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For what it's worth this is quite similar to my experience here in Sweden except: - you speak to a nurse on the phone, not a non-medical receptionist (frankly, that sounds insane) …

Even if people who took the low mortgage counted with a rate hike like yours they probably didn’t count with the energy prices hiking so much AND the food prices hiking so much AND…

That sounds great, thanks I subscribed to it! Do you listen to any other similar podcasts you could recommend?

This argument does not take into account the fact that the majority of Swedish population lives in cities. The Stockholm metro area has about 2M people out of 10M in Sweden. Then t…

not OP, but yes, I backup both our Mac machines (TimeMachine) and my Linux machine (restic) to a Synology NAS that is in turn backed up to a cloud. I ended up using the Synology cl…

I’m from CZ but live in Sweden. I don’t think there is any magic (no gene difference as someone here suggested..) Here’s the things I noticed that were clearly different between th…

Sweden is producing its own domestic fighter jets to this day (Saab Gripen). It’s latest generation was unveiled in 2017. So they have the experience but my assumption is that deve…

I think it’s Finland. I’m in Sweden and I’m almost sure that my compensation is not public. What you can do IIRC is to request a credit check on someone which would contain the inc…

The factors you mention definitely don’t help but you’d be surprised how much of HBP is just genetics. I’m slim, run at least three times a week and ran a marathon two years ago, d…

But isn’t it very common to account for the white coat syndrome? I was recently diagnosed with HBP and the process went like this: - doctor took the measurement, was very high - as…

What's a hiring day? A quick search found nothing.. Is it a LI initiative?

Off topic but which Eastern European cheese did you find that you like? The only ones I even saw sold outside its are of origin were usually underwhelming. I’m originally from cent…

Even worse: Unless you pay private insurance yourself, the quality of the free insurance (at your nearest vårdcentralen) is absolutely laughable. My family of 4 pays about 1800 SEK…

Not necessarily. I occasionally pair with someone, though it's not enforced or even suggested in any way, just a result of discussing a problem for long enough that one of us says …

Genuinely curious: What do you think would be the outcome of this reply? In my previous team, it would have been "yeah I'm sorry, but there is a fire, this customer is paying us XY…

Your comment reads as you don’t need a realtor as a buyer — and I agree to an extent. I always thought that the service was provided for the seller Things our agent did I would not…

I am Czech but I’ve been living in Sweden for the past 6 or so years. The biggest difference I see is consistency and trust between population and the agencies and government. Swed…

Regarding 2. — are you sure the people with disposable income would buy a gaming console of all things? I mean it requires time to enjoy which is something a middle aged person try…

I think as usual when it comes to complex issues involving many people the truth will be somewhere in the middle. At the very least COVID has forced managers to get acquainted with…

(Disclaimer: I work for Red Hat) Please pay attention to the previous submission about RH from this platform. The author seems to have an agenda and likes to stir controversy. Noth…

Yeah sorry if it sounded too entitled (otoh there is not much “entitlement” I paid for all this with my taxes several times over). I’m happy that you have he the chance to be with …

I also got back to fiction reading lately and I’m immensely enjoying it. But..do you really read two books A DAY?

Congratulations! It’s funny to see your comment downvoted while just above a comment that says “dog” is not and gets a bunch of enthusiastic replies. HN demographics I guess?

I’ll become a working western father soon and my paternity leave will be ~6 months regardless of pandemic. So I don’t buy the “no other time” argument.

Nice list, that's pretty much what I've been doing. Especially limiting "news" (I would also emphasize their "quality" with quotes..) and social media. I feel so much better since …