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by ck425 8y ago
Outside of China they're not paying for the brand. They're paying for the iOS eco system and that's still a valuable moat. It remains to be seen if a super app such as WeChat will emerge in other markets but until/unless
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by ck425 8y ago
The closest monzo has is an investor card for crowdfunding investors.
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by ck425 8y ago
I find Monzo to be a great counter example to this. They've a great, employee supportive culture and are very open and transparent around it. They've great PR and said culture seems to be a major part of why. Disclaimer: I investe
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by ck425 8y ago
While many EU countries duo have blasphemy laws, they're almost never enforced. They're laws that the majority of people find ridiculous and would be quickly removed if anyone started to actually enforce them. If Liberapay did blo
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by ck425 8y ago
It seems to me that creating and using cultural signals that allow us to differentiate between the in group and the out, is a fundamental part of human culture. There's no culture where it doesn't exist, and as soon as we remove o
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by ck425 8y ago
Most in the UK do, albeit normally with a caveat about exceptional situations.
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Didn't junior doctors go on a record long strike recently. I was under the impression that the BMA took a reasonable amount of action.
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by ck425 8y ago
He doesn't need to use the Post. He's the richest man in the world, if he writes an article claiming someone is trying to extort him it'll get plenty of press regardless. And with Medium he can just publish it himself and it
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by ck425 8y ago
That would be a terrible idea. We're at a point in time where the public, politicians and the tech community itself are becoming wary of tech monopolies. Currently Amazon has avoided the brunt of it (mostly due to being consumer friend
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by ck425 8y ago
Tbf while Cook doesn't have the product vision of Jobs, he does have a clear strategic/what we want Apple to be vision. He's a post founder CEO for sure, but one of the best and a different league from Pichai by all accounts.
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by ck425 8y ago
The poster was walking widely about the industry as a whole not just college. And there are lots of scholarship students who had to work to help put food on the table, who couldn't afford a chromebook and the time to go tinker.
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by ck425 8y ago
You really do need privilege. Not everyone has regular access to a computer or internet even these days. And not every is in an environment where it's considered ok to sit and tinker with software all day. More importantly we need peop
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by ck425 8y ago
The system in Scotland is somewhere in between - atleast in the ancient universities. I was accepted as a BSc Math student and took Math, Compsci and Psych first semester. Second semester I switched to BSc Compsci and took two Compsci and a
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by ck425 8y ago
The odds are generally stacked towards straight, white, cis-males. Or atleast we don't have the disadvantages and discrimination most other groups do.
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by ck425 8y ago
That's a good point. There are enough financial bloggers out there that you should be able to find one in your country, which will be easier to understand.
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by ck425 8y ago
Not the best article I've read on finance, and far too consumerist for my liking but the basics are correct. If you are in your 20s in tech then the advice to get a retirement plan and to aggressively save and invest now (in said plan
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by ck425 8y ago
Out of curiosity, how do your define wealth and in what forms do your 30s non-tech friends have it and your tech friends don't?
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by ck425 8y ago
Terribly written article but very very good points (ignoring the whole analog metaphor). Emergent systems are already seeing damaging side effects such as accidentally inbuilt racism. The perception that programmers are in control is danger
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by ck425 8y ago
I don't live in the USA either (UK), but even over here I've heard engineers saying they wouldn't work for them.
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by ck425 8y ago
You have a good point but there are a couple of areas where they're starting to hurt: 1) Politically. While most users don't care enough to stop using the service, users in the US and Western Europe care enough that politicians wh
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by ck425 8y ago
But when the private sector does something it optimises for money. When the government does something it can optimise for other things. Both are systems that in certain circumstances suck. One isn't better than the other in every circu
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by ck425 8y ago
I see nothing wrong. They asked for this information and were refused it or given vague answers. So they use their legal system to obtain it.
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Google is getting rid of gendered pronouns(the-pool.com)
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by ck425 8y ago
Point 2) here is important. Folk migrate to the US due to some variation of the American Dream. Therefore the migrants bring and reinforce part of American culture.
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by ck425 8y ago
That regulation (and the attitude to business and its place in society) is the reason every employee is entitled to 29 days annual leave min, I can't get sacked at any time for any reason and I don't have to pay medical insurance
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by ck425 8y ago
Even then why is such culture legal? Over here you're legally required to let someone know they're under performing and give them a minimal time (I think 6 months in the UK?) to improve before you can fire them.
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by ck425 8y ago
In that example we should take issue with the conclusion that it justifies the prevalence of male founders rather than taking issue with the study in the first place.
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by ck425 8y ago
Consider how much potential influence Facebook and Google have on politics. Consider how many of our political issues are effected by the decisions of these company's. These people wield a lot of power, potentially political power of t
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by ck425 8y ago
This. In our industry we reject good candidates all the time, as we'd rather many false negatives than one false positives. This is the same. Hell in ways it's even more important. It's a job for life, with a stupid amount of
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by ck425 8y ago
You have to remember the impact this has on society though. The vast, vast majority of sexual assault allegations are ignored and this has only started to improve recently. By not thoroughly investigating you send a message to victims (a sh

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