BjoernKW

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by BjoernKW 9y ago
I'd choose the first anytime because I like to create useful products whose direction I can control rather than catering to the needs of VC investors. While venture capital can be required for certain types of businesses or products ha
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
I disagree. Questioning ideas is the foundation of enlightened thinking. Questioning something doesn't mean doing away with it just because it's old. It means asking yourself (and others) if it still makes sense from today's
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
Historically some taboos might've made sense. However, mindlessly perpetuating instead of questioning them simply because "It's always been that way." is just cargo cult thinking. We will never find out if these taboos a
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
While society in general today is far more liberal than it used to be in 1950s it has also become more conservative again in some ways since the early 2000s ('liberal' and 'conservative' used in terms of society in gener
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
To those downvoting this comment: Renowned relationship therapists like Esther Perel seem to agree with me on this matter.
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
It's about the way it's painted in the media. Hookups are often depicted as negative, morally questionable and at times non-consensual as well (mostly involving drugs). There's been a moral panic about this in recent years. H
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
I'd say it depends on if it's truly what you want or if it's something that society wants from you. Too often these ideas are societal norms rather than our own opinions. Notions like "waiting for Prince Charming" o
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
There’s a vast difference between a hookup culture and having consensual, if casual, sex with someone. A relationship without doubt is a good thing but it isn’t the only thing. Modern society for shallow moral reasons conflates committed re
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
Indolent and conformist perhaps is another way to describe this. I fail to see how this a good thing. A young generation perpetuating pointless taboos imposed on them rather than making their own experiences frankly is a sad development.
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
It doesn't matter if you're on an island or not. An ICBM (which is what you're usually talking about with nuclear bombs) takes about 30 minutes to reach its destination, which will be a large population centre. So, you have l
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
Well, I do pay for Evernote but for the most part I'm happy with it. It occasionally does have syncing / merging issues but to an extent that's to be expected if you edit documents on multiple devices.
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
Don't assume the worst in people. There are plenty of potential clients who don't care about gender or class when looking for a freelance writer. About those who do? Frankly, screw them. They're not worth your attention. Visu
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
Please note though: The backup feature makes Authy vulnerable to phone porting attacks.
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
Perhaps discharging her (or not hiring her in the first place) wouldn't change all that much in the grand scheme of things. Maybe, opposing a well-known proponent of a shady agenda in such a position is just a feel-good measure, a drop
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
Dropbox fares quite well in terms of reliability, data safety and security. In general I'd say they're trustworthy. There's one trust issue I have with Dropbox though, which goes by the name of Condoleezza Rice. Since 2014 sh
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
Well, technically that's possible with HTML, too. In addition to semantic tags like <summary>, <nav> or <article> we could use IDs and classes and define those as the API contract. It's just that nobody uses HTML
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
Fat isn't bad per se. Excessive fat consumption however is as are saturated fats. Peanuts mostly contain unsaturated fats. Peanut butter though might contain all sorts of other ingredients that are rich in saturated fats (like some pla
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
Basecamp have a guide for travelling to the US: https://github.com/basecamp/handbook/blob/master/internation... This doesn't cover social media accounts though. I'd suggest letting them log in
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
> Is peanut butter unhealthy? Obviously excluding the crappy ones that have added sugar. It's mostly fat with lots of salt, which is a pretty good recipe for future cardiovascular disease if eaten excessively.
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
I did so for previous ventures. For my current consulting business I'm a sole proprietor. I'd advise against incorporating early. Especially with product-based startups there's this temptation to "do it properly right fr
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
Dropping sugar from your diet definitely is beneficial, however it's easier said than done. There's sugar in almost any food. After all, the fructose in apples and bananas is sugar as well, just not processed sugar. What else do y
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
For the sake of the intriguing argument I'd go with Scott Adams' AI / singularity idea: http://blog.dilbert.com/2014/04/09/how-the-robots-will-take-... Basically, according to that argument Bit
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
HTML, CSS, JavaScript still are the foundation of web development. So, I'd start with that. Which framework you choose after that pretty much depends on personal preference and on what's used in projects you work on. You can'
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
Few people probably use Windows for its own merits but rather because it's either required in order to be able to use a specific software or mandated by the environment you're working in. There are better alternatives (macOS and L
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
Even in B2B / enterprise software there are still quite a few desktop applications, some for legacy reasons, some due to specific use cases. For example, fairly recently I've come across a business application that's been imp
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
Which is something that has existed for a long time and long before 1969 and the advent of modern news media or social media. News has always been about entertainment as well as information. Otherwise there wouldn't have been any newsp
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
> Society is sick, let's face it, and technology is largely to blame. [ ... ] > In 1969, at the age of 9, I could be left to play with my friends and wander several miles from home without any sense of danger. How's technolo
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
Easy: Exchange the blood for something entirely different, too ...
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
Not exactly fintech but somewhat related: Manual bookkeeping. I suppose though that probably short of artificial general intelligence there’s no one-size-fits-all solution for this because bookkeeping is too varied and complex. If everyone
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
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