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by gutnor 8y ago
> The real motivation is a financial one. And the absolute hatred people on HN have for it is most likely due to the downgrade from personal office to shared space. In Europe, where personal offices never really happened outside manageme
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by gutnor 8y ago
That is indeed per year in GBP. That is published by the UK Government directly: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/percentile-points-f... I noticed that I used an older version, so the number have increase
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by gutnor 8y ago
If it take income in the UK as an example. • 50th percentile is 21900, • 90th is "only" 50600, • 95th is 70400, that's the salary required for the 220K average UK house. • 96th is 78800 • 97th is 91300 • 98th is 11000 • 99th
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by gutnor 8y ago
> Do you not want a large, detached house? :) The smiley implies a lot of people want that. That's true, but the flip side of that question is "Do you no want to drive for everything you need?" which, especially in Europe,
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by gutnor 8y ago
Generally speaking people working in call centre, or that deal with client all day long, like the NATO alphabet, especially people that have to deal with random code, or need to get names spelled right. People that I know worked in call cen
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> But is it really true? I don't know. We all know that, as anything, a modern car is very complex by itself and even the simplest modern production line requires far too much expertise to understand if you are not working directly
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by gutnor 8y ago
> Also remember that they’re attempting something hard / never done before. Well, building car is hardly something that hasn't been done before. They seem to be suffering from extreme NIH caused by the illusion that 100% of the
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by gutnor 8y ago
People behaviour matters indirectly at least. If the environment is important enough in people mind that it affects their behaviours, you bet that politician will play on that card. Similarly, as an investor, if you notice the trend, you wi
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by gutnor 8y ago
Too lazy to test probably. If you support IE, Safari, Chrome both on the desktop and mobile, chances are that your site supports practically everything. Unfortunately, often giving the official thumbs up requires passing some test suite. I
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> Crashes are a regular thing and most of the physical "improvements" outside of compactness and weight have been unwanted. I feel like the 3D touchpad is completely underrated but it really is amazing. It does everything that
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by gutnor 8y ago
Not disagreeing but there isn't only the negative side (self-promotion, ass-covering). There are people trying and failing. Life happen: acquisition (you or some of your provider), restructuring, negotiation, strategic changes, key per
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by gutnor 8y ago
And for $5 you can get 1 carat CZ. It is softer ( while still more than hard enough ), it is optically closer to diamond than moissanite. Moissanite is a great stone, but its price follow the same tactic as the diamond industry including ri
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by gutnor 8y ago
You miss the last layer: user and browser. Even with all the improvement is web technologies in recent past, the browser is still not close to native widget. And finally the users themselves. No matter how neat you managed to be in the unde
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by gutnor 8y ago
The actual benefit is to have the car handles itself in situation where you would be distracted regardless. I engage similar system on my car before fiddling with the attention seeking touch screen, or when I need to give a quick look at th
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by gutnor 8y ago
> then the result will probably be that a lot of free websites ban EU users and smaller companies take their place with products that either cost money or will be a bit worse. Availability of quality free content is not a problem, the co
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by gutnor 8y ago
You never know with 5 years old. It could be what you say, or it could be some topic they are deeply interested in and will want to know all the little tiny details. I had a discussion with some 4 years old about fire extinguisher and why t
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by gutnor 8y ago
And there are still the books for the people that really want to follow. The divergence from the book are not big in season 1 and 2. I have not read the rest of the series, but there is a risk of change of tone of the series from close to r
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by gutnor 8y ago
Remember that the context is a bug. So sure you don't want to log everything in Prod, but maybe you do in Dev. In that case, a bug would be to push the dev logging configuration to Prod. Oops. If you have the clear text password at any
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by gutnor 8y ago
And, that folk, is how regulations are born, when companies abuse the people. In a few decades, "future HN"-reader will talk about how those regulation are stifling innovation by rising the bar of entry to any business managing us
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Another point is that immigration of qualified worker is the one that is not only accepted, but seen as desirable. Universities are selling something for 45,000 GBP that is available for free or much cheaper in other countries and readily a
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by gutnor 8y ago
> How is just assuming that without evidence not disdain for blue collar workers? In order for that to be disdain, you need to associate people identity with their job. I'm not a millennial, but I'm still young enough that the
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by gutnor 8y ago
> I think underlying a lot of this is a disdain in America for blue collar workers. It could simply be that everybody knows that blue collar job are eventually going to disappear. You don't want to build your latest factory using te
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No, that's what happened when you disconnect medical science from law and instead use culture and moral as legal basis. There is no good decision here, the alternative, refusing on medical ground is not correct either. There is no medi
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by gutnor 9y ago
I don't know what to think of this, that seems a weird implementation, is that a genuine iPhone ? I would have thought that the cooldown would prevent entering a new passcode for an increasing period of time. There should have been sev
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by gutnor 9y ago
> What are Pros supposed to do in the mean time? Keep buying PCs I guess. > How much would it cost R&D to update the Mac Pro? I hope/think that Apple is thinking that bringing back the cheese grater or in other word a PC runn
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by gutnor 9y ago
That's like "Made with 100% local organic chicken" is only pointing out that the organic chicken is local, unlike the non-organic chicken whose provenance is not guaranteed. That would be great to live in the world of marketi
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by gutnor 9y ago
That's funny to see the whole range of opinion about management on HN. It varies from this one, the very bottom, the leech living of his team of engineers, to Elon Musk, the engineering genius whose team(s) is acknowledged at best as a
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by gutnor 9y ago
Especially seen from the US: I think that investor thinks that Uber is the future of transport, period. The replacement for buses, local train, taxi, car rental, car ownership. In that world, cities pour money in Uber instead of their faili
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by gutnor 9y ago
That's the other way around most of the time where I lived (Continental Europe and London) Only in London, people I know have had both experiences. Letting agencies are really the one pushing. For the landlord, a paying tenant is a goo
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You will always see both side of the coin - after all if your interpretation was any more certain than parent, the stock would be worth 0 today. FB lost a few months of profits and has a set of issues. All the rest are hunches, it could be

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