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I was really enthusiastic (especially about Estonia's flat tax) until this bit:

>The country is plagued by another issue that is all too familiar to the Silicon Valley: diversity. "We are still dominantly white and male," said Sten Tamkivi, co-founder and CEO of Teleport and a former early executive at Skype. "Estonia has a lot of work to do."

This isn't an issue unless you constantly try to make it one.

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It's not relevant in the Estonian context -- a largely ethnically homogeneous country where the largest minority is Russians -- but could be relevant in a global context.

I don't agree with the article's slant on leading in that quote, but the person being quoted is right; they don't have the nature of diversity that other western countries have attained, and increasingly, have come to expect.

But in their case, it's not because of malice, but just a consequence of history.

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