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by 0xfaded 6y ago
I would equally blame the stagnant and supine institutions on the other side of the Atlantic that obsess over preserving the status quo while providing no meaningful alternative to American leadership. Whether it's culture, innovation,
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
Off-topic but maybe someone can point me in the right direction. Someone was telling me that space-x uses hazard/failure-mode identification as the basis of their engineering culture. Is there a good book describing the engineering cul
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
Diesels are about 25% in Australia. In my extended family, several are mechanics, everyone has land cruisers. But second cars are also common. My parents have a Hyundai Ionic and a Prado (smaller land cruiser). I live in Europe now, and you
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
1. Ford Ranger 2. Toyota Hilux 3. Toyota Rav4 4. Hyundai i30 5. Mazda CX5 6. Toyota Land Cruiser 13.1L/100km seems pretty good in context.
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
I consider myself very left, but am also strongly persuaded by David Graeber's bullshit jobs. I think you will also enjoy "Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?". It helped me understand some of the &
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
There's a whole book on that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs To quote wikipedia "The author contends that more than half of societal work is pointless, both large parts of some jobs and, as h
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
Brilliant, a bank's own think tank suggesting we have additional taxes on labour because capital suddenly finds itself more efficient. Alternatively, how about an annual levy of 0.5% on all wealth, including bank balances? I think ther
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
Healthcare is a good point, especially since good insurance outside of an employer is either expensive or requires a significant other with a job with good benefits. In the scheme of things though, once you've incorporated and put your
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
I moved from SF to the Nordics on a startup visa and feel obligated to temper expectations whenever I see these. - There are good schools and people, but don't expect the density of top people to be anything close to SF. Finding friend
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
I'm not talking about dying, I'm talking about normal life. I live in Denmark, with arguably more restrictions than Sweden. I'd happily sacrifice 25k in future lifetime earnings to have 2020 back. (BTW, as a startup founder,
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
The gameboy hashes the bitmap nintendo logo displayed by licensed cartridges at boot and compares it to a saved value.
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
Good point, I hadn't really considered the effect of normalizing by GDP.
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
Well, my parents live in Perth. They've been living a normal existence since May. Monetarily, it's no different than any other medical expenditure. Would you spend 25k for an extra year of normal life? What about if you're 20
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
It would take an actual eradication strategy to eradicate it entirely. The first lock down was all about lowering the curve, which i think now is plainly a mistake. I also don't believe europe would be capable of implementing an eradic
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
That's 25 grand per person. If life goes back to normal for Australians for 1-2 years before everyone else, that's a bargain. Considering that the Australian economy is based on digging and has an economic complexity just below Ug
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
I'm an Australian living in Europe, it's painful to keep hearing people say "it will never work in Europe", when it's been shown to work elsewhere in countries small to large, with borders or without. Borders can be
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
I've played this game as a curiosity to see how far I could push my luck by offering myself + a relevant and talented friend that I trust. HR was completely unequipped to handle a packaged hire. In this case the project the devs were p
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
I wish I read this before upgrading.
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
Haha, I looked into doing this for an avionics upgrade for a light aircraft I used to have a share in. Apparently the taxman actually has time to chase down people who fly their aircraft around for tax reasons. To be clear, we wound up doin
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
Not only that, but by becoming an owner, you increase demand for that which is owned, pushing up prices and benefiting existing owners. Something has to give.
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
And don't be fooled by all this "start-up friendly" propaganda. Yes, funding does exist. But it will be doled out $50k at a time. And remember to log all your hours and write reports for the program administrators. I watched
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
Which is costed into every purchase, and is (only pay of) why we pay more for everything.
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
If anything the last year has shown that the economy is more reconfigurable than what was previously thought. Meanwhile, new green-dealers are promoting moving manufacturing back to Europe to deal with the climate crisis. One solution is to
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
I think that's exactly it. There are smart people everywhere who want to work on interesting ideas. But they will naturally congregate where the opportunity and resources exist and the bureaucracy doesn't. Fixing Europe isn't
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
Also made a decision to leave the US (San Francisco) and miss it immensely. There's nothing comparable to bring surrounded by genuine techies, and the go big or go home attitude is inspirational. Yes, the politics is in shambles and so
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
Historically that would have been public works employment through infrastructure investment. The government could have printed a bunch of money to build a giant nuclear is solar plant, and then have a revenue generating, publicly owned asse
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
Is there a list of common story lines somewhere? I used to watch sitcoms as a kid, so my memory needs to stretch back a bit, but that seems to sum up almost any episode that I can think of. I've heard something along the lines of &quot
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
Check out google-ortools which does just this.
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
Could you please explain your thoughts on this? My current operating philosophy on real estate prices are that inflation is demand driven (buyer purchasing power), and that individuals are already maxed out (40 year mortgages, rents 50% of
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
Wow, thanks for sharing. One month up until 2 years is surprisingly good for outside the US. Do you feel the decision to terminate you then may have been linked to your impending protections after two years?

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