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litek··on Rent control isn’t working in Sweden
> Norway, Denmark and Finland all have no rent control

Norway does not, not sure about Finland, but Denmark definitely has a form of rent control. There are ceilings on rent that will be determined by appeal to a local rental board. There are exceptions however, anything built from 1992 and onwards, as well as some different rules for units that have undergone major renovations.

litek··on Show HN: uPanel – An admin template for commercial and OS projects
Found myself in the exact same situation. Copying the image address gives you an actual preview.

http://pixelcave.com/img/content/upanel_preview.png

litek··on Rum Deal: America’s booze laws are terrible
Denmark is the notable exception. You can buy hard liquor at the local 7-eleven at any hour.
litek··on Why LinkedIn dumped HTML5 and went native for its mobile apps
Do you use phonegap for the mobile versions, or something custom with a webview?
litek··on First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win
You only know of? I don't have any skin in the game, but there are plenty of competitors in this space. Reducing a criticism to the one HN frequenter you're aware of seems, well premature and unfounded.
litek··on Login Screen – behind the scenes
That's pretty neat. The suggestion tooltip in it's current form is a bit annoying though. I actually did type my email correctly, it even has a gravatar, but I can't stop the suggestion from overlaying half the password field.

Also, on a failed login attempt I usually typed my password incorrectly, not my email (especially when I can even see my gravatar). So you might want to keep the email field populated.

litek··on Do Too Many Lawyers Spoil The Economy? [1994]
With more or less 40% of congress consisting of lawyers* , they might be the cause as well as the symptom.

* http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/23/first-thing-we-...

litek··on Kogan imposes a tax on IE7 shoppers
This is terrific link bait. They've probably checked their stats and figured the exposure is well worth the few missed sales they might encounter.
litek··on Verisign seizes .com domain registered via foreign registrar
I think the cause for concern is the mere possibility that you can be drawn in to a legal battle in a foreign country over your domain, without even operating in it.
litek··on Google Tests a New Interface
I use feeling lucky frequently with custom searches in the adressbar, especially for searching wikipedia and jumping to the first article.
litek··on A Built-in Web Server For PHP
I'm just thinking this would be better suited for a quite simple php script/framework you could download, since it's not in any way meant for deployment.
litek··on A Built-in Web Server For PHP
Couldn't one simply write a php script opening up a socket and routing the request as fit? Is there a need for this in the core?