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by crdb 11y ago
Whatsapp? Instagram? Headcount != success.
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Watch out not to get the Mi 4 by accident. The Mi4i was launched this year and was basically designed to be a "premium smartphone at emerging markets prices" whereas the Mi 4 is the "China flagship", whose design is a st
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Depending on how heavy your use is, you should look at the Xiaomi Mi4i. I picked it up as a Nexus 5 replacement solely for the ridiculously large battery (3100mAh or 72% more than the similarly sized iPhone 6 and still 6% more than the 6 Pl
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In many companies: - saying "it's going to take me X months because of the technical debt" is not an acceptable answer to the manager; - working 15 hour days and taking X months more than the deadline is rewarded particularly
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If I had 6 months and no obligations, I'd learn to draw and to storytell, and I'd make and publish (for free if I can afford it) a graphic novel adaptation of Asimov's Foundation. Current item 1 on my "to do once we exit
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Apple today makes products which are the "whole package", a well built tool for power users that isn't the absolute top shelf most amazing product available but in its niche is a solid choice well worth the investment where n
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Oh, a sharp move can happen, exactly as it just did with Switzerland (41% [2] although stabilized at a bit under 20%): via an exit from a peg. The monetary union is such a peg, an exit or any form of breakdown would cause a sharp revaluatio
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So, your economist might be right, of course, and I am not an economist, just a former junior trader who didn't work out and changed careers. Nevertheless I am pretty sure that if you jack up your prices by 50% overnight, with the pros
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According to [1] around 170k of Volkswagen 370k employees are in Germany. That is a significantly higher proportion than is warranted by the size of the market. Hence export advantage. Second, I did not claim that macroeconomics of the Euro
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3 years if married, 10 years if not [1]... well, it's better than "not available" but still a significant impediment to starting a business! Nevertheless I was wrong, thanks for correcting. [1] top DDG result: http:/&#x
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If the "German Euro" was to split from the "not German Euro" tomorrow as the CHF unpegged recently, do you think it would trade higher or lower than it trades now? What would happen to Audi and VW if it was to trade twic
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My mistake. I had a point to make about immigration but forgot to make it, the draft stayed in place. Regarding long term immigration, I thought gaijins could never secure PR or citizenship (i.e. residence not tied to work) unlike in say th
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> Virtually every country in the world enforces property rights. Countries enforce a subset of rights to a certain extent on some sort of scale which goes from "none" (e.g. the DRC, where even your life is the property of which
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But all of these countries enforce property rights. Hong Kong had the British enforce their brand of common law on it until 1997, and the Chinese haven't altered things much. It was British officers chasing Mao's bombs in 1967. Th
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I think it's more complicated than "free market" vs "interventionism". Japan benefited from the rule of law courtesy of both its culture and its post-war colonial rulers (and, effectively, from massive investments f
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The flipside being that the Japanese paid this cost in various ways, such as sucking in and "wasting" (vs other opportunities) a lot of talent into things like car manufacturing whilst leaving other fields (like software) to free
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That's the whole point! The monetary union means the EUR (the "new" mark) is lower (from a German standpoint) than it would be should it be trading separately. Having Greece in the EU is an ADVANTAGE to German manufacturers.
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Good engineering has a cost and this cost has to be financed somehow. You cannot operate in an environment where all the other players have large structural advantages due to macro conditions and "play fair" and win.
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On a higher level, there is certainly a case that foreign manufacturers have more resources available per dollar per car. In other words they can afford to put more in a car for the same sale price. Trying to sketch my thoughts: In Germany,
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I disagree with this assertion at least as pertains to RL. Some brands (like Apple) invest considerably more in doing things "properly" as opposed to "just enough", and a fairly large and wealthy market exists that is bo
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Fascinating that you are even considering making 1,000 investments per year - how are you planning to handle the processing of applications? Outsourcing, growing the YC team, AI? You're opening up to the entire world with that seed amo
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by crdb 11y ago
This is already the case for much of commodities trading which is a naturally international business dealing with "interesting" countries. Including in (now formerly) banned countries like Iran. Even if you're not doing the t
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People are globalized, and with the internet, routinely arbitrage price differences which is leading to a more global MSRP. For example, a study of over 1 million bank accounts in Australia (i.e. 1 in 22 Australians) in 2011 by the Commonwe
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After reading the original article when it was first posted, I picked up a few across the entire range (they're available for a few euros in French on Kindle) including all of 1-27 and read through them to see what the fuss is about. M
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> most cab conversations are exactly the same I know you said "most" but I have had plenty of conversations with cab drivers that I remember years into the future. Two examples: - a very elderly man picked us up in London, he w
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I'm surprised nobody has yet commented on WHY they are shutting down tonight. From [1]: "We have decided to suspend UberPOP starting tonight [...] first and foremost to protect our drivers ." - Thibaud Simphal, CEO Uber Fra
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I've had this exact conversation more times than I care to remember. Not only does upper management not care but they probably told him off (as they did me) for not sacrificing his integrity and reputation to BS you into staying with p
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The context is important. France happens to have a very influential taxi monopoly headquartered in Paris. The broad lines have been sketched by a recent Nouvel Obs article [1]. Amongst other things, the former head of the French FBI is now
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No, they do not. They live in areas like the West industrial zones where rent is much cheaper, and commute to the sites by bus. HDBs, the government-built social housing towers you might see in photos, are by law racially mixed to populatio
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Little India is only "impoverished" relative to Sentosa Cove. The MRT station has an exit facing the back of the Istana (the Presidential Palace), there are plenty of condos popular with Western expats (City Square especially), hi

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