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This is why I love HN - in the between the constant bombardments of the latest AI advances or the newest frameworks we get someone that shares something most of us would have missed.

I've visited Kyiv twice and both times went on a guided tour around Chernobyl and Pripyat. I have fond memories of the beautiful dogs that knew how to play the tourists for food. I had read about them beforehand so I brought them some proper dog food. One of them had the biggest tick I've ever seen, it was almost the size of my thumb. Even though they roamed free some nice people care for them. They were tagged so probably most of them either sterilized or vaccinated.

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Not really though. Not more than to Norway or Sweden. It's an old historical thing from when the danes ruled over Iceland.

This has been discussed for as long as I remember myself (am 30 now). First it was the influence of english in TV (we only dub childrens shows and movies). I came unscattered from my youth and really doubt that my children won't be as good or better at icelandic than me.

Everyone has learned icelandic, basic danish and advanced english at age 16. From the age 16-20 majority of kids add a fourth language which is either french, german or spanish. I'm now extra grateful for all the languages that I was exposed too in school even though I didn't find them interesting at the time. It's easy to communicating and understanding the basics when travelling.

And I really love my language and I'm sure that it'll hold up just fine for the next decades. I know few examples of families with children that have grown up abroad and yes, their grammar often is strange but they speak quite well and they feel a connection back "home" through the language.

> But it could expose user/site data as any user could access that pk, or just guess at the next sequentially generated pk.

Using a UUID instead of a sequentially rolling integer ID isn't solving your problem, you're just doing security through obscurity. The real solution is implementing real authentication & authorization - not making the key harder to guess.

This is the same here in Iceland. We have a very high adoption rates for internet banking and through each bank you have access to the national registry and can find the SSN for everyone (even the prime minister) by searching by name or address.

Companies publish their SSN on their websites.

The key for recipient in intra-country payments is account number plus SSN.

Identity theft is rare. I've always found strange reading about credit card scams in USA where people go through your garbage and get a credit card in your name. Here you'll have to show up in person and identify yourself.

I guess I am hoping for something on the lines of "Don't do it man, we tried and half of them melted or went missing within two months" or "Been running about 20 of them at various customers doing monitoring work and have yet to see a single failure other than a failing charger".