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by marenkay 9y ago
"Dear diary, here is how I repeat what thousands of people have been saying about Facebook/Google/etc. for years." I am wondering how someone seemingly oblivious to what Facebook is can be a successful investor.
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by marenkay 9y ago
It should be highlighted that this is not just about women and men, this is in general for all workers in equal positions.
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by marenkay 9y ago
So the sad thing is fintech startups do not really solve things for now. They just push some banks to improve their tech. Here is a real issue: transaction speed of SEPA wire transfers. Here is another issue: no fintech will be able to solv
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by marenkay 9y ago
> The threat of communism disappeared And the thought that capitalism might be a threat disappeared too. Though up to this point it ain't proven that either capitalism or communism is better. So far it looks like both have just fall
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by marenkay 9y ago
Considering my own age, it might happen that I just mentioned this because I am rather close to that generation myself. I seriously doubt people will be comfortable with this stuff unless they have a history with engineering/IT.
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by marenkay 9y ago
Happen to have a grown up child. Duh.
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by marenkay 9y ago
Ask your grandma etc if they would use that. Anyone above 50 these days will probably not give you a nice answer to having to use smartphones or voice assistants that usually understand less than a newborn child.
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by marenkay 9y ago
That is the problem here. Employed work means sharing the duties of social security between company and employee. Uber moves their payments on your shoulders. And that point is exactly what makes up Ubers' valuation. Ignoring the quest
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by marenkay 9y ago
That depends on the country. In Europe transportation is regulated, and fees are higher and also arrive at the drivers, since they actually have pensions etc. Meaning Uber eliminates basically the most prominent achievement of the working c
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by marenkay 9y ago
The missing $24 were health insurance, car insurance, pension payments for the driver etc. All not being paid. Uber is no ride share service, it is a test project to figure out if modern society will accept a larger lower income working cla
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by marenkay 9y ago
If data sprawl is your issue, fix your company processes and the problem will be solved. GDPR mainly resolves flaws in how companies relying on IT use their customers data. Blocking EU customers is just delaying the inevitable since GDPR eq
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by marenkay 9y ago
Convergence is overestimated. As a users, I actually do not want an identical use experience of apps on desktop and mobile devices because inherently these are different use cases and it does not make sense to mix them. It's not even t
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by marenkay 9y ago
> There's this weird dissonance where people like the new ideas and convenience, but don't wish to revisit the rules around these industries for any reason. I do not think the issue is in most of these rules. Transportation has
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by marenkay 9y ago
There is one issue here: what Uber and AirBnB are doing is not a grey area. Both transportation and renting are regulated markets for a reason: because we already have experience that infrastructure related markets without regulation will b
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by marenkay 9y ago
Considering how Uber was apparently wanting to evade to be considered a transportation service this is IMHO a correct decision. Just because you're a startup/funded/unicorn does not mean that laws do not apply. This is pretty
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by marenkay 9y ago
No, I am referring to the 80s. There were a lot of families without cars there. Probably depends on where you lived but where I lived (500k inhabitants in the city) cars were only for the wealthier.
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by marenkay 9y ago
"Still" might be the wrong word here. Helicopter parenting is more an issue for the post 2000 years and was never this extreme before. Considering public transportation, good infrastructure to schools or kindergartens was not real
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by marenkay 9y ago
I'm going to write an an called "mober", and it will be the most disruptive thing in the world of crime. By applying Uber's tested and tried methods, "mober" will take over the criminal world. No more consequen
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by marenkay 9y ago
But it is not the system default package manager, which is what I miss.
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by marenkay 9y ago
2016 MacBook Pro and a 2017 PC. Lots of fanning and lagging on those pages.
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by marenkay 9y ago
Well, I have that and those two sites still lead to CPU overload.
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by marenkay 9y ago
As with every packaging approach we have so far, no. Package manager have nuances, and so have flatpak and snap installations. Also, add Windows and macOS into the mix. Down the drain it is. It's basically what Docker was trying to get
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Ask HN: Is the private cloud the worst documented thing?
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by marenkay 9y ago
So basically HN community has doubts about the usefulness of Facebook. :-)
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by marenkay 9y ago
This is probably related to the fact that this site usually offers value as in information being usable for practical IT related issues, which is encouraged by e.g. spam, ads or pointless clickbait articles being downvoted. Facebook is basi
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by marenkay 9y ago
That will rather be interesting as with the enactment of the GDPR the most promising part is not punishment by arresting people but by cashing in 4% of global revenue for breaking privacy and consumer protection laws in EU. And in the end,
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by marenkay 9y ago
... which is kind of weird, considering they promised low emission cars since the 1980s and have not been able to deliver on that. And now all of a sudden the invest marginal sums (lower than what gets invested for new car models usually) t
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by marenkay 9y ago
Volkswagen is actually a prime example of German corporate culture. At least in stock listed companies in Germany this seems to be common, since Germany lacks in laws that would execute an appropriate punishment.
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by marenkay 9y ago
Aside from that, AWS Free Tier is also enough to figure out if your startup is actually going to make money to be sustainable.
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by marenkay 9y ago
GDPR is pretty much the thing that will - if properly executed - mean the end of these things. As CEO, former engineer and customer I really hope this gets some serious traction. IMHO if you are making money from customers, it should be man

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