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by flexie 8y ago
It's simply the planning of it. A lot of the 100 mile expansion is not planned to start until 10-20-30 years from now. I guess that's due to financing.
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by flexie 8y ago
The article doesn't really mention that most of these expansions will be ready 20-40 years into the future (if not delayed). If you buy a house in an LA suburb hoping that you will soon get subway nearby, you might get it once the mort
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by flexie 8y ago
I noticed the same. Other factors played in too. Around the time the malls came to Sofia, the municipality also started renovating the main streets in the city center turning Vitoshka into a real pedestrian street and building proper sidewa
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by flexie 8y ago
Facebook is far from where Microsoft were in 2003-2007. Most people (90-something percent?) could chose between Microsoft or Apple or no computer at all. Ordinary consumers could not use a text editor, a spreadsheet, send an email, or brows
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by flexie 8y ago
For the past 30 years my European accounts haven't offered any interest worth mentioning - and neither did my American ones.
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by flexie 8y ago
This whole checking account / savings account, credit card/ debit card system that Americans have to deal with is so cumbersome and backwards. For Europeans that don't know: Most Americans have (at least) those two accounts,
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by flexie 8y ago
Hope that by ‘this life’ you mean the life of a software developer.
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by flexie 8y ago
Because even if South Korea joined North Korea and even if they doubled or tripled their wealth, they would still be too small to impose a threat to the US dominance. Australia, Canada or even large European nations are not seen as threats
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by flexie 8y ago
It is ugly. The US and Canada is going down a rabbit hole. The dictatorship of Iran is disgusting and dangerous but the US trades with countries governed by equally disgusting and dangerous dictatorships such as Saudi Arabia and China. The
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by flexie 8y ago
A lot of criticism from anonymous sources. Even if they had names, would it even be worth mentioning what a bunch of hysterical 20-something year old developers are complaining about? Yes, it's inconvenient for them that they bet on th
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by flexie 8y ago
And why would people downvote this comment? Agree or disagree, but downvoting a completely harmless comment like this is just bad for the conversations here.
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by flexie 8y ago
It is far from a myth. If it was a myth, salaries wouldn't be increasing so much, while the number of developers also increase. The demand for developers exceeds the supply so much that this is possible. Do you know any other major ind
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by flexie 8y ago
What he says about dilution is right. But there are other considerations: - The founders are not sure they can raise money for the new idea and they might use the money left in the failed company. - The failed company may have users that ar
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by flexie 8y ago
And people stay in (inner) cities longer. Before, people had kids earlier and they moved to the suburbs when they had kids. Now they have kids later and more and more stay in the city even after having kids.
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by flexie 8y ago
I want these indie space companies to succeed as much as anyone else here but you are asking a valid and sober question and I don’t know why you are being downvoted for it.
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by flexie 8y ago
I think you misread my comment. I have nothing against immigrants. I am an immigrant as well, and I have lived in 4 different countries. I also think it's a bit hard to say that he is "cursed" with his original nationality or
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by flexie 8y ago
The article keeps talking about "Danish" this and that. The only one of the so called Danish physicists quoted in the article is Andrew Jackson who is American. I believe this is the paper it all relates to: https://arx
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by flexie 8y ago
Very interesting! What scanner, resolution and tools for OCR did you use?
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by flexie 8y ago
You seem to confuse mathematical exponentiation with the common use of the word: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/exponential On a side note, I doubt that you would ever find a growth rate in business or economy that
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by flexie 8y ago
The supercharger network is indeed a massive advantage for Tesla. For now, it's obviously necessary, since the range of the cars on the road is generally limited to 200-300 miles. But even in 3-4 years, when new Teslas likely have a ra
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by flexie 8y ago
Danish tax payers have lost around EUR 1.7B. That's around EUR 300 for every Dane. Still a lot, but a lot less than they claim. I have two takes on this: 1: The Danish tax authorities have been extremely careless in the administration
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by flexie 8y ago
This is an exception to Betteridge's law, isn't it?
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by flexie 8y ago
Robocalls used for unsolicited marketing, which is the bulk of it, is illegal throughout the European Union and has been so for around 15 years. The ban follows form article 13 of the directive on privacy and electronic communications: htt
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by flexie 8y ago
It’s not 30k/year for many of these employees. They are temporary workers that never know when they have work and when they don’t. It’s 15/hour. Also, 30k is a decent wage for a young person with no dependants. It’s not enough if
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by flexie 8y ago
$15/hour is still not much in the international market where Amazon sells its goods. In large parts of Europe it's less than what a warehouse worker makes. It's still barely enough for an adult to be able to pay his/her
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by flexie 8y ago
Musk doesnt have an MBA. But yes, Google and Microsoft hired MBAs as CEOs when they ceased to innovate at the same rate as before and started to be just ordinary companies defending a monopoly.
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by flexie 8y ago
Winter is not horribly dark and boring in Scandinavia unless you are super rich. It’s equally dark and boring for everyone. And virtually everybody in Scandinavia can afford to travel south to sunnier places for a few weeks, if that’s what
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by flexie 8y ago
Which of the wars following September 11 were necessary for Pax Americana? Could it be that these wars exposed how primitive guerrilla forces can bleed the mighty American military dry? It's not like the world has seen a very convincin
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by flexie 8y ago
I think that would be something like 5,000 cars per week times 52 weeks times the average price of 42,000 dollars per car
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by flexie 8y ago
The article suggests Tesla will produce/sell 24,900 Model 3s in 2018. That's roughly what they produced in Q1 and the production rate has increased since to the point where Tesla will likely produce more than 150,000 Model 3s in 2

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