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by ar0 9y ago
Give them some time. The big U.S. and U.K. universities have decades of experience in selecting the best and the brightest from around the world. They have huge admission teams that know the local education markets and can tell you which Ch
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by ar0 9y ago
I think you are confusing "tech companies" with "web start-ups". Germany has a different focus than Silicon Valley and thus a different type of "tech" jobs as well. There are a lot of challenging engineering an
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Yes, this is what I never get about incentives like that: why on earth would you want to incentivise your employees to come to work sick? A constantly sneezing worker will be unprofessional, prone to making errors, much less productive an
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by ar0 9y ago
How can you be monopolistic without having a monopoly, however? Apple has far less than 50% market share in all the markets it operates in (except, maybe, for smartwatches...). The majority of people does not seem to have a problem with bei
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by ar0 9y ago
One approach would be to spin out the search index and algorithms out of Google, turning it into a B2B service provider that provides (for a fee) an API that everyone could use to provide a search engine. The "remaining" Google co
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by ar0 10y ago
No, it's not. This is just a proxy statement, meaning it includes all proposals shareholders will be asked to vote on at Twitter's next annual meeting (on May 22nd). Everyone can submit shareholder proposals who owns at least 2000
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by ar0 10y ago
I think you are reading this table wrong. The table does not list "emissions per GDP" but "GDP per emissions", which is actually the inverse. So to get the "emissions per GDP", you have to read the table backwa
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by ar0 10y ago
I agree that the problem as far as I understand it is not really that related to copyright: the law (unannotated) is freely available, as it should be, and of course value-adding annotations by private enterprise can hold enforcable copyrig
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by ar0 10y ago
The Google cache doesn't seem to work for me, it just keeps trying to load some stuff (as others have noticed). The version on archive.is works for me, however: https://archive.fo/i6OfT
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> I already use Netflix for my video streaming. To be fair, though, if AWS were to disappear your Netflix wouldn't work anymore. And given that it took them seven years [1] to move to AWS, I guess it would take them quite a while to
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by ar0 10y ago
Will second that. I've been using the OS X build of Duplicati for a while now to backup via SCP and it works flawlessly. And, yes, I did test restoring some files from time to time with it. Note that the new "Duplicati 2.0" i
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Only if you see the current "pay-per-click" model as inevitable. In fact, for a long time advertisers were very happy to just pay for a certain space on a newspaper page, without even knowing how many people would actually look at
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by ar0 10y ago
Of course this assumes that the OP wants to build a consulting business in an English speaking country. Maybe he/she wants to consult e.g. in France for French companies, but still posted on HM because advice from HN would still be hel
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by ar0 10y ago
Ah, okay, I overlooked the "spin up a new virtual machine within seconds" in the article, sorry for that, and the requirement of multiple locations makes sense too! That way the choice of providers makes much more sense to me (as
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by ar0 10y ago
I will second this. I have two of these very cheap VPSes from OVH mentioned in the article, one in France and one in Québec, and in my experience they have been very reliable and have good performance for their price. In my experience, for
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by ar0 10y ago
I assume they are made for Europe and emerging markets. Note that it only works on 900/1800 MHz as well and not on the US frequencies, so even without sunsetting it would not work in the US.
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Map of global train, ship, postal and telegraph lines (1895)(e-rara.ch)
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by ar0 10y ago
I have huge respect for taviso and his team. Their track record in security work is so impressive. They are without a doubt extremely capable. However, I am always wondering: are they really globally unique in their work and skill? So that
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by ar0 10y ago
I'm writing this using the Cliqz browser and I have to say I have been a very happy user for a couple of weeks now. I like the search bar (I don't search in German that often but still get quite relevant "instant" result
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by ar0 10y ago
The topics of "boredom, vice and the indignity of receiving income without continual labor" come up whenever there is unearned income (from the point of view of the recipient). In this area, UBI and welfare benefits are very dif
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by ar0 10y ago
I doubt that 10% of Twitter users would pay 1 EUR / month (=> 12 EUR / year!) for an ad-free experience. Here is one survey I found, which states that ~10% of people said they would pay at least 10$ / year for ad-free Face
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Almost all of the comments here are very dismissive of the trade union's arguments, but I think it is very important to look at the key problem UBI faces IMHO: Proper work is not just a source of money, but also a source of pride and a
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by ar0 10y ago
$400 million USD total revenue in 2016 (from the article) is not exactly "billions of dollars". But, in general, yes, I think the sales force required to engage advertisers should not be discounted when the first thing going throu
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First, let me make it clear that I am totally on your page regarding the distaste for nationalistic and protectonist policies and do think that in the long term costs will almost always outweigh the benefits. Nevertheless, I want to point o
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by ar0 10y ago
This might be a negotiating lever with the actual trade negotiators, who care about these things and know about such intricacies. But note that every deal with the UK will also have to pass through all the national parliaments in the EU. An
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But isn't this in many ways actually even more risky? When Parliament gets its vote, the two year exit period will almost certainly be almost over and a vote of Parliament will not be able to stop the exit. Instead it will be a vote on
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by ar0 10y ago
> No captive portals. The problem isn't even so much with captive portals, but only with those actively trying to circumvent captive portal detection provided e.g. by iOS (as pointed out above). "Regular" captive portals w
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> The author is the one who speaks for everyone. No, he doesn't. He speaks of his own experiences. In fact, he states as much very clearly in the introduction: "The Mac and the iPad can coexist in a market where customers belie
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by ar0 10y ago
While I cannot judge on the merits of your recommendations (not being a hardware guy myself), I do want to point out that this is a project in collaboration with WDLabs (as in Western Digital), according to the website. "Have never don
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New York Doesn't Need San Francisco's Google Bus Problem(villagevoice.com)
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