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Cake day: October 17th, 2023

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  • It is easy to build, but as noted, it is also expensive to build.

    Then you also need the right kind of bedrock and geology.

    Sweden has everything needed to build such a facility, I could even see a large benefit of a permanent storage facility here.

    We could get “boosted geothermal”, nuclear waste still produce heat for a long time, why not put in pipes in place in the storage facility and use the extra heat energy to heat houses or other useful things, we are already doing geothermal heating here, so much so that there has been noted issues with depleating the geothermal boreholes, with a boosted system you would get a much longer life time of using it.


  • Unresolved?

    It’s a super simple problem.

    You dig a hole, put the waste in the hole and backfill with clay.

    Done.

    As a Swede, I would love it if we built a huge underground storage site and sold space to other countries needing space for waste. We have a solid bedrock and a generally stable political situation, we also have the skills to build a facility like it and could make bank off of it.














  • Hehe, this classic.

    Back in the day, I seem to recall using AltaVista before Google came along.

    Anyway, most search engines back then were more like web portals, full of ads and annoying UI elements, they were treated more like a startpage than a simple search engine.

    Then came Google, it was clean, it loaded fast, it got out of your way and let you focus on your work.

    Then the actual search…

    While other search engines had their tools to find the best result, none had done it with the care that Google did.

    Every search engine had the same problem:

    “How do we decide to rank the pages we scan to find if they are reputable or not?”

    Someone at Google had a brilliant idea:

    “Let’s simply check how many times a page is linked to from other pages!”

    That is a really clever idea, back in the day websites were built by enthusiasts, people wanted to share what they found, so they made link pages to interesting and good sites.

    Google used that data and put it into their page rank system to help users find the best result.

    Better result lead to more users and so on.

    Then it was time to monetize…



  • Swede here, if I had to pick another country to move to, there are a few on my list.

    Finland is probably number one, similar climate and culture, some places even speak Swedish, though I would do my best to learn Finnish.

    Greece, they have my favourite food, climate seems nice, it just seems nice.

    Italy, they have my second favourite food, nice climate, and fast trains.

    Australia, seems pretty close to Swedish culture, similar food, and something about the country just seems very appealing to me.