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953 karma · joined December 5, 2012

Stockholm Native.

Twitter: @Chronoo

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pathy··on Get Facebook WiFi for your business
Assuming you are a Facebook user they would know your location anyway, Facebook Wifi or non-Facebook wifi.

Then again, considering your username I guess you aren't a fan of Facebook at all.

pathy··on Get Facebook WiFi for your business
That is a fair point, and it will be interesting to see how Facebook will deal with "feed pollution".
pathy··on Get Facebook WiFi for your business
There are privacy concerns but overall I think it is a splendid idea, both for Facebook and for the businesses that choose to join.

Your run of the mill free wifi is neither secure nor private to begin with and I don't see Facebook Wifi encroaching on privacy any more than currently available free wifi.

pathy··on Hire this guy for love
Probably because it gets more clicks than "Hire me for love".

Seems to have worked?

pathy··on Bitcoin and positive vs. normative economics
Gold is also a lot more volatile than most currencies, which in turn makes it less suitable as a currency than dollars or euros.

A trait gold shares with bitcoin. The volatility makes it terrible as a currency, not to mention the expected rise in value. That makes BTC even worse as a currency - there is no sane reason to spend bitcoin if you believe in the concept.

pathy··on Who's Selling Credit Cards From Target
Actually, I more often than not have to verify my online purchases. I have to use my bank's online banking card reader with my card and pin code.

It is not the case for all transactions but for most Swedish online transactions this has been the case for the past few years.

It is called something along the lines of 3-D secure/Verified by Visa

pathy··on We Need to Talk About TED
Have you actually read the report or are you just commenting on most of these types of reports?

A quick glance suggests that their framework is quite detailed but I do not know how well it reflects reality. (p. 30 in the report)

Your comment would be much better if you actually had anything to back up your claims. What supports your statement that these reports are no better than random?

Report: http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/freepublications/en/eco...

pathy··on Ask HN: What is your download speed?
Currently ADSL with something like 8/1 but in the proccess of moving to cable 100/10. I believe I can get 500/50 or so from my cable company though that costs more than I would like.

Current ISP: Telia.

New ISP: Comhem

Stockholm, Sweden.

pathy··on We Need to Talk About TED
To strengthen your point: INSEAD's "The World’s Most Innovative Countries: The Global Innovation Index 2013":

1: Switzerland

2: Sweden

3: United Kingdoms

4: Netherlands

5: USA

6: Finland

7: Hong Kong

8: Singapore

9: Denmark

10: Ireland

Source: http://knowledge.insead.edu/innovation/the-worlds-most-innov...

I always take these types of rating with a pinch of salt but it does give an indication.

Edit: I cannot English.

pathy··on Notch Playing Ludum Dare [video]
Why would you? Running a video streaming service is hardly free. It is only like 30 sec of advertisement.

If you really wanted you could use an ad blocker.

pathy··on Disqus cracked – Security flaw reveals users’ e-mail addresses
At least some of the emails weren't even private. I saw an example of one of the politicians who got their identity 'leaked'. The email she used for the Disqus comments was listed on her official municipality contact page.
pathy··on Disqus cracked – Security flaw reveals users’ e-mail addresses
It gets a bit awkward when you comment on racist/anti-immigration websites with your (at least semi public) email while you represent a far right party that officially has a zero tolerance on racism.

The party has its roots in the skinhead/neo-nazi organizations and they have been trying to shake that image problem for quite some time now. To be fair, putting on suits has helped them.

pathy··on How we pay royalties: an overview
Music streaming (be it Spotify or otherwise) is not the only source of revenue for musicians though. Touring, Merch and so forth also generate revenue.

That said, most musicians obviously cannot live off their music.

pathy··on A Prediction: Bitcoin Is Doomed to Fail
>there's no need to convert them.

Have you tried paying your taxes in Bitcoin? The IRS (or regional equivalent) is not going to accept bitcoin any time soon and they will want you to pay taxes on, for example, profits. There is a need to convert, don't believe otherwise.

pathy··on Primer on Bitcoin Taxation
>Evidently he's been downvoted trying to point this out.

As he should have been, replying in all caps while being unable to comprehend what gamblor956 wrote. gamblor956 did not imply that he was the author of the article, rather the author of AN article on a related topic. Coming to hasty conclusions and calling out a friendly poster hardly speaks highly of the OP.

He should read more carefully in the future and not overreacted, I would be hesitant to trust such a personality, an attorney should know better.

pathy··on Why open-office layouts are bad for employees, bosses, and productivity
Open office schemes has been around awhile. The earliest research that, I know about, into them is by Allen & Gerstberger from 1973 [0]

In essence they found that performance was roughly the same as before but the employees preferred the new arrangement and that communication was improved.

Here is part of a summary of the article, made when revising for an exam:

> "The most important and most obvious conclusion that this paper found is that the non-territorial idea works. It not only reduces facilities costs by eliminating the need for rearranging walls, air ducts, etc. every time an area is re-organized, but it also allows for the allocation of space based upon an expected population density at any point in time. More important than the cost savings, however, is the fact that people find it comfortable to work in."

The open plan arrangement is not only to benefit the employees, which it may or may not do, but to reduce costs. Office space isn't exactly cheap in many locations.

[0] http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/1866/SWP-0653-...

pathy··on Ask HN: How much do you think SnapChat is really worth?
The problem I see with Snapchat is that:

a) currently no revenue, I imagine it is harder to monetize Snapchat than Facebook et al. But it is not my area of expertise so I can give them the benefit of the doubt that they can monetize it.

b) They are one lawsuit away from blowing up. I can see a future where they get hit with a child porn lawsuit or something similar. I assume they have good lawyers but it is still a rather significant risk.

I think it was a mistake not to take one of those billion dollar deals but I have been wrong before. If they can monetize their service and avoid lawsuits it could become huge.

pathy··on Sweden closes four prisons as number of inmates plummets
>År 2012 konstaterades 68 fall av dödligt våld i Sverige, vilket är en minskning jämfört med år 2011, då 81 fall konstaterades. Nivån för 2012 är den lägsta noteringen under de senaste tio åren.

>Antalet fall av dödligt våld uppvisar relativt stora upp- och nedgångar mellan olika år och har den senaste tioårsperioden fluktuerat mellan 68 och 107 fall årligen.

>I ett längre perspektiv uppvisar det dödliga våldet en nedåtgående utveckling.

Source: http://www.bra.se/bra/brott--statistik/mord-och-drap.html

Sorry for the Swedish but basically: Long term the deadly violence has had a downwards trend.

Where are your statistics that they are rising?

pathy··on Why does Sweden have so many billionaires?
I can understand such frustrations (especially in light of the financial crisis) but they seem a bit naive. The system is more complex than just moving the money out of the country and funding Swedish social services with it.

Sounds more like a populist argument along the lines of: "Oh those dirty banks are stealing our money."

pathy··on Why does Sweden have so many billionaires?
Why is that?
pathy··on Ask HN: What subscriptions do you use (and pay for)?
Spotify, Linode, Leaseweb, Office 365.

Spotify being by far the best value for money.

pathy··on Ask HN: I own stock for a company just bought by Oracle, what is my stock value?
I don't see the price mentioned anywhere in the documents published but I may have missed it.

I expect that you will get a notice about the acquisition in the mail, with more details. Otherwise you can always call the CEO or CFO and ask about the acquisitions and what it means for your shares and how much they are worth.

pathy··on Dawn of Autonomous Corporations, Powered by Bitcoin
The planet has a whole is... largely autonomous but is still affected by the sun, meteors, the moon.

Oceans are affected by those above as well, and by us. We have managed to affect the oceans quite a lot during our short time on earth, mainly by pollution it and the environment in general.

Nothing is really autonomous in that sense. Yes, the earth will probably be here after we perish and it will probably survive, more or less, intact so in that sense it is probably quite autonomous.

pathy··on Dawn of Autonomous Corporations, Powered by Bitcoin
He probably isn't. Are you?

Your posts mostly consists of rambling that the established economics definitions of efficiency, market failure and so forth are wrong. You call an entire profession slippery and dishonest.

You are clearly pushing your agenda, in a fashion that IS intellectually dishonest. Try having a conversation where you actually use the jargon of the subject matter. Market failure means one thing when you are discussion economics, don't try to invent your own definition. That is dishonest and poor argumentation technique.

pathy··on Dawn of Autonomous Corporations, Powered by Bitcoin
Fair enough, but mtgox is the most famous one, so I naturally picked up news about it. That makes it somewhat better at least.

3 days is still a very long time compared to the 'real' currency exchanges.

pathy··on Dawn of Autonomous Corporations, Powered by Bitcoin
1) We are discussion an economics paper as another reply notes. Of course we are going to use the economics definition of efficiency. We can hardly use anything else, can we? It has NOTHING to do with dishonesty.

2) Jargon. Don't tell me that software development doesn't have weird uses and definitions of words. Meanings of words changes over time, languages aren't static. The term efficiency in the context of economics is rather well established and part of the English language, despite what you may personally think about it.

pathy··on Dawn of Autonomous Corporations, Powered by Bitcoin
Th problem with bitcoin, if nothing else, is that the exchange market, USD:BTC is rather illiquid. Doesn't MTGOX take forever to process the withdrawals in USD?

This is a big problem that does make it a toy currency. The slow exchange probably brings up the price. I expect, without much proof, that the USD:BTC ratio would be lower, at least short term, if you could exchange them easier.

$2b in circulation is pretty decent of course, but if you cannot convert those BTC to USD with ease then the valuation is flawed.

pathy··on Ask HN: Should I go to Sweden for work?
To add to this, to get a contract via the government run queue for rentals[1]:

Average time in queue in the Stockholm region: 8.5 years.

Average time in queue for central Stockholm: 15 Years.

If you don't want to wait that long, you generally have to a) sub-let, which as the example above shows, is very expensive. b) buy something, which in the central areas of Stockholm cost something like 50-80K SEK per square meter.

[1] http://www.dn.se/sthlm/lang-bostadsko-i-stockholm/

pathy··on Ask HN: Should I go to Sweden for work?
>Front-end contracting is typically full-time contracts on-location for between 6 and 12 months. It typically pays 100+ USD an hour, meaning a monthly income of 16K USD or so given a standard 40 hour workweek.

A lot of those 16K will go away in taxes and social costs though. I am not sure what most freelancers use for estimates but somewhere between 50-75% should probably be deducted before getting a comparable number to a salary.

pathy··on Ask HN: Should I go to Sweden for work?
That sounds about average for Stockholm I believe.

The salary will obviously be lower than freelancing rates since there are less taxes and costs to consider. You will have to make a spreadsheet or something to see what would end up being most profitable.

Housing is rather expensive in Stockholm at the moment, and rentals are hard to come by unless you want to pay ~10k SEK for a small one bedroom flat.

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