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by flexie 9y ago
Through my work as a lawyer I have dealt with manufacturing of consumer electronics quite a few times, usually when things go wrong. Most European companies have their products manufactured (assembled) in China. In a small gadget, there are
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by flexie 9y ago
Agree and edited, although it really is two units under the same government - and that's where the blame belongs.
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by flexie 9y ago
The damages caused by US agencies* are easily underestimated. It's not just the equipment rendered useless and data lost due to their software. It's also the millions of hours spent by IT departments worldwide battling with infect
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by flexie 9y ago
AT&T was founded in the 1870s. But it wasn't until 1925 the research activities had gotten so massive that they spun it out in Bell Labs. Apple and Microsoft are around 40 years old, but Amazon and Google are much younger companies
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by flexie 9y ago
Given that today's airplanes need several km runway to take off and to land, and that people often need to transfer from one plane to another, we are probably not going to have many more airports per city than we already have in a fore
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by flexie 9y ago
Flying is already such a dreadful thing. Even a one hour flight takes 5-7 hours when you count in all the extras. In my experience, a 1 hour flight like London - Brussels, is not much faster than a 7 hour flight like London - New York. Airp
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by flexie 9y ago
Impressive!
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by flexie 9y ago
But even the small counties have populations in the several hundreds or thousands, right? Outliers that die at 33 or 103 affect the average little when you have a population of 2,000.
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by flexie 9y ago
Well, we had one in my home in Denmark.
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by flexie 9y ago
In many places in the western world, facebook users are some 90 percent of everybody in a certain age group. So if it says anything about Facebook users, it says something about everybody. Facebook is approaching 2B users. Let's say th
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by flexie 9y ago
In parts of Eastern Europe, Asia, South America, and Africa, Facebook could hire 3,000 college educated employees for less than $3M monthly, including taxes. So while this from a human point of view is a very decent thing to do, it's n
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by flexie 9y ago
And that's the thing; if the EV doesn't have a range of around 300miles you would think of it as a second car, a city car, only suitable for commutes and shopping trips. Plenty of people have a second car, but I suspect many secon
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by flexie 9y ago
I agree but would say a 300 mile range is where the tipping point will be for most people, unless we have a much more dense supercharger network. I haven't been driving anywhere near 300 miles in a single day in the last year and I wou
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by flexie 9y ago
Talking about Google products one has to mention the two products which make around 90 percent of their revenue: adwords and adsense. These programs are the real products of Google, and at least one of them was acquired. It must be really d
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by flexie 9y ago
In a scary future, this could be used to grow a population fast. Once they can copy the entire pregnancy from (artificial) inception to ready made baby, they can grow a population from just the sperm and eggs of a few men and women. Send 1M
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by flexie 10y ago
Yes, isn't it? Much of California was a barren desert before cultivated by Europeans. It's not like it used to be one big forest before the Europeans settled.
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by flexie 10y ago
Article says fish survive in sub zero environments such as below ice. But is the water below ice sub zero? I thougt it was at least zero as long as its liquid (at close to normal pressue). Is that the salt?
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by flexie 10y ago
Communist societies had less redistribution than many modern social democratic countries and even less than the US. They distributed to the party elite, sure, and kept everybody else poor. Forget about ideological differences. Talk is cheap
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by flexie 10y ago
Communism shared the totalitarianism, militarism and racism (incl antisemitism) of fascism. Communist art looked a lot like nazist art. Flags and banners too. So did the way their soldiers marched. The way individuals just didn't matte
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by flexie 10y ago
I might. I love what Tesla is doing but I sure hope there will be competitors (not to take anything away from Lucid, Rimac, Nissan etc). Right now, Tesla is in a league of its own and until the setbacks reported in recent months Google and
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by flexie 10y ago
Wouldn't most tech guys be able to support a family working for any of the local web developers, app developers or IT departments of non tech companies that you find all over Florida, New Zealand and most of the Western world? In urban
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by flexie 10y ago
Truly a remarkable man. It's been 150 years but that period is still intriguing.
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by flexie 10y ago
No, it actually matters a lot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_registration#Effects_and... Requirements for registration is just one way to make voting hard. Others include requirements that voters cast their vote
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by flexie 10y ago
Officially, because they don't have registration of all citizens, unlike in most of Europe. In reality, maybe also because someone prefers that young people, poor people, immigrants etc don't vote to the same extent as other group
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by flexie 10y ago
Yes, if that's a sin, it's hardly a deadly one.
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by flexie 10y ago
Take Musk. He got rich from selling Paypal. Had he spent the money on charity as this post suggests (or demands) we would have had no Tesla and no SpaceX. I think the world is often be better off by rich people doing more of what made them
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by flexie 10y ago
I can't think of any product I'd rather have than a Tesla. I think Tesla will sell millions of Model 3. Which other car is 400,000 people waiting patiently to buy for two years, even putting down a $1,000 deposit? Tesla is doing t
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Fall of Eden: Show's reality contestants were left stranded without an audience(telegraph.co.uk)
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Uber closing in Denmark (Danish)(business.dk)
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by flexie 10y ago
To me, it seems like Hollywood is betting everything on 3D movies in the fantasy/superhero/werewolf/supernatural abilities/animated/zombie genre(s). That's roughly 3/4 of what the three cinema chains in my

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