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by cleansy 5y ago
However, in this article it’s referred to as an actual black swan, not the concept in the book.
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by cleansy 5y ago
The "innocent until proven guilty" principle applies to legal systems, not companies. There is no such thing in the financial- or any industry.
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by cleansy 6y ago
It's not that dramatic: > In 2020, the total revenue generated amounted to 5.61 billion USD and 18,829 ships with a total net tonnage of 1.17 billion passed through the canal. [1] 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by cleansy 6y ago
Yes, apparently he is working on a project for a cable network. https://www.reddit.com/r/PrimitiveTechnology/comments/gscvv8...
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Apple to Build a “Mini Silicon Valley” in Germany with 1B Euro Investment(interestingengineering.com)
1 points by cleansy 6y ago|0 comments
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by cleansy 6y ago
> For Paul Graham, cofounder of Y Combination who worked with Swartz, Huffman and Ohanian, Aaron Swartz is right to call himself a Reddit founder. > Speaking on Reddit a few years ago, Graham said: “The company behind Reddit was a mer
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by cleansy 6y ago
Reddit’s founders seem to be pretty spineless for doing so. I didn’t even realise that they removed him..
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by cleansy 6y ago
When WhatsApp was bought by Facebook they specifically excluded that this would happen to get the OK from some EU commission. I do wonder how this will go down with them. EDIT: they already got fined 3 years ago. https://www.reut
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by cleansy 6y ago
I mean, "Brexit means Brexit", no? The ToS for .eu domains is not that clear about the fact that these are not to be considered property but there is an important point: > SECTION 9. RIGHTS GRANTED > 1. Upon registration of
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by cleansy 6y ago
Hi, just FYI, I saw that you are setting third party cookies without consent. While I generally don't like the flood of cookie banners, it's a legal requirement if you are accepting EU customers.
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by cleansy 6y ago
Besides not wanting to work/live in the US/Canada for cultural reasons (I personally don't want to raise children where school shootings are so frequent that not all of them are even reported in the news anymore), there is al
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by cleansy 6y ago
> Almost every second startup I read about in https://www.eu-startups.com/ is a fintech/budgeting app These kind of startup focused news sites are quite biased towards B2C/C2C software/*tech places, as mos
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by cleansy 6y ago
Maybe add a (2018) to the title
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by cleansy 6y ago
I’m curious to know why exactly is Tencent‘s share in Epic relevant while unity is VC funded and has the same pressure of making money?
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by cleansy 6y ago
After reading the comments: I wouldn't grill the author too much about his idealistic views on things. He's 23 and got some media attention for exactly that attribute. From crunchbase: "Scale, which accelerates its customers&
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by cleansy 6y ago
It's ironic writing an article like that, while their ToS states: > As a user of the Site, you agree not to: > 1. Systematically retrieve data or other content from the Site to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collec
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by cleansy 6y ago
The question is: is FF the "better" browser over Chrome/-ium? From a technical perspective: the differences are IMHO negligible. Last time I tried FF I couldn't tell any difference. The reaction time of the brain for vis
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by cleansy 6y ago
Of course it is irrational. It's fairly well studied that humans make a lot of their decisions out of emotions and rationalize it later. It doesn't make rational sense to buy a coffee from Starbucks. It doesn't make sense to
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by cleansy 6y ago
I asked myself this question a lot of times. The reason is: memories attached to FF. I used FF for ca. 7 years until Chrome came out. Every time I install FireFox (to give it a try again) all the bad memories come back using it. The whacky
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by cleansy 6y ago
On top of that there is also understanding the philosophy of a language. Learning python as my 3rd productive language was 3 full-time weeks, "Doing things the pythonic way" took years.
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by cleansy 7y ago
China's leadership can relocate half a million people when they want to build a dam. They will be able to crack down on wet markets. The current pandemic should be the last one happening in a non-war setting. I can write this here from
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by cleansy 7y ago
I second that. Given the 20,30 or whatever years postgres dealt with all kinds of file systems, hard drive failure codes and what not I would not recommend to jump to any of the newer contenders without a very good reason. I am not biased t
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Joe Rogan Experience #1402 – Boyan Slat(youtube.com)
3 points by cleansy 7y ago|0 comments
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by cleansy 7y ago
Yes but AMZN did not make a billion of losses on two billions in revenue. They had way saner levels of P/L in the beginning[1], their revenues rose by more than 100% quarter per quarter base. that's not what's happening at UB
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by cleansy 7y ago
It depends on how the laws or practices are in the US but for most european countries: Capitalizing means that the hourly rate of a contractor will be added as an increase of value in the software he/she creates. So you pay me 10k for
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by cleansy 7y ago
With big corporations it's sometimes the case that your people "budget" differs from your project budget. Even if you have to fire employees you might still have the budget for your project, which is usually what you pay cont
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by cleansy 7y ago
I joined a startup that was acquired by a large company. Once the original founders left it went straight to hell. Upper management changed three times, then we got merged with other acquisitions, layoffs followed. It went from engaged, sma
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by cleansy 7y ago
Slightly OT: I hope that effort helps with their search results big time. Because it's a pain. I was just looking for an apartment for some vacation and cool that it showed 300+ results but a totally random ordering in my opinion. I ca
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by cleansy 7y ago
I hope they do not start using remote controlled cars on highways. A car going at 60mph (~100kmh) travels at 26m/second. 4G has a ping of ~70ms* on top of the time from the cell tower to the operator's computer. However, I found q
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Uber And Lyft take more from drivers than they say: survey(jalopnik.com)
99 points by cleansy 7y ago|77 comments

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