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by ersii 9y ago
> What's really needed is a societal change with how food is treated. Someone else mentioned a tax on sugar and processed foods, which could help. But another big step would be trying to teach students about nutritious food and livi
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by ersii 9y ago
It seems unlikely that there are no empty properties what so ever in a big city like Vancouver, surely there must be some. Do you have any sort of data to back up your claim that there are no empty properties?
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by ersii 9y ago
Yeah, of course more laws is the perfect solution. A law for a law, multiply and double.. two times over at least.
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by ersii 9y ago
Have you actually tried to do this, though? I'd say most places becomes a lot better if you stop engaging the mainstream news and politics, even Sweden seems quite sane after doing so. I've found it gives you time and energy to fo
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by ersii 9y ago
Are you implying that public officials and the public sector is not trying to maximize their personal gain (regardless of the cost to society)? Which covenant is the founding of societies based upon? Please enlighten us.
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by ersii 9y ago
I'd like to challenge you to show some sources and declare in what kind of metric you're describing. Per person/capita, per household? etc. I know people borrow money like they're crazy over here in Sweden. For consumpti
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by ersii 9y ago
> Housing system is pure madness, rent is set by negotiation between the land lord and Hyresgästföreningen, historically a political ally to Social democrats! Friendly reminder to not forget the stupid ass national (but regionally determ
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by ersii 9y ago
That actually sounds perfect in my book, where they are supposed to be as broke as possible and do as little as possible or nothing. :-) (Yes yes, I'm well aware that most other HNers are of another opinion than I am.)
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by ersii 9y ago
Please don't treat pfooti's comment too seriously though, most people would not react to the way the original poster used the word and would disagree with the purported disrespect the usage implies according to pfooti. The world i
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by ersii 9y ago
Thanks, I'll try to be mindful when I'm stereotyping and joking about upset gender people and remember this to improve the quality of the joke the next time!
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by ersii 9y ago
I find it terribly stereotypical and prejudicial of you to determine their sexes based on their exterior appearances. Why does every comment about there being only women in OS screenshots stereotype bodies? P.S This is a joke. Serious peopl
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by ersii 9y ago
On the positive side, that would be way less than the amount of people Democratic nations kill each year! Yay!
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by ersii 9y ago
I've never mentioned that to be a dealbreaker for anyone, least not for me. Just wanted to make it clear that any organizational form can be shady, not just corporations. It's just a statement, with no emotion added to it from my
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by ersii 9y ago
That doesn't mean that things will be pleasant forever. There are plenty of shady non-profit organizations.
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by ersii 9y ago
Because the comment section gets terribly one-sided and emotional.
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by ersii 9y ago
All on heavy subsidy from the states and unions of states.. It's ridiculous how democrat Hacker News is.
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by ersii 9y ago
How is that any different from any previous head of state? I guess they perhaps were better actors.
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by ersii 9y ago
> For example, I read somewhere it gets less than 100 asylum seekers a year. I'll clarify that image by tell you they roughly get 9000 asylum requests a year according to the Japanese Government themselves [1]. They are however extr
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by ersii 9y ago
There is plenty of Bitcoin debit cards, which will sell Bitcoin proportionally to the amount of USD/EUR/whatever you purchased for. One of them being TenX.com. This allows you to spend at any store which accepts cards in general.
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by ersii 9y ago
I guess I'll add an anecdata point to your anecdata point, I had multiple random Japanese persons initiate conversation with me in Japanese when I visited Japan for a couple of weeks. I'm a white, blond man and went together with
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by ersii 9y ago
For me getting a home insurance for my rental apartment in Sweden, Länsförsäkringar in my region (They're split up in regions) was the cheapest one at the time I was looking.
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by ersii 9y ago
Why do you consider it to be (just?) slightly insane to think that one could opt-out of paying taxes with technology?
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by ersii 9y ago
Hm, what's the difference? That the money goes somewhere you like?
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by ersii 9y ago
So what? Neither are mutually exclusive.
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by ersii 9y ago
All three of the mention countries have pretty much free, capitalistic enterprise - which is the total opposite to what mjevans suggested. That said, there is a huge government ("public") sector and the taxation is high on most th
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by ersii 9y ago
Uhh.. Hi, I'm a Scandinavian (Swede). I got a desktop exclusively on WiFi. I've never seen an office or a home actually use "powerline" (Network over electricity network).. Oh well, one anecdata against another anecdata
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by ersii 10y ago
> How do you get rid of such a transparently corrupt head of a federal agency? In principle, you can not corrupt something that doesn't exist. If the FCC would get dismantled, it wouldn't be possible to corrupt it anymore.
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by ersii 10y ago
Until they fuck up themselves and might realize that even smart, hard working and careful people can fuck up.
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by ersii 10y ago
> It's not normal to tip in a restaurant (or anywhere else). Um, what? It's still normal and people do tip at resturants in Sweden. To be fair, neither you or I have any numbers to back it up and have to chalk it up to experien
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by ersii 10y ago
To balanced it a bit, a lot of developers isolate themselves willingly against anything that is not obvious to involve coding immediately and throwing up their hands in despair - even if the work does involve coding a bit later on.

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