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by flexie 6y ago
Facebook is in the business of selling advertisement. When they sell advertisement in the EU, they must follow EU legislation, including GDPR. Mercedes Benz is in the business of selling cars. When they sell cars in the US, they must follow
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by flexie 6y ago
Isn't the problem that European tech companies are sold to American companies? There are and have been countless of European chipmakers but they are usually bought by Americans. European companies grow to a certain size, and are then e
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by flexie 6y ago
I think everybody know this. But its something like 10 percent of the oil that is spent on non-fuel.
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by flexie 6y ago
We had a total of 6-7 weeks of summer vacation / work from vacation location. In many ways that was due to covid-19, not despite of it. beforehand, both me and my wife would have to be near our offices. It was mostly to places we could
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by flexie 6y ago
Hasn't the last 8-9 months proven that the world goes 'round, money is made, innovation happens, vacations are had, with most people flying very little? I now have close to 100 percent of my meetings online, and for me it has been
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by flexie 6y ago
Let's say 95 percent are killed. That still leaves around 400 million people. Let's say 95 of scientists are killed. That might still leave around 4-500,000 scientists worldwide and millions of engineers, millions of medical docto
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by flexie 6y ago
Calorie counting: How do you do? I mean, when I buy a sandwich, I don't know how many calories it contain. Not even roughly. When having dinner, I don't know how many grams of potatoes are in my plate or how much meat is on my pla
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by flexie 6y ago
As for a): That might be true for a coast to coast flight vs. a coast to coast train ride. But most travelling is not that distant. The population density in America as a hole is far smaller than in Switzerland, but the population density i
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by flexie 6y ago
We have so few bones and skulls from back then that it is impossible to conclude anything.
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by flexie 6y ago
Do we know that? Why not bears? And do we know if attacks on humans were common?
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by flexie 6y ago
Then how can they say 1-20% risk of collision?
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by flexie 6y ago
Question: This was posted half a day ago and was estimated to happen (or not) in less than 1.5 days from now. Now, or later today, when there is less time to the collision, can't they calculate with far more accuracy, whether the objec
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John McAfee, Software Pioneer Who Fled the Law, Is Arrested in Spain(nytimes.com)
4 points by flexie 6y ago|1 comments
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by flexie 6y ago
Developers cost a lot more than typographers and delivery boys and you need a lot of them to run a modern online media. A developer on staff is sort of like a subscription that the newspaper pays. The way to bring back advertisement to news
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by flexie 6y ago
True. But very few people knew on September 26, 1986. There could be equally large catastrophes avoided today that we don’t know about
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by flexie 6y ago
I think it's likely that 81 percent of all people have experienced having something stolen. That doesn't mean 81 percent of us are thieves. Similarly, I guess 99.99 percent of us have experienced receiving spam in our email. That
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by flexie 6y ago
Is it smart that there is still a pilot in the plane? I mean, it's 2020 and this plane will probably not be built in large numbers for another few years. Are human pilots still better than computers? I would think a plane could be ligh
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by flexie 6y ago
This reads like a PR piece with some weird metrics: "AirBnB spending" and "based on a panel of spending data including more than 65,000 Airbnb transactions". What is that? The Y-axis is an index, not a metric with units.
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by flexie 6y ago
Think about the organisation that an army involving hundreds of people must have meant: You have to gather them. There is no written means of communication yet in that part of Europe. There are not many roads yet. They live on farms spread
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by flexie 6y ago
I strongly doubt this, and especially the high percentage. Apparently, the numbers are based on online sale of legal templates. Maybe that took off, just like e-commerce in general.
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by flexie 6y ago
Very, very few Danish tech startups are listed. There are literally years in between, unless you count NASDAQ First North. I guess this is the way to do it :-)
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by flexie 6y ago
I don't think fear of diseases will drive it. I will be driven by profits. Companies have realized that you can have 1,000 people in what used to be a 200 person office by having them work from home most days. The savings are substanti
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by flexie 6y ago
Does the US not have anything like database rights for collections of data? What about unfair business practices? At the end of the day, Genius has probably spent thousands of man years collecting the lyrics and Google free rides on that ge
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by flexie 6y ago
This business is only relevant due to tragic laws making divorce difficult. In Denmark, you can divorce by electronic signature and without any reason. If both spouses agree, they can be divorced immediately. Immediate divorce is also possi
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by flexie 6y ago
Mathias Rust was German, not a "Finnish teenager".
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by flexie 6y ago
And many underdeveloped too: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/... 2 countries have less than 1 kid per woman 114 countries have less than 2 62 countries have less than 3 (20 of whic
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9M customers' travel data exposed in EasyJet cyber attack(express.co.uk)
3 points by flexie 6y ago|0 comments
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by flexie 6y ago
A better question would be ‘How many years do we save’ because the vast majority of the people dying from covid-19 are old people who already suffer from one or more prior diseases. The average life lost in Vietnam or Afghanistan had maybe
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by flexie 6y ago
Yes, if we look at the bankruptcy scenario only (and provided the debt is not secured). But the shareholder is typically better off if there is an upside. What we saw in the last financial crisis is that large corporations quickly paid off
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by flexie 6y ago
Danish lawyer here. The proposal only limits payments to companies that have received more than DKK 60 million (around EUR 8 million) in aid. So this is not your usual business owner. These are generally larger companies with a well paid ma

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