MarkMc

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by MarkMc 9y ago
Both Facebook and YouTube have very strong network effects protecting them from competition. A self-driving taxi service would have no network effect - a better analogy is to the airline industry.
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by MarkMc 9y ago
I think you are confusing the long term and short term outlook. In the short term Waymo will have a very strong bargaining position because their technology is so advanced - Lyft cannot buy self driving tech from anyone else. But in 10 year
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by MarkMc 9y ago
I half agree with Gates. To me, sending probes into space deepens our understanding of nature and over time that knowledge will benefit humanity. But sending humans into space is really just an exercise in human vanity, like climbing Moun
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by MarkMc 9y ago
Shallow Response: Why couldn't Dan just create a new user account for Lissa? It would allow her to use his computer without giving her access to his books. Deeper Response: I'm not really convinced by Richard Stallman's argu
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by MarkMc 9y ago
What word?
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by MarkMc 9y ago
Smart move. I am planning to add end-to-end encryption to my UK accounting software. Without this loophole I would have been forced to move my business outside the UK.
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by MarkMc 9y ago
I'm pleasantly surprised. For the last 10 years the only financial news from Sony was negative. I find it interesting that Sony owned PlayStation and Sony Pictures yet was never interested in developing a streaming video service like N
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by MarkMc 9y ago
> Referring to his own children, he said: “I cannot answer for them what they are going to do with the quadratic equation. I don’t know why they are learning it.” In case anyone is curious, this video has a good visual explanation of how
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by MarkMc 9y ago
Interesting article, but ignores the fact that 80% of accidents are due to pilot error [1]. If the pilot was unable to override the computer, maybe it would have doomed QF72 but prevented 4 other crashes? [1] http://www.boeing.co
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by MarkMc 9y ago
Then nobody should be employed as a decision-maker, because everyone is affected by their feelings.
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by MarkMc 9y ago
The point is that is doesn't work. Yes, the name makes the product stand out but that benefit doesn't compensate for having your product associated with filth and disease. There's a reason Toyota has never named a car '
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by MarkMc 9y ago
> I also don't think OSGi's and JBoss' alternatives are great, but that's OK, because they're opt-in. I really don't know much about Jigsaw, but I would have assumed it was also opt-in. That is, you can run
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by MarkMc 9y ago
> there are larger issues to address, like "why do our students feel compelled to cheat?" and "why are tests so valuable that cheating is effective?" I don't quite understand this statement. Tests are so valuabl
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by MarkMc 9y ago
> Present and former industrial workers basically all voted leave, while knowledge workers and finance voted remain. Do you have a source for that claim? According to The Australian: "Leave was backed by almost two-thirds of those c
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by MarkMc 9y ago
I think Mac already has this for applications in the Mac App Store.
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by MarkMc 9y ago
It's cheaper than that. I've let my Apple developer subscription lapse but I can still sign packages until my certificate expires. You can probably also get a reasonable second-hand Mac mini for $200. So you are looking at an up
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by MarkMc 9y ago
"Tests are proctored by a company that locks down a student’s computer remotely and uses its camera to check for cheating" I'm surprised that is sufficient.
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by MarkMc 10y ago
Twilio should be offering Uber a price which is just below the minimum it would take for Uber to build it themselves. Also, Uber management should be focused on other things which are much more important for the future of the company, like
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by MarkMc 10y ago
I agree with you about education and immigration - I would love to see more OECD countries adopt Germany's position on university fees and foreign admission. But I would not say it's worrying to find the opposite view as the major
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by MarkMc 10y ago
I'm interested in setting up a small non-profit school for poor, young adults in Indonesia to teach them German and other skills necessary for admission to Studienkolleg (the one-year preparatory course for foreign students wishing to
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by MarkMc 10y ago
Just curious: Where is 'here'? And did you consider trying to get a German Blue Card after graduating in your home country?
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by MarkMc 10y ago
A student visa allows the student to work 120 days per year. At minimum wage this is about EUR 720 per month. If the student allocates 40% to rent, that means 6 students could afford to pay EUR 1,228. Let's say 2 students per bedroo
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by MarkMc 10y ago
I was going off this page [0] which says, "At least the living expenses for your first year in Germany must be fully financed. In general, about 8,640 euros of income or assets are required for the first year, or 720 euros per month&qu
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by MarkMc 10y ago
That's a good point, but the German approach still seems more attractive to me: - To learn German and pass the preparatory program for foreign students (Studienkolleg) would take 18 months. With skilled immigration you generally need 3
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by MarkMc 10y ago
Even if the requirements make it impossible for 95% of people, that still leaves millions for whom it is possible.
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by MarkMc 10y ago
If you are a young person living in a poor country, the two best investments you can make to improve your standard of living are (a) get a university education; and (b) immigrate to a rich country. Germany offers both: 1. A free undergradua
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by MarkMc 10y ago
Is there a fixed quota for the number of international students studying at German universities? That is, if the number of international student applications doubled would it make it harder for German students to be accepted into university
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by MarkMc 10y ago
> starting in fall 2017, the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg will start charging non-E.U. students 1,500 euros ($1,634) per semester That's still incredibly cheap for a quality university degree.
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by MarkMc 10y ago
I don't think there are any German undergraduate programs that are entirely in English - you will most like need to learn German to CEF level C1 to pass the German university entrance exam (Feststellungsprüfung). This is a useful websi
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by MarkMc 10y ago
A German student visa allows you to work 120 days per year [0]. At minimum wage [1] that is about EUR 9,000 per year. I think there would be many international students who could support themselves with that. Standard of living would be

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