It's funny how so many posters seem to attribute it to just "free money, yeah".
There are plenty of complaints on HN how increased buerocratic burdens/tasks, in particular when they seem pointless or unrelated, leads to low job satisfaction, burn out and mental health issues. But somehow when it comes to the unemployed the same thing does not apply?
I certainly can relate that the more tasks pile up the more stressed I become (and being unemployed certainly can feel stressful). Adding some pointless administrative tasks that don't help with my actual goals can often be enough to push me over the edge so I just want to quit.
Or more so that bureaucracy involved is extremely annoying. Consisting tracking of making enough applications even if there is no relevant positions, possibly making to apply to some irrelevant position. Or just various courses and other stuff like CV workshops that mostly seem like waste of times. Fail any of these and you might end up lowered or no money...
It doesn’t matter. Finland is often included when talking about Scandinavia, which in modern days just makes sense culturally. There’s no value in trying to cling to the ”histprically correct” meaning of a particular term. Languages evolve, dictionaries change.
That mindset will make you a grumpy old soul. Language is dynamic, not something you can force upon people. From every mouth to ear (or screen to eye) the word is interpreted slightly different.
I mean the original meaning of the word Scandinavia certainly doesnt make sense anymore:
1765, from Late Latin Scandinavia (Pliny), Skandinovia (Pomponius Mela), name of a large and fruitful island vaguely located in northern Europe, a mistake (with unetymological -n-) for Scadinavia, which is from a Germanic source (compare Old English Scedenig, Old Norse Skaney "south end of Sweden"), from Proto-Germanic skadinaujo "Scadia island." The first element is of uncertain origin; the second element is from aujo "thing on the water" (from PIE root *akwā- "water;" see aqua-). It might have been an island when the word was formed; the coastlines and drainage of the Baltic Sea changed dramatically after the melting of the ice caps.
We’ve had about 1 hour of sunlight so far in december where i live in Finland, but it’s fine. It also makes the sun way more enjoyable when it finally shines in the summer.
I’d never want to live in perpetual summer. Seasons brings joy.
> I’d never want to live in perpetual summer. Seasons brings joy
Even this is a typical myth that I often hear from Scandinavians. In fact different parts of Spain (or England or France) have also clearly demarcated seasons.
If you want to experience the joy of Autumn then the crisp, long days of an English Fall are incomparably more distinct than the unrelenting darkness that’s almost indistinguishable from Winter in Scandinavia, for instance.
And when Spring comes to the valleys of the temperate regions of Spain, then the blossom and explosion of wild flowers is miraculous.
But like I said, from preschool onwards Scandinavians are indoctrinated with the belief that they live in the best of all possible worlds, and no amount of actual experience can ever dent that notion.
> Not sure that "crisp" is a word I'd use to describe any part of the UK in autumn - probably more like "soggy" - but that applies to any season!
From the gently self-deprecating nature of your answer I’m guessing you’re British - and this is indeed the whole point of what I’m saying.
I genuinely and deeply miss this aspect of the English character which is totally lacking in Sweden - the websites called “shitLondon” or the insistence that English food is inferior to Italian or French cuisine or this repeated idea that it always rains (it doesn’t). That self-mockery simply doesn’t exist here, apart from when it’s some sort of humble-brag.
I find it amazing that we are still digging up new tombs after all these years.
But ”we set up lights to wotk the night” - why the sudden hurry, if the figurines laid there for thousands of years surely they could wait one more weekend to be dug up.
I agree. But also, the length of time that Egypt has supported civilisation is just so long. It would be interesting to know how many people had died in Egypt. The number would be large.
The thing is: You are not sure about this - lately I had an interesting experience: I was contacted by hiring firm and asked for my CV. We set up a phone call later on, she said:
Since she was too lazy for the english version, she put it into ChatGPT - then we went through it and I was shocked: The system missdeclared lot of positions, esp. the one with some special legal status et.
After that, maybe this is my problem so far after 200+ applications: How often does the other side do this? Maybe this is very common, and since the auto translation misses completely the correct context, that maybe the reason why I had no luck so far and receive _only_ rejections?
This. I remember in 2012 TechCrunch disrupt hackathon overnight making “Birthdays” to satirize how Facebook systematically helped society cheapen the word “friend” and “like”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om4_F0VFIdI
It has only been downhill from here. Now my AI wishes happy birthday to your AI which thanks it. Thoughtfulness at scale!
The danger is not just related to speed, it’s about them being sp large that you can’t physically see the old lady or child walking right in front of it
Every one have different approaches to story points and every one thinks their way is ”the right way”. In the end they just turn into an abstraction layer for man hours.
> It’s virtually impossible for me to estimate how long it will take to fix a bug, until the job is done.
I understood it as the whole point of the 2 day hard limit - you start working on a bug that turn out to be bigger than expected, so you write down your findings and move on to the next one.
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