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This is a quite well documented phenomenon:

https://www.mctb.org/mctb2/table-of-contents/part-iv-insight...

While this is true to a certain extent I wouldn't go as far as calling this the Swedish model.

There are plenty of companies that own and are continually rolling out new fiber in Sweden, especially when you start looking outside the large cities. I would guess that IP-Only (Bynet) and Telia alone are currently putting more fiber in the ground than the state run networks combined.

For rural areas a lot (most?) of the new fiber is built by local organisations and payed for by the members, EU-subsidies and partnerships with companies that take over the operations of the networks once they have been built.

That said, both IP-Only and Telias fiber networks are Open networks that allow the customers to choose from a number of different ISP for their internet connectivity.

Me and the wife started https://arnestorp.se (Swedish) selling babynests about a year ago, along side two regular jobs.

It's been steadily increasing in sales volume to the point where my wife has cut some hours from her regular job to be able to keep up.

As she does all the real work (sewing) I've been able to focus on fun stuff like automating all the payment handling, bookkeeping, shipping etc.

There are already robots for mowing the lawn and the results are great. Biggest time saver since i got my first dish washer.

It is a well known phenomenon depending on which body of literature on meditation you study. It is also one reason I avoid recommending meditation to people in general.

http://www.dharmaoverground.org/web/guest/dharma-wiki/-/wiki...

This is interesting. For comparison, in Sweden you donate (sell) milk directly to hospitals where it is handled locally and given to prematurely born children in the hospital.

The prices are set locally by each hospital but is currently at around $20-30 usd / liter, and has been raised a number of times over the last 10 years to encourage more people to donate milk. Hospitals buy milk from each other when necessary for somewhere around $100 per liter.

Donated milk is usually only accepted for the first three months after the donating mothers child was born. All equipment (pumps, bottles etc.) are provided by the hospital.

That said, I would encourage as many people as possible to donate milk, it makes a huge difference for those tiny prematurely born babies.

> Also, I can't say I have ever been thanked for contributing. Just kicked in the face.

Really? My contributions to the open source world are certainly modest, but I get thank you emails perhaps once a month for applications I've released. People are quite pleasant.

What? As a father of (soon to be) three children this sounds really odd to me. My kids have always loved going to daycare and I've never heard of it causing any developmental problems. On the contrary my own experience is that daycare really accelerates kids development.

Most children in Sweden have two working parents and start daycare when they are around a year old. Daycare in Sweden is considered part of the school system and the teachers working there have (approximately) the same education as 'regular' school teachers.

Edit: Also, as a related fact in this discussion, in Sweden children that are behind in learning to speak (language development) can actually receive special permission to spend _more_ time in daycare to help speed up their language learning.

And here I thought the article was going to be about mail transfer agents.

This is not at all uncommon on Sweden. Rural communities come together and organize fiber buildouts in their own local areas. Average cost is around $2000 per connection. The biggest problem is generating enough interest to make a build out economically viable.

We've been working on this for two years where I live and the digging will finally begin in august, 180km of fiber to ~600 homes.