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Expand please. Last site of democracy (eu) under attack. Kind of important.
The Swedish cabin on the frontline of a possible hybrid war
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
There’s just literally no possible way that Sweden has an order of magnitude more islands than the US or Canada. Open up Google Earth and scan around northern coastlines of all these countries and you’ll laugh at the premise of this article. With that said I wouldn’t be surprised if they have the most documented/counted islands. That’s another thing entirely and also sort of interesting I suppose.
It's actually quite an interesting question. The West Coast of the contiguous US has almost no islands, you really start getting "islandy" only in the Puget Sound. The East Coast has more islands, but then you need to decide how you classify the river deltas. Is a bump in a brackish swamp an island or not? On the other hand, Sweden has thousands of really small but also well-defined islands. They can be just several…
Yeah I’m talking about more polar “drowned coastlines” which clearly are the place to go hunting for lots of islands. In the US that’s Maine and Alaska especially.
Sweden sure has a lot of islands I’d believe they are #1. It’s the +10x claim that seems suspicious.
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#43Probably a stupid question, but why don't we encase the (undersea) cable in some metal container or something so that it would not be so easy to break? Is it due to economics? Is the constant fixing in the end cheaper than making it hard to break, or perhaps it needs maintenance anyway often enough to make it a hassle?
A better approach may be to dig a few more tunnels like the Channel tunnel, and run some fiber through them.
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#451bn concurrent streams is a lot. Can satellites handle the same or more?
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#46> [T]he Guardian was given exclusive access to the Stockholm datacentre site. […] Daniel Aldstam, the chief security officer at GlobalConnect, which transports 50% of the internet capacity of the Nordics and runs the centre, described the approach to its location and ordinary outward appearance as “security through obscurity”. How do you do that facepalm emoji on HN?
This is a good point.
Re: The Swedish cabin on the frontline of a possible hybrid war
#47Probably a stupid question, but why don't we encase the (undersea) cable in some metal container or something so that it would not be so easy to break? Is it due to economics? Is the constant fixing in the end cheaper than making it hard to break, or perhaps it needs maintenance anyway often enough to make it a hassle?
This would only be a stupid question if it had been explicitly addressed in the article linked.
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be aware that the term 'terrorist' can be applied today to somebody that one day can win the Nobel prize for peace, and then become bad again.
It is a label
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