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by nisse72 11y ago
Mini tax table, for someone living in Stockholm (basic tax rates vary by local council): Gross: Net per month, SEK 15000: 12408 20000: 16080 25000: 19753 30000: 23424 35000: 26931 40000: 29827 45000: 32334 50000: 34842
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by nisse72 11y ago
Because many people responding seem to believe that there is no significant difference in salary between a barista and a doctor, here are some real numbers (monthly gross): Barista: http://en-sv.statsskuld.se/lonestatistik&#
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by nisse72 11y ago
Could it be that it's not the sound itself but the association with lazy summer weekend afternoons, lawnmower in the distance, that is the relaxing part?
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by nisse72 12y ago
In the mid 90's, before Linux had gained any traction in corporate environments, IE was available for some flavours of Unix such as Solaris and HP-UX. In the Solaris shop I was working at the time, I remember we had a great laughs at t
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by nisse72 12y ago
Exactly. Timing is everything: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/01/02/business/20110...
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by nisse72 12y ago
If you have to pay tax on your investment return but can't deduct the cost of your debt, then reducing the 6% debt is more akin to getting a guaranteed return of something like 9% (more or less, depending on tax rates where you live).
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by nisse72 12y ago
In Swedish, "brast" is the common and AFAIK only past tense of this word. Brista brast brustit.
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by nisse72 12y ago
Somewhat related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8005529
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by nisse72 12y ago
Here in Auckland, I think we only have those countdown timers at intersections where pedestrians can cross in all directions at the same time, so there are no cars speeding up to make the light, all of the cars are stopped.
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by nisse72 12y ago
Based on your username I'm guessing the country is Sweden. Which corporate conglomerate and which system are you referring to? Telia e-legitimation? BankID?
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by nisse72 12y ago
Not sure about the others, but the Kiwis certainly have been appealing the government to stop spying, and questioning New Zealand's role in 5 eyes: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&obje
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by nisse72 12y ago
And 40 years later, still no IKEA in New Zealand.
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by nisse72 12y ago
My TV is a Nokia "fat screen", bought in Stockholm some time in the late 90's. Where I live now, people only know their cellphones and don't believe it's "that" Nokia who made my TV :)
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by nisse72 13y ago
I believe the biggest danger with speeding is related to the speed difference between various vehicles on the road, than the actual speed itself. So what you're suggesting would make it more dangerous, not less, with different groups o
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by nisse72 13y ago
I was thinking about those "kn" words a few months ago and sat down with a dictionary to see how many there were. I think there were about 20 or so common ones, and every single one has a cognate in Swedish that starts with an aud
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by nisse72 13y ago
Maybe it's a central Stockholm thing, I don't really know. And I certainly didn't mean to imply that it was common, I only noticed it now and then and vaguely recall some mention of it on P1 Språket or in the newspaper, that
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by nisse72 13y ago
Swedish has du (singular) and ni (plural). Prior to the "du-reform" in the late 1960's however, ni was also used as a formal singular form, but for the last 40 or so years the formal form has been dropped, leaving ni
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by nisse72 13y ago
One could ask the same thing about Guantanamo. If those people are sufficiently dangerous that it's necessary to keep them imprisoned for 12 years (and counting), then the least they should expect is to be charged with something and tr
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by nisse72 13y ago
Apparently cheese is so expensive in Canada that there are (profitable!) cheese smuggling rings: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19751695
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by nisse72 13y ago
When I worked in Stockholm, I had a few colleagues who preferred to take a large portion of their generous (32 day) annual holiday in february or so and go someplace warm. Working through the summer is not unpleasant: the pace is slower, th
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by nisse72 13y ago
You mean, like this one? https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/prosecute-director...
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by nisse72 13y ago
If you'd been travelling with SJ (Swedish railway) you could have chosen a quiet section, where cell phones are expected to be turned off and even conversations are discouraged. http://www.sj.se/sj/jsp/polopol
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by nisse72 13y ago
No worries, they might win again the following week! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6202...
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by nisse72 13y ago
Finding a rental apartment in Stockholm can be a nightmare unless you're happy commuting from the distant suburbs. It can take many years (even decades) of queuing to get something within the central city ("inom tullarna"), a
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by nisse72 13y ago
Of course, when they decided to release "Internet Explorer for Unix" (IIRC, for SunOS and HPUX) in about 1997, coming late didn't prevent them from marketing it with a widely ridiculed phrase along the lines of "Bringing
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by nisse72 13y ago
On Linux at least (not sure about OpenBSD), every open file has a name somewhere in /proc, so you could pass that.
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by nisse72 13y ago
I seem to remember a case, possibly in Sweden in the late 90's or early 00's, where a woman was unable to call an ambulance for her husband who was having a heart attack, because of an incoming caller who had not hung up properly
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by nisse72 13y ago
I'm inclined to suggest that secret laws are themselves a symptom of an already corrupt government, and simply open the door to further corruption.
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by nisse72 13y ago
I understand that money never needs to cross borders. But presumably this only works when there are enough local senders of money to offset the "incoming" funds to be collected by local recipients. My question was what happens if,
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by nisse72 13y ago
I suppose the system only works as long as the net sum of all transactions arriving (+) and departing (-) any given location is zero in the long term. But I can imagine there are locations that are net payers and others that are net receiv

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