New Way to Deliver a Drama: All 13 Episodes in One SittingNYT
Binge-viewing, empowered by DVD box sets and Netflix subscriptions, has become such a popular way for Americans to watch TV that it is beginning to influence the ways the stories are told — particularly one-hour dramas — and how they are distributed.

And the Award for the Next HBO Goes to...GQ
The quirky little start-up that once printed money by mailing you DVDs is hell-bent on morphing into the HBO—and the network, and the any-show, any-time streaming service—of tomorrow. Can Netflix and its pathologically modest founder, Reed Hastings, pull it off? Who knows? But it's going to be fun to watch, starting this month with David Fincher's $100 million House of Cards. The only guaranteed winner in the bloody battle for the on-demand future? You. On your couch

The Vulnerability Of The ElitesWorld Economic Forum / ZH
Geopolitical Risk in 2013: Categorizing the major themes, risks, opportunities, and wild cards—based on discus-sions of the Global Agenda Council on Geopolitical Risk in Dubai, November 2012

100 Feet Tall Wave Largest Ever Surfed – The Big Picture

The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational StudyThe Big Picture
Why morons end up ruling and what could be done about it.

Question: Can the U.S. Legally Shoot Down A North Korean Rocket?The Diplomat
Maybe. But the United States would need to consider the consquences...and what happens next.

That Daily Shower Can Be a KillerNYT
Interesting look on risks.

Italy’s Billion-Dollar Gambling EpidemicThe Daily Beast
The economic crisis in Europe is driving people to slot machines and video poker games.

How Productivity Tools Can Waste Your TimeWSJ

Rise of the EmpiricistsThe Big Picture
Is the US becoming more of an empirically based society? The early evidence across a variety of fields is in, and it appears to be yes — albeit rather slowly. I suspect this adaptation is going to accelerate rapidly over the next decade.

Tear Down the Swing SetsSlate
And the plastic forts. Here’s how to put the play back in playgrounds.

Man in the machine Babbage / The Economist
For the past nine years Scott Maxwell has worked on Mars. Or at least as close to it as is possible on Earth. This, it turns out, is Pasadena, California, home to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which manages many probes, rovers and satellites for America's space agency.

'Fake Geek Girls' Paranoia Is About Male Insecurity, Not Female DuplicityThe Atlantic

US free to grab EU data on American cloudseuobserver
An obscure section in a US law is said to entitle authorities to access, without a warrant, data stored by any EU citizen on clouds run by American companies.


IN FINNISH
Ruotsi on hyötynyt omasta valuutasta – analyysi vain pitää tehdä kunnollatyhmyri

Cronberg: Suomi voisi kiintiödä opiskelu- ja työpaikkoja espanjalaisille Karjalainen
Cronberg pitää mahdollisena, että seuraavien eurovaalien jälkeen valtaan voivat nousta EU-vastaiset ryhmät. Äärioikeistolaisten puolueiden kasvaminen on vaarallista, hän varoittaa. (yrjö!)

Finanssiala tekee sen mahdolliseksi Nordea

Luonnollisten monopolien myynti etenee – käytännössä verotusoikeus ulkomaisille sijoitusyhtiöille? tyhmyri

Suomen kauppataseJanne Suuronen / US Puheenvuoro

Eurooppalainen SuomiHeli Hämäläinen / US Puheenvuoro

Vai vakautta ja kasvua – katin kontitJan Hurri / TalousSanomat
Euromaat ovat sopineet, että kunkin jäsenmaan ja koko euroalueen talous on vakaa ja kasvaa. Kriisi on osoittanut, että moiset sopimukset ovat pelkkää paperia ja vaikuttavat jopa tarkoitustaan vastaan. Kaikista maailman talousalueista juuri euroalueen talous on jo vuosien ajan ollut epävakain ja heikoin.