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toivotuoon Gigantic heat caverns in Mustikkamaa have now been filled with water (2021)

https://www.geographyrealm.com/finland-many-lakes/

Thanks to the last ice age and retreating glaciers...

toivotuoon Untangling an Accounting Tool and an Ancient Incan Mystery

I spent quite a bit of time on the Urton database in 2006. Would need to dig out the pre/post processing Perl scripts and see a more recent version of the database.

An area that would also be ripe for computational analysis is the texts from Spanish archives that are known to have been sourced from khipu readings. "Pärssinen, Martti & Kiviharju, Jukka. Textos Andinos. Corpus de textos khipu incaicos y coloniales. Tomo I & II" would be a good starting point.

toivotuoon Fidor Bank API

We've built exactly this at here https://Holvi.com for business customers. We offer a full bank account replacement with integrated merchant account for online payments. A full API is in private beta at the moment. We are regulated as an authorised payment institution, and can currently service customers in all EU/EEA countries. Email toivotuo@holvi.com for access to the beta.

toivotuoon WePay’s (YC S09) Group Payments Get Some Big-Name Backers, Including Max Levchin

Congrats to WePay on the funding, but I can't help but notice a similarity between our and their business cards! ;-)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/toivotuo/2857596922/ (scred.com)

http://img17.yfrog.com/i/f2w.jpg/ (wepay.com)