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by bjeds 4y ago
Expect that this Hacker News thread will be overrun by Swedish patriots who will, with tooth and nail, argue for Swedish exceptionalism and downvote all criticism. War is Peace and all that. I am ashamed how my country handled this pandemic
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by bjeds 5y ago
I think you are thinking about this in the wrong way. Sure Lat/Lon is the common presentation format for this particular coordinate system. Right now in Sweden the time is 10:41 (it would be great if it was a couple of hours later, the
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by bjeds 5y ago
I have a hard time following this article because it's so obviously one-sided and ranting. FWIW the Stockholm Metro is also privatized in the sense that operation, planning and maintenance is done by MTR Corporation, the same company t
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by bjeds 5y ago
I'm noticing a sad trend recently. * This article is one instance. * Within the past 24 hours there was a Hacker News submission "Self-improvement is embracing your messy, imperfect life" ( https://news.ycombinator
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by bjeds 5y ago
"Company X got state aid and paid Y in bonuses" seems to be one of those cookie cutter news reports that pop up several times per day the past year. The titles seem to imply that state aid directly went to a few senior executives.
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by bjeds 5y ago
15k orders over 20 years is on average 2 per day or 750 per year. Is that a typo?
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by bjeds 5y ago
I think this one is my "favorite" in the list, in the sense of most surprising: > On December 10, 2019, Kosovo declared the Austrian author Peter Handke persona non grata after he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.[94]
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by bjeds 5y ago
You are being downvoted, but this is not as off-topic as it may seem. Simone Weil had a brother, André Weil. You may not know his name on the top of your head, but I guarantee you that you've heard of the pseuodonym he created together
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by bjeds 5y ago
I wonder what the unintended consequences are with this measure. Here are some: 1) I can imagine weird situations where a multi-leg flight could be broken up by this ban, especially if you are traveling from the middle of nowhere (connected
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by bjeds 5y ago
It doesn't actually matter, you can remove that data point and you are still at mercy at who actually interact with the ad once it's published.
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by bjeds 5y ago
Sensationalist. The key point of the article hinges on one particular statement: "These gender differences cannot be explained away by gender differences in qualifications or a lack of qualifications," How the heck is Facebook sup
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by bjeds 6y ago
As far as I know, Nature explicitly allow open access... if you pay extra for it. They call it "open access" if I remember correctly and it's a couple of times more expensive than it already is. Universities pay a lot of mone
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by bjeds 6y ago
Thomas Sowell has a greater reach than many people at Hacker News may think. In Sweden (of all places), he is one of the most quoted conservative intellectuals by some of our most read right-wing writers.
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by bjeds 6y ago
That's true, but in my experience vulnerability researchers mostly focus on the online presence/product of internet-active companies (the FAANG:s of the world, and their smaller competitors - companies that could realistically be
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by bjeds 6y ago
I'd be a bit careful if I were you. Bug bounty programs are after all the exception rather than the rule - the security equivalent of open sourcing software - an active decision by the company to sign away normal rights and normal lega
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by bjeds 6y ago
My, possibly naive, view is that this has nothing to do with the "benefactor" of a policy (transgender people, in this case). It is more about power, politics and influence for the people who institute the policy. 15-20 years ago,
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by bjeds 6y ago
You are correct of course. I was intending to make an alchemy joke about a particular phrasing of the parent poster (the part about creating 1 tons of "carbon"), but misread the entire message and commented on the wrong part. :-&#
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by bjeds 6y ago
Are you saying 1 litre (about 0.71 kg) of fuel creates 2.6 kg of CO2? :-)
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by bjeds 6y ago
Do you live in Europe? If you don't then what you say make some sense, but the European Union think differently. The EU ban things all the time. For example: inefficient vacuum cleaners banned: https://www.bbc.com/news
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by bjeds 6y ago
As someone living in the European Union I'd be extremely surprised if bitcoin isn't taxed/regulated to death within 1-2 years here. The recent price increase will attract the attention of governments sceptical of assets they
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by bjeds 6y ago
? This is discussed here, at Hacker News. It's also discussed at many other places on the internet. :-) Why is this chat room you mention relevant? And who are "we" you speak of? You are presenting yourself as some kind of au
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by bjeds 6y ago
Wow, this is some Old Internet content right here. Hundreds upon hundreds of blog posts about a specific technical content, going back all the way to 2005. Thanks for posting!
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Irrational Nuclear Fear Puts Sweden in Danger of Succumbing to Stupidity(forbes.com)
4 points by bjeds 6y ago|1 comments
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by bjeds 6y ago
Without much planning, I happened to end up in Ethiopia in 2018, just a few months after Abiy was elected prime minister. It was an unusual experience. In Addis Ababa the feeling was.. electric. People were so hopeful and happy. Everyone wa
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by bjeds 6y ago
The cat is already out of the bag and IMHO the only correct solution now is for all countries to do what they should have done in December already when the vaccinations started ramping up: complete lockdown with mandatory quarantine for all
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by bjeds 6y ago
No I'm not drawing any conclusions about Swedish education, I'm talking about KTH specificially. Are you replying to the wrong person?
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by bjeds 6y ago
I'm not sure what you are claiming here. Are you saying that I'm wrong in questioning calling KTH "elite" because I used one anecdote in a larger argument? You can look up the admission statistics yourself: it's ver
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by bjeds 6y ago
Now you are exaggerating. KTH is of course a good school for Swedish standards but calling it elite is weird. In what way would you say that KTH is elite, because I genuinely do not understand how the word "elite" applies to this
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by bjeds 6y ago
Roughly: Education is tax funded so each kid has a pile of money in the local government budget. The school where the kid ends up, gets this pile of money. The kids (or rather the parents) can pick and choose between schools. This naturally
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by bjeds 6y ago
If you are a glass-half-full person (I am), it's fair to call it grade inflation. In the sense of an unfortunate (or natural) the-standards-keep-chaning-over-time and suddenly people have better grades than 10 years ago, but the same k

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