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by gravypod 3675 days ago
I started watching this video expecting for him to be like all of my politicians are. I am happy that I was wrong.

He seems to actually understand the underlying technology that he is pushing, and it seems like it is working.

Is anyone here from Estonia who could comment on these new systems?
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Strom 3675 days ago
The digital systems work pretty well.

The digital prescriptions are definitely convenient, especially as you can get them renewed via e-mail to your doctor and thus skip any visitation bills.

I also still remember my amazement when it took me literally 5 minutes to register a new company online, 10 years ago. Not that much different from opening a Twitter account.

An even older system is the tax one, where everything is automated and I don't have to even think about it. I can just annually review the automatically calculated data and press accept to get some money back.

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gravypod 3675 days ago
That's amazing. It seems like a polar opposite from the USA.

I'd not trust my government to develop any software for me to use but it seems like your government has an idea of how to make that work.

He mentioned it was all open source in the video. That's really cool and helps go the extra mile in my opinion to make it more acceptable to the end user.

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dijit 3675 days ago
My girlfriend is Estonian, and she finds life incredibly complicated in both the UK and Sweden-

I just asked, she misses that there was never a need for a government office, no queuing and everything was centrally managed, as long as she has her ID card and her "pin".

She is mentioning the arduous processes we have for validating identity in Sweden and looking up financial history.

Part of me feels like this is a double edged sword, but she seems to genuinely miss it.

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gravypod 3675 days ago
Yea there are some privacy concerns and some social concerns but the way I see it is that our government already has all of the data they are looking at. In many cases, it's data they have generated about you.

No matter how hard you try, I don't think that there is much of a way to hide prescriptions and taxes from any government.

I'm just amazed that it "just works."

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