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by ido 3y ago
Is this an American thing? Here in Germany my son is not allowed to have a phone at school. He doesn't have one anyway, but kids that do have to give up their phones in the morning, which are in a locked box and they get them back in t
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by ido 3y ago
I know you probably know it, but ios dominance is very US-specific (+ maybe another small amount of other countries) situation. World-wide Android is much more popular than iOS (but less profitable, as the phones are cheaper).
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by ido 3y ago
I would attempt to temper my criticism because I think it's great that you're putting it out there. The short of it: this reads like a wish-list of a hardcore engine programmer that is for the most part divorced from market realit
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by ido 3y ago
It's sorta like Valve et al having "no management/hierarchy" - there is still one, it's just not codified/official.
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by ido 3y ago
I mean, you do get to know airlines by reputation - generally speaking I expect Ryanair to do all the bullshit dark pattern nickel and diming and not expect it from national airlines like Lufthansa.
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by ido 3y ago
Just a minor comment - the word you're looking for is intelligentsia [0] not intelligence . [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligentsia
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by ido 3y ago
Why Xi in particular, and do you have reason to believe his successor would be any better?
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by ido 3y ago
I guess they meant the national identities like Ukranian, Georgian, Uzbek, etc.
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by ido 3y ago
Are "many Westerners" really expecting China to be a dystopia? I'm a westerner and my impression of the Soviet Union (and now Russia) was intuitively dire (probably exaggerated compared to reality) but my intuitive expectatio
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by ido 3y ago
Maybe I missed it in the text, but I haven't seen anywhere "enterprise SaaS" mentioned specifically? I thought this was general startup advice.
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by ido 3y ago
At some point you will have a problem that doesn't map to one of the few most common problems they have in their script and at that point not being able to reach a human will be extremely frustrating.
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by ido 3y ago
My theory is that this is completely due to the raising cost of housing - it's no longer easy (possible?) do make due in Berlin on that kind of job long-term.
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by ido 3y ago
Surely the desired solution is to increase supply rather than preventing demand from increasing?
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by ido 3y ago
It's projected to peak at a bit over 10B before the end of the century and then steadily decline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow... (see solid red median line).
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by ido 3y ago
the main constraint isn't the walls but the land it's built on.
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by ido 3y ago
Very different books, but both are good!
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by ido 3y ago
It’s been long predicted that world population will peak by mid-century and then slowly decline.
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by ido 3y ago
BTW, do you know the 1983 book "Pilgrim in the Microworld"[0]? It's a truly insightful and deep critique of Breakout and playing video-games in general, from the era (and machine!) you're speaking of. I can only recommen
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by ido 3y ago
It's become more and more strange to me that the gaming market isn't segmented by what they play. There a lot more precise and intricate segmentation in the actual industry. Advertising to gain new players (known in
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by ido 3y ago
If this was the case, the games industry wouldn't have grown as much as it did in the last 10-15 years.
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by ido 3y ago
The 50+ years old video game market is tiny I know this wasn't your main point, but this is very much not the case (source: have worked in games for 13 years).
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by ido 3y ago
I live in Germany and even minor cities that probably nobody outside Germany even knows about (like Brandenburg an der Havel, Magdeburg and Halle) have very decent public transit to the point that you don't really need a car to live in
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by ido 4y ago
Very efficient that it was Jack Tramiel for both (for a while)
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by ido 4y ago
That's one thing that frustrates me about American society. I see nothing particularly American about that - all you've described happens in all 3 countries I lived in (Israel, Austria & Germany) and I'm sure th
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by ido 4y ago
It's no longer textiles and cheap plastic trinkets "we" outsource to China - there's a lot of technical knowledge, infrastructure & skill now available in China that is not easily replaceable by opening a factory in
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by ido 4y ago
Not just free market, and not completely free markets (there’s a lot of government regulation, intervention and ownership). More specifically they followed Singapore’s model.
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by ido 4y ago
You can compare the US to the EU (political entity vs political entity). If you're comparing to Azerbaijan you should also put Mexican states on the American side, being that it's also in the same continent.
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by ido 4y ago
And of course the biggest (in scale) economic success story of our time is China the last couple decades - which is not a democracy at all as well as having massive government intervention and ownership.
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by ido 4y ago
But the article we're talking about isn't about homicide, but about much more pedestrian lack of efficiency and corruption (the price of airport food in NYC).
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by ido 4y ago
Now try doing the same on the Mediterranean shore.

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