DavidHm

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by DavidHm 10y ago
Former Amsterdam resident here. I feel a large part of this is the frustration with all the tourists just randomly wandering on the bike lanes without a care in the world. It doesn't justify the behaviour, but it does explain it a litt
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by DavidHm 10y ago
Don't worry, his bubble of denial is inviolable.
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by DavidHm 10y ago
Nope, it's a post-scarcity economy.
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by DavidHm 10y ago
This interesting. I regularly take UberPool in London, and I have company maybe 30-40% of the times. I don't know whether this is a general thing in London, or my experience is an outlier.
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by DavidHm 10y ago
So...what is that, first come first served basis? I assume there's an upper limit on the number of students an university can take in for the first year, determined by staff and classroom availability.
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by DavidHm 10y ago
That is fascinating. Anecdotally, in European universities, bachelors are the "get in as many people as we can for the tuition fees", while masters are the "let's be as selective as we can get away with".
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by DavidHm 10y ago
Have you ever thought that if all these reasonable people from Europe have the same opinion about the Roma, then maybe there's some reasonable facts that you are not aware of?
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by DavidHm 10y ago
Luxembourg has a city-wide free wifi.
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by DavidHm 10y ago
There's a bit of a difference on which government body enforces which rule. In quite a few countries, taxi rules are governed by cities - so the municipality government is the enemy. Anti-monopoly/ predatory pricing rules are at l
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by DavidHm 10y ago
Which is kinda surprising. With her board of directors stacked with people coming from the politics environment, you would think they can get better PR people.
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by DavidHm 10y ago
How can airlines get away with that? Is it a US thing? In Europe you get the tracker code of any luggage that you have checked in.
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by DavidHm 10y ago
Problem with that is that if he had said he would resign after a Leave vote, many people would have voted leave just to get rid of him (and if you think this is uncharitable, think of all the people who voted leave as a protest vote against
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by DavidHm 10y ago
I think that is what he is saying. Though he is saying that the ruling elites are ruling because they are smart, and not that the ruling elites are smart because they are ruling.
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by DavidHm 10y ago
Madrid would have certainly blocked Scotland if it separated from a UK that was still in the EU (for obvious Catalunian reasons). With the UK on its way out from the EU, an argument can be made that Madrid will be persuaded to let this happ
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by DavidHm 10y ago
The US doesn't know how to build submarines?
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by DavidHm 10y ago
Some countries in continental Europe have amazingly pro-employee legislative environment. I know several people who don't read the fine print of of the work contracts, because they know that any clause that gives disproportionate adva
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by DavidHm 10y ago
To be honest I always thought that Icahn was never in for the long term. He just went and raised a ruckus about wanting those $100B cash reserves distributed to stock owners.
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by DavidHm 10y ago
I am honestly so perplexed by the bot mania. Don't get me wrong, they have their uses, but how is this suddenly perceived as a multi-billion dollar market?
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by DavidHm 10y ago
Taxi drivers pretend to be your Uber driver? How on earth do they expect to get paid?
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by DavidHm 10y ago
Maybe. But the Jobs attire is not so special that people wouldn't wear it unless they were trying to emulate him. If I had to pick on dress to wear every single day of my life, it would probably be a grey turtleneck - pretty close.
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by DavidHm 10y ago
That's...the title of the Economist article. Well, the subtitle, but the real title is "Terms of enlargement", which is not really self-explanatory, is it?
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by DavidHm 10y ago
To some extent I believe that clustering of good (and bad) things is inevitable when there is a central decision marker (or decision making body). What I mena to say is once an area is nice (or has been designated as the next "growth&q
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by DavidHm 10y ago
I tend to agree. From what I've read about her (and not in the puff-pieces at the height of the Theranos hype) she was indeed a much smarter than average young lady - but probably the team was not able to deliver on the original vision
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by DavidHm 11y ago
Valuable input...but if you say that there is nothing written in the article that is wrong, I am not sure how you can say that the article is wrong.
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by DavidHm 11y ago
Oh dear. I get what he was trying (I hope) to say, but that is such a horrible way to put it. For reference - Netflix said it best in that masterpiece of an HR document - a pay rise should never come up as a topic, because you should alread
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by DavidHm 11y ago
Turkey is considered a US ally. We don't use the term dictators for our allies. (see Saudi Arabia for example).
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by DavidHm 11y ago
Of course insights are generated by facts. But what I am interested in is the insights, not necessary the facts that led to them being created (as long as I trust the author who converted facts into insights). So I am happy to read an artic
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by DavidHm 11y ago
If you are interested in the general health of the current companies over the last few years, that would make sense. But it does not properly assess the profitability of the industry - unless you think you can pick in advance who the surviv
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by DavidHm 11y ago
That makes sense, I would be interested to seeing that too. For the purposes of assessing the industry's profitability though, we cannot exclude them - if losses are because they were badly run and lost market share to other players, t
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by DavidHm 11y ago
If you think about it, this is not a gigantic loss, if you are interested in insights and not news.

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