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by flexie 7y ago
This image shows the opposite of a glassy skyline. The only true glass building, which reflects sky and water, is the one just above the boat. The rest of the buildings are more traditional sky scrapers with mixed cladding.
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by flexie 7y ago
Museums, zoos and events are for once a month or once a week at the most. A garden or a suburban park is for once every few hours.
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by flexie 7y ago
https://www.statista.com/statistics/189841/number-of-ball-di... I’d bet that most towns and suburbs with 10,000 inhabitants have 2-4 of those, or more :-)
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by flexie 7y ago
Yes, but that doesn’t ‘recover’ anything
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by flexie 7y ago
But close to nothing is being recovered. We would recover more or less the same if we introduced a tax on bad weather to be paid by those suffering from it. The money collected with this tax may or may not reduce air travel and will be spen
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by flexie 7y ago
Actually, I find it surprisingly small when considering how powerful it is. In terms of men (2.2M active and reserve), combat tanks (6,300), artillery (1,700), war ships (130), submarines (70) and fighter planes (2,400) it’s dwarfed by mili
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by flexie 7y ago
How do I check my Samsung TV with my Samsung remote?
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by flexie 7y ago
It's terrible that journalists are killed. Press freedom is extremely important. But if these numbers are correct, they are probably good news. I don't think there has been any other point in history where worldwide just 70 journa
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by flexie 7y ago
It was until we upvoted it
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by flexie 7y ago
I think that by now everyone realizes that there are EU skeptics in all member countries. There will always be. Around 25 percent of Americans want their state to secede (1). A lot of Italians want Northern Italy to part with Southern Italy
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by flexie 7y ago
Agreed and its very good without. I only mentioned it because they already put smoke from different temples/ baths :-)
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by flexie 7y ago
I love this. Nitpick: Rome was a city with a population of up to 1 million people plus millions of animals. We see a few plumes of smoke coming up from bath complexes, but that would just have been a few of thousands. Even if this was in th
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by flexie 7y ago
You are absolutely right. The only way EVs are not going to overtake by 2030 would be if battery technology somehow stopped improving despite both investments in battery research and investments in battery manufacturing capacity are increas
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by flexie 7y ago
Well, it's easy for us to sit here in the developed world and talk about how the world doesn't need growth. There are billions of people for whom more of the same means more poverty. When everybody in Africa, South America, Asia,
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by flexie 7y ago
Exactly. And while we are at Google. They were not the first search engine, but merely one of dozens if not hundreds. Facebook was not the first social network. Apple was not the first producer of computers for consumers. Amazon was not the
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by flexie 7y ago
Yes that is truly amazing. That will relegate the US to the 5th place within 20-25 years. And actually, even Pakistan could overtake the US. And if you count the EU as one country, which is increasingly true, then the US could easily be the
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by flexie 7y ago
Apple got public money from Small Business Investment Company. Nike, Ben&Jerry's, FedEx, and Chipotle got SBA loans. Google's search algorithm was funded by National Science Foundation. Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon recei
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by flexie 8y ago
The US is the leader of software 1) because software really got started in English. Since then it has been taught, documented, written about in books, blogs and tutorials in English, spoken about in English. Yes, there are translations, and
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by flexie 8y ago
Because inflation doesn't take into account all the improvements that have been made. A liter of milk or a dozen eggs may almost be the same in 1630 and 2019. A square kilometer of farm land is not, since the crop yield today far excee
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by flexie 8y ago
It is impossible to compare wealth across centuries. Even really difficult across decades. The owners of the Dutch East India Company endured conditions poor Europeans would find appalling today. I'd say the average welfare client live
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by flexie 8y ago
Facebook has "no clue what kind of stuff gets posted" because they conveniently have decided to have no clue. Facebook enjoys the protection of its IPR and the right to sell advertisement overseas in places like New Zealand or Eur
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by flexie 8y ago
I am a continental European myself and have lived in three European countries, two of which are republics (not France though). You?
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by flexie 8y ago
Ah - you don't think it's a little off that a tiny, obscure and exclusive group of 70-100 year olds, dressed up in costumes from a bygone era, gets to decide what goes into your official dictionary? Especially when they talk in su
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by flexie 8y ago
Thank you. For too long have these large advertising companies been allowed to disregard copyrights. Google and Facebook will have to pay for using others’ content. I would have liked to see a higher threshold so that small and medium sized
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by flexie 8y ago
Let them block the European market for a few hours or days and nothing will happen, except that they lose advertisement revenue. Let them block for months, and European competitors will emerge. But why on Earth would they do that? And why s
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by flexie 8y ago
The attitude towards streaming and the whole video on demand idea 10-15 years ago reminds me so much on the attitude towards electric vehicles today: - Quality is too low - speed is too slow - many people want to own their movie, not just r
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by flexie 8y ago
Thanks. So he hasn’t posted at all for 5 years or commented at all for 3.5 years :-)
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by flexie 8y ago
Why is the creator of HN not on HN anymore? Or is he? Has he entirely moved to Twitter or is he still posting and commenting on HN?
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by flexie 8y ago
Unless you are one of the founders or investors, there is little reason to rejoice in the current valuations of American tech companies. It has little to do with innovation and a lot to do with extremely lax regulation. What the world needs
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by flexie 8y ago
There are not many "corporate-owned mini-hotels" but there are certainly hundreds of thousands of people that buy one or more apartments with the purpose of renting them out through AirBnB (or not sell apartments that they would o

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