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Expect that this Hacker News thread will be overrun by Swedish patriots who will, with tooth and nail, argue for Swedish exceptionalism and downvote all criticism. War is Peace and…

I think you are thinking about this in the wrong way. Sure Lat/Lon is the common presentation format for this particular coordinate system. Right now in Sweden the time is 10:41 (i…

I have a hard time following this article because it's so obviously one-sided and ranting. FWIW the Stockholm Metro is also privatized in the sense that operation, planning and mai…

I'm noticing a sad trend recently. * This article is one instance. * Within the past 24 hours there was a Hacker News submission "Self-improvement is embracing your messy, imperfec…

"Company X got state aid and paid Y in bonuses" seems to be one of those cookie cutter news reports that pop up several times per day the past year. The titles seem to imply that s…

15k orders over 20 years is on average 2 per day or 750 per year. Is that a typo?

I think this one is my "favorite" in the list, in the sense of most surprising: > On December 10, 2019, Kosovo declared the Austrian author Peter Handke persona non grata after he …

You are being downvoted, but this is not as off-topic as it may seem. Simone Weil had a brother, André Weil. You may not know his name on the top of your head, but I guarantee you …

I wonder what the unintended consequences are with this measure. Here are some: 1) I can imagine weird situations where a multi-leg flight could be broken up by this ban, especiall…

It doesn't actually matter, you can remove that data point and you are still at mercy at who actually interact with the ad once it's published.

Sensationalist. The key point of the article hinges on one particular statement: "These gender differences cannot be explained away by gender differences in qualifications or a lac…

As far as I know, Nature explicitly allow open access... if you pay extra for it. They call it "open access" if I remember correctly and it's a couple of times more expensive than …

Thomas Sowell has a greater reach than many people at Hacker News may think. In Sweden (of all places), he is one of the most quoted conservative intellectuals by some of our most …

That's true, but in my experience vulnerability researchers mostly focus on the online presence/product of internet-active companies (the FAANG:s of the world, and their smaller co…

I'd be a bit careful if I were you. Bug bounty programs are after all the exception rather than the rule - the security equivalent of open sourcing software - an active decision by…

My, possibly naive, view is that this has nothing to do with the "benefactor" of a policy (transgender people, in this case). It is more about power, politics and influence for the…

You are correct of course. I was intending to make an alchemy joke about a particular phrasing of the parent poster (the part about creating 1 tons of "carbon"), but misread the en…

Are you saying 1 litre (about 0.71 kg) of fuel creates 2.6 kg of CO2? :-)

Do you live in Europe? If you don't then what you say make some sense, but the European Union think differently. The EU ban things all the time. For example: inefficient vacuum cle…

As someone living in the European Union I'd be extremely surprised if bitcoin isn't taxed/regulated to death within 1-2 years here. The recent price increase will attract the atten…

? This is discussed here, at Hacker News. It's also discussed at many other places on the internet. :-) Why is this chat room you mention relevant? And who are "we" you speak of? Y…

Wow, this is some Old Internet content right here. Hundreds upon hundreds of blog posts about a specific technical content, going back all the way to 2005. Thanks for posting!

Without much planning, I happened to end up in Ethiopia in 2018, just a few months after Abiy was elected prime minister. It was an unusual experience. In Addis Ababa the feeling w…

The cat is already out of the bag and IMHO the only correct solution now is for all countries to do what they should have done in December already when the vaccinations started ram…