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Martin Weigert

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Martin Weigert's personal blog at martinweigert.com covers startups and economics. Since 2010, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 40 times, most often “Basic income might be flawed but it makes more sense than today’s system”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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40mentions?
6HN people?
2010–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 30 in 2014

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked as evidence that Spotify is profitable in Sweden, where the company started. The commenter notes Sweden can be ahead of the rest of Europe.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Martin Weigert - editor, writer, curator & startup advisor.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Basic income might be flawed but it makes more sense than today’s system
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-07-18
  2. Let’s create a new country, and let’s do some things in a different way
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-08-07

What Hacker News says?

  1. Spotify Sweden is profitable. http://martinweigert.com/spotify-is-profitable-in-sweden Noteworthy because that's where it started and Sweden can be ahead of the curve from the rest of Europe.

    Comment linking /spotify-is-profitable-in-sweden

    on “Spotify had a £16.66m loss in 2009”
  2. Submitted Something really scary is going on in Germany as a story · 338 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted I have lost all respect for TechCrunch as a story · 19 points

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  4. Submitted Europe’s big weakness: the language fragmentation as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Travel hacking: My personal strategies to score the best travel deals as a story · 7 points

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  6. Submitted 14 reasons why there is no need to breakup Google as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Basic income might be flawed but it makes more sense than today’s system as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Let’s create a new country, and let’s do some things in a different way as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted The basic income might be flawed, but it is less flawed than today’s system as a story · 4 points

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  10. Submitted WhatsApp put Facebook in a situation in which Facebook only could lose as a story · 4 points

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  11. Submitted November 9th 1989 – best day of my life as a story · 2 points

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  12. Submitted Charlie Chaplin’s great speech from 1940, still applicable today as a story · 2 points

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  13. Submitted It’s unlikely that we can prevent the total surveillance society from happening as a story · 2 points

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  14. Submitted What Foursquare, Twitter and SoundCloud have in common as a story · 2 points

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  15. Submitted Thoughts on the viral “Look Up” video encouraging people to disconnect as a story · 2 points

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  16. Submitted The German language, a battery drainer as a story · 2 points

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  17. Submitted How I make the lifestyle of a digital nomad work as a story · 2 points

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  18. Submitted The horror called Valentine's Day as a story · 2 points

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  19. Submitted Why the idea of an unconditional basic income is worth a try as a story · 2 points

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  20. Submitted When discussing wealth inequality, your historical statistics won’t matter as a story · 1 points

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  21. Submitted There is not only one truth as a story · 1 points

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  22. Submitted The most and least Internet savvy countries in Europe as a story · 1 points

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  23. Submitted Let’s create a new country, and let’s do some things in a different way as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Robots, work and the social safety net as a story · 1 points

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  25. Submitted Uber’s dramatic valuation increase proves that something is seriously wrong as a story · 1 points

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  26. Submitted Observations from a trip to Minsk, Belarus as a story · 1 points

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  27. Submitted Why Twitter’s new mute feature makes Twitter worse, not better as a story · 1 points

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  28. Submitted How email saves my productivity when having no Internet connection as a story · 1 points

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  29. Submitted Observations from Santiago de Chile as a story · 1 points

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  30. Submitted Why I think Facebook makes a big mistake by spending $19 billion to buy WhatsApp as a story · 1 points

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