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by badestrand 10y ago
Let's be realistic. In max 20 years the UK will of course be in the EU single market again. My guess is that they will make similar deals with the EU like Switzerland and probably end up in EFTA. And that would be not a bad place to be
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by badestrand 10y ago
Maybe not at the butcher but in peoples's fridges for sure. Isn't it that a quarter of food gets thrown away?
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by badestrand 10y ago
One huge difference: There just are no inner-EU discussions and there is no EU-wide media. Everything takes place at the nation level. This is probably due to 24 different languages being spoken and most people cannot speak english well. Bu
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by badestrand 10y ago
For me this only shows the flaws of the law system, doesn't it? The real problem is that defending costs are so high for businesses. If this would be covered by the government or some insurance until the case is resolved, the small co
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by badestrand 10y ago
Google Maps tells me a few hundred meters in advance so the car AI can know, too. The location does not need to be precise down to a centimeter, it should be enough to know "the alley is somewhat near" so it can start to get into
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by badestrand 10y ago
One could very well argue that this success would not have been possible with VC money. They would never have this business model of $20/artist/year because VCs want loads of profits. And they would have >100 employees instead
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by badestrand 10y ago
There are several drastic terms like that, e.g. "Cancel visas to foreign countries that won’t take them back.". When entering negotiations with such a threat you will get what you want, he will be able to easily dictate changes to
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by badestrand 10y ago
The idle time will not change by much anytime soon. Everyone commutes in the same hours and at night all cars stand still. Yes, society becomes more flexible and diverse but this is a very slow process.
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by badestrand 10y ago
I can confirm. I have a touchscreen laptop and use it only once a week when discussing things with coworkers, because that way they can see more clearly what I do in contrast to using the mouse.
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by badestrand 10y ago
So you really think that half a billion guns in hands will make India safer? Apart from that, the family could not even afford a simple door, no way they can buy a gun then.
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by badestrand 10y ago
In The Hard Thing About Hard Things Ben Horowitz says there is two types of really successfull people in the business word: Chaotic visionaries and orderly executioners, called type 1 and type 2. I think Apple is a perfect example for this,
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by badestrand 10y ago
Sorry, but that optimization elitarism does not get anyone anywhere. Most software written today is quite high level, be it the >2 million apps or the >1 billion websites. In my household neither the smoke detector, toaster or washing
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by badestrand 10y ago
I remember the topic of lock free data structures from my time working with C++ a few years ago. C++ is a lot about performance. To do things quicker you create threads which execute code in parallel physically. Since they mess up when work
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by badestrand 11y ago
So Facebook generates no revenue as well since it's just their ads that do? In both cases the platform (Android/Facebook) is the vehicle, whose sole purpose is to generate revenue, so I think it is safe to say that that vehicle is
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Tell the people from a country what you want them to hear(iwanttosay.org)
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