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by gutnor 9y ago
Not sure if I made that comment already on HN. But I was watching a documentary on some amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe. All the men from teens to elders looked like gym models. It never struck me until I was in my 30's - but really I
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by gutnor 9y ago
That's my point actually. You can't predict that, like you could predict the sudden demise of Diesel only 3 years ago. 3 years ago you could probably have done exactly the same reasoning with electric cars (eg: London 0-emission g
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by gutnor 9y ago
3 years ago was also before the diesel gate. Here in Europe, we moved from Diesel is king to the specialist press running article on why you can still consider buying a Diesel car in 2017 in some condition. That triggered countries like Ger
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by gutnor 9y ago
They build platform across a lot of models shared between various brands of the same group. So what they lose supporting gas and electric, they (could) win it back with a diversity of models and form factors. Also it is not before the next
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by gutnor 9y ago
> Most people are not using laptops as tools to create anything. Even for people creating stuff. The touchpad is way more important than the keyboard as a developer. I can spend a lot of time scrolling, scrolling, reading code and docume
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by gutnor 9y ago
And it is funny because that's the case of basically everything, yet at the same time, being a maker is fashionable and for a reasonable amount of money, people can and do get themselves 70's industrial level workshop in a lot of
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by gutnor 9y ago
> And at the end of the day, the company thinks they are paying the guy to do one thing, which they believe takes a significant chunk of time, but that's not the case. If he wasn't remote, and had to come into the office every
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by gutnor 9y ago
The core of the article is luck into making way more money than you need. Use spare luck to find a honest someone that knows what to do with that money. Retire. That's not really what personal finance are about. Unless Vegas Holiday Br
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by gutnor 9y ago
> Why do some people write the dollar sign after the number? For foreigners, that's easy, that's how you write currencies in other languages. For American doing it, I guess it is just a typing artefact. You think "ten doll
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by gutnor 9y ago
Apple devices are decently priced when they are refreshed. The premium marketing pitch or more precisely the focus on the premium experience however allows Apple to keep the release day price for the whole life of the product. That alone is
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by gutnor 9y ago
Etsy is based on selling handmade/artisan stuff. They can get away selling mass market stuff because of the reputation they earned with actual artisans at the beginning. Your strategy would be to get full steam becoming a front for Ali
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by gutnor 9y ago
Is lethality the only criteria that can justify fear ? My cyclist colleagues are constantly afraid of pedestrians ( reverse problem than Amsterdam, in London, where infrastructure is inconsistent and pedestrian quite oblivious of cyclists )
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by gutnor 9y ago
> As a tourist, this was weird, I nearly got mowed down a few times but because I was in the wrong and not paying attention. You quickly adapt and realized bike lanes are just as important to watch out for as vehicle lanes. You can also
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by gutnor 9y ago
Personally I think that Jobs/Apple were expecting the Apple TV to be the next big thing. In the world of 2007, TV was still almighty and winning the living room should have been a revolution. It should have been the entry into the post
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by gutnor 9y ago
English is not my first language - does OP really imply he is a single parent simply stating "and a 3 months old baby daughter to care and provide for." I would say the same even though I'm happily living with my wife. Nurser
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by gutnor 9y ago
Would Apple buy a big already established large player ? Their style is more like buying a tiny player, integrating it and rebranding their expertise under Apple flag. I was thinking that Lotus would have been the type of Apple candidate an
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by gutnor 9y ago
You must seriously value being tall. I wouldn't mind being 5ft tall with 25 million in my bank account. edit: bad math not 2.5 billion, still 25 million is not bad, I take it in exchange of 1 foot 7in.
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by gutnor 9y ago
> desktop workloads (high-end gaming, databases, compilers, video encoding, AI computation, etc.) and we will see a bit of a different picture. Well that still matters. A lot of desktop user even in enterprise are not doing any of that a
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by gutnor 9y ago
Yes, GBP.
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by gutnor 9y ago
I keep the (UK) National Statistic report of salaries. * 22K is the median salary. The people under 22K get propped up by social security up to around that amount (theoretically, practically not) * top-20% percentil starts at 38K * top-13%
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by gutnor 9y ago
That's the point of the question, isn't it. Finding an opening with the potential buyer before even working on the product. If the buyer does not care about the pen, you will try selling him how cheap, light and not leaking the pe
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by gutnor 9y ago
Why don't you do it yourself, you already have 1 person interested which is a much better position than parent. Being ready to buy something is orthogonal to being capable to create a business selling it. Not everything has a low hangi
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by gutnor 9y ago
You ignore the fact that the 99% of the cheat probably has or had a good reason to be there for one reason of another. The actual responsibility is probably multi-layered with the majority of contributor unknowingly participating in somethi
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by gutnor 9y ago
I think the biggest problem is the speed differential. That's ok, the rich can afford 140in 16K TV a few years before middle class which get it a few years before poor people. It is not ideal, but you know that eventually everybody is
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by gutnor 9y ago
Or correlation with basically everything else. I sleep better when in a separate room than my wife, because if that happens that's probably because she was being nice and shielded me from my morning duties, and let the kid jump in her
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by gutnor 9y ago
> I mean, I don't see a huge push towards generic charging points all over the city despite things moving in that direction. In London at least, the push is to get less car on the road, regardless if they are electric or not. There
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by gutnor 9y ago
In my London situation, 80% of my journeys will be within 20 miles. However, I don't have a garage or even a house. I park on the street and I would need at least 1 weekly trip to some charging station. In the 5% times I go over that d
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by gutnor 9y ago
Council Tax is more a general purpose local tax. It contains everything that in other countries would fall in various tax like municipal tax, local authority tax, recycling tax, driveway tax, ... and as such it is paid by the person living
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by gutnor 9y ago
And the possibility of not being able to go to the US ever again, meaning something that will get in the way when searching other employment. It's one thing to decide not to go to the US, it is quite another to be force to it in order
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by gutnor 9y ago
> I mean, do you often like to wait for your food to be delivered? As a foreigner, Amazon ( and others ) offers food that is simply not accessible in the local supermarket. All the food that requires a trip to a larger supermarket or a s

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