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by harha 2y ago
Ah thunderbolt, yet another standard that started with a promise of simplicity but requires a lot of digging to understand what actually works. For me some things worked better than expected (5K + 4K monitor at 60Hz, even though it states o
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by harha 2y ago
Some jurisdictions are great at protecting all the wrong people
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by harha 2y ago
The parent post argued Apple only cares about tax benefits in Ireland. To me it’s a perfectly valid reason to operate in a country, it’s on the countries to provide an environment where local businesses benefit from low taxes, and not only
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by harha 2y ago
They're running a business.. it's not like you can't buy any Apple products in Ireland, running a retail store is likely not worth the hassle. As for taxes that's on the EU and member countries for having such a complexi
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by harha 2y ago
A current challenge is moving eSIMs around.
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by harha 2y ago
yeah but are they? it's not like there are five European search providers competing equally for the users. On the other hand, there's a bunch of quasi monopolies, e.g., Lufthansa on many routes in Germany after other airlines coll
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by harha 2y ago
If you consider the per seat cost compared to commercial, I don’t think making it a bit more expensive will move the needle.
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by harha 2y ago
A lighter‘s more dangerous than a bottle of wine on a plane I’d say
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by harha 2y ago
Always surprising how airports in South America and Asia manage not to have issues with this.
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by harha 2y ago
I actually find the idea of the chaos that would unfold after putting my toddler in one seat and then going somewhere else to sit quite amusing. Haven’t had the chance yet, but I’m not paying a high fee for a seat on a short flight. Edit: j
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by harha 2y ago
One of my favorite courses at university was energy policy analysis, where we played around with the EPPA model (developed at MIT) [0]. We made changes to certain parameters to see how things might work out, e.g. if cost of energy storage i
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by harha 2y ago
I'd say barriers to entry - being an established party gives you more revenue, supporters to do campaigning, influence, etc. One place that tries to do it better in my opinion is Switzerland. It has a lot of controls to reduce the abil
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by harha 2y ago
I don’t think the voters are the problem. I think the established parties keep growing in all the worst ways, and I don’t think any decent candidate would be able to be successful in this setting. Would happily work with voters to figure ou
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by harha 2y ago
Quite difficult to be engaged with the selection of candidates. It’s really quite the struggle to find someone halfway decent these days
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by harha 2y ago
As an upside, once you’ve pissed off enough customers, you can also quit and provide them with an alternative that packages an open source tool with some enterprise features with marginally better terms
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by harha 2y ago
Haven’t been to Aspen, what I’ve seen in Europe though is that the locals either own the establishments, work there or are friends with owners and typically either earn in line with the high prices or get preferential treatment from the own
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by harha 2y ago
Kind of exists already as tourist traps and is preferable to me than another tax.
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by harha 2y ago
Always interesting to see how these small screens can display a relatively large amount of information so nicely.
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by harha 2y ago
This is creating bad incentives - now the billions of dollars relying on that have no interest in fixing the issue and they'll do the same for other projects.
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by harha 2y ago
I mean it's cool, but how about getting some basics like punctuality and cleanliness right first.
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by harha 3y ago
Even more fun: how to get rid of a company
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by harha 3y ago
> Originally, the year started on the first day of Spring: the Equinox. Nowruz [0], the Persian New Year, still does today. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowruz
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by harha 3y ago
The amount of paperwork to rent in Germany is just silly, so the landlord can have a higher likelihood of getting the agreed rent paid. That’s an additional cost when I want to rent a place and I’d rather not have a that at the cost of bein
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by harha 3y ago
might be worth fixing the problem all together by making it easier to kick out people who don't pay rent.
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by harha 3y ago
Sort of - I’m thinking like a college dorm, it’s probably easier to install shared showers and kitchen (they might even already be there) - rather than individually per unit, along with some other useful shared spaces like libraries.
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by harha 3y ago
Or fixing the problem of bad regulation - you can always uplift living standards when money is cheap, right now there's a chance to operate more efficiently, rather than create more debt. One idea would be to convert spaces to somethin
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by harha 3y ago
Agree - especially annoying that there’s no reasonable and cheap plan across countries, checkout and search isn't much easier than getting a SIM card at the airport
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by harha 3y ago
Incredibly annoying - advertised "better than SIM", but really just a massive inconvenience. The only good use-case (for the user) is buying travel eSIMs.
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by harha 3y ago
Except for Germany and the UK where trains are also quite bad, security usually doesn’t take too long. Boarding is typically 15 mins before the flight, but then again airports are usually more comfortable to navigate than train stations sin
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by harha 3y ago
In theory end to end shouldn’t make a big difference for short routes, but if you want to get somewhere reliably just don’t take Deutsche Bahn

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