Hermel

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by Hermel 12y ago
> This seems to be a story that happens a lot these days Which could be an indication that there is also a problem with wikipedia. In particular, I think when someone takes a genuine effort to improve an article and that effort is revert
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by Hermel 12y ago
I think the problem are the reverts without specific explanations. As far as I see, the student corrected all the specific errors that were pointed out. Reverting an article of someone who put a lot of effort into creating it without giving
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German cars dominate all World Car of the Year categories at NY Auto Show(spiegel.de)
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by Hermel 13y ago
We don't know whether they want to screw him. All we know is that the hired CTO thinks that he is incompetent and thus should leave the company. The first thing he should do in this situation is to talk to the CEO, and not running to a
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by Hermel 13y ago
Not to the same degree. The US spends a much higher share of GDP on lawyers than most other countries. What I find disgusting is the culture of hiring a lawyer to put as many traps as possible into a contract, which forces the other party t
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by Hermel 13y ago
Continental European countries usually work that way. When Germans say "die sprechen nur noch über ihre Anwälte" (translation: they used to have a good relationship but now they only speak through their lawyers to each other), it
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by Hermel 13y ago
Normally, when founding a company, there is trust among the founders and they do not try to fuck each other with maliciously written contracts.
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by Hermel 13y ago
You are suggesting that the lawyer can help in two ways: 1. Negotiations 2. Understanding the legal situation Regarding the second point, the correct advice is not to sign contracts whose consequences you do not understand. Regarding the fi
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by Hermel 13y ago
First and foremost, involving attorneys costs everyone a lot of time and money. Unless you want exactly that (maybe out of a desire to "punish" them), it's better to just leave.
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by Hermel 13y ago
My theorie is that he worked under a contract that automatically transformers all created intellectual property to the company - even when done is his spare time. This is not unusual, especially for US companies.
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by Hermel 13y ago
In that case, one should require working source code to be filed along with software patents.
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by Hermel 13y ago
The smooth way would obviously be to invalidate all patents exactly 20 years from now. That's how long patents last. You don't take away anything from anyone. The only drawback is that it will take 20 years to implement. However,
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by Hermel 13y ago
10'000 tons is 10kg per server. That does not seem like "small things" to me.
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by Hermel 13y ago
This effect even gets reinforced by the European journalists: a German speaking journalist will read German and English sources. A Spanish journalist will read Spanish and English sources, etc. Having the "lingua franca" is a huge
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by Hermel 13y ago
3. The opportunity costs of failing are higher in Europe. Thanks to welfare and lots of vacation, the founders of a startup have to sacrifice much more leisure time vs. the alternative (working at an existing corporation). For the same reas
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by Hermel 13y ago
And still they are only providing vague information. "We have lost Bitcoins due to weaknesses in the system" could mean anything - from theft to improper storage. Are they hiding something? Or don't they know themselves how t
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by Hermel 13y ago
I'm looking forward to the first first-person shooter built on Tango. E.g. a ghostbusters game in which you walk around in your own house, the ghosts only being visible through your Tango.
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by Hermel 13y ago
> personally, i think the EU's stand needs to be tough, just make that 50.3% realise that what a mistake they've done. This will most certainly not happen. Instead, it will backfire. If the EU refuses a pragmatic and goal-orien
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by Hermel 13y ago
>> It's not that complicated. Actually, it is complicated. If you are selling a service from the US to European end-users, you owe VAT in each European country you have customers in. You can simplify the process with a special re
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by Hermel 13y ago
Yesterday, at Bitcoin Berlin, the Global Bitcoin Alliance was announced. It is an umbrella organization for national Bitcoin associations. This bottom-up approach sounds much more promising to me than the top-down attempt of the Foundation
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by Hermel 13y ago
Yes, and Shrem and Karpeles are not exactly an asset either to the foundation.
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by Hermel 13y ago
Regulation would have suffocated Bitcoin already in its early days. Regulation comes at a cost. As it eliminates risks, it also eliminates chances.
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by Hermel 13y ago
Yes, such quotas are a pain in the ass for a startup. The company I worked for lost a foreign employee because his residence-permit was not renewed after two years. However, I'm not afraid about Google - they have all the legal process
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by Hermel 13y ago
The Swiss do not want to drop the treaty - which is about much more than just immigration. They only want to keep immigration limited - as it was already the case until 2010. Going back to that level would be the simplest and most pragmatic
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by Hermel 13y ago
I wonder wether this is part of a larger backlash against centralization in general. The British have become very skeptical of the EU. And in September, the Scots will even vote on becoming independent from the UK. Catalonia feels less and
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by Hermel 13y ago
According to that list, 28.9% of the Swiss population are immigrants. Even if the proposed quota cuts immigration in half, it will still stay one of the top countries in that regard.
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by Hermel 13y ago
This is potentially good news for immigrants from the rest of the world. Currently, there are very strict quotas in place to make up for the large inflow of Europeans. In future, both categories will have quotas, which could result in more
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by Hermel 13y ago
The dependency goes two ways. For example, there is no German car without parts coming from Switzerland. I hope that Brussels does not act offended and stays reasonable. Any action that hurts both parties would just be childish. However, th
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by Hermel 13y ago
Actually, the EU should be grateful - that decision will result in fewer engineers, doctors, professors, and other highly qualified talents migrating to Switzerland.
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by Hermel 13y ago
As the CTO of a cloud startup, I did exactly that. Apart from the usual brain-teaser and whiteboard coding, we gave candidates 20 minutes to browse through a small database project in eclipse. Afterwards, I checked whether they could explai

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