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paddim8··on Gnome Receives €1M from German Government
From what I've seen, their salaries are higher brutto but not netto
paddim8··on Hundreds demonstrate against high rents in Zurich
The social democrats built 1 million units of housing in Sweden in the 60s or something like that, because of a housing crisis. They solved the housing crisis just like that.
paddim8··on You think you secured your Hetzner account with 2FA? Think again
Contabo is cheap and reliable.
paddim8··on Daylight saving time can seriously affect your health
In Sweden it's dark when you go to work and dark when you go home. There are only a few hours of sun light in the winter.
paddim8··on Is there anywhere in the world someone can just live for free?
Sweden doesn't have property taxes and you can find houses for 10k€.
paddim8··on Maersk to cut 10k jobs as shipping demand drops
Why do you think you know more about this than them?
paddim8··on As child care costs soar, more parents may have to exit the workforce
It's subsidized in sweden. Works fine.
paddim8··on Yugoslavia's Digital Twin – When a country's internet domain outlives the nation
Serbian detected. Kosovo is a country.
paddim8··on Anti-Anti-Adblocker uBlock filter to get rid of the annoying YouTube message
We don't want them to be losing money because that prevents competition since no one can compete with that. It's a monopolistic practice.
paddim8··on Irish privacy group files complaint against YouTube adblock detection system
Yeah. Ads are what makes YouTube accessible to people who can't afford to pay for these kind of things. Hosting videos for free wouldn't be sustainable either.
paddim8··on How to cook ground meat perfectly without vision
I do a mix between this and waiting for the water to evaporate. After it has evaporated you'll be able to brown it nicely either way.
paddim8··on Anti-Anti-Adblocker uBlock filter to get rid of the annoying YouTube message
Good luck donating to every single person you watch.
paddim8··on Anti-Anti-Adblocker uBlock filter to get rid of the annoying YouTube message
Honestly, I don't think preventing ad blockers is abusive. Hosting videos for free is simply not sustainable. It does not work. We aren't entitled to getting everything on the internet for free.
paddim8··on Stockholm to ban petrol and diesel cars from centre from 2025
Stockholm has great public transport?
paddim8··on Stockholm to ban petrol and diesel cars from centre from 2025
You don't need a car in central stockholm. Poor people wouldn't even have a petrol car. Public transport is much cheaper and highly convenient.
paddim8··on ASP.NET Core Blazor
TypeScript is still limited by being a superset of JavaScript.
paddim8··on Pkgx – “Run anything” from the creator of brew
Bevause nix is complex. I don't want a complex system, I want a simple system.
paddim8··on Most demographers now predict that human population will plateau
In Sweden you get 480 days of parental leave and heavily subsidized daycare. Both parents can have jobs without issues
paddim8··on Sweden turns to military to help police combat gang crime
The source you posted has had articles written about it because one person managed to skew it alone, since it's just based on some online survey. Crime in sweden has actually been decreasing overall. Murders have been increasing lately but are also about the same as 30 years ago. The murder rate is lower than in Finland. It's the trend that is worrying. It is a serious issue, but no one benefits from sensantionalism
paddim8··on Sweden turns to military to help police combat gang crime
According to this, murders are about the same as 30 years ago: https://bra.se/statistik/statistik-om-brottstyper/mord-och-d...
paddim8··on Show HN: Learn piano without sheet music
People have different goals and ideas of how they want to play. I don't think that's something that should be gatekept.
paddim8··on I hacked macOS
What? That's an insane amount of money
paddim8··on Custom Minecraft Classic client written from scratch in C
Bedrock has more players?
paddim8··on Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its tech-heavy schools
We didn't have a lot of homework. Only needed to take home a notebook and sometimes a book
paddim8··on Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its tech-heavy schools
Yes, that's it. They talk a lot about how to find reliable sources, because they know students are going to look on the internet either way.
paddim8··on Why isn’t dotnet core popular among startups?
.NET has great crossplatform support anyway
paddim8··on Why isn't dotnet core popular among startups?
.NET has been open source for over half a decade now and building a program is as easy as running `dotnet build` and has been since .NET Core was first launched
paddim8··on Why isn't dotnet core popular among startups?
Mono is a completely different implementation though. .NET Core is a rewrite with first-class support for Linux. I have been using it on Linux for as long as it has existed and it has always felt really natural. It even warns you when you do platform-specific stuff.
paddim8··on The roots of an obscure Bourne shell error message
I'm working on a shell language that combines these things.

You can write things like: let column = du -h | str::column 0 echo(column[1..3])

paddim8··on Focus: A simple and fast text editor written in Jai
It is never a waste of time if you're enjoying it and learning from it. What a sad mindset
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