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by dependsontheq 6y ago
So the Soviet Union killed the whales for no reason at all and China is killing sharks for soup. https://fee.org/articles/why-the-soviets-slaughtered-180-000...
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The regency period is interesting because it combines the influence of the French Revolution with the aristocratic society of England. Clothes, fashion and behavior no longer were supposed to match your role and status but also your persona
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Remember that Astra Zeneca was supposed to manufacture for their contract before the EMA decision. Their first notice that they would only deliver a small part of the planned total was one week before the EMA decision. So I don't fault
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by dependsontheq 6y ago
Let's take a step back: - the EU has a binding contract with Astra Zeneca - the idea is to manufacture vaccine before the EMA decision - one week before the EMA decision AstraZeneca tells everybody that there are only 30% of the agreed
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by dependsontheq 6y ago
That's not true and true at the same time. There are myriad instances where management by metrics leads companies totally astray, bit it can easily argued that they are badly managed or have a bad strategy. The core of any kind of mea
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by dependsontheq 6y ago
From which country? US citizen get special priority when they move to Germany, in reality that means that I never heard of any US citizen having any kind of problem emigrating to Germany (and my wife is an immigration attorney).
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by dependsontheq 6y ago
This is a good article but there is a causality problem. I know a lot of pure software companies in the EU that work like that. If software is your core business, developers are in the loop at every decision, if your core business is buildi
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by dependsontheq 6y ago
There is no possible way to target superspreaders, a lot of spreading happens in work or private situations we can’t know in advance who will spread it there. And the possible age groups are too large so we will see no effect immediately wi
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by dependsontheq 6y ago
So it is a racist thing? Otherwise I still don’t get the “advantage” or who gains by this spreading it. The CP as heir to the history? Is it about legitimacy?
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For all foreigners China has a long and impressive history, for whom is this 5K claim relevant?
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I think he was trying to say that the NYTimes has no relevant Chinese market so it can’t be coerced by chinese regulations or threatened with a destruction of that part of their business. Global platforms can be threatened, so they adapt th
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by dependsontheq 6y ago
If you substitute “bread” for “matzah” (unleavened bread) the whole comment could be a weird jiddish joke.
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So human rights are just a geopolitical issue?
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So true - and the comparison might not even be possible, but Europe had very small units fighting each other and at the same time there was a feeling of common religion and culture. That is pretty unique and uniquely stupid. So let’s state
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by dependsontheq 6y ago
I think on a higher level most views of societies and technology will converge on a very abstracted “evolutionary” view. Looking at Kellys argument you could say the same thing “it has a will” about evolution ...but evolution certainly has
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by dependsontheq 6y ago
UBERs total funding was 25 Billion, that might not be the best example but funding on this scale is not possible in Europe. The core limit is the market size (every EU market needs specific teams) and the funding.
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by dependsontheq 6y ago
Mostly it exists so we don’t kill each other -European imperialism is a direct outgrowth of being the most warlike continent for hundreds of years. When they talk about “civil war times” in the history of China ... that’s the whole history
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by dependsontheq 6y ago
On the user side without question, but ion the developer side this enormous convenience for the user is worth much more than 30 percent. This is not Marketing this 50% of your sales funnel.
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by dependsontheq 6y ago
I never in my life bought that amount of software compared to the App Store, it’s convenient and mostly safe. Apple paid revenue in the store is two times higher than Googles. I think this is directly correlated with convenience and safety.
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by dependsontheq 6y ago
I think it's quite tragic that you got downvoted in a thread about independent thinking. Seriously people, you might disagree with his point, but it's very independent, has a lot of substance compared to all other comments, provid
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by dependsontheq 6y ago
It's a totally useless metric for productivity but I think the adoption thing is something that should be tracked and used. I big corporates you have a lot of holdouts that will send Emails instead of using a shared Doc for the next 10
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by dependsontheq 6y ago
We manage a lot of social ads for brand in Germany, which is obviously the biggest EU market. It‘s mostly very slow adoption rate of new channels, so it‘s mostly lag. Additionally FB Sales internationally has been mostly horrible, so I thin
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by dependsontheq 6y ago
Israel is not a conservative Muslim country.
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by dependsontheq 6y ago
I'ts not a lot of ice compared to the ocean. A bigger problem is that ice reflects light and in this way keeps the temperature down.
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No they won’t this is a low margin market. They will just offer Apps.
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by dependsontheq 6y ago
But I think that is a temporary thing - I don't think Apple TV is going to be long term product - TVs are too smart now
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by dependsontheq 6y ago
While I understand the discussion, in general Medical doctorates in Germany do not have the same standards as other PHDs. “Mouse dying after not being fed for a month” could actually be a real title, the problem for German doctors is that t
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by dependsontheq 6y ago
Siemens just announced that they are expecting all employees to shift to 50% home office. I think they have about 380.000 employees, of course that is just one example but I think a broader shift is happening, not a 100% remote shift.
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by dependsontheq 6y ago
I don‘t know, I am not a fan of Mitt Romney but his social status seemed to be more dependent on being a successful governor and managing the olympics. Both are net positives for society, his business record actually was his weakness.
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by dependsontheq 6y ago
Only if you define local interest as purely financially motivated. I am not even talking about the ethics, but even social status is not only dependent on wealth. We are much more than a bank account number, thinking that we are is more or

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