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If you want the 101 of Mittelstand read the book Hidden Champions by Hermann Simon. A little dated but still relevant and a great read.
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I love mittlestand companies like this. Global, highly specialized, and all about product quality and customer service.
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Finding an activity that you enjoy is the most important piece. Activities you enjoy you will keep doing. Habits are hard to form.
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KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid is my mantra
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An exploit that allows full control of the device that installs with no user interaction, zero-click, and is persistent even after rebooting or power cycling the device.
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Real $ amounts! This is how you beat the black market.
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Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/
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I love the fireplace / indoor grill combo. That’s timeless
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Might not have been the right financial model or the right content for Bloomberg, but the work CityLab does is essential to fix these large problems. Maybe city sourced funding model would work...
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Ask HN: What was the procedure to shutdown the internet in Iran?
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If you really want to dig deep into the pervasive surveillance of young children research companies like https://www.bark.us/schools . They fear monger parents with suicide prevention and child porn to fully monitor all dig
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https://overcast.fm/+KebsDhWec Great Tim Ferris podcast with Michael Pollan that goes into the details on this subject.
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Gym owners should band together to make a cooperative owned alternative to MindBody. It’s a disaster. Any group of companies that are hyper regional and don’t compete should try this. Same thing with restaurants and Opentable/Ordering
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I’ve been wanting something like this! A browser plugin that would add a Co2 tax to products. The aim being to nudge shoppers to realize the hidden costs of cheap goods that are shipped at great distances. Buy local. Buy for life.
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Awesome. You get what you pay for. And with FastMail you get an awesome email experience. Worth paying money for something we all depend on everyday.
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https://news.gallup.com/poll/6196/which-freedoms-will-americ...
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100x this
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I worked on a predictive maintenance project on the Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle in a previous job. It was eye opening to say the least.
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IOT. The S stands for security.
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I find it really refreshing how Ben reflects on his past writings and admits when he was wrong than explains why his initial thinking was false. Really makes him a powerful thinker and writer.
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Apple's software first approach and last mover mentality will give them a huge advantage in the Augmented Reality Space.
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I knew the agriculture industry was at risk due to monocultures (e.g. the banana) but I didn’t know the dairy industry was too! There’s a trade off between resiliency and performance/standardization.
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Paying taxes is so frustrating. Gov : “Please pay us the taxes I owe” Tax Payer : “Ok. How much do I owe?” Gov : “We can’t tell you that. Hire an accountant if you need help” Tax Payer : “fu*k fine. (Files hinder and makes one mistake) Gov
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Anecdotal - I switched to a much smaller refrigerator and it's lead to me wasting way less food. A lot of Americans live alone or with a single partner, but own a 4 person family sized fridge.
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“Anything you post on the internet will be there forever” meme is becoming less true these days. Closed gardens that get shutdown without any notice, dead links run rampant, full reliance on cloud vendors for data storage.
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School children are sleeping on average 1 hour less than theirs peers did 50 years ago. This has been driven by earlier and earlier school start times. Sleep deprivation in school age children has been linked to lower test scores, lower kno
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This reminds me a lot of a visual code based data processing tool developed out of the NSA. Apache NiFi. The difficulty with all these low/no code environments is getting scale and maintaining enough widget blocks for it to be producti
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This is the app to compete with TickTock from the leaked FB all hands meeting
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And the cycle restarts as we head back towards thin clients...
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I wonder how they solved adding the magnetometer without interference with the magnets used for the charging cable?

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