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by njepa 7y ago
I think that is true in the sense that everyone has their own reality. However I don't think that precludes things getting worse. For anyone who has a utilitarian view of housing, or buildings in general, this is certainly the wrong de
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by njepa 7y ago
Yep, Sweden is unfortunately a long way from "the middle way" these days.
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by njepa 7y ago
Absolutely. I am all for making the best of things, but the conditions have to support it as well. Today more and more things are temporary, from doctors and workplace to where you live. Of course it is hard to make those connections. Espec
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by njepa 7y ago
Also it doesn't really matter since the implementation is close to 20 years old, which means the patents should have expired anyway.
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by njepa 7y ago
I don't think any pirate party really had the numbers to make that happen. Usually a faction represents some larger group of people. The only way I see that happening is by unionizing tech. But that would be incredibly hard exactly bec
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by njepa 7y ago
10 years is probably a realistic mean. If you have experience with music, creative software and doesn't expect a finished product then it can take a shorter time of course. Teenage engineering were founded by marketers, they are sellin
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by njepa 7y ago
> what are some simple facts that would cause revolutions nowadays if made widely known? I don't know about revolution, but most Americans tend to be pretty shocked about the rapid development of China. Even those who have some unde
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by njepa 7y ago
There is no minimum wage, but salaries are bargained for via collective agreements. So everywhere but the smallest shops and temporary jobs you get paid a decent wage.
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by njepa 7y ago
> They do it by spreading information and reducing barriers, not by giving money to higher risk people though, since that's easier to align with their place in the system. And it is mostly misguided. The barrier to entry and availab
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by njepa 7y ago
According to his talk at startup school this was because he quit his job and moved in with his college friend in San Francisco to start a company. His share of the rent was apparently $1150, so seems fairly likely that he could have made th
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by njepa 7y ago
It isn't like 3 or 4 percent though. Starting a startup ranges from a largely risk free career move to impossible. Most people today start at negative. Want to live in a decent sized city? That's at least $2k a month. An education
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by njepa 7y ago
> By this, I believe he means private-school, summer-house, frequent-flyer-miles-in-your-early-20s rich. The example given literally attended one of the top private art school in the world. The reason people are reacting is likely becaus
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by njepa 7y ago
I don't disagree, but I think the perspective is a bit weird. Especially this part: >But the fact that the market power of the Americans has such a big influence is our own fault. European governments have failed to create framework
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by njepa 7y ago
I does factor in, it is somewhat hard to see because startups will always be marginal. In Sweden both Markus Persson (Minecraft) and Daniel Ek (Spotify) come from non-privileged background, with little university experience. When you see th
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by njepa 7y ago
I will disagree with most of the comments and say that the barrier to entry in programming isn't abstract though or critical thinking but quirks, inconsistencies and obscurities. That is really why programming favors having an interest
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by njepa 7y ago
The devaluation of the profession happened a few decades ago, otherwise most of us wouldn't have been able to join the industry. Especially in the last decade most people in the industry have been cheering on the abstraction of what yo
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by njepa 7y ago
It isn't so much that they get details wrong. As you say they are smart. It is that they won't present the full picture. Sometimes they even do that, but come up with conclusions that aren't supported. If they for example sup
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by njepa 7y ago
Unfortunately I think the Economist is one of those publications where it seems authoritative until they write about something you really know about and realize it is mostly just written in an assertive style.
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by njepa 7y ago
You can probably find it in some '60s future somewhere. Why would you build a perfectly fine tunnel and use that for irregular traffic, when you can hide the traffic and have the street for mixed use [-1]? We have had trash chutes [0]
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by njepa 7y ago
A simple search can summarize better than I can. There are many sources, including papers and books, for this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_issues_in_smart_c...
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by njepa 7y ago
I think surveillance could be part of a smart city. But for that to be smart it would have to solve the inherent problems with surveillance. An actual smart city project would proudly announce what it did to solve these challenges. I don&#x
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by njepa 7y ago
It looks like every (mostly useless) waterfront, science city or business park I have ever been to. Is there something new here, or is it like with many things these days that people's perception have diverged from reality?
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by njepa 7y ago
I would think that even a slightly sophisticated spell checker would catch this. So arguably a lack of automation. Could of course be a human machine interaction problem, where the misguided human and machine makes errors together.
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by njepa 7y ago
And sometimes things were actually better. Of course it is surprising that people want to go back to something like coal. But it isn't surprising that people want to go back to a time when their communities had a purpose and a future.
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by njepa 7y ago
Security got a lot more plentiful after Anna Lindh and Utøya. (And of course the whole war on terror). These things can't happen too often and stay the same, unfortunately.
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by njepa 7y ago
This is probably your best bet. https://jacobinmag.com/search?query=olof+palme The documentary about the Swedish involvement in South Africa is also fascinating, but not specifically about Palme. https://www.yout
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by njepa 7y ago
Are those batteries actually good enough at cycling that this would work though? What is the cost of degradation?
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by njepa 7y ago
Sure, but cards are even more centralized. The "feature" of WeChat is that it can be used for almost anything. It is a cash successor more so that a card alternative. Anyone can print, display or scan a QR code. Doesn't matte
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by njepa 7y ago
I meant that Ada does explain its syntax (at least partly in that pdf), but many languages don’t seem to. And when they do I can more easily accept whatever it is. It is when the syntax seems random I can’t wrap my head around it.
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by njepa 7y ago
Personally I don't mind unusual syntax. I do find it a bit problematic that programming languages seem to select syntax almost at random, or at least they don't tend to spend a lot of time explaining it [0]. A lot of special chara

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