jayalpha

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by jayalpha 8y ago
Why the down-vote? I think I know what I am writing about.
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Rocket Internet were just the scumbags that ripped off every US based idea and tried to implement it in Germany. A few "me-too" businesses. Okay. There are very few big ideas that investors in Germany would pour money into.
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Agreed. * Lack of capital There is just much less VC available, even if normalized for the difference in size. I know the VC scene a little bit in Germany. Total monkeys. * Lack of attitude Germans are much more hierarchical. Both in scienc
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by jayalpha 8y ago
"... and should I move my custom domain over to it for email?" What are you trying to achieve? What are your goals?
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Now when you say it. I was skeptical too. They seem to be indeed not the same person. The distance of their eyes seems different. Should not be to difficult to measure this with software, maybe my mind plays a trick on me.
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by jayalpha 8y ago
I have never heard of bellingcat.com The work seems impressive but I think it should be taken with caution. Who is behind this website that he can access Russian databases via "contacts"? Passport databases contain pictures? (I ha
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by jayalpha 8y ago
https://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2015/10/alibaba-yeah-righ... https://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2015/09/job-interview-que...
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Yeah. Sure. Explain this to me, as a person living in China.
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by jayalpha 8y ago
"I can't afford two phones nor two contracts, so using a second phone is not a viable option for me." Sounds strange. A 100 Dollar phone plus a prepaid SIM? I actually never heard that the Chinese police forces spyware on you
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by jayalpha 8y ago
I mean, I see so many solutions to this posted there. Dual Boot Rom, Sandbox etc. How about carrying two phones?
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Get your own domain at Gandi. Free Email included. Or buy a domain and Email as a service here: http://infomaniak.com/ If you are disappointed about the search capabilities of Thunderbird, install recoll for search
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by jayalpha 8y ago
"Perfect German. Different meaning." Debatable if a German teacher would accept this sentence in an Essay, except as a stylistic element. Please try to understand the concept of word order and Declension. Try to translate the lati
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by jayalpha 8y ago
"Contrary to what most people believe, I see that native English speakers can learn German rather easily" I doubt that. While English is part of the West Germanic languages, there are huge grammatical differences. I assume it woul
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by jayalpha 8y ago
This was possible in Germany. At one point this service was closed. I think I still have an account there with the Fed (with 50 Euros or something in it).
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by jayalpha 8y ago
I found this impressive https://membarrier.wordpress.com/2017/04/12/qnx-7-desktop/
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by jayalpha 8y ago
"There would be little fuss if China was sticking to it's own agreements. " This alone would be very "un-chinese". A signed contract in China is always a contract in negotiation. Can change any time.
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by jayalpha 8y ago
"China doesn’t want foreign companies selling cheap goods in China so essentially everything needs to be imported even if it’s manufactured down the street from you in China." It is possible to buy good products cheap. But there y
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Try to buy a branded jeans, shoe whatever here in a street shop. Super expensive. Taobao? How much is fake? How can you know that it is fake? Buy from an expensive seller and hope it is not fake? Try to buy DocMartens, Caterpillar, whatever
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by jayalpha 8y ago
The thing is, I can buy many products cheaper in the US than in China. This tells you something. Due to this and fake products I buy clothes (YES, clothes!), shoes and electronic products only in the EU and the US. Edit: Don't get me w
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by jayalpha 8y ago
I don't understand your argument. And if they Chinese tax US cars with 25% and the US taxes them with 2.5% (or was it 5%)? then it is reasonable to request equal tariffs.
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by jayalpha 8y ago
The Chinese cheat all the time. - high subsidiaries for their exports - blind eye on IP theft - forced technology transfer - closed market for many industries and services - forced "joint ventures" for certain industries - legal s
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by jayalpha 8y ago
This problem is solved. https://www.cargobeamer.eu/
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Office, secretary, furniture, business card designs, etc. A VC buddy calls this "start-up porn"
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by jayalpha 8y ago
This happens in non-IT companies too. And companies have no idea about the institutional knowledge that they throw out of the door.
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Nuclear is risky. Even if the risk is low, the long tail risk is tremendous. I wish they would pour more money into Thorium reactors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium-based_nuclear_power#Po... "Liquid fluori
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by jayalpha 8y ago
I had tremendous problems finding a job with a background technology (STEM PhD) in the states. In the end I had to leave to China. If you look for a job here they ask you "Can you start tomorrow?" They mean it. Nobody can afford a
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by jayalpha 8y ago
Dude, I possible working with HTS before you were born.
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by jayalpha 8y ago
This are some amazing buzz words your have learned. "Malaria probably can be eliminated for single digit millions of dollars through gene drive against specific species of mosquitoes which carry it." Probably. And to throw a mutag
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by jayalpha 8y ago
"but too high risk for normal investors." what brings it pretty close to "moon shot", doesn't it? "And individual federal agencies that participate in the program can decide what they are interested in research
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by jayalpha 8y ago
You are wrong. Unfortunately I know how opaque it is and can not use another word, which I would prefer, to describe the process. I can not, will not, must not give more information to protect myself and others. Trust me, the mathematical c

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