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by bjeds 6y ago
Haha I don't know where you're from but Swedish people are often stereotypically bad at both dealing with emotions and resolving conflicts. "Van der" = Gonna guess you are Dutch? Well Swedish people are, as you know well
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by bjeds 6y ago
Thank you for your reply, I didn't expect I'd find a comment from an actual student of these schools here at HN. Your perspective is valuable. If you follow Swedish media you probably know there's a large discussion/cont
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by bjeds 6y ago
I sort of agree with what you are saying (I'm also Swedish) but I think the incentives are different, and due to the American dominance of Hacker News readers it's worth to clear up: Swedish middle class parents do not choose &quo
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by bjeds 6y ago
Wow, superb writeup, thank you author for writing it and the submitter for posting it!
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by bjeds 6y ago
Wow, that's very impressive for a one-man-project. If the author is reading this, can you describe the background to this software, why you started writing it, and how it's been going?
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by bjeds 6y ago
I think you should file a complaint to your local financial authorities.
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by bjeds 6y ago
That's not true in any way, shape, or form. Maybe it's true for you, but don't assume it's true for others or for the the rest of the world. When I book a flight ticket, I go to the airline directly, which is true for mo
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by bjeds 6y ago
Thank you for your reply! I didn't realize you were the author of the blog until now. Out of curiosity, do the output formats of the different models differ? With output format I mean the way that the (current) time is represented. Not
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by bjeds 6y ago
Please tell me more about your atomic clock. Which one did you eventually buy, how much did it cost, and how do you use it?
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by bjeds 6y ago
I can't be the only one who read the title as "Python 2.1" and expected a comparison detailing how recent versions of Python are slower than older ones (Python 2.1 is from 2001). Now I'm a little bit curious how performa
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by bjeds 6y ago
Not sure how interesting this is, but since the article mentions Scandinavia and "homogeneous society", that's not really true either. Unlike Japan, Sweden keeps track, not of "race" but country of origin for migran
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by bjeds 6y ago
This is so tiring. I'm a Swedish man. Last time I visited the US was several years ago. I'm not particularly sympathetic towards Donald Trump or Parler. I'm definitely not here to defend nazism. Not sure if it's intended
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by bjeds 6y ago
The real story here I think is how LACNIC handled this. Who in their right mind will do infrastructural internet business in Latin America going forward if some self-righteous American man can cause them to revoke IP:s assigned to your comp
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by bjeds 6y ago
Not sure if intended, but this reply is really funny. Well done.
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by bjeds 6y ago
I guess that's a chicken-egg question. What comes first: a polarized populace or free news? People who polarize are seen and heard a lot: they use free news articles on social media to spread their perspective to as many as possible, t
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by bjeds 6y ago
Personally I hope that the old "news industry" would just die already and be replaced by walled-off subscription services, like Netflix, specializing in different kinds of content. A monolithic "news paper" covering diff
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by bjeds 6y ago
I hear you. Whether I like it or not, by now big o notation has fallen into the category of "folklore" that working engineers use and abuse informally without being very precise about it. It's like the "proof by engineer
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by bjeds 6y ago
If you are the kind of person that want to read an article titled "explained as easily as possible", I think you should just avoid saying the phrase "big oh" but instead talk about algorithm runtime more informally, like
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by bjeds 6y ago
This. I think the OP is so eager to get back online he sees 3:40 every day and is using that timepoint as his troubleshooting clue. However If he were to disconnect 3:10 and then just be offline an hour until plugging the device back he wou
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by bjeds 6y ago
I was thinking of the long period of slow economic growth, long period of low interest rates, "chronic deflation", and few tools left by central banks to stimulate the economy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo
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by bjeds 6y ago
Keyword: track. As in the privacy concern of the government having direct insight into all your financial transactions. Sure, they already have the opportunity to demand that information from Swedish commercial banks and other financial ins
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by bjeds 6y ago
Here is one source about robberies being roughly twice (maybe 1.7-1.9x) as common in 2019 as the period 2006-2015: The graph says "Percentage (of population being) victim of robbery": https://www.bra.se/statistik&#
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by bjeds 6y ago
As a Swedish person I don't see the point at all: Why would I want to use this? I would rather have a decentralized system of various banks and global companies (Mastercard, Visa, etc) track my transactions and spread out that risk, in
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by bjeds 6y ago
... but without the stigma. But I think the guy himself has a point when he says he lowers the bar. Think how many different jobs (or "roles") there that can be ranked in a kind of hierarchy: not in the sense of a career ladder, b
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by bjeds 6y ago
At the large companies I've worked for, Principal Engineers were more or less strong engineers with the management skills of a Director or VP. That is: strong people skills, project management, program management, leading teams, high b
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by bjeds 6y ago
I'm impressed that the EU is taking action in this case and I hope they also look into the shutdown of Parler under antitrust legislation. Parler was the number one downloaded social media app in the app store after all. According to B
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by bjeds 6y ago
Fair enough, I'm not a native English speaker and should maybe used a different word. But that's still beside the point: there is still a fraction greater than 0% of his voters, who will feel (correctly or incorrectly) that their
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by bjeds 6y ago
That's beside the point: there is _obviously_ a fraction that is much greater than 0% of the people who voted for Trump (whether they voted for him or against his opponents) who will now feel oppressed because the person they voted for
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by bjeds 6y ago
That it'd come to this is pretty obvious I think. I mean, Facebook de-platformized a politician that 70+ million people voted for. It doesn't really matter if they had the right or wrong reasons in doing this: the pool of disillus
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by bjeds 6y ago
I'd love if there were a list somewhere that keeps track of these shutdowns. Donald Trump was banned from Facebook and Twitter. Law Enforcement Today from Facebook. Ron Paul from Facebook. Who am I missing?

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