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by drsim 9y ago
Agreed for their current model. However Uber is very different to Visa. What's the endgame for Uber? Surely that's operating an autonomous fleet. No drivers. Visa will always have merchants, but Uber will not always have drivers.
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Russia a 'new risk' to undersea cables(bbc.com)
4 points by drsim 9y ago|0 comments
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Denmark's education minister will let high schools check students computers(dr.dk)
38 points by drsim 9y ago|51 comments
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by drsim 9y ago
Or: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freight_bicycle
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by drsim 9y ago
I don't know which version the parent looked at, but we had a mix of SQL Server 6.5 and 2000 servers. Those on 6.5 suffered from all kinds of phantom errors which a regular restart schedule fixed. SQL Server 2000 on the other hand was
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by drsim 9y ago
I really like Artful and am willing to support it so it's viable for you to continue
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Chinese bike share firm goes bust after losing 90% of bikes(bbc.com)
1 points by drsim 9y ago|0 comments
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by drsim 9y ago
source: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/...
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From Colgate Lasagne to Crystal Pepsi: Visit the Museum of Failure(theguardian.com)
1 points by drsim 9y ago|0 comments
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by drsim 10y ago
OS/2 Warp was extremely slow to boot on my 486DX2-66 (16MB RAM if I remember correctly). It was our family's first computer and the joke was we could turn the computer on, make a cup of tea and do a bunch of chores before it was r
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by drsim 10y ago
The company behind Copenhagen's docked bikes has gone bankrupt [0]. In a city where it's inexpensive to hire a standard city bike from a shop, the scheme decided to go for expensive electric cycles with GPS map displays. [0] http
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by drsim 10y ago
When I was 13 I simply went around all of the houses in the area with overgrown gardens and popped a note through their door offering grass cutting. Not a wealthy area at all, conversion rate well over 50%
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Look Inside the Windowless New York Skyscraper Linked to the NSA(theintercept.com)
3 points by drsim 10y ago|0 comments
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by drsim 10y ago
We hired two great guys that I found in the thread. A full time contract of around six months.
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Skype’s UI Sounds(beyondthebeep.tumblr.com)
2 points by drsim 10y ago|0 comments
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by drsim 10y ago
nitpick: > ...from the Faroe Islands, an island country off the coast of Denmark Not really off the coast of Denmark... https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Faroe+Islands
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by drsim 10y ago
I haven't found that to be the case for Shopify. Our theme is in git and each developer has their own development shop (hosted by Shopify for free). Using the Shopify theme tool, changes in the local file system are automatically publi
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by drsim 10y ago
Looks interesting so signed up for the beta but just ended up on a waiting list. Not in the spirit of Show HN.
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by drsim 10y ago
And here in Copenhagen our new waste-to-energy plant will look stunning, double as a ski slope and blow smoke rings: http://www.big.dk/#projects-arc
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by drsim 11y ago
only around Glasgow: it still carries a sting in Aberdeen, where I'm from
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Ghost trains(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by drsim 11y ago|0 comments
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by drsim 11y ago
Stripe Connect and Braintree are set up for marketplace scenarios but you'd need a company. Possible to hack together something with the PayPal API too, simply paying out to an email address.
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by drsim 11y ago
Seedcamp have produced standard docs including termsheets for the UK: http://seedsummit.org/ IANAL so can't definitively answer your question, however I believe you'd need UK legal docs.
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by drsim 11y ago
I was a user of Egg Money Manager. This site from the (now gone) UK bank presented all of your bank accounts, loans and credit card balances in a single place. A clever way to avoid them handling any of your bank account details, they used
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by drsim 11y ago
I worked on building a school in Uganda. There our main issue was being able to afford the cement and corrugated roofing. The bricks were made from baked clay and basic tools were the same as used in small agriculture. We took rocks from th
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The SaaS Marketplace and the Power of Strategic Symbiosis(medium.com)
2 points by drsim 11y ago|0 comments
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by drsim 11y ago
It's extreme for sure, but it's a concept. 'Concept cars' are produced as a visionary direction a car manufacturer may take their range. This should be read the same. I live in Copenhagen and can't observe any way i
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by drsim 11y ago
That is a crazy amount of bureaucracy. I doubt I'd have applied if I'd hit that. All I had to do was two interviews, sign a simple declaration and then present receipts for purchases.
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by drsim 11y ago
For my grant I was asked to sign a simple declaration of means. There was no verification. It was more to do with the aspiration of the Trust rather than an ironclad requirement (I was funded age 15: the minimum was supposed to be 16). Ther
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by drsim 11y ago
I started my first business (web design) at 15 with a £1,000 grant from The Prince's Scottish Youth Business Trust. It was a very significant amount for me. Without it I wouldn't have been able to start. My family were on income s

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