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Melinda and Bill in Memory of Hans Rosling(youtube.com)
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by johansch 10y ago
> If I buy from Amazon, I want to buy from Amazon, not some place I've never heard of. If I book Lufthansa I want to fly Lufthansa and not Delta or American. Exactly. So the mystifying thing is: why do they keep making it harder and
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by johansch 10y ago
I agree. The sysadmin people I have worked with in Europe in have generally been very clever people that I loved to have on my team. The IT/sysadmin people I experienced in Silicon Valley in my next company though.. meh.
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by johansch 10y ago
> Sure that's the only reason why people can disagree with your point? Well, there's also the 6700 Uber employees with a vested interest in the financial success of the company. It wouldn't take a very large fraction of th
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by johansch 10y ago
Unpopular opinion: Nah, it's an IQ issue. It's really not a (short-term) training issue, at least.
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by johansch 10y ago
I feel like there's so much idiocy going on with Amazon sites. How can such a successful company make something so idiotic such as the current Amazon.com? It's beyond belief. People visiting Amazon.com intending to buy various ite
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by johansch 10y ago
I think safety- and brand-conscious Volvo is going to deeply regret this partnership with Uber. (Where Uber provides the self-driving logic and Volvo provides the the vehicle itself.) I can only imagine the internal struggles in Volvo right
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by johansch 10y ago
Cool! I do agree this concept is under-utilized. Best of luck! (Heads up: if you shall ever venture to patent this tech, I think I'll be able to present compelling prior art from like 1996. This was also a proxy-based re-writing mechan
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by johansch 10y ago
You're not talking about the PSD2 thing in Europe, are you?
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by johansch 10y ago
> Right - identifying AR as a hot area is easy, but formulating what that looks like requires vision. Good point. And an relevant parallel between Sculley's Newton and Cook's potential "AR innovation project". However
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by johansch 10y ago
Anyone in the US is paying very low taxes compared to what "high-income" tax payers pay in e.g. Scandinavian countries like Sweden. The treshold for "high income" is (simplified) at about $80k per year. Stock option prof
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by johansch 10y ago
> They're talking about net worth. You're talking about income. For people who create our the net worth by means of income (that is the most of us) the end result is pretty much the same.
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by johansch 10y ago
I wasn't claiming rich Europeans are any better. :) I'm simply claiming that this insanely rich american guy a) percentage-wise gave away quite a bit less of his fortune than e.g. myself has given away in taxes/wealth-distrib
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by johansch 10y ago
No, I prefer just to point out the hypocrisy surrounding getting acclaims for "philantrophy" in the US. Seems like even those who have the most give out back less to others than they would have done just by the regular taxation la
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by johansch 10y ago
I also have some very serious doubts about Tim Cook's abilities as a CEO. However, it's quite obvious that AR is the next UX frontier: Historic UX frontiers: #1: text/console/terminal #2: Graphical UI with a mouse (Apple
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by johansch 10y ago
> Rockefeller upheld the family’s philanthropic tradition, giving away more than $900 million during his lifetime. https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlodonnell/2014/07/11/the-roc... "That young
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by johansch 10y ago
I thought that was the slogan of Qihoo 360.
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by johansch 10y ago
You made my day in return when I viewed your list of submitted stories. So much cool stuff! (And another sign HN needs to step up its submission/upvoting algorithms/UX. I do think so many HN-worthy stories get lost each day just b
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by johansch 10y ago
Just in case you missed that delightfully weird story from last month: Google was working on putting live tardigrades into Android phones: http://venturebeat.com/2017/02/24/complicated-weird-beautifu...
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by johansch 10y ago
Whenever british friends get frustrated about Heathrow turning into meltdown mode because of 5 mm of snow I enjoy posting them this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myaH9ClDjW8
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by johansch 10y ago
From experience, I've learned to parse "some users" as "half a billion users" when it comes to Google issues like these. I really think they have some policy to say "some" unless it's literally 100.00
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by johansch 10y ago
And slowness of cross-browser deployment. Both for stupid and very valid reasons. As an example of the latter: I think Opera Mini (which I ran the development of for its first decade) still has somewhere around 150-200 million monthly uniqu
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by johansch 10y ago
That is still really quite bad though. And all of this privacy invasion just for a wire fraud case?
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by johansch 10y ago
Intel is just so f_______p outside of pure silicon. How many billions have they wasted since 1990 on this with zero return?
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by johansch 10y ago
Are there any devices (on the public market) that allow for high-density whole-disk imaging/scanning with one rotation of the floppy? Feels like it could be useful for bringing "dead" floppies back to life for e.g. retro comp
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by johansch 10y ago
https://yougov.co.uk/news/2017/01/27/why-have-polls-not-show... "Why have the polls not shown a shift towards Scottish independence?"
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by johansch 10y ago
Nah. The most common meaning of portal from when I last recall it being used was: "humanly curated selection of auto-updating RSS-fed content boxes with content from other sites".
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by johansch 10y ago
Yeah, sort of like that would have been a better for another once dominant company that couldn't handle the UX/performance: Nokia
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by johansch 10y ago
If you have any experience in user experience design you will understand that was not designed to be obvious. What you say "twice immediately above the headline" you appear to mean: - in a quite small font size relative to the hea
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by johansch 10y ago
Are you okay? You're talking to yourself.

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