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by ccity88 5y ago
You're right of course - the Romans took from the Greeks, the Greeks took from the Egyptians, etc etc. Ideas adapt over time and cross cultures. Still, I can't help but have a romantic view of cultures, perhaps because up until th
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by ccity88 5y ago
This is incredibly sad to be honest. I love the interconnectivity of the modern web, and social media allows us to share our thoughts freely and communicate ideas at a scale never before seen in human history, but the consequence of this is
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by ccity88 5y ago
realistically you need a decent level of wealth to participate in these tax havens. It's expensive to hire a lawyer who knows this stuff, and even more expensive for administration and execution. The people who have the level of wealth
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Time Millionaires(theguardian.com)
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by ccity88 5y ago
Calling Interdependence peer pressure is diluting the nuance of people's relationships. It has a lot to do with culture and societal norms, for example in my culture (Arab) there is a strong emphasis on family and community values, i&#
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by ccity88 5y ago
See Veritasium's video, he goes into depth about Godel's theorems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeQX2HjkcNo
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by ccity88 5y ago
This is what they said about GDPR, and yet here we are. The UK may not have the heavyweight political importance that the EU has, but it's a key market; we can only hope things change because as they stand it's only going to get w
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by ccity88 5y ago
Reading a lot of comments on this thread, I see many that are oblivious and out of touch at best, and disingenuous at worst. I'm 22 and I've been living with my parents my entire life; I have an Ok salary living in London, the rea
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by ccity88 5y ago
Except it's actually not that easy. Most of the web uses google analytics, so its unavoidable when you visit a website. Most of the web's emails are routed through google; I remember reading a post about a guy who set up his own S
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by ccity88 5y ago
Facebook has been doing this for years. It's invasive, dystopian and anti privacy - but it's nothing new in world of tech. Why is it such big news when a Chinese company does it, but when FB has been doing it for years nobody bats
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by ccity88 5y ago
I feel like I read something new every week on HN about design philosophy; make your product this way not that way, try to do this and not that, here's 10 examples of products that failed because of x, here's 5 products that were
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by ccity88 5y ago
I somewhat agree with this take, although this isn't the result of the shallowness and ignorance of our collective society, but rather the shallowness and ignorance of the people at the top of society. Most people just want to get by,
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by ccity88 5y ago
I get that money laundering is always linked to criminal activity, but how have we always just accepted the lack of personal privacy when it comes to finance? Privacy is a feature, not a bug; and whilst crypto may not be the way forward, I
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by ccity88 5y ago
"The computer equipment has been seized but no arrests have been made, the force said." Whoever does get arrested for this, they won't be facing the same charges for intent to supply drugs. I'm not sure on the penalty of
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by ccity88 5y ago
If you don't mind me asking, what do you do that allows you to live this kind of lifestyle? Travelling has always been a big goal for me, but making it work with a stable job, and having enough disposable income to afford it is nigh on
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by ccity88 5y ago
A quick google says the valuation of the top YC companies combined is more than $300bn, although market capitalisation is a poor way to define how big a player is or how impactful they are in their space.