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Currently partly cloudy and 48°F/9°C. Though, yeah, I imagine most days aren't like that.

The 3 months of darkness is kind of a bummer

It does have really fast internet though. There is a dedicated submarine fiber cable servicing a population of only a couple of thousand people. https://submarine-cable-map-2018.telegeography.com/

There is a good reason for that: It is an ideal location for downlinking data from satellites in polar orbit. https://www.regjeringen.no/en/dokumenter/meld.-st.-32-201520...

(Edit: But the article points that out.)

And the roaming polar bears

Also the lack of social services

And the 1000 kilometers of sea that surrounds it.

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