Chrono

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by Chrono 14y ago
DotA was not at all novice friendly and I do believe DotA 2 has done a lot to reduce the barrier of entry. The UI is simply amazing at this point and all matchmaking based games should really look at DotA 2 before designing their UI, it is
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by Chrono 14y ago
It seems to have worked well in TF2 and MOBA players appears to be quite accepting of paying for cosmetic stuff. I hope for Valve's sake they will be able to pull it off as I really enjoy Dota 2.
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by Chrono 14y ago
2.75% with MasterCard, Visa and Diners Club. 3.75% with AMEX without a card reader its 1.5 SEK + 3.5%
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by Chrono 14y ago
An estimated value of $100b, the ability to throw $1b into acquisitions and over 3000 employees - still a startup? By such logic you can almost call Google a startup, or any other IT firm really. What exactly makes Facebook a startup by any
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by Chrono 14y ago
The US still uses checks, can't expect much...
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by Chrono 14y ago
Mojang is privately held but they submit an annual report to the tax authority and once OK'ed by them in the public domain so it can be requested from the authority. There are several companies that log all registered companies and their an
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by Chrono 14y ago
I agree, the margins are just too low. They are expanding and such things cost money but they are still only something like 13-15 employees at the moment but still have bad margins. I would expect at least double the margin for a company wi
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by Chrono 14y ago
Impressive revenue and great profit margin! Hopefully they will be able to keep this up for 2012. It is worth noting the jump in employees (28 to 224) - I kinda wonder if they will be able to manage them all, with such a sharp increase. Com
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by Chrono 15y ago
You are welcome! :) No really, the card readers are damn quick these days so it hardly takes much longer than paying with cash but I admit that it takes slightly longer. I would argue that most people pay their morning coffee with card in S
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by Chrono 15y ago
While you have a point about carrying cash I just have an irrational dislike towards change. The damn coins are heavy, close to worthless much of the time and overall annoying. And I have barely ever encountered a situation where the card m
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by Chrono 15y ago
As a Swede I am used to always being able to pay with my card; Heading to the bar? No need to withdraw cash. Grabbing a taxi home late at night? No need to worry if you have enough cash, they accept cards. To add to this is that electronic
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by Chrono 15y ago
Insanity. I would never in my life willingly give up any of my passwords, to anyone. Especially not something that contains so much private information as Facebook. Sure, Facebook themselves may share some of that information, or all if as
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I am Lucky: Influencing Lady Luck(blog.pathy.se)
2 points by Chrono 15y ago|0 comments
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by Chrono 15y ago
Ah, that might be a improvement but then the questions becomes, how does the English results become affected by me changing it to Swedish? To be fair I do most of my searches in English and therefore it might cause irrelevant results again.
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by Chrono 15y ago
I like the idea of DDG but it is quite frankly of little use to me. For most English terms it works reasonably well but for other languages such my mother tongue, Swedish, it is more or less useless. I found most results to be close to usel
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by Chrono 15y ago
My personal opinion is that anything over 50% is too much. If I work hard and earn a lot of money I should at least be allowed to keep half. That said, to reach the top income bracket and get a tax between 52-59.9% (Depending on where in Sw
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by Chrono 15y ago
Gifts are no longer taxes in Sweden but it is likely that the tax authority will regard it as income (Or bonus) and they will pay 50-56% taxes on the lot. Quite tricky but I assume Mojang has good accountants that will work it out!
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by Chrono 15y ago
Dividend is generally taxed at 30% in Sweden so a fair bit of that will be paid in taxes. Depending on how Notch decides to pay out the money to the employees they may have to pay even more. If it is paid out evenly and as wages it will be
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by Chrono 15y ago
In Europe, or at least Nothern Europe, it feels like working days are actually becoming shorter. I seem to recall 37.5hrs/w being standard for most office workers, at least in Sweden. Will have a look and see if I can find a source later!
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by Chrono 15y ago
This reminds me of the "Du bist Terrorist" campagin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdIA0jeW-24 (German with English subs) Most of these terrorist indicators seems like common sense to me. Paranoia over reason once again?
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by Chrono 15y ago
The same problem of course exists for all us non Americans. Most American TV series air months or years later, if they air at all. I would love to be able to watch the latest and greatest in entertainment within a day of it airing but that
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by Chrono 15y ago
I do believe you cap out the taxes in Sweden at ~50k SEK/m so you would end up paying 52-59.9% in income tax on that figure. And if you live in Stockholm you pretty much CANNOT get anything decent to rent so you are forced to buy. A one bed
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by Chrono 15y ago
I'm sure they would disagree with me but to be fair, will you make good decisions if you don't sleep enough and work 16 hours a day? I'm thinking sure, if this goes on for a short period of time but most people will eventually burn out. Man
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by Chrono 15y ago
Extremely impressive but is it really sustainable in the long run? I personally do not think that working 16hr days is good for you in the long run. It is not healthy. What use is he if he gets burned out in a year or two? Not much I would
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by Chrono 15y ago
As far as I know, barely anyone use Grooveshark in Sweden while practically all my (University) friends use Spotify. Doesn't Grooveshark have some quite dodgy habits when it comes to paying the artists/using legit music files? Or was that s
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by Chrono 15y ago
I seem to recall that IKEA offers their more frequent flying employees business class tickets but if they choose to take the standard (slave) class tickets they get 50% of the difference. I don't know if this is the case any more but I am r
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by Chrono 15y ago
I guess it is time to start encrypting the files I got in the cloud. None of which are copyright'ed or especially secret but better safe than sorry.
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by Chrono 15y ago
Quite worrying development. I don't see why DHS should police IP.
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by Chrono 15y ago
35% isn't much to pay in taxes compared to other counties. If you earn enough in Sweden you will end up paying a total of close 70% of your income in taxes. (income tax capped at 56% if I recall correctly and the rest if VAT etc)
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by Chrono 15y ago
The sites mentioned still resolves for me but if this is actually true... I am at a loss of words

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