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by null_object 6y ago
The "it's gonna take years to know" is the line being pushed very hard by Swedish authorities locally. Makes the massive difference in deaths-per-million here compared to our Nordic neighbors much easier to swallow. The polic
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by null_object 6y ago
Looking at today's figures here: https://www.svt.se/datajournalistik/har-sprider-sig-coronavi... Sweden is currently at around 200 deaths-per-million, as against Denmark's 68, and Finland and Norway in the 30
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by null_object 6y ago
But that isn't the case at all - Sweden is under-reporting the number of Covid-19 deaths by a significant amount, where the excess deaths minus the reported covid-19 deaths show a large deviation. Here's an article (in Swedish) ab
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by null_object 7y ago
This was definitely true last summer, when it was trendy to flight-shame. But human nature being what it is, the itch to travel to the sun is inevitably creeping back, and I’ve noticed several colleagues returning from breaks in Bali, Goa,
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by null_object 7y ago
I often read statements on HN in reaction to articles like this, saying “I’d willingly pay more for a TV that doesn’t do this...”. Those TVs do exist: Loewe make really nice TVs which don’t depend on internet connectivity to work[1]. And de
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by null_object 7y ago
Wow. This is ridiculously derailing the general discussion, but I don’t know whether you can PM me an email address or something, but when I get back to Stockholm tomorrow I could photograph and send you any number of images showing this ha
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by null_object 7y ago
Interestingly, considering how passionately you’re defending the “in Sweden” part, shops very often circumvent this law by simply folding the piece of paper that displays the comparison price so it’s hidden. This is extremely widespread
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by null_object 7y ago
>either this was extremely early and advanced and in a very affluent, high density city that could justify and capitalise on its benefits... People visiting Stockholm nowadays - or even people living there, for that matter - have littl
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by null_object 8y ago
I also allowed my Flickr pro-membership to lapse last month, simply because I couldn’t remember the Yahoo login that’d been forced on me a few years ago. I received a reminder to my normal email address, but when I tried to reset the login
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by null_object 9y ago
I don't want to get sidetracked into our subjective impressions of Stockholm, but for the record, I live and work in the center of the town, and my preferred means of getting around would ideally be cycling and walking - neither of whi
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by null_object 9y ago
Sweden’s city model hardly represents the ideal: the 1960s thru 1980s intentionally ripped the public center out of almost all Swedish towns, discouraging outside public space and attempting to make city and town centers into purely work an