Moved to Sweden from the US ~3 years ago. The most stable path is with an employer-sponsored work visa. Best bet is to interview at a multinational with a presence in Sweden (big companies are more likely to operate in English).
Next best option is to be in a stable relationship with a Swede.
It’s possible to get a visa running your own business, but the wait times for this are long and you need solid documentation that you’ll actually make enough to support yourself/your dependents.
Visas are also available for students and they’re experimenting with a visa for highly skilled job seekers, but these are a bit more limiting in terms of length and what you get access to.
When I was at University of Denver, this was exactly the kind of thing covered in a course called “Unix Tools” and it was hands-down the most valuable quarter I spent there. I had assumed it was a standard thing across CS programs.
Was hoping the actual linked interview would clarify this, but it too didn’t seem crisp: would it be the cost of buying the car new + $8.50 per hour? Or is the idea that I never have to buy the thing outright, but I could get access to a self-driving car for $8.50 per hour?
The former seems absurd for many of the reasons found in the comments here. The latter would be appealing to me.
I participated in February Album Writing month for the first time in over a decade, and successfully wrote 14 songs in 28 days! A variety of genres, but mostly lower key (bossa nova, ballads, etc)
This kind of thing might never hit mass-market (read Facebook-level) appeal, but I think if one branded it as an open-web network for creators (as opposed to Facebook, which is for mere “consumers”) you might reasonably avoid the hosting problem.
A “creator” will figure out how to host, be it a Wordpress.com site on the casual end, or something more specialized for the savvier creator.
More speculation on my part: I wonder if rather than a fail-open decision, it’s just how they designed local dev to work and the failure of the provider caused the app to behave as if in local dev mode.
Not applicable to the author’s reasons for building, but I wonder if “I built my own SSG” is the equivalent of “I built my own CMS” for this generation.
Similar for me, but in Sweden and I'm only a couple months in.
My ideal societal contract would be something like this: I want to be free to focus my energy on my work, relationship, and interests. I want the state to focus on programs that reduce the need for individuals like me to have to focus their energy on anything else.
In practice, this is stuff like equal access to healthcare, education, childcare, social security, time-off...
In the US, access to these things is not a given, and they often end up as rewards, distributed very unevenly. ...Even worse, this leads to anxiety/worry/focus by individuals like me to try and fix or mitigate those problems.
As you mention, the scale of change in the way the US operates seems unlikely anytime soon; at least for me, removing myself (my skills/labor/knowledge) seems like as good a way as any to try and coerce change.
And I certainly still benefit from such incentives, even in the nordics (private health insurance, time off beyond the 25 days mandated by law, etc are still a thing in a competitive labor market here).
I just see more benefit personally when a basic level of these things is offered to everyone. I don’t need the extra anxiety that my friend, bandmate, barista, or bartender is one crisis away from ruin.
Next best option is to be in a stable relationship with a Swede.
It’s possible to get a visa running your own business, but the wait times for this are long and you need solid documentation that you’ll actually make enough to support yourself/your dependents.
Visas are also available for students and they’re experimenting with a visa for highly skilled job seekers, but these are a bit more limiting in terms of length and what you get access to.