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by Y-bar 1y ago
The 12th chapter designates the Genetaldirektörs, Ambassadors, Rikspolischefen, and other government leaders of the executive branch (ie Swedens equivalent of the Commission) as political roles, whose hiring is done by the Regering and the
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by Y-bar 1y ago
That’s not the relevant law regarding which entity may classify, it deals with the ”yardstick” about what the government and SÄPO can use to be considered one. Did perhaps google translate not work? The law which allow SÄPO to designate ter
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by Y-bar 1y ago
In Sweden SÄPO (the security police) primarily government entity that designates terror organisations. The leader of SÄPO is a political appointee from Regeringen and the prime minister of Sweden. In other words the executive branch has rul
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by Y-bar 1y ago
Oh man, I’m confused why you keep arguing like the 12th chapter of the Swedish Regeringsform does not exist. What you write is not what is reality in law or reality in effect in Sweden.
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by Y-bar 1y ago
People and companies regularly go to court regarding the Commission’s decisions, what makes you think that does not happen in the EU? For example Danske Fragtmænd, challenged the Commission's decision that capital injections by Denmark
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by Y-bar 1y ago
The government, specifically the Regering and the prime minister: https://sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utn%C3%A4mningsmakten_i_Sver... (sorry only in Swedish)
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by Y-bar 1y ago
The Swedish IRS (whose directors are appointed in a fashion similar to the commission) publishes regular clarifications of tax law and how they implement the tax law in their enforcement of Swedish tax law. How is that any different?
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by Y-bar 1y ago
The appointment of directors of these Swedish agencies is effectively identical to the appointment to the commission.
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by Y-bar 1y ago
What do you say when Arbetsmiljöverket (labour regulation), Skatteverket (IRS), Ekobrottsmyndigheten (monterary crimes) take enforcement actions in Sweden and hand out decisions for fines and such? The EU Commission does not make up rules a
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by Y-bar 1y ago
This is my daily AWS story, so I would probably feel right at home on Hetzner it seems!
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by Y-bar 1y ago
You have twenty good tips already, but nobody seems to have mentioned that you can run WordPress fully headless. https://www.gatsbyjs.com/docs/glossary/headless-wordpress/
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by Y-bar 1y ago
You use dark mode I assume? The serif text work much better in light mode. Dark mode often need additional font weight to work well.
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by Y-bar 1y ago
Mostly in agreement, though I could perhaps find them useful if not for: Four times of five the link previews are blocked by a cookie consent or newsletter signup modal anyway.
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by Y-bar 1y ago
No, some things in Sweden are 0% VAT, others 6%, others 12%, and the rest 25%. https://www.skatteverket.se/servicelankar/otherlanguages/eng...
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by Y-bar 1y ago
Dividend and capital gains taxes are a flat 30% ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Sweden#Corporate_a... )
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by Y-bar 1y ago
Slack is a slow and clunky app using well over a gig of RAM, the UI abhors standard MacOS conventions and can’t even use the operating system spelling dictionary. It’s best in class because everything else is worse. It’s a sad state of affa
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by Y-bar 1y ago
I can think of a few instances where a government should investigate private entities for unlawful bias, such as biased non-merit based hiring, or biased interest rates based on the ethical background (e.g. via zip code) of the lender, or r
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by Y-bar 1y ago
People are free to buy Apple (or an Android flavour, or no smartphone at all). But there are many many things which goes into a buying decision than what manner of software delivery is available. This duopoly does not truly offer a lot of c
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by Y-bar 1y ago
I’m not outraged as a FF user. This seems like a decent tradeoff where the entire inference is run locally, as it should be.
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by Y-bar 1y ago
I understood the reference, but I’m also on a limited mobile plan at the moment and would absolutely not click on a YT or similar link. In other words might have appreciated the explanation.
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by Y-bar 1y ago
> because that's the way the underlying C libraries also worked I feel like this is a weak defence of the internally inconsistent behaviour. As someone who has been programming with PHP for over twenty years now, most of them profes
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by Y-bar 1y ago
I understood your comment as restricting my own freedoms was a fully bad thing, and I therefore tried to provide examples of positive freedoms being afforded to you by restricting my own negative freedoms. Explain why that is a straw-man.
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by Y-bar 1y ago
I have knowingly voted for less freedoms for myself multiple times and I know it, for example I have voted: - to have less freedom to pollute the environment. - to have less freedom where I am able to defraud my customers. - to have less fr
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by Y-bar 1y ago
That's a good point, I have nothing to add. However, another commenter highlighted this interesting section: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44766342
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by Y-bar 1y ago
The linked article says: > As of August 2025, manufacturers selling devices in the EU need to: > Block the installation of unauthorized software > Use Secure Boot (or similar) to verify firmware authenticity > Ensure
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by Y-bar 1y ago
So another major bidder for electricity in my area comes online. Not looking forward to the invoices next winter…
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by Y-bar 1y ago
> iOS 6 -> iOS 7 Never in my life has an operating system update decreased usability as much as this step. iOS 6 in some ways felt a bit dated at the time, sure, certainly flourishes were unnecessary… But iOS 7 was worse in every rega
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by Y-bar 1y ago
> In Sweden, other false claims (the latest dating back to August) suggested that there is a connection between the presence of wind farms and high levels of PFAS (also known as “forever chemicals”) in livestock. It all came from an epis
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by Y-bar 1y ago
Yes. Agreed. But on the other hand Apple has taken conscious action to put themselves in the position where you have to go through them to get an attestation if you have customers who use Mac OS. They chose not to trust any attestation othe
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by Y-bar 1y ago
I don’t think that’s true anymore. This person for example is uploading from Ukraine: https://imgur.com/user/SytchArt

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