Norway on track to be first to go all-electric(bbc.com) Norway is the world leader when it comes to the take up of electric cars, which last year accounted for nine out of 10 new vehicles sold in the country. Can other nations learn from it?
I Left Norway to Build My Startup(thefp.com) ZURICH, Switzerland — In the summer of 2018, I co-founded a company called Dune that allows people to easily analyze data from the blockchain—creating transparency in the crypto industry.
4 points by JumpCrisscross 84 days ago | 1 comments
Taxing unrealized gains has caused an entrepreneurial exodus in Norway(paragraph.xyz) Recently, my story as a Norwegian entrepreneur facing an unrealized gains wealth tax bill many times higher than my net income went viral, amassing over 100 million views on X. A few years ago I publicly called out that this tax is both impossible-to-pay and nonsensical, but no politician would listen. So I made the difficult decision to leave my home country.
Norway Shrugged(paragraph.xyz) Recently, my story as a Norwegian entrepreneur facing an unrealized gains wealth tax bill many times higher than my net income went viral, amassing over 100 million views on X. A few years ago I publicly called out that this tax is both impossible-to-pay and nonsensical, but no politician would listen. So I made the difficult decision to leave my home country.
84 points by isaacfrond 108 days ago | 106 comments
Norwegian fishermen hunting for halibut caught a US nuclear sub(vice.com) Some Norwegian fishermen off the coast of Tromsø were out and about on their vessel named Øygutt looking for halibut. Something significantly larger than fish, however, found its way into their trawl net. The fishermen caught the USS Virginia, a 115-meter-long nuclear-powered attack submarine outfitted with cruise missiles.
Norway's Wealth Tax Is Backfiring. Are Americans Paying Attention?(thedailyeconomy.org) “More than 30 Norwegian billionaires and multimillionaires left Norway in 2022, according to research by the newspaper Dagens Naeringsliv,” reports wealth correspondent Rupert Neate. “This was more than the total number of super-rich people who left the country during the previous 13 years, [the paper] added.”
22 points by chaosprint 126 days ago | 68 comments
Hessdalen Lights(wikipedia.org) The Hessdalen lights are unidentified lights which have been observed in a 12-kilometre-long (7.5 mi) stretch of the Hessdalen valley in rural central Norway periodically since at least the 1930s.[1]
17 points by giuliomagnifico 170 days ago | 4 comments
The Norwegian model of training to run(mariusbakken.com) The history of Norwegian runners using lactate meters to control running intensity dates back to 1998 when the Norwegian Athletics Federation together with Olympiatoppen/OLT initiated a project to monitor the training of the top runners in Norway.