It's legally structured as a private company, but it's really not. It's 60% owned by the Swedish state and 40% by the Danish state.

Right. Then the accurate description is that it's a state-owned commercial company, not a government agency.

Ownership by states doesn't make it a public service. It makes it a company whose shareholders happen to be governments. It still operates under corporate law, not administrative law, and it was explicitly removed from being a state service.

Calling that "not really private" is just rhetorical framing, not a legal or operational distinction.

It's not privately owned so it's not really a private company even if it has to abide by the same laws. I don't get why you accuse me of rhetorical framing, it's what the ownership situation looks like.

Fair enough; we're using different definitions of "private."

I'm using it in the legal/operational sense relevant to whether a government service was withdrawn (agency vs company, public law vs company law). By that definition, it's a private company.

You're using it in a shareholder-ownership sense. That's a valid perspective, but it's a different question than the one being discussed here.

It's no longer the state-owned post office that delivers it, that's all. It's not like Denmark all of a sudden stops with physical letters...

Yep. It's yet another case of "journalism" where the facts contradict the headline, and they only 'fess up in the final lines of the story:

> Danes can still send a love letter or a Christmas card in 2026, but only through a private company.

> They must either drop it at a shop, or pay extra to have it collected from home, which is available online or via an app.

> By law, Danes must always be able to send a letter. If a private company stops delivering them, the government must step in with a new provider.

Better along which dimensions? Most luxury cars are made the artisanal way.

That doesn't make them better. It makes them exclusive since only a few could have one.

I still don't know what better means in this context, so I don't understand what your comment adds to the discussion?

Better is debatable. I would say things like quality and value (total costs including fuel) matter and I don't care about who made it. Probably some other things if I thought more. Ymmv.

It's not just registering. This assumes you had a job contract lined up or sufficient funds to support yourself.

I had neither when I moved, sold my things, tried to survive, ended up sleeping outside for a few days and I found a job after I moved here, not before. But yeah, there is one or two more appointments in reality, one for the social security and one for registering with your local city government, both a lot easier to get than the residence permit which can be a bit of a hassle unless you work with agencies to get it.

You found a job after you moved but before you could register for all kinds of services I presume. Once you have a job, everything becomes "easy".

I don't think a $10 budget will suffice.

My tech needs arent huge. Email+email alias service, cloud storage for PC backups and syncing data across devices, VPN, server to host internet thangs, domain, mobile data. Yeah now that im laying it out $10 is not going to be enough but i'll try my best to work within the constraints and see what I can do. I'll probably do a need budget for $10 and a wants budget of $20.

You really don't want to host email yourself. Major PITA, time sink and constant possibility of your emails being just silently discarded after being accepted at the big providers.

10 USD seems like it should cover the electricity for a small mini PC server (counting maybe 30 watts idle), and if your electricity isn't expensive, it will cover the purchase cost spread over a few years too.

That of course assumes time is free, so I wouldn't compare it to cloud pricing directly. I'd also personally budget in incremental backups.

Idiots that try to pass on the right should get their driver's license revoked immediately.

It’s legal to pass on the right here in MN. States should enforce left lane for passing only, but they don’t. This creates a situation where the left lane has effectively become the right lane and thus you can use the right to pass instead.

E: it is not legal to pass on the right in MN, unless you’re on a multi-lane road; which is basically all major arteries and thus makes this law unenforceable for all intents and purposes.

It generally isn’t even possible or useful to pass on the right if people follow the traffic laws of keeping right unless passing. It becomes necessary only when people are illegally hanging out in the left lanes going slower than the normal flow of traffic.

If you're getting passed on the right, you're doing it wrong.

I don't know why you assume this is about me? Participating in traffic is better if it's predictable, people passing on the right break that assumption.

Why are you posting AI slop?

Feed it to an LLM summarizer.

It's not like foreign adversaries care.

The parent was saying HFT firms would do this to other HFT firms. They would care about doing this kind of thing - it’s not a white collar crime. And foreign adversaries would care about doing this during peacetime, especially for very unclear benefit.

Sure but quite a few claims in the article are about AI research. He does not have any qualifications there. If the focus was more on usefulness, that would be a different discussion and then his experience does add weight.

> smart, intelligent person gives opinion

> woah buddy this persons opinion isn’t worth anything more than a random homeless person off the street. they’re not an expert in this field

Is there a term for this kind of pedantry? Obviously we can put more weight behind the words a person says if they’ve proven themselves trustworthy in prior areas - and we should! We want all people to speak and let the best idea win. If we fallback to only expert opinions are allowed that’s asking to get exploited. And it’s also important to know if antirez feels comfortable spouting nonsense.

This is like a basic cornerstone of a functioning society. Though, I realize this “no man is innately better than another, evaluate on merit” is mostly a western concept which might be some of my confusion.

Evaluate on merit indeed and that is not what is happening. The parent I replied to used an authoritative argument that is not based on (relevant) merit.

Credentialism isn't a fix for the problem you've outlined. If anything, over-reliance on credentials bolsters and lends credence to crazy claims. The media hyper-fixates on it and amplifies it.

We've got Avi Loeb on mainstream podcasts and TV spouting baseless alien nonsense. He's a preeminent in his field, after all.

Focus on what you understand. If you don't understand, learn more.