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Re: Swedish aid money to Tor, online activism

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Post by celer »

sdqali wrote: post #18
hastur wrote: post #2

Wow, this is awesome. While the world's biggest "democracy" (India) censors the web, Swedish government sponsors means of dissidence.

I, as an Indian am tired of the 'World's Biggest Democracy' label. I feel it is a clever way for India's politicians to mask huge problems we face as a democracy - rampant social inequality, throwing money at problems that need creative solutions cotinuous effort and commitment etc. Except for very few states, turn up for elections seldom crosses 50%. If the number of people participating is the measure for biggest,…

As an American in politics, I dearly wish I could get 35% of my countrymen to vote in the elections that most impact their lives.

Re: Swedish aid money to Tor, online activism

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Post by forza »

h84ru3a wrote: post #39
forza wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sweden is outstanding if you ignore all the equally great countries in Europe and elsewhere. Sweden also used to be the standard-bearer for the Nordic model, this is not true anymore. There's plenty of reasons to avoid Sweden, but here are the top ones: * Everything is expensive. * Taxes are high. * Housing (more or less) can't be rented, buying is expensive. * Weather is cold and/or dark most of the year. * Culture…

"Everything is expensive." Does that include healthcare and education?

Healthcare is generally very cheap (theoretical maximum 1000$ per year, plus hospital stay 10$ a day). Dental care for adults is not. If you're a non-EU citizen Sweden has some of the most expensive education in Europe. As a citizen of the EU, tuition fees are cheap, but so are they almost everywhere in Europe[1].

[1] http://www.studyineurope.eu/tuition-fees

Re: Swedish aid money to Tor, online activism

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Post by h84ru3a »

forza wrote: post #42
h84ru3a wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Everything is expensive." Does that include healthcare and education?

Healthcare is generally very cheap (theoretical maximum 1000$ per year, plus hospital stay 10$ a day). Dental care for adults is not. If you're a non-EU citizen Sweden has some of the most expensive education in Europe. As a citizen of the EU, tuition fees are cheap, but so are they almost everywhere in Europe[1]. [1] http://www.studyineurope.eu/tuition-fees

I've sometimes wondered: Is there any country that has "free" dental care?

Re: Swedish aid money to Tor, online activism

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Post by hermanhermitage »

maukdaddy wrote: post #31
forza wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sweden is outstanding if you ignore all the equally great countries in Europe and elsewhere. Sweden also used to be the standard-bearer for the Nordic model, this is not true anymore. There's plenty of reasons to avoid Sweden, but here are the top ones: * Everything is expensive. * Taxes are high. * Housing (more or less) can't be rented, buying is expensive. * Weather is cold and/or dark most of the year. * Culture…

I, as an American, decided to move to Sweden for all of the reasons GP posted, and despite your list of supposed downsides. A few observations after six months here: * The Swedish summer more than makes up for the dark winter. Not that much colder than Chicago either. * Taxes are high, but the benefits you get from the taxes are astounding, especially from an American perspective. Great roads, clean cities, amazing p…

I'm a joint Australian/UK citizen, I work in Stockholm from time to time (usually 3-6 months bursts). Because of my pattern the tax issue is a non issue for me.

I would agree with all the positives posted here. The only notable negatives I've noticed (in order of annoyance) are:

  * The intrusive personnummer.
  * The rental market (and the bloody laundry madness...) in Stockholm.
  * Something similar to but not quite as overt as Racism.
The personnumer is used as a primary key by many businesses. Some visitors may not have a personnumer and this makes it difficult to do a range of things like visit some Gyms and so forth.

The rental market situation is a nightmare. Even worse than Sydney.

If you look like a non native Scandinavian this can lead to significant non-confrontational discrimination in some "exclusive" sub-cultures.

Re: Swedish aid money to Tor, online activism

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Post by bjelkeman-again »

h84ru3a wrote: post #40
bjelkeman-again wrote: post #25

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Despite that "everything is expensive", "taxes are high" and "whether is cold" it is actually a very good place to live. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-of-life_Index Cultural life in Stockholm is rather quite good for a town of its size, and you have plenty of nature around you to compensate for not having quite as many bars as London. Racism is sadly on the rise, but not as bad as in many other societies. Anec…

"investment community... limited in scope" But how about the regulatory environment? Maybe it might make a good base from which to launch a startup focused on reclaiming some standard expectations privacy for internet users, by using original internet peer-to-peer design instead of the prevalent "calf-cow" (client-server) model. Many, like the 60-something Harvard blogger who recently wrote about Facebook's flaws, ar…

What do you need to know about the regulatory environment to satisfy this?

Re: Swedish aid money to Tor, online activism

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Post by h84ru3a »

bjelkeman-again wrote: post #45
h84ru3a wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"investment community... limited in scope" But how about the regulatory environment? Maybe it might make a good base from which to launch a startup focused on reclaiming some standard expectations privacy for internet users, by using original internet peer-to-peer design instead of the prevalent "calf-cow" (client-server) model. Many, like the 60-something Harvard blogger who recently wrote about Facebook's flaws, ar…

What do you need to know about the regulatory environment to satisfy this?

I am afraid I do not understand the question as you have structured it.

If you can rephrase it, maybe I can give you an answer.

I may have been sloppy in my usage of the term "regulatory environment". Is that want you mean?

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