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by ersii 11y ago
If the hydropower plant that is referenced here is "Nordansjö Kraftverk" - then it's been fixed yesterday, through a tipoff to CERT-SE at MSB (Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency).
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by ersii 11y ago
I had a really hard time with the "Food Computer" naming before I watched Caleb Harper's TED Talk. After watching it, I get it. Unfortunate that the HN link is to the 'build page' and not to the front page, which ha
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by ersii 11y ago
Serious thought: Why do you have to or why would you try to herd (free thinking) cats?
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Just wanted to tell you that you're not alone in Sweden with using and liking to use cash. There's at least one more - Hi! I haven't encountered a single grocery store that refuses cash and only accepts electronic/card p
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by ersii 11y ago
To be fair, if I pay you in cash - and you don't declare your income: I'm not the one evading or avoiding taxes. We're all responsible for our own actions. That said, I like having and using cash - it gives me a greater sense
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by ersii 11y ago
Let me just say this, not even Bernie Sanders favorite - Sweden - has legal minimum wages. (In Sweden the Employers and the uhm.. "organized" Unions negotiate collective agreements that have something similar to legal minimum wage
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by ersii 11y ago
There's one visualization [1] for the Taipei Metro's growth [2] in Taipei, Taiwan/Republic of China. [1]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Taipei_m... [2]: https:/
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by ersii 11y ago
I see, thanks for responding. Considering the second point, would you consider using cash more? To get a better feel at how much/little you're spending each time.
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I'm genuinely interested, why don't you use it for coffee as well?
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I have read the linked article and I know it talks about the social aspect - that card usage is very high. What I'm saying is that the way the paragraph is currently written is not clear on that and could be interpreted as Swedish abol
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"Stefan Wikberg, 65, was homeless for four years after losing his job as an I.T. technician. He has a place to live now and sells magazines for Situation Stockholm, a charitable organization, and began using a mobile card reader to tak
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by ersii 11y ago
No, the Swish application is proprietary software. The application is however a gratis download from the AppStore / Google Play store.
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by ersii 11y ago
Regardless of your opinion if we're going to have or would want a cashless society or not - the article glosses over a lot of negative aspects. The article mentions crime as a main motivator to shifting away from cash. The amount of ro
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by ersii 11y ago
The article claims Swedes and Sweden "are making the shift". That's currently false, but it's something that could happen. Perhaps I'm reading it too strictly, but as they were mentioning the National bank of Korea
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by ersii 11y ago
Let me expand on that, Swish is currently free for sending a transaction between two persons. Accepting Swish-payments for merchants, companies, organizations and associations is not free however. The last time I checked (a couple of mont
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by ersii 11y ago
There are plenty of horrible printers though. A decent printer? Sure, I'd like one. Just.. where do I find one? And how would I be sure it's not one of bad ones?
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by ersii 11y ago
If it makes you any happier, there is a Ubuntu logo on the metal flap on the bottom of the first XPS Developer Edition laptops (Project Sputnik). On the regular ones, there's a Microsoft/Windows logo instead.
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by ersii 11y ago
Most, if not all credit cards in Sweden cost at least an annual fee of 225 SEK. There are a few (very few) that does not have an annual fee though. You don't pay annual fees for your credit cards?
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by ersii 11y ago
Previous discussions/HN links: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10875434 (4 points, 41 days ago, 2 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2155794 (124 points, 1847 days ago, 19 comments)
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by ersii 11y ago
Previous discussions of this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7174513 (743 days ago, 226 points, 37 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2428403 (1774 days ago, 283 points, 30 comment
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by ersii 11y ago
There are plenty of operators handing out dual IPv6+IPv4-adresses on LTE(4G) though! One of them is Tele2 in Sweden. TeliaSonera... doesn't offer that yet though..
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by ersii 11y ago
I would say it's likelier that the fact that Swish transactions are instant from the customers perspective have played a large part in why the uptake for Swish has been so good in Sweden. As regular bank transfers still take hours to d
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by ersii 11y ago
I don't see how that makes a difference at all, considering Paym is owned by Vocalink - which is 18 banks according to the article. "Paym is a new service launched by VocaLink in 2014" "This money goes to Vocalink, a com
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by ersii 11y ago
Why would 3D-Secure work better in Europe than in the United States? I fail to understand that from reading your comment. Yes, it requires extra authentication (My issuing bank has chosen password as the auth - some others use the bank code
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by ersii 11y ago
Recent jurisdiction that came into effect in Europe limits transaction fees in Europe to 0.3% of the transaction. The flip side of this for the customers is that the card rewards/kickbacks are decreased as well.
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by ersii 11y ago
Please provide figures and sources to back up your claims. (I'd love if the comment you're replying to would do the same as well).
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Please elaborate on your random example, being "pension funds". What pension funds are you talking about? Are you talking about AP7 (Which has two funds, one equity fund and one money market fund)? (Swedish: "Sjunde Allmäna P
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It could be that the piece was written some time ago. Or that they hasn't kept up to date with recent developments (like the transporter responsibility to verify IDs on trains/buses on all traffic going into Sweden). In other word
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For person to person / peer to peer - it's currently free. For person to business/organization it will cost the business 2.5 SEK per transaction as well as a monthly fee and/or an activation fee. Prices may vary dependin
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by ersii 11y ago
What jurisdiction are you talking about? There are prepaid Internet enabled Visa/Mastercards available at 7-Eleven/Pressbyrån in Sweden from the supplier "Spendon" (www.spendon.se). No questions asked when purchasing the

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