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by bald 6y ago
it is the classical principal-agent dilemma that we face in society since the point in time we started delegating individual tasks to individuals, for any individual will carry the seeds of greed and egoism in it in varying degrees. thus th
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by bald 6y ago
This development of market dynamics & structure has been famously featured in the book "Only the Paranoid Survive" by Andy Grove, which I can only recommend (it's a quick and easy read). Anecdotally, it seems to me that t
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by bald 6y ago
as a native German, I can say you might want to skip Neuss, you won't miss out on a lot :P
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by bald 6y ago
hi there! we originally built this tool for internal purposes (we're making an AI to optimize ground processes in the aviation industry, with our main customers being airlines, aiports & ground handlers) to understand if/when&
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Show HN: Reboot aviation – track development of air traffic during the crisis(rebootaviation.com)
24 points by bald 6y ago|1 comments
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by bald 7y ago
Having been rejected 2 times by YC, could not agree more. biz #1 is now series B at $120M valuation biz #2 is now series A with $50M valuation biz #3 is now seed with $15M valuation I did not bother to apply with biz #3 to YC, probability-w
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by bald 7y ago
> The company in the end changed course. They built out the product to focus on a single vertical that was getting traction in finance. Building a startup in the "AI" space myself since more than 2yrs now, I'm more convinc
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by bald 7y ago
> On the same page: "All nouns that end in –ei, –heit, –ie, –in, –keit, –schaft, –tät, –ung are feminine." I would hazard the guess that, in this explanation, the author refers to syllables and not just a combination of letters
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by bald 7y ago
fully agree. I wrote a pretty complex API within a couple of days in Django + Django Rest Framework. I did not know how to build web applications or APIs before. Great experience.
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by bald 7y ago
In Germany there's also lots of McDonalds with chargers, some of them have already been there for 2 years or more.
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by bald 7y ago
I fully agree and am caught in shock every time for the huge dissonance. This doesn't make sense.
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by bald 7y ago
the more coke McD serves, the more money for marketing it gets from Coca Cola. Thus enabling this scheme might be beneficial for McD too
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by bald 8y ago
Long-time swimmer here. Without extra magnesium, I will get spasms in my legs from time to time while exercising. With extra magnesium, I don't.
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by bald 8y ago
Wow, isn't that the same kind of behavior/pattern that made MS target of the antitrust charges in the end of the 90s, back then with IE being the default browser?
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by bald 8y ago
One way to reconcile these seemingly contradictory statements is the following. The actual programmer & designer of the software is the supplier of the engine control units (ECUs), in most cases Bosch. The software that they supply actu
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by bald 8y ago
> Case in point: Nokia was enormously successful in the ‘90s with Jorma Ollila as CEO. In 1999 he was also named Chairman of the Board. That is essentially when Nokia started its downward slide of coasting on past successes. sample size
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by bald 8y ago
Not saying I support the original idea, but there's objective, widely agreed-upon definitions for poverty, so it should be possible to transfer these to define low income.
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by bald 8y ago
The body has a high portion of elements made of carbon fibers. Depending on the damage it can very quickly be a total write-off.
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by bald 8y ago
At least in the Tesla fan community, a number of people got tired of waiting and bought a Model S/X instead. It remains unclear how many upgraded and as a result of this fell off the reservation list. They should have asked that as wel
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by bald 9y ago
Thank you for this fantastic list of shows. I love Shark Tank and am looking for similar shows where I can learn more about business. Does anyone know any other shows that fit this purpose?
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by bald 9y ago
Price is a function of supply and demand. So this tactic is better than the blunt tactic even if it manages to fool only one shareholder.
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by bald 9y ago
Can you please confirm that you have really experienced these scenarios multiple times? In which geography? Can you give names of the companies? This would TOTALLY redefine my personal definition of product-market fit. Thanks!
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by bald 9y ago
Who do you think is the authority on this? The German KBA (Kraftfahrtbundesamt, similar to the DOT in the USA) classifies the Model S as Oberklasse, the same class like BMW 7 series and Mercedes S class. Coming from a BMW 7 series and now d
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by bald 9y ago
> The worst customers I've seen, everywhere I've worked, are the ones being under charged. Totally agree, saw it over and over again. Worst customers are those that get something for free. They are also the most illoyal (not re
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by bald 9y ago
I was also surprised, and then read again more carefully. The article says: "Rimowa likely had an opportunity to take some kind of action [...] they chose the easier target: Reed" which for me sounds like this conclusion is only s
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Apple Says All Macs, iPhones and iPads Exposed to Chip Security Flaws(bloomberg.com)
56 points by bald 9y ago|15 comments
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by bald 9y ago
revenue != money to spend
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by bald 9y ago
+ suits in a court for employment-related matters (Arbeitsgericht) are free for the employee in Germany
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by bald 9y ago
> "Reverse engineering from the technology to the market almost never works." Completely disagree. If the technology is creating some value for someone, and if you have only one smart business dude that knows how to approach th
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by bald 9y ago
AFAIK in the US, you're not required to check in with local authorities when you move to a new city (contrary to many European countries where you need to notify them, else you'll be fined), so there's no official register th

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