Inthenameofmine

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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
It's mostly because of the VC Ponzi scheme. US investors invest in US incorporated companies because it is easier to sell them and to get other later stage institutional investors interested. There's two ways how companies can qui
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
It's funny. The smart companies I know are all moving away from hiring full-time devs. They want a very small core team of highly skilled devs, all with relatively high equity, combined with tons of freelancers/consultants on a ca
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
You mean their Intel's switch from RAM to CPUs? I have a feeling that something similar might end up happening here too. RAM was too much commoditized and cost-driven. CPUs were more IP driven. Finding a route from A to B with the righ
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
In my experience having any other type of people is generally more expensive because you are wasting higher level people on actively managing lower value tasks to get done.
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
That sounds very interesting. Could you go into more depth what techniques you exactly used?
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
Might I ask what some of these services are? This sounds intriguing.
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
What you call grid defection might very well happen in currently developing countries though, just as they never adopted telephone lines or stable postal services. In most developing countries the grid is the problem, not the production. Th
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
Agreed. I would also add a silent vibrating alarm to the list. Though interestingly, non of these features need much of a display or interface. I have a Mi Band 2 with a 1 month battery life. It does everything i Ned. I'm pretty sure a
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
I guess the grass really is always greener on the other side. Android and W10 people always complain about buggyness. I think we've reached the point where larger software has become too complex for today's development and testing
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
Then again, there have been reports pointing to the US gov requesting social media accounts for scanning for visa waiver countries.
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
That's insane. With de-anonymised data and some sort of personalisation engine a single person could change the results of an entire election that way!
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
Maybe Canada, however, Europe is doing the same insanity to itself atm.
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
The US has per capita more natural resource money than Norway. It just got privatized.
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
I would argue that is mostly because on the macro level the private sector is paying off their accumulated debt, hence less spending. That's pretty much the definition of a deflationary spiral. I don't think this shows any sort of
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
And then again, in Japan sexualization of teens is completely normal. The world is a big and diverse place with different values.
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
Even crazier, the criteria for which bonds to buy heavily favor German corporations. At this point the Euro system has become a system to shovel wealth from the periphery to the center at gunpoint. IMO next step of the ECB will be equity bu
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
Based on many papers, articles, and interviews by many central bankers I have come to the conclusion that most of them aren't very smart to say the least. They think of a country as a household, rather than a complex system. Economic o
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
It's considerably simpler to hire people initially as contractors in the US. But hiring in general is a lot simpler, not to mention firing.
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
Fully agreed. I work with several startups both US and EU side. I see 3 hurdles, all solvable: 1. No unified capital market and banking union, hence funding is restricted to per country Capital accumulation. 2. Still no unified digital prod
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
I'm an employer myself, buy frankly the same can be said about most other employers. Critical thinking seems to be in short supply there as well.
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
Archive.org is now legally providing the coursera videos. So it should be legal to distribute this way as well.
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
Reminds me of Theth in Northern Albania. The villagers there apparently never came in touch with the Ottomans for 500 years.
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
Thank you so much! I was looking for some good reading material of this sort!
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
I was just discussing this idea with friends the other day. It's definitely going to become big business, especially once these funds can take leveraged short positions. This is also a good way to finance very expensive investigative j
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
Depending where you're coming from it might be the contrary view that needs references at this point.
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
Don't know about Angola, but in other developing countries what happens is that they bribe some electrician to put the wiring back. It's cheaper than paying the whole bill. Viewed in the larger context it makes total sense. If you
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
Yep. It's a question of liquidity, not trust. People are naturally inclined to do the right thing if they have enough to cover their basic needs. At least a vast majority, sufficient to survive free riders. A good example of this is ho
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
Frankly a lot of the developing world too.
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
That's a good point. But how do you track non-task work which is mostly creative work, be that in the office or remotely? In my experience as both and employee and employer, you can't. Even in the office it's not like you can
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
This is definitely already starting to happen. Modern server CPUs have FPGAs in them. I was able to speed up Blockchain transaction signing and verification by 2 order of magnitude by utilizing the Intel in-build FPGAs. Mobile phone SoCs al

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