njepa

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by njepa 8y ago
Unfortunately it might be even more frustrating seeing the Nordic countries trying to dismantle any good idea and advantage they had. Hopefully Norway has enough inertia to not squander the fund.
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by njepa 8y ago
> Clearly many Americans have their essential needs covered [...] Not in the same way. You can even be quite wealthy and still have very negative consequences from getting fired, evicted or having the housing market crash. Not only as re
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by njepa 8y ago
> They didn't receive an education in any western language, so it doesn't matter which country they pick, so long as it's safe and there is money there. I wouldn't say so. While of course it is hard to be informed as
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by njepa 8y ago
I think an important point to make is that it isn't that people in the Nordic countries are happier with less as such. It is that they already have, or have access to, the things they need to be relatively happy. If you don't then
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by njepa 8y ago
I have stumbled upon a number of these types of texts recently and while I think it is generally a good thing I can't help noticing that they are quite... basic. Most of his concerns have been solved by mixed market economies, that ove
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by njepa 8y ago
It is pretty big online, but I still think it didn't take off as people expected it to. I think that is probably a thing in general that it is hard to get critical mass for new big things. The Internet hasn't really come to that y
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by njepa 8y ago
If Berlin can figure out how to have long term affordable rents, for residents and newcomers alike, similar to Singapore, Vienna or how Sweden used to be, it will be the most successful city in Europe.
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by njepa 8y ago
Food colouring and additives are generally more restricted in the EU than the US though. For example: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/28/well/eat/food-additives-b...
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by njepa 8y ago
I have a hard time seeing your point. The things you say are good are all far more available to Europeans. If your claim is that Americans apply themselves more, then that means they get less for their effort. It seems like you have fallen
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by njepa 8y ago
Unfortunately it isn't unexpected. It has been pretty clear that the current policy is favoring older domestic businesses over the cluster based "knowledge economy". The opportunity cost of having Bromma Airport taking up use
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by njepa 8y ago
With the train you potentially lose a lot less productive time. Air travel can't be made much nicer since there are too many hard limits. The train however suffers from a lack of investment in fundamentals. A lot of people live in the
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by njepa 8y ago
It's fun once then mostly just annoying (unless you are a smoker I guess). There is, or at least used to be, another train ferry between Trelleborg and Sassnitz as well.
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by njepa 8y ago
It takes too long to get out of Sweden by sleeper train. High speed trains from major cities, as well as Oslo, and good regional routing that gets you to Copenhagen in ~3 hours would be a much better bet. Unfortunately that isn't happe
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by njepa 8y ago
As far as I know schooling hasn't improved in Sweden because of the voucher system, instead schools have fallen behind the neighboring countries which have more traditional systems.
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by njepa 8y ago
There is about five to ten books that will be commonly recommended to be a better programmer. Code complete, Smalltalk best practice patterns, clean code etc. You can find lists online. Read a few that seem interesting and at least you will
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by njepa 8y ago
What made you move back to LA, and is there anything you miss about Stockholm?
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by njepa 8y ago
> People then buy into to the facade of rural living but then end up driving 10's of miles for each and every errand and activity. They even take vacations in Europe and marvel at how delightful it is to sit in a town square and be
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by njepa 8y ago
> Not exactly rocket science. Rocket science seems straight forward in comparison to creating attractive, rather than combative, societies. The Nordic countries had insane possibilities the 'win' the information age, but have a
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by njepa 8y ago
'Stories and stuff' us apparently available at http://audio.textfiles.com/shows/storiesandstuff/
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by njepa 8y ago
> Is your goal to convince the OP to back out of the arrangement? My goal is that they should make an informed decision. If they want to live in Stockholm in a "second hand" apartment spending 15k SEK a month without any guaran
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by njepa 8y ago
It's true, but it also includes benefits and not only taxes. An American-level software engineering salary in Sweden is also probably twice that of the average software engineer, so you are going to pay a lot more in taxes than the ave
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by njepa 8y ago
I think the weird part is that as large successful companies are turning to vertical integration, at least many western societies are going the other way.
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by njepa 8y ago
> Since the OP is moving to Sweden, there's no point in making a recommendation, is there? "to a Scandinavian country". Presumably that means looking some sort of quality of life. I would say that Sweden is probably the wo
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by njepa 8y ago
Unfortunetly I think it is hard to recommend Sweden to anyone these days. People have made huge amounts in the housing market and anyone getting there now is going to pay for it. Maybe Malmö is still good to make a life in, but it would sti
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by njepa 8y ago
More specifically you need to be unique to gather critical mass. It doesn't just help being cheap, you have to cheap and something else that puts you a head of a lot of other similar places that are also cheap. And it has to be differe
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by njepa 8y ago
Generally the more specific your "requirement" is the more specific you have to get. So if you are looking for something specific you want to (to borrow a YC quote) "do things that doesn't scale". Talk to former fac
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by njepa 8y ago
It is hard, if not impossible, to say. What I think one could say is that these things doesn't generally happen in the way people think. Since there is generally a lot of inertia that prevents people from seeing what is going on. Peopl
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by njepa 8y ago
Largely regardless of ones definition of a hacker it was a subculture in the '80s, '90s and even early '00s. Because of the scarcity of information and resources there was motivation to organize, form groups and publish thing
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by njepa 8y ago
I wasn't a few government-owned building so much as 25% of the housing stock, around a hundred thousand apartments, which were actually owned by the city at the time. (And that is just the publicly owned housing). As far as I know it w
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by njepa 8y ago
~80/90s hackers aren't really the same thing as most post 00 hackers. A lot of people were in it because they were curious about this new thing and the opportunities to explore something and express themselves. The same way you wo

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