kartan

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by kartan 10y ago
> The business goal (the product itself) is 10000x times better than Groupon. To illegally set up a non-compliant taxi service that doesn't pay taxes, that doesn't pay minimum wage to its employees, that has been banned already
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by kartan 10y ago
> is your ability to put up with the general "office bullshit" I have been lucky enough to work with really awesome people in good environments. If I have worked from home I will have lost the pleasure to meet them, and - with
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by kartan 10y ago
I like your point. But I will like to advance it further. Even if it is reduction in productivity -even after factoring everything-, is production maximization our ultimate social goal? I though that we established capitalism because allows
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by kartan 10y ago
> Oh, you know, because the quickest way to go out of business is to kill your customers... Why use more fuel than needed in a flight, if you are going to get there anyway? Is that safety measure so important? Without regulations this w
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by kartan 10y ago
The article has some interesting ideas. But it tries to solve a problem that is already solved in other countries. Why do not, instead, start looking at how those countries do it? The problem needs thinking out-of-the-box. Education is not
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by kartan 10y ago
Today I filed taxes in Sweden for the first time. 1. Sign-in from Bank-id at Skatteverket 2. Review pre-populated amounts 3. Digitally sign acceptance filing with Bank-id If I just have one salary from one employer all year round, why shoul
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Burger King Ad Missuses Google Home and Wikipedia(theverge.com)
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by kartan 10y ago
> This is why I love hacker news. I get a different perspective every day that (whether it's right or wrong) forces me to re-consider my mental models of the world. I almost believed you there. Don't lie to yourself, we like Ha
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by kartan 10y ago
> Yet mathematics is a language with distinct limitations. It can only describe abstract structures and relations. I have a hard time getting this point. Mathematics began as something concrete. In fact, abstract mathematics is one huge
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by kartan 10y ago
I love public transportation, so let me disagree. :) a) near zero latency to take a trip I can take the subway and go home at any station. If I go by car I have to go back to the place the car is to be able to return home. b) proportional p
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by kartan 10y ago
> So why the focus on Russia? China vs USA is a business competition. Both think that can get an advantage out of it. Russia vs USA is a struggle for power and influence in Europe. If USA losses the EU it is isolated. If USA becomes Russ
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by kartan 10y ago
> nobody is actually expecting anyone to click an advertisement (at least not on purpose) This is problematic for me. The more a site knows about me, the better and more interested are the ads. But at the same time, it gets more scary. L
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by kartan 10y ago
> It is an irrational belief that trolls have infinite time and energy. Unless they are well paid state-sponsored trolls. They still don't have infinite time or energy, but neither we do. > The only way to prevent this is to edu
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by kartan 10y ago
If I understand correctly what has happened recently, state-sponsored media disruption is the problem. While the Internet was a place for nerds, it was uninteresting for mainstream powers. Nowadays is a good target for states wanting to inf
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by kartan 10y ago
> Because less regulation means more profits (If you ignore the environmental and human costs). This is completely false. Less regulations helps the status-quo as companies stop to need to be innovative. And it helps old-fashioned contam
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by kartan 10y ago
> Seriously, have you ever met a person who's "core driving force" is money and "all they care about"? Does that description fit about half the people your know? The people around me are not mega-rich. It is not
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by kartan 10y ago
This kind of cameras are just to scare non-sophisticated burglars. Alarm systems work on the premise that burglars will decide to choose another target as the "protected" one is slightly more inconvenient to rob. It is really hard
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by kartan 10y ago
The more powerful the computers, the more data we want to aggregate and process. All that tracking that companies are gathering has to be used somewhere. Also SaaS means that one provider holds data of thousands of companies. Salesforce, fo
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by kartan 10y ago
> If we made large student loans harder to get That's a different discussion. The problems is that the White House is removing protections for the people that already have that big loans. Easy to get loans and harsh penalties for de
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by kartan 10y ago
> If you ever wondered what people meant by out of touch "ivory tower" academics, just read this post. Did you read this: "I’ll continue to devote a huge fraction of my waking hours to fielding questions from all sorts of
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by kartan 10y ago
> There might be a "value" in it but why shouldn't they pay for it? It is called an investment. Society invests in an individual education because in the long run that individual is going to be able to contribute more posi
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by kartan 10y ago
> Vocational and apprenticeship programs are excellent ways for people to learn useful skills while remaining gainfully employed. And the other way around is also true. There is value in people educated on arts or science even if they do
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by kartan 10y ago
> If they don't suffer the consequences of buying a useless degree, why wouldn't they keep doing it? So when you are young and still have no degree nor experience in life you should be punished if you choose wrong. Unless you a
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by kartan 10y ago
> I remain stunned at the things that are heavily regulated in America vs not. Yes. This looks like a clear example where a regulation in place, and enforced, can save lives. > "The inaction by the FDA not only puts many patients
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by kartan 10y ago
> because I don't care if someone hacks my HN or reddit or youtube account. I don't use my real name on any of them. Så heter du inte Sverige?
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by kartan 10y ago
> Finally, moving our content behind authentication allows us to better protect instructor intellectual property from “pirates” who have reused content for personal profit without consent. Or maybe there are other considerations at stake
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by kartan 10y ago
> that's getting large amounts of bad PR. Do you mean that is caught doing a lot of nasty stuff? The company has problems, it pushes against workers rights, it leaves towns that don't bow to their business tactics, it is sexis
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by kartan 10y ago
The problem is not that people pays to much taxes, but that they use the tax agency as a save account to earn a 0.5% rate. A lot better than my 0% at SEB.
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by kartan 10y ago
Virtual reality is a dystopian world. Digital natives where born in cages where everything you say is recorded, every free space is an advertisement, and what you see is an illusion. You scream into the night not knowing if anyone is listen
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by kartan 10y ago
No. War is not progress. War has cost a lot to European countries, being WWII one of the major loses in history in human lives and resources. I have hear other, more plausible, explanations. Weather is one. The fact that Eurasia is wide mea

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