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by jonascopenhagen 14y ago
Half the article is about Windows installation problems. Thing is, though, most Windows users don't install Windows - it's already there on the computer they bought.
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by jonascopenhagen 14y ago
Do you speak Danish? I do, and "leg godt" (which is what LEGO stands for) cannot be translated into "goods to play with". "Play well" is an accurate translation.
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by jonascopenhagen 14y ago
I know a salesperson who's timid and actually sells more than her extroverted coworkers - probably because people often trust calm and down-to-earth salespeople more than they trust the loud and slightly obnoxious kind. Point is, being timi
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by jonascopenhagen 14y ago
The Eurozone is only 17 countries out of Europe's 50 countries. We're talking a combined population that's less than half of Europe's total population. So no, I don't think it's a fair comparison.
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by jonascopenhagen 14y ago
E-book subscription service. Basically Spotify for books: You pay a monthly fee and get access to all the books you want. I don't use the Kindle or buy books through Apple because I hate the idea that because of DRM I'll be forced to always
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by jonascopenhagen 14y ago
I second that. It's free and works on both Mac, Windows, and Linux.
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by jonascopenhagen 14y ago
Here's the thing: It's not uncommon to come across weird bugs/rendering errors on web pages that were caused by incorrect HTML (where the developer writes </a> where he should have written </p> and similar issues). Pages wit
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by jonascopenhagen 14y ago
Shoot me a message at https://www.facebook.com/bentzenj
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by jonascopenhagen 14y ago
> If you're going to base all your thing on a totally unrealistic vision of Europe then yeah, your points stand. That's like saying the US only consists of New York + D.C. + the Midwest + California. > all the points the original ar
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by jonascopenhagen 14y ago
The majority of Eastern European countries were not part of the USSR. They were USSR's allies in the Warsaw Pact - in the same way that the Western European countries were USA's allies in NATO - but they were independent nations. I'm talkin
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by jonascopenhagen 14y ago
That's like saying that it's alright if I write a blog post about how all Americans drive Chevrolets, and then it's up to the reader to figure out the truth by applying critical reading. While the reader should apply critical reading, the w
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by jonascopenhagen 14y ago
> Only some of the LARGEST countries, for a total of 332 million people. Not to mention that he did say "most". 332 million is less than half of Europe's population. That's not "most of Europe" by any stretch. > It's not like someon
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by jonascopenhagen 14y ago
> Making generalizations is a wonderful property of the human brain. Without that we'd all be lost in the fractal complexity of everyday detail. Sure - the problem is when the generalizations are so broad as to become complete falsehood
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by jonascopenhagen 14y ago
> When Americans talk about "Europe", they're generally talking about Western Europe, not Eastern, and are excluding the UK too. This doesn't hold true for any of the Americans I've met (and I've met a lot). Also, one of the countries M
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by jonascopenhagen 14y ago
I addressed all that in my post. I never claimed that Americans were one homogenous group (and by the way, I've lived in California, too). I claimed that US, despite being a melting pot, is an actual nation (which is not the case with the E
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by jonascopenhagen 14y ago
What worries me is that some American entrepreneurs may be deterred from starting businesses in Europe based on untrue generalizations, whether positive or negative. There are huge possibilities in Europe, but in order to plan your business
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by jonascopenhagen 14y ago
I think it would be a shame if American entrepreneurs were to be deterred from starting businesses in Europe solely because they've heard this and that general statement about Europe that isn't correct. Martin Varsavsky goes into specifics
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by jonascopenhagen 14y ago
> Varsavsky has lived and built businesses in Madrid since 1995 Which is exactly why I'm puzzled by some of his completely wrong statements about Europe.
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by jonascopenhagen 14y ago
For those who don't know, the Eurozone is basically those 17 EU member states who use the Euro as their currency. The remaining 10 members of the EU use their own national currency.
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Stop Generalizing About Europe(jonasbentzen.com)
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