IkmoIkmo

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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
DFJ defended them to the very end though, even today I think. Hard to make the claim they fell for the Theranos lies when the project had nothing to audit or do due diligence on, because they're still falling for them now.
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Interested to see how he'd fare under carsharing as opposed to ridesharing. It seems UberPool is about $30 an hour per hour, UberX $54. But car2go for example is around $20-25 depending on the car and city. (not available in SF) And th
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
When I say screwing over, I don't mean that as a value judgement on Greece's position. Greece's position makes sense, international law is on their side as is history. I mean that it objectively is a bad deal for Turkey, I&#x
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Of course they play a role (like a thousand other things), but if Cyprus didn't exist did you really think the Aegean dispute would be much different? No. Greece didn't draft the 12 nautical miles portion of UNCLOS which is at the
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
> whereas one is apt to be looked down on if they choose to have their children go to a less resourced, private school in the Netherlands. I'm not sure that's true. Private schools are typically well-resourced in the Netherland
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
He takes a wonderfully naive approach for someone who's historically knowledgeable. I'm sure he knows why and how territorial claims are made and how countries use and abuse historical data, archives, archeology, myths, narratives
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
That's not quite right. We're talking about a fundamental shortage of capacity for popular schools here. i.e. there are 10k spots and 8k students, but the top schools have fewer spots than interested students. A private system wou
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
That's right, schools aren't really popular for this reason as there's very little grade-selection for university entrances. It's (with some exceptions) open to virtually anyone with the proper passing high school qualif
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
That's starting in 2019, not yet the case. Law will take effect in january probably, and then by summer the switch should be made.
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Ah yeah, misunderstood. It's quite interesting, I grew up in a cycling city/country. Sometimes we see reports of my countrymen going abroad to consult other cities in the US, Africa, Asia etc to go cyclist-first, and a key issue
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Yup, will definitely be a big part of the story! Not sure I'm a big fan myself. They sort of sit between bicycles and electric mini cars. [0] The cars are safer and allow easy multi-passengers, groceries, long-distance, all weather con
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Well the tube makes about 50% of its money from fares which is about double the 25% it gets from the government. The rest are things like advertising, renting out real estate, financial plays etc. Consider that London has a ton of people fr
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Makes sense and I'm a big fan. The only worry I have are a lack of market forces. How do five bussing companies compete if there's no revenue model. I wonder how they tackled that. For example it may make sense to charge more for
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
> It's not actually a requirement, it's there for formality. This simply isn't true a lot of the time. It is sometimes, but there are plenty of jobs that require highschool level skills but will filter out those who don&#x
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
To what extent is it still news. It's not just this topic, it's a whole range of subjects. e.g. the same articles are written and rewritten on housing all the time. And the notion I get sent an article by a friend, see it on FB, t
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
The ratio of people who's nerves are hit because crypto can change the power structure, to those who're interested in it because it has the potential to turn a young person's $10k creditcard borrowings into $1m, is probably p
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Yeah I've basically stopped talking about bitcoin for this reason. The conversation is just too unsophisticated and there's really no point or interest in educating random people on this. For example I still often hear people say
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Not sure I agree here, but he was a CEO who was simultaneously in this underdog position but also playing it really well. The refreshing thing about this is that he's relatively open about talking about his thoughts for the future and
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
> Holden's facial expression for determination is that of a man about to cry. In fact, he looks like his dog just died in most of the scenes. Hahahaha, this is too true. Bobbie is also terrible. But Avasarala I thought was really we
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Anyone inspired by this should look into the Giving what we can idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giving_What_We_Can It's far from easy but they propose to give 10% of earnings. A lot of people who intend to giv
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
I partly agree in principle, your idea is much better generally. But it's also tricky for government to evaluate every energy efficiency invention. When you know certain solutions work and work at scale, it makes sense to mandate them.
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Yeah this article just presents a recent narrative from a recent study, it doesn't mean it's right. Fact is, the social sciences have completely opposite theories with completely opposite causal mechanisms or even opposite ideas a
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
You're partly missing the point. It's not just about US vis a vis Japan and US vis a vis the EU... it's that the US/Japan relationship isn't radically different from the EU/Japan relationship, or in fact any t
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
All I can say is, welcome to globalisation. As another comment pointed out, the author hasn't really made the case what's so terribly unique about Japan's influence on the US and vice versa. Europe has tons of integration wit
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Uhh, that's silly, have you not seen his other article on the Japanese Republic of France? /s
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Public bathrooms don't clean themselves like private bathrooms. Particularly in high-volume places (large restaurants, pubs) it can get nasty very quickly. Think sex, drugs, throwing up, people passing out or going to sleep or just act
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
I'm left wondering how important a company like Facebook really is to the US though. I mean really, it creates about 10k high-paying tech jobs, okay... but Walmart employs 1 million. A lot of the support staff, e.g. in moderation, are
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
That, plus car manufacturing is a 10% margin business, Apple is closer to 30%. There's not a ton of money to be made, particularly because the growth in the car industry that will exist will mostly be in getting e.g. Indians to drive,
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Indeed, and Apple's EBIT margin is around 30%. It's an important figure because unlike say an LG, I don't think you can really see Apple phones separate from the rest of the company. Would we buy as many phones at these price
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Well the average replacement rate is approaching 3 years, so you shouldn't be too amazed. But you should also consider that those who switch don't throw their product in the garbage. The resale value of flagship phones, particular

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