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by jeofken 6y ago
Sweden has dramatically changed in the last 20 years and I would guess most here have the old homogenous Sweden in mind. Like many other countries have had before (such as USA), we are now living with brutal gangs grouped together per ethni
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by jeofken 6y ago
If you love freedom, like very few of us Swedes do, use non-traceable and uncensorable payments like cash.
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by jeofken 6y ago
BLM and LGBTQP is already supported by the state. The army and police join the pride parade, and last summer a Swedish policewoman kneeled down for rioting foreigners with the sign “white silence is violence”. Those movements represent the
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by jeofken 6y ago
Fiat currency already means the supply side of capital is detached from anything in reality. Remember price is where supply and demand meet, and interest rate is the price of capital. Central planning of the currency market, just like DDR h
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by jeofken 6y ago
The Swedish central bank could simply pay you 0.2% of your house price per year by printing more money. Just don’t let the Stockholm/Göteborg housing prices fall... Weimar all over again.
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by jeofken 6y ago
For this reason it’s important we start using cash again, and not attend shops and restaurants that don’t take it. Nowadays we have brutal armed robberies like never before, but using non-traceable currency is important for freedom.
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by jeofken 6y ago
Is the process of making batteries easy to move to low cost countries? I’d wager it’s in Korea because of their amazingly developed electronics industry, but it’s also true that the average American makes more. If it’s easy to move to low w
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by jeofken 6y ago
In Germany it’s illegal to come to the “wrong” conclusion publicly on this topic, and thus it’s not quite right to claim that the German government protects people’s rights to express their understanding of the truth. I’ve heard this joked
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by jeofken 6y ago
Defining “better” isn’t easy, but “more valuable” is a falsifiable measure. I hate Facebook and Google but they do provide a lot of value to their customers (advertisers)
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by jeofken 6y ago
At least in Scandinavia a mile means 10km, just a shorthand. Not sure if it’s the same in Germany
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by jeofken 6y ago
That’s the smart choice on their part. If they hounded you, you’d surely never buy from them again.
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by jeofken 6y ago
It took me ages to cancel O2 DSL when I left Germany. I cancelled my gym membership in person at the gym many years ago - but this year 2021 I am still receiving letters, now from Inkasso where they claim I should still pay membership. I do
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by jeofken 6y ago
Well, they also created a huge market for alternative social networks, and made sure at least 70 mil people will be interested in that market. Markets and prices are like a force of nature.
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by jeofken 6y ago
Thanks. While I had an uneasy feeling at the time, it was people on the internet who put words on what I did wrong, and I am grateful to them. These people are sadly getting banned and downvoted by the majority on pretty much every platform
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by jeofken 6y ago
The joys of not needing ads and tracking are very true. The way I try to live that, is setting up automatic $1/month donations to all and every podcast/blog/oss project, etc I wish to support. They don’t track me, and I ensur
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by jeofken 6y ago
Giving selflessly is virtuous when done voluntarily. You can do it if you wish!
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by jeofken 6y ago
I worked for the IRS in a country in Europe. When working there in IT, I did a back-of-the-envelope calculation of how many careers we spent, with career being average yearly salary *40yrs. I also thought about how the money for my project
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by jeofken 6y ago
It’s time to leave behind the idea of non partial social network. Just like CNN and NYT are left-wing media, so is Facebook and Twitter
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by jeofken 6y ago
I’d argue not to use law to dismantle big tech companies even if I disagree with their banning. Twitter, Facebook and Google’s social services (gmail and YouTube) are at their heights or just behind them. The cycle for when tech companies a
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by jeofken 6y ago
> The rest of the world clearly sees this. I’d encourage speaking for yourself Kind regards (Part of) The rest of the world
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by jeofken 6y ago
You reject WhatsApp and tell your family that they can write you on Signal, because it’s important that your communications are only for you, not for Zuckerberg
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by jeofken 6y ago
Any CA health care worker on HN? Why do most of you reject these vaccines?
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by jeofken 6y ago
Get ready for inflation to go absolutely nuts in the wake of last year. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/money-supply-m1 People who own (fiat) currency or have their salaries denoted in $ will face tough time
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by jeofken 6y ago
Thanks for sharing. Sad to see the central planned economic model failing to provide in this sector
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by jeofken 6y ago
Learning Prolog is a lot of fun! It will not take more than an a day or two - it’s simpler than python. Download SWI prolog, and get an editor that allows interactive programming with it. Emacs is of course the best for any obscure hacker l
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by jeofken 6y ago
Do you have a source for the claim that hospitals are running out of beds?
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by jeofken 6y ago
I’d absolutely pay the subscription for roads, conflict resolution insurance (Justice as a Service), health insurance (deregulated unlike in USA), etc. I never asked for government to violently enforce monopolies in these markets where I li
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by jeofken 6y ago
I personally hate taking the bus in Innlandet... Too many rude kids and to get to a friends house you need to arrange car for the last mile anyway. Car centric city is preferable if I get to drive
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It’s colourful language, I’d advice reading it as such
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There are ways around it - worst case find a bank in some foreign jurisdiction who is willing to play ball.

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