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by idiopathic 3y ago
Just to echo your point… USA >> EU US GDP = $23.3 trillion EU GDP = $15.8 trillion even if you counted UK (to make Europe rather than EU) UK GDP = $3.1 trillion
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by idiopathic 14y ago
When I was at college I read that Margaret Thatcher slept just 4 hours per night, and I was so envious, wishing I had that extra time every day. Three years ago my wife and I had twin girls and that meant very little sleep at night for me (
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by idiopathic 14y ago
Please drop me a line on me@mo.md. I am CEO of a UK start up that uses Java.
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by idiopathic 15y ago
"Conceptually, if very smart people did it, and other very smart people say it can't be done" Don't forget the third part, which is what the author described, i.e. "not very smart people say they can easily do it themselves". They do not ha
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by idiopathic 15y ago
If I had to guess, it would related to Du.ae, the UAE's second telecoms company - they have a duopoly.
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by idiopathic 15y ago
Gulf Co-operation Council countries – Bahrain (my country), Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and UAE. They have separated citizenship from work visas. Anyone can come, they do not need to prove that they can do work that anyone else canno
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by idiopathic 15y ago
Some historical background, which includes plenty of personal bias: Governments, for all their posturing, love dealing with oligopolies, or even better, monopolies. They feel safer in making purchases from them. So around 2002, the UK gover
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by idiopathic 15y ago
Let me tell you about the UK National Health Service. 1 million employees, they are literally saving people's lives every day, and all they are allowed to use is IE6. What your statement shows is not a understanding of how to solve the prob
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by idiopathic 15y ago
Agreed, this was my same thinking when I was in the USA until 2008. Sure, my employer and my wife's both offered to get us a green card, but why wait? I had applied to YC earlier that year with an idea for a start-up that was based on my li
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by idiopathic 15y ago
I bought the Kindle when it first out and loved it but never carried it with me, and found it difficult to read at night - so as soon as reader version came out for my Android, I used that and never looked back. Reading in bed with a smartp
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by idiopathic 15y ago
Because of satellite television, I would say classical - everyone will understand you, and although you will sound formal in your speech, you will also be able to read and write. However, you will have difficulty understanding the dialect o
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by idiopathic 15y ago
I wanted to add my opinion as an Arab (from Bahrain), which is nowhere as scholarly as yours (I am so in awe of your linguistic nerdiness, thanks for such a lovely article). Egyptian Arabic is dominant in a similar way to American English,
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by idiopathic 15y ago
It's not funny, it's inevitable - Arab and Israeli tribes were all Semites (which is why accusing Arabs of being anti-Semitic is annoying, as it implies that we are not Semites) they share a common genetic and cultural heritage, and their l
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by idiopathic 15y ago
A couple of corrections I feel I have to make as an Arab. > There are the diacritics to think about, but outside of the Quran they are simply ignored. They are not ignored - when they are present, attention is paid to them. I think what
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by idiopathic 15y ago
The $20 he mentioned is for cablers and phone techs, not for programmers, if I understood correctly.
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by idiopathic 15y ago
Sorry to "talk my book" as well - our start-up provides a personal health records system that is connecting the UK's providers where the government's master system approach has failed - but investing in IT does not suck resources from patie
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by idiopathic 15y ago
East Asian would do just fine. Just because the largest land mass in the world contains lots of people does not mean we have to label them together.
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by idiopathic 15y ago
My wife hates Facebook - people keep on tagging her and our kids in photos, thus reversing our efforts at keeping our photos private. She only logs in so she can remove the tags.
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by idiopathic 15y ago
I had thought the same thing until I read the comment from anigbrowl - police are not saying there is nothing to investigate, just that, in UK police jargon, there are no obvious signs of a homicide.
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by idiopathic 15y ago
I do not agree with you, but regardless, the example you gave - South Africa - proves the point of the person you were replying to, i.e. they "won", so it is easier for them to forget. Not to take anything away from the extraordinary sacrif
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by idiopathic 15y ago
What you are describing is not American vs UK attitudes, it is the joys of being a foreigner encountering government bureaucracy designed to remind you that you are a foreigner. I had the same treatment you are describing when getting my H1
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by idiopathic 15y ago
It is scary, and they will fire you. That scared me a lot. My first job was with the US Federal Government (I was a scientist at NIH) who had nicer terms, plus a reputation of not being able to fire egregiously bad employees. But then I
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by idiopathic 16y ago
I live in the UK (parents were exiled as pro-democracy activists) and appreciate the same freedom of religion that you describe and I experienced in the USA. No social pressure, some people don't like me, but none can stop me and nor can I
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by idiopathic 16y ago
They already have a presence in Washington, DC, and have invested heavily in their newsdesk there. The problem is that no cable network will carry them, even though plenty of people would want them carried. From my time, I would say that Am
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by idiopathic 16y ago
My understanding was the same as yours above, but it seems that if there is a valuation event – an IPO, for example – then the rise in value of all shares is counted, not just the ones which were sold. Separately, I do not think the tax is
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by idiopathic 16y ago
Ah, OK, now I understand a problem I can agree with - so it's not so much the damage from paying 1.5% on a profitable transaction (employees exercise options as part of winning start-up lottery) but rather the company has to pay cash for a
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by idiopathic 16y ago
That's a good point, but for me at the time, I did not know how to short. All I knew was that I should save a third of my paycheque so that, when the crash comes, I have money with which to buy a house at a much cheaper price. (By the time
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by idiopathic 16y ago
I know I am being too literal, and I am sure you did not mean it, but... it is nothing like burying a child. I started a company 2.5 years ago and had twin girls a year ago. The thought of losing one of my kids makes me well up while the th
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by idiopathic 16y ago
My apologies for misinterpreting.
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by idiopathic 16y ago
I am sure I do have the story wrong, if only because I was not there. I just went on what was posted so, could the original author of the story either correct the story, or correct PG? For "We didn't push to apply to YC", the original posti

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