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Glass bottles are being removed more and more in Sweden, and it would be interesting to see the microplastic waste created by recycled plastics, and the comparative energy requirements to produce and ship a glass bottle vs. a plastic bottle - Esp. plastic made from plants or sugar cane.

All soda/beer bottles and cans sold give you a small refund, and pretty much all waste is recycleable in some way. Slightly dependent on infrastructure in your vicinity, but most municipalities ought to be able to recycle food waste, cardboard, plastic, glass, and metal easily.

Uh, how does this work with eg GDPR or data protection laws that require all customer data to remain within the country of operation?

I mean I'd say it's pretty rare. I've only seen a handful of people do it personally, and I've never seen anyone exclusively use a portrait screen.

Agenda seems really good, but also seems to be macOS/iOS only, which is unfortuante for me.

I'm this close to just beating a solution together, but there's so much else to do lol

Interesting, will check all that out. Thanks!

That sounds promising, thank you!

I prefer not to use Amazon, and currently use a reader other than a Kindle.

I do believe my reader has the same ease-of-use if I purchase books from the company selling it. Might be only if buying things using the reader itself, not sure.

How would they do that? I think it's safe to assume right away that the companies aren't going to act responsibly, because, well, they haven't for years. So that leaves the state, and what should they do?

Not like they can push a button and invent more caretakers, fix internal routines, etc, across an entire country.

I'd love it if they could, but in general, there is going to be inertia when trying to affect change in a system that has been degrading for years, with actors actively working against those changes (in this case, companies putting profit over welfare).

It's so very, very easy to say "the state should have done something, fast", but it gets very difficult when you're trying to specify which parts of the state should have done what, to which actors and on which level.

Anything else you'd like to make up about Sweden while you're at it?

It's fairly impossible to say "Sweden should hav ebeen more careful with its elderly" - The measures put in place by Sweden were designed with that in mind.

That's why elderly care facilities were the first, if not only ones, to face quarantine.

However, when you have years of poor management of elderly care, and elderly care companies that refuse to heed the recommendations, there's not much "Sweden" can do in the moment wihtout severe effort.

Sweden hasn't "done nothing", please don't make things up.

Depends on how you measure deaths from Covid-19, for one.

There have been a multitude of reports from other countries on how they fail to account for all deaths, let alone all deaths from the disease, for instance.

The death toll is severe though, no two ways about it, but therea are also a lot of factors to weigh in, such as:

- What could have been done instead? There are several countries with radically different measures that still face high numbers of reported deaths

- Would more severe restrictions have mitigated the most damaging vectors? A lot of the deaths come from elderly homes, for instance, and further lockdowns wouldn't naturally have prevented that (as much as, say, more personnel in elderly care)

- What will the secondary effects be? The effects of Covid-19 go beyond the deaths from the disease itself. How many will die from the economical impact of lesser, or more severe restrictions? For instance.

These are all difficult considerations and near-impossible to answer.

> What if they shoot everyone? Would that be a satisfying conclusion?

Obviously not, and it's weird that you'd go there of all places.

I don't understand your point, really.

George Floyd wasn't shot, but many others were, and the questions regarding excessive use of force and discrimination towards racial minorities persists.

The killing of George Floyd doesn't make it any less relevant, nor any less topical.

Wouldn't it be possible to flip things around, e.g. source of truth is a standalone public repo, that gets forked into the monorepo? So you could thne make changes internally, and then afterwards isolate the library changes and push them upstream

idk how monorepos work really so maybe im way wrong

Which is a shame, I should add, because I want to pay for the culture I consume, but vendors, copyright, and publishers try their best to make that process as wonky as possible.

There's a hepaing of hyperbole on there, but my experience with buying ebooks is very similar - Aside from buying from e.g. pragprog, who don't do DRM.

When pirating books, I download it, put it on my ereader, and read it.

When actually purchasing books, I need to install Adobes proprietary DRM-program, open the book in there, unlock it with my account, then use the Adobe program to transfer it to my tablet.

Not a huge hassle, but pirating just works, and offers an experience that's infinitely more pleasant.

No, it's more like requiring them to use their issued equipment, over bringing their own guns.

And it's not like React, Angular, etc. development isn't "reinventing wheels", too. Different sets of wheels, maybe, but there's still a lot of repetition and doing the same thing over again.

Yeah, but Sweden remained neutral regardless of what people say. It's a pretty well-defined term.

This is a neat one. In my current project, I created a (non-lazy) pipe function that take a value and a bunch of functions, composes the functions, and applies the value.

pipe(2, add(2), square, n => n + 7) // -> 23

Nothing fancy but comes in handy at times.

What I really miss is something like the |> from Elixir. Maybe it's the same as F#, I don't know, but it automatically performs partial application, so that:

Enum.filter([1, 2, 3, 4], fn n -> n % 2 == 0 end)

also works like:

[1, 2, 3, 4] |> Enum.filter(fn n -> n % 2 == 0 end)

Or, y'know, I'll stick to beans, lentils, and veggies.

Unnecessarily hostile comment. Sweden remained neutral through the war and did not partake in the fighting, as far as I know.

They didn't allow troop movements into Norway, but did allow troops to move through from Norway, into Finland. They allowed off-duty German soldiers to travel between Norway and Germany, and sold iron ore to Germany.

They also shared intelligence with the Allied forces, helped train Danish and Norwegian troops to liberate Denmark, allowed Allied forces use of its airbases, took in a lot of Jewish refugees from Norway and Denmark, The Swedish Red Cross sent buses to evacuate concentration camp inmates, and RAoul Wallenberg used his diplomatc status to save tens of thousands of Jews in Hungary as well.

Work is important but labor is not, so to speak.

It seems you misread the comment, no? There's little gain in being this standoffish, especially when your interpretation is off.

They're obvioulsy not saying that ideas are worthless, period - They're saying that ideas alone don't go anywhere unless you execute them. Furthermore, it seems they're here to share ideas, not to execute others.

Idk, I use Google Calendar (browser, android app) and currently run work calendar, private calendar, and facebook events seamlessly. Don't think I've spent much time at all setting it up, either.

I'd say "only following the money" isn't moral agnostiscism, but very much a moral choice. It's a choice made by people collectively, and either way it doesn't exist outside of morality, or consequences.

Not that it's not a neat knot (repeat that for a tongue twister!), but I chuckled a bit at:

> With practice, I can now tie my shoelaces in about one third of the time of a conventional knot!

So... 1 second instead of 3? Amazing ;)

Also Lidl, at least in Sweden, does some things amazingly. One of the best shops for produce, for instance, both in quality and price.