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  • Sweden.

    A few alternatives:

    • I could book an appointment at the local health center. I would probably get a time at the earliest next week, and it would cost me $30. Health center doctors are generally quite overworked, and can sometimes be a bit dismissive of your issues in my experience, but they will help you. If you need specialist care, they will give you a referral, which could take several months depending on the priority of the case and the type of specialist.
    • I could use an app to get access to a video call with a doctor, after having described my symptoms in the app. I would get a video call the same day and it would cost me $30. Given the remote nature of this kind of contact, they can be a bit limited in what they can do for you, but will try to help you regardless. If your case requires in-person examination, they will ask you to go to a health center instead. If you need specialist care, they will give you a referral and you'll have to wait the same amount of time as for a referral in the health center scenario.
    • I am lucky enough to have a private health insurance plan through my employer. If I have any problems, I'll submit them to this private health insurer, and they put a human on the case and connects me with a specialist right away if the problem warrants one. Typically this happens the same or the next day. This costs me nothing, apart from what I pay in benefit taxes to be on the private health insurance plan.

    All in all, things work fairly well in Sweden, but having gotten private health insurance has definitely jaded me a bit on account of how much better the experience is when you have that. If only the public system wasn't systematically underfunded and run by the dumbest politicians on offer in the country, then maybe everyone could have great patient experience.

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  • Blackout curtains are mandatory equipment for any Swedish bedroom, in my opinion. There's no way to get enough sleep without them. Sleep masks also help if you're particularly sensitive to light.

    AC is generally speaking not required, as nights are cool and letting in air can provide adequate cooling for all but the hottest days of the year. This is of course a problem for people like me who are allergic to grass pollen, which is active during summer, but I've been able to get by mostly with a fan these days.

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  • But don’t tell anyone because we don’t want more people moving here!

    You need to build more housing so that more people can enjoy it, but more significantly so that the people already there can afford it.

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  • Depends on where you are. Miserable in hotter places I'm sure, but in Sweden it's quite honestly glorious. Sun up from 03:30 to 22 in Stockholm, and it never quite gets dark. Does wonders for your mood.

    Winter, however, is a cold, dark and wet mess. Truly depressive.

    Spring and autumn are alright, but suffer from just a little bit too much rain.

    Naturally, the climate crisis is making things slightly too warm for comfort now, and we're going to have to retrofit all homes to withstand heat better before too long.

  • I run a Switch as well but not quite as complex as your method, although with some similarities I suppose.

    Approximate method, probably mostly based on James Hoffmanns method:

    21g beans / 300 ml water / grind setting unknown, not too fine not too coarse I suppose

    1. Prewarm Switch with 100 C water while grinding beans
    2. Heat water to 70 C
    3. Pour 42g water, ensure everything is wet
    4. Release water and let bloom for 45 seconds
    5. Heat water to 100 C while waiting
    6. Close switch, pour 208g water (scales now at 250g)
    7. Let steep for 2 minutes
    8. Stir bed
    9. Steep another 30 seconds
    10. Release, pour another 50g water
    11. Enjoy
  • I'd be impressed with any model that succeeds with that, but assuming one does, the complete works of Shakespeare are not copyright protected - they have fallen into the public domain since a very long time ago.

    For any works still under copyright protection, it would probably be a case of a trial to determine whether a certain work is transformative enough to be considered fair use. I'd imagine that this would not clear that bar.

  • I don't think anyone would consider complete verbatim recitement of the material to be anything but a copyright violation, being the exact same thing that you produce.

    Fair use requires the derivative work to be transformative, and no transformation occurs when you verbatim recite something.

  • It's extremely frustrating to read this comment thread because it's obvious that so many of you didn't actually read the article, or even half-skim the article, or even attempted to even comprehend the title of the article for more than a second.

    For shame.