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by dominicr 8y ago
It's not that simple as the multipler is not even across all things and all jobs. Eating out or getting a take away is 2x or 3x the cost of the UK/US but your server & chef both make a decent wage without the need for tips. El
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by dominicr 8y ago
If the US wanted to punish Assange maybe the best way is to massively ignore him and get everyone else to do the same. He's an attention freak, so walking out of his self-imposed imprisonment to resounding silence would hit him where i
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by dominicr 8y ago
Usually this is because customers have gotten used to paying less than reasonable prices. Paying people more is often hand in hand with customers paying more. But people like the first idea more than the second! Companies will try to only p
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by dominicr 8y ago
Related to this: customers need to pay more. Many businesses have very small profit margins, so paying staff more or training staff could turn them unprofitable. When you're buying products cheaply it's likely that somebody (or so
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by dominicr 8y ago
You can spot electric vehicles here as they have different license plate prefixes, so easy to get a view of what's electric without knowing the models. That I can recognise I see a LOT of Nissan Leafs and good number of Hyundai Ioniq,
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by dominicr 8y ago
Disruptions normally result from a newcomer finding a new way to do things that legacy companies can't keep up with or compete with. A problem for Tesla is that many of the big car makers are joining in on the "disruption" an
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by dominicr 8y ago
Most western states have a concept of freedom of religious expression up to a point. Sometimes that means Christians can ignore employment or child protection laws, and sometimes it means Sikhs can take extra risks to ride a motorbike. Sure
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by dominicr 8y ago
Unlikely. A Sikh's headdress is their uncut hair wrapped in cloth, so the size and structure of that is very variable. It's not feasible to make a helmet that fits over that without leaving a lot of space, and space makes helmets
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by dominicr 8y ago
I see. As you're going down the freemium model really push the free service to get people using it and wanting more. If there was an easy and consistent answer to pricing models a lot more people would still be in business! Especially
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by dominicr 8y ago
I had no idea what this was until I clicked around a bit so I was going to make a couple of suggestions for your home page (like explaining what it does and linking straight to the app) but I see that you have a 'pro' home page th
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by dominicr 8y ago
People tend to underestimate Europe and the EU. When asked what the world's leading financial power is almost half of people say the USA. The USA is third, with China first and the EU second. The EU's share of the world's GDP
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by dominicr 8y ago
There’s a lot of people getting riled about this but recent history in Europe shows that it has little effect either way. Not a great way to solve the imbalance but it’s not going to cause anyone’s collapse. The Economist sums it up: “While
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by dominicr 8y ago
> if you want your social cause to not be a victim of market forces, you either need to work yourself into the market correctly... Social enterprises aren’t responding to a market opportunity in the same way a for profit business is. The
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by dominicr 8y ago
Funnily enough in Norway they’ve just doubled the bottle deposit, to the benefit of people who search bins for empty bottles (mostly immigrants). I think they were actually hoping less people would throw bottles away but it’d have to be a l
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by dominicr 8y ago
Maybe other people could do that too and we could all start putting stickers on our laptops ;)
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by dominicr 8y ago
The workaholic side of me used to like the crazy but the aging me likes a better work/life balance. I'm British but recently moved to Oslo, Norway. Until recently I worked at a start-up incubator where there was talk about the &#x
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by dominicr 8y ago
If you consider a 35 degree slope a plateau then may I kindly suggest never applying for a job at a mapping company ;)
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by dominicr 8y ago
Yes, company dynamics are really complex and this book will only have an effect if the people reading it are the company leaders. But they're also reading "10 habits of successful CEOs" articles that tell them to wake up at 4
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by dominicr 8y ago
For me it's the same. I don't have much time to listen to podcasts so general chat or low density talk just isn't efficient. I like some conversational podcasts like After On where they tend to stick to discussing the topic a
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by dominicr 8y ago
"Wall Street is a confidence game." - Basically this explains the stock price of a lot of companies. Once a company takes on a lot of debt or VC capital it has to constantly chase its next round of funding above all else; once it
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by dominicr 8y ago
Are people using random generators to create research topics? Throw in a list of animals, a list of chemicals, hit the button and boom!: New thesis topic!
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by dominicr 8y ago
I agree, it's the widespread VC culture of big growth & big exits that gets people talking about Evernote as dead or dying, when in reality if it was a small company focused on it's core product and building steadily then it&#
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by dominicr 8y ago
Other people's branching strategies are often a mystery to me. If master has 20 builds and the latest stable release branch has 1071 builds and there are 25 stable versions currently available for download but those only go back to ver
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by dominicr 8y ago
If anyone is interested in more resources Lucee is pretty much interchangeable with Coldfusion (CF): Learn Modern ColdFusion (CFML) in 100 Minutes: https://modern-cfml.ortusbooks.com/ Learn CF in a Week: http://
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by dominicr 8y ago
It's not a great example as it's trying to be ultra simple for first steps. There's a lot of built in security to Lucee/CF but for a query I'd always be doubly sure and explicitly state the parameter data type as we
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by dominicr 8y ago
OK, some fair comments there. For me the article's negative was that it focused on one edge case reason to not use IDs, when there are others. While everyone makes mistakes I'd hope that using an array's size instead of its v
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by dominicr 8y ago
Thinking that the answer is making something that everyone "needs" to use is a problem. For example "to enter the conference they need to install this app that also tracks them" is a common thought but it's a bad id
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by dominicr 8y ago
I have about 10 years working in the tech side of large B2B events, so comments are based on that. It’s fine to start a business in an industry you’re not crazy about but most people who make a success this way know there’s a ready and wait
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by dominicr 8y ago
> it would be very hard to be excited about b2b tradeshows. I worked in the technology side of large B2B events for about 10 years and there are certainly people who get really excited about B2B events! You don't have to LOVE your p
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by dominicr 8y ago
Basically saying that don't use numbers because somebody might write crap code and it'll get run on your deployment database?! If getting such dangerously awful code deployed to production is likely then sequential IDs are just on

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