How Sweden became the Silicon Valley of Europe

Re:How Sweden became the Silicon Valley of Europe by pzo on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @07:57AM (#28140895)

Dublin is a small city - I was surprised myself for the first time when I was there I expected it to big european capital. In fact population of Dublin is ~500k and they even market it as "Dublin Town". From the city center most of places are available within 5km radius.

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Re:How Sweden became the Silicon Valley of Europe by kqr on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @02:41PM (#28145964)

And to clarify, the size of Dublin is relevant because even if smaller cities have a relatively lower mean proportion of software developers, the law of small (!) numbers tells us the variance in the proportion of software developers will be larger, meaning some smaller cities will have the lowest fraction of software developers, and others (perhaps like Dublin) will have the greatest fraction -- just by chance, not due to underlying causal mechanisms.

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Re:How Sweden became the Silicon Valley of Europe by henrikschroder on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @04:04PM (#28147020)

Ireland is small! Much smaller than I thought, I was shocked when I learned that Ireland has half the population of Sweden.

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