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by amag 11y ago
In public comments, Mr. Page goes out of his way to say the opposite, describing Google more in terms of a nonprofit than a gigantic corporation. During a 2014 interview with Charlie Rose, he said he wished there were a vehicle for people
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by amag 11y ago
> The US for example is a highly regulated welfare state Compared to Sweden and the other Nordic countries, or even most of Europe, I'm not sure I'd consider the US a welfare state. You need (a lot of) money to fare well in the
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by amag 11y ago
Well, you may gain increased security on your Amazon account..
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I'd argue that alcohol is a completely different beast. Most people start smoking to be "cool" or because their friends smoke (or both). It's a fact that very few people start to smoke after their eighteenth birthday. If
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by amag 11y ago
I'm all for higher taxation or, better yet, banning smoking altogether. The difference between smoking and eating unhealthy/not exercising enough is that smoking affects other people in a very real way through second-hand smoking.
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by amag 11y ago
> PG uses his unique experience in funding and producing thousands of companies And therein lies the rub: A) PG is exposed to a very specific part of the economy: the startup scene. So while his experience certainly is unique, it's
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by amag 11y ago
Yes, envy is part of human nature but not everyone is envious by nature.
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by amag 11y ago
Nice! I've missed this since Netflix started to dumb-down the list of categories displayed for a movie a while back.
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by amag 11y ago
Having been married for eleven years I think my wife has finally accepted I'm not going to change (and I have long since accepted that she won't either). She's a 9pm-6:30am kind of gal and I'm a 2:30am-10am kind of guy.
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by amag 11y ago
I've never created a facebook profile but facebook has a "shadow-profile" on me based on people tagging me in photos and inviting me and what not. So I never put things on facebook but there's still tons of info on me th
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by amag 11y ago
Yes, after seeing my fair share of code in different production systems, vehicles, med tech, etc, I'm amazed the world doesn't stop every day..
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by amag 11y ago
1) Or we enter a post-scarcity era where there will be an abundance of food produced by autonomous machines. No one "needs" to work in order to feed themselves. 2) There are a lot of things that are weaponizable - today.
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by amag 11y ago
This all reminds me of the Y2K debacle. The world would end. Everything would stop. A common example given in the media (by "IT-professionals") was that all elevators would stop, I was always like: "WTF would an elevator chec
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by amag 11y ago
Late 19th century, early 20th, Sweden was one of the poorest countries in Europe. The wealth of Sweden was accumulated post-WWII when the rest of Europe stood in ruins and needed to be rebuilt, not by being a colonial force to be reckoned w
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by amag 11y ago
It used to be the same here in Sweden but unfortunately it has started changing for the worse. It's mainly centered around higher up municipal government officials who take bribes to let certain companies win contracts for the municipa
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Haven't seen the movie, but I'm not sure you need to be super weird to be that person. I believe the word you are looking for is integrity.
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by amag 11y ago
I lived in Thailand when the now deposed Thaksin Shinawatras party Thai Rak Thai won the election in 2001. I remember many Thais saying he was the ideal PM because he was the richest man in Thailand and because he was the richest man, he
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by amag 11y ago
A bit late to the party but I found this video illuminating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqmoFzbZYEM Basically (if I understood correctly) it has to do with confining the plasma within the torus without the need of an e
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by amag 11y ago
> Until we can admit that it is religion itself that is the danger, and the irrationality it encourages, this issue will never be solved. This is a fallacy that's constantly repeated by atheists. It's not true. Lack of religion
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by amag 11y ago
Skimmed through that one a bit.. I think he misses that having a patronym surname (ending with son) is very much out of fashion in Sweden today (and has been for quite some time), so people change it. The people most likely to change it are
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by amag 11y ago
Also where would this stack of paper be placed? After all gravitational pull is not uniform around the planet.
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by amag 11y ago
I discovered programming as a ten year old because I grew tired of the games I had for my C64. After all C64 BASIC was there all along, behind the scenes, just waiting for me. Today when kids grow tired of the games they have, they open the
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by amag 11y ago
Nah, we can always protect ourselves from ads or malware. Worst case we can go completely offline or use an extremely locked down system. C8 and similar compounds pollute the only inhabitable planet we have access to, there's no escape
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by amag 11y ago
I used to commute by bike every day and I heard this complaint a lot by non-bike riders. I think the main reason for bikers do behave "irresponsible" is to maintain the speed. Like most other modes of transportation, riding a bike
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by amag 11y ago
This is how it worked at my University some 15 years ago (for some classes at least). The teacher would give us optional assignments that if completed would score against the final exam. ASFAIR completing all assignments successfully meant
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by amag 11y ago
An expired cert in the cert chain will not validate.
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I second that. I never had much interest in learning to play chess well. In my case I guess it's about when programming I work towards a specific outcome I find interesting for some reason. Winning/losing isn't an interesting
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Ghostery...
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Yeah, only it's mostly true for the rest of EU as well which means that similar privileges are enjoyed by some 400M people, not so tiny nation now, eh?
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by amag 11y ago
> On top of that, they face incredible racism and xenophobia. Going slightly OT here but I'm pretty sure that racism/xenophobia against muslims in Sweden is no worse than elsewhere. I'm not saying things are peachy, but in

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