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by gutnor 10y ago
You forget the one probably underlying problem: the feeling that Apple has given up or on its way to give up the Mac. As you said, there is not major failings in the new MBP ... but it comes after 2 years wait, in a side event (i.e. not rea
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by gutnor 10y ago
Another point - even if you want to consider yourself a business ( 10$ instead of $8.25 at this stage why not ), the business plan starts at minimum 5 users ( you can use less user, but you are still charged for 5 ) FYI if you are ever temp
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by gutnor 10y ago
That's what I meant. The market may not be global from an employee point of view, but that's an oxymoron, that has never been the case ever in any field. ( not saying it is a good thing ) Without any protectionist measure, it just
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by gutnor 10y ago
Thank you, yes that's what I meant. I'm not sure how the salary compare relative to the cost of living, but the fact of having a US-base job is also part of the package and is valuable to foreign workers.
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by gutnor 10y ago
It may be good overall, but not necessarily for the US worker in particular. The thing is, tech worker market is global and large companies always have the choice to outsource plain and simple. The H-1B visa trick is a win-win between forei
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by gutnor 10y ago
Indeed, there is no announcement either. The price/spec just changes on the Apple Store. Most of the time, the reaction is positive - people just like to see that Apple care. Keeping the same price for a machine over 3 years and not ev
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by gutnor 10y ago
There are blurry lines though, which is what the court case will determine. If you have your laptop at home and are technically on call ( for example, in Spain, if you are paid above average for a position it can be claimed in court that yo
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by gutnor 10y ago
> Lastly... one viewpoint presented in the article is that it's somehow immoral for the CEOs to worry about self-preservation instead of trying to give back to the community. The thing that I don't like with this reasoning is t
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by gutnor 10y ago
note: only on google.com ! Not on google.co.uk
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by gutnor 10y ago
> Density should enable walking which changes everything. That's pipe dream. There is a problem in NY and SF because people want to go the same place. That's the appeal of big cities: lot of job or activities in a limited space
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by gutnor 10y ago
It is strange that even on HN the only solution to housing crisis is "find a way to build more". That's not the 90's anymore, a lot jobs can be done remotely now, a lot of jobs are if you consider how many times you work
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by gutnor 10y ago
This is the same with laws like no education for illegal immigrant. Outside any humane argument, technically the schools are not equipped to determine the legal status of every child parents. Even outside any malicious application (which is
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by gutnor 10y ago
> It's nonetheless a chilling sign that they're restricting VPN access, which is consistent with the overall tightening of internet control that's been going on for quite a while. It is also consistent with the worldwide t
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by gutnor 10y ago
There are other things: * Cheap nursery. * Quality public schools. * Quality food for kids in public education. My bigger cost right now in London is my son. Nursery alone is way more than my rent and the price of renting in London is stupi
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by gutnor 10y ago
It definitively put stuff into perspective. 6500 jobs is a big number in human scale. That's more people that you know. But that's 0.05% of the manufacturing jobs in the US alone. 0.05% of the manufacturing power of the US fitted
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by gutnor 10y ago
Has others have pointed out - becoming a widget company was Jobs plan all along. The true value of Steve Jobs is the reality distortion field. That's really was is missing here with the new Mac. All the discutable decisions about the M
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by gutnor 10y ago
He is correct. Blackberry was the leader of the smartphone and the keyboard was his best loved feature. Sure there were other smartphone, Apple wasn't the first, etc But thinking that people would just go 180 was just extraordinary. Ap
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by gutnor 10y ago
The country I was talking about did not have that amount of civic duty. Japan is in a category of its own. In the case of my story, it appears to be working well too. People have 3 bins, different collection days and quota (and tax). On the
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by gutnor 10y ago
On the other hand where do you put the limit on what is a acceptable burden ? Here are the rules for recycling where I lived: plastic to be cleaned before recycling (a minimal trace of food, allegedly, would require the whole batch of plast
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by gutnor 10y ago
Counterpoint: Mac Pro. An exiting new design, bold statement and technological choices. All but dead. We just have a few more months to know what Apple really has in mind. And by the end of the year that will be clear if 2 year between upda
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by gutnor 10y ago
Indeed, the simplification is probably for reader: so they don't think they can avoid being monitored by simply using the facebook app rather than facebook in a browser.
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by gutnor 10y ago
Yes and no, maybe. You are right that this current flavour of tax avoidance is not going to work anymore and moving to London now or in the future will not change the outcome for the money mentioned here, only future money. However about Lo
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by gutnor 10y ago
> I doubt it would be enormously difficult for Apple to relocate from Dublin to London. Obviously it is not. Tax sheltering does not require much physical presence at all. It probably requires no more than changing a few contract between
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by gutnor 10y ago
That is weird to see Belgium in there in 1582. That's the date the territories covered by present day country switched over ? There must be some interesting edge cases there.
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by gutnor 10y ago
If you print money, you are in control and you do it because you believe that you currency strength is harming your economy somehow: that's like a Sales because you want to get rid of stock to introduce a new model for example. In this
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by gutnor 10y ago
Yes, there were conspiracy theories on some other site about education and how Chinese/Indian student could pay the oversea cost of university in the UK when "only the 1% would be able to afford that in their respective countries&
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by gutnor 10y ago
> We have to get rid of the idea that the default form of software is supposed to be a webpage. You need to know why that becomes the norm rather than the exception. Ease of management, installation, upgrade, ... is really what drove tho
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by gutnor 10y ago
That seems to be the rule. Whatever past government set a lower standard, the new government can take that as useful approved governing tool. Really people wonder why politician sometimes fight for nonsensical minor tweaks that look like a
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by gutnor 10y ago
Aww, I read it 10 times thinking "there is something weird", but my mind was completely convinced unforgivable meant unforgettable.
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by gutnor 10y ago
> Apple has limited resources Well come on now. Apple is one of the richest company in the world and has a tiny tiny product line to care about. They have skipped a whole year of refresh on their entire Mac Line so they can focus on tho

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