ElBarto

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by ElBarto 8y ago
That does not explain the reason for making things complicated. British limited companies are extremely simple and cheap: Minimal capital requirements (£1), protection, and minimal red tape and fees (as said, minutes to create one online an
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by ElBarto 8y ago
I still don't understand this complexity. Be bold. Slash requirements and red tape instead of adding another layer.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
That's really a list of how not to develop microservices, or even software... Thoughts must obviously be given to protocols. Json is an obvious bad choice for this use case... The point of microservices is loose coupling, including in
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by ElBarto 8y ago
British limited companies have been tremendously popular across the EU because they are so simple and cheap to setup and manage. The UK is really hurting itself with Brexit here. Of course, why other EU countries make it so onerous to setup
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by ElBarto 8y ago
It is all PR and public perception at this point. I feel that the US have lost in reputation here while, e.g. China has gained. It didn't have to be that way. China was the first to ban the 737 MAX. When they did it people could counte
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by ElBarto 8y ago
A potentially interesting tidbit from Norwegian's Wikipedia page: > Diversion to Shiraz, Iran December 2018 > A Norwegian Boeing 737 MAX suffered an unspecified technical failure over Iran in December 2018. The pilot made a preca
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by ElBarto 8y ago
This is clutching at straws... The anti-Chinese propaganda is too obvious on this one, sorry.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
The Marshall Plan was the US keeping the Reds at bay. Peanuts in comparison to the jackpot that WWII was for the US, and it cemented their influence.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
'Ramen' is phonetic for 拉面 (lamian) which is a type of Chinese noddles. That's also the reason 'ramen' in Japanese is written using katakana ( ラーメン ): It is a foreign word.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
"investing $150,000 in exchange for 7 percent of each company — a stake that it can maintain throughout the company’s life it it so chooses, per its pact with its founders." I think the issue might be the second part as, if I unde
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by ElBarto 8y ago
The EU exists because of Europeans. The US do not want the EU to be a political power. The US have had the 20th century, that great for them but it's high time for Europe to recover.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
No, they are not. ESTA specifically allows people to travel visa-free.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
No, no visa will be needed. The EU is introducing a system equivalent to the US's ESTA. (Most) EU citizens may travel visa-free to the US but must register (and pay) on ESTA. It will be the same for US citizens to travel to the EU.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
"In 2015, nearly 21 million people relied on community water systems that violated health-based quality standards" The number given for water access issues in China was 3.5% of the population (which is 'infrequent'...) T
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Not everything can be solved by IoT/AI/blockchain...
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by ElBarto 8y ago
One of the first results on Google: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2018/02/12/tens-mi...
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by ElBarto 8y ago
This is an infrastructure problem. A startup isn't going to solve this. Between lack of water and unsafe water, I'm not sure that the proportion in the US is much different.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
It should be noted that this isn't a legal decision. This is a guideline on how the Dutch DPA sees it, and although it carries some weight the issue won't be settled unless and until a court makes a formal decision. My 2c is that
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by ElBarto 8y ago
I thought I had posted constructive comments on this discussion. If discussing good software practices is "flamebait" that deserves to be downvoted, which was what my "growing up" quip was about, then I am at a loss as t
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by ElBarto 8y ago
It's not really a question of being conservative but of being professional, I would say. Using unstable anything on production software is not professional, on mission critical software it is reckless incompetence.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
I would have been more surprised if they had announced that he was not. People try to create buzz and headlines, but should start by explaining how the Chinese system works... Which is less sensational.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
VPN use is illegal in China, which is a good reason to quit the market. For Chinese apps, we can only imagine that the government does really police the ban or that they are honey pots...
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by ElBarto 8y ago
I am not defending anything. I find the trend of accusing others of defending something simply because they refuse to join the mob quite worrying. I am just stating simple facts in a dispassionate way. Considering the distorted way any coun
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Chinese value personal freedom and do enjoy quite a lot of it, actually. In fact, I'd say that Chinese society allows more individuality and freedom than e.g. Japanese society.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
It's not odd when you look at the link I posted that shows that the 3rd of the "Big Three" was much smaller than the other 2 in terms of volume and brand.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Beyond the obvious issues and extreme aims stated in the article, such a system is also a new, interesting take on the problem of 'crime and punishment' that might be food for thought.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
These weren't my comments... I was explaining the examples given by a quoted classic book by Al Ries, which someone apparently better qualified than Al Ries thought were all wrong. You apparently haven't followed at all or made an
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Daily life is no different than in the West. Don't believe all that you see in the media.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
In the tech sector this has often reduced to 1 single brand instead of 2. The worst mistake we engineers tend to make is to dismiss the 'wisdom' of professional marketers and branding experts...
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by ElBarto 8y ago
You should try to understand the point and the context of these examples. I would suggest you read Al Ries books. These examples were picked in the early 1990s, and are specific to the US market. Things change. For example the US car market

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