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Hej! My bad, I thought there was a way to message in HN. I don’t have social media so I leave you a name here: Sofia Lögdberg is the Archive and Collection manager. Good luck. Love to see what you have done.

DM me!

We have this at IKEA for a while now. Not impressed, but funny to read the hallucinations.

Your mind will be blown. We have a assemble/disassemble version of PAX wardrobes that takes 5 min to break down/put up.

I can agree with many of your points. For me, probably many, the price needs to be in line to a laptop replacement to be considered an option.

would you buy it when it becomes available?

Looking at my banking app for the last 6 months I spend between 6K to 10K Swedish crowns in supermarket food, work lunches and dinning. I live I Malmo. Stockholm dining will be more expensive. Moved here in 2011 from the US, love it. 6 weeks of paid vacation and work life balance: priceless. Welcome!

Isn’t is interesting that as a species we don’t have a way to understand where are we in our lifecycle? As a human I can understand life stages and where I am relative to other individuals. I can plan my life accordingly and of course there may be unexpected events but on average I know I have maybe 70-100 years to enjoy life.

As a species we have no idea if we peaked or we are in our infancy… one thing that will probably happen is that we too will cease to exist as a whole at some point. I wonder what this does to us as a group, not having that perspective.

I always say I only found unconditional love once I became a parent. (From me toward my child)

As you say, the commitment is forever, whether we are present or not. For the movie Interstellar, one of the themes Nolan developed was that at some point we become our children’s memories. It probably happens around the 12 year old mark.

For all parents out there, be present, however you can.

This in my opinion was an anti-regulation tirade masked as a call to action to makers. I’ve worked now for a while with physical product development, and had worked before with web development. The main difference is that physical products have an ability to kill/maim/hurt you if not properly designed. I welcome regulations on electrical, mechanical and anything that will hurt you if improperly used. Most websites or consumer software in general won’t hurt you much. I would appreciate more discussion on the nuances of design and working with limitations; from the brief, from the target, from the regulatory and compliance landscape. The great innovations come in satisfying all those constrains , and end up with a great product at a great price

I am really concerned about people with disabilities with this approach, if it becomes the main way to log in, and the options are there but super painful to set. In fact, all the minorities that for some reason or another can’t or it’s too hard to use a touchscreen smartphone.

Yes, that was my intention… but the comment got downvoted so I learned today also that probably commenting here now is not what it used to be a while ago.

Have you seen these numbers ?

https://www.slavevoyages.org/assessment/estimates?selected_t...

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Hej... no offense taken but generalizations don’t help. My 95L Dana designs terraplane LTW has been to the patagonia Icefield with enough food and climbing gear to make it above 35 kg. In that case you want a big, supportive backpack.

Yes! We do sell food items and I can tell you that all these new touch points for meeting the customer will have food ... we need to be where the people are, online and downtown.

If our starting point is to agree that people are individual in their experiences, competence, what they can bring to a team, then it follows that salaries are a subjective value attached to each individual.

With this approach it is our task to come to the negotiating table:

- informed on floor and ceiling for the position's compensation (there are websites and unions and many ways to get this info besides asking)

- ready to show what I can bring of value that it's worth paying more than a mere floor compensation, or above the ceiling.

In the past I've only shared information with people I know will be discreet in how they use it, and it has helped them, and it has helped me. The interesting thing is that most of these cases are internal moves. You can't just ring people in the company you are interviewing for and ask...

Hej! I’ve been in Sweden now nine years. It’s true that it takes time to get to certain specialists, but only if you are in a non-threatening situation. The system works with a triage concept, and the moment your condition is deemed serious you are in the front of any cue, meaning you get care immediately. I know some people with skin cancer that got amazing care , fast, at no cost. I have a coworker that had an extremely premature born : 24 weeks. the level of care he described, the team around his son and 10 different surgeries had cost him nothing. Luckily they are home now , with oxygen equipment provided to theM and nurses visiting every other day to monitor him.

This in the US would probably have meant a bankruptcy for someone in his income bracket.

The system is not perfect but after living in the US for 13 years I can tell you you never worry about health care here.

Edit: Nobody mentions you can also pay extra and visit a specialist right away! The wait is if you want the visit for the government price: 12 dollars for initial visit, 30 dollars for a specialist.

Absolutely! I went there many times, but first time was in 2014 with my teenage daughter to do the Laugavegur trail from Landmannalaugar to Þórsmörk. It was a 4 day hike thru lava fields, skirting glaciers, hot vents and fumarolas. Over tourism is only a problem if you stay in the well known circuits!

I think you, like many, are confusing the impact of ubiquitous data on our mobile phones with Facebook. We are not more connected because Facebook. We are more connected because data pipes are everywhere and I can drink all the time.

An excellent book: Mount Analogue.

Hi, this was back in 2009 and we used Insulspan, would imagine they are still around but you should check.

The good thing was that we used their structural calculations on the wall and the three beams that held the roof panels to have an Engineer stamp the plans at a reduced price (he simply checked that their calculations were OK). The RASTRA blocks to do the perimeter foundation was a great solution as we did the floor with OSB I beams, very fast and cheap!

Hi, I build two homes in WA state in a rural area (more on this later) while I was working as a webmaster and all around sysadmin for a small wood distributor co.

First house: 2600sq ft, Full size basement with 2 stories on top of a traditional timber frame structure, wrapped in S.I.Ps (structural insulated panels). We had plans drawn by architects and we went BIG. I ended up acting as the general contractor as the guy we hired ended up screwing up and bailing on us. I did a lot labor along the subs and learned a good deal of many of the trades and what were m,y limitations, what could I do. I also interacted with the building department as a owner-builder, it seems to me that unless you are in a rural area (they helped me and coached me thru a lot), you will have to have some help navigating this aspect too. Learnings from the first house: - a project management approach would have saved me time and money.Ask this for your GC, or make sure you look at time-cost-quality on every touchpoint. - make sure you have contracts with everyone that will be subbing for you. We had a contract with the GC and even then we had to go to court (long side story, headaches) - Basement concrete walls & foundation were slow to build, expensive and you need to know what you are doing, not something I would recommend for an owner-builder. - try to design the smallest space you think you need, then cut again on space. If you design with the possibility to expand later on and still be statically pleasing, you will end up ahead on many fronts. We got carried away and built twice as much what we needed with very expensive materials and techniques (timber frame). Cue in 2006-2008 financial crisis. Imagine the rest.

Second house: 1100 sq ft Rastra blocks crawl space Foundation. (Insulated Concrete forms) and S.I.P.s panel walls and roof. I acted as the GC. I subbed the excavation (minimal as I did a crawl space that was barely deep to let me in), and the rough plumbing, as the guy did it in 8 hrs. I did all the finish plumbing. I learned to do the electrical work and wired the whole house, had an electrician friend come connect the main panel to the street tri-phasic high-voltage. SIP panels for the walls of this one story house we raised by hand with my ex-wife. Roof panels we flew in on a single day with 4 friends, had to rend a crane for 6 hrs. With SIP panels you have a closed structure, with all openings framed and ready to be covered in 8 days. Took me 9 months to finish, working evenings and weekends and 1 month summer vacation.

Learnings from second house: - build small, smallest you need. - your local hardware store is your training, mentor and partner in this. Most folks are happy to teach you what to use, how to use it. You will end up paying a little more than $BigBox, but you also can ask to get a GC account and discount (around 10-15%). Win-win. - Labor savings with modular construction techniques such as SIPs and CIFs are huge if you are a DIY builder. Heck here in Sweden even big projects are built modular!

This is a bit stream of consciousness post, apologies as it is late here and also there are so many emotions linked to those two projects... Message me if you need a sounding board to discuss more.

Happy building!

your post touched a nerve for me: on my last trip to the US I used my new Swedish passport. The experience was surreal in the sense that I entered the US with my US passport in 2’. Returning to EU it took 10” as I scanned my passport on a kiosk on my own. I originally have an Argentinian passport and sadly it’s only good for me for when I ocassiobally go back to visit family. OTOH is funny to hear people complaining about the hardships of international travel, even if you have to go thru a lengthy process to get a visa. The fact we are discussing these topics probably puts a lot of us on the top 5% of income earners in the world. Privilege is the water we swim in, we just stopped seeing it after a while.

In Sweden I got an identity card with a chip that I can use with BankID (a system that uses a card reader + PIN for most transactions). There is a Tax ID number but this is pretty much a public record (you can find out people's incomes very easily, in fact small local newspapers run every year "richest people in X articles") In addition, every time a company runs a credit check on me, the credit reporting company must snail mail a copy of my credit report to my physical address. So it would be pretty easy for me to detect a fake account creation.