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by mixmax 11y ago
It's a little light on details. Is this related to the symphony framework in any way, or is it just a naming coincidence?
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by mixmax 11y ago
Which is probably why companies such as Ikea, Maersk and Google are doing so well; They have a founder, or descendant that is in control of the company and can thus make long term decisions.
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by mixmax 11y ago
ah, I remember that - that's when I more or less stopped commenting. I still think it was a really bad move.
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The basics of a good comment system(maximise.dk)
1 points by mixmax 11y ago|0 comments
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by mixmax 11y ago
I have some experience with dry ice in closed containers. Every now and then some friends and I will get some dry ice, a bunch of plastic bottles and other containers with a screw-on lid and have a laugh making small explosions. Basically y
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by mixmax 11y ago
In Denmark it would be a major disaster, people would get fired, hearings would be held, and media discussion would ensue. As a comparison: In 2012 (the latest year I could find data for) Danish police fired a total of 49 shots over the yea
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by mixmax 11y ago
I'm sorry to say, but looking from Europe America looks more and more like a policestate.
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by mixmax 12y ago
it's civil disobedience at its best.
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Greece draws up drachma plans, prepares to miss IMF payment(telegraph.co.uk)
82 points by mixmax 12y ago|190 comments
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by mixmax 12y ago
I think there's a lot of survivorship bias in the statement that lame ideas turn out to be visionary. Just because many successful companies are built on ideas that at first seemed ridiculous doesn't mean that ideas that seem ridi
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by mixmax 12y ago
a lot of young people will start to gravitate towards greener pastures This is already happening. The coffee shops, kiosks and warehouses in Denmark where I'm from are packed with economical refugees from Southern Europe. The sad par
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Why the Euro will ultimately fail(maximise.dk)
43 points by mixmax 12y ago|26 comments
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User:heretiko explains freemium for games, with realworld examples(reddit.com)
1 points by mixmax 12y ago|0 comments
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by mixmax 12y ago
boat windows are a good idea here. Typically they have a welded metal or aluminium frame and an inset of 6mm hardened glass. Some have a sandwich of several layers of lexan glued together. They come in all shapes and sizes, and can be custo
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by mixmax 12y ago
I think this is reasonable normal in most civilised societies.
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by mixmax 12y ago
to be fair it's incredibly difficult to find people that are both technically and financially competent.
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by mixmax 12y ago
That's of course correct. For the first few years they ran without an income model and hoped something would come along. That something was adwords, and it made all the difference. But an argument can be made that it was luck, google d
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by mixmax 12y ago
Google's monopoly is based on their early superior technology. That's it, pure and simple. I'm old enough to remember the web before google, and it was terrible. Back then we switched between hotbot, altavista, yahoo and a fe
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by mixmax 12y ago
show me one news site that has user profiles, a somewhat intelligent voting system and reasonable algorithmic sorting of comments. Most of them haven't even mastered threaded comments yet.
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by mixmax 12y ago
Thanks for the catch, it's updated now - stupid mistake...
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by mixmax 12y ago
What this weeks events show us is that space travel is hard. Really hard. Most systems operate in extreme conditions, sometimes bordering on the improbable. Thousands, sometimes millions of horsepower in an engine smaller than a car, cryoge
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by mixmax 12y ago
Applebaum was an expert witness called in to testify on how a computer could be remote controlled, and the prosecutor tried to have him dismissed based on the retweet. He ended up testifying, so I guess the attempt wasn't successful.
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by mixmax 12y ago
The courtcase has been followed closely by the Danish media, especially the tech-savvy version2.dk that has had a reporter in the courtroom every day of the trial. It has caused quite a stir as all sorts of problems with CSC, the prosecutor
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by mixmax 12y ago
There's a fallacy here, and interestingly it's also at play on facebook. You know when you look through your feed on facebook, and every single day you see that at least one of your friends has done something amazing, commendable
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by mixmax 12y ago
actually the correct technical term to use here would be CATO - Catastrophe At Take Off
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by mixmax 12y ago
First, according to maritime law it's your responsibility to assist when a mayday is called. second, the sea is one of the few places where there's still some sort of non-monetary, honour-based system where people will help each o
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by mixmax 12y ago
An anecdotal story to back up the authors point; I live on a boat, and have done so for 8 years. I know quite a bit about what it takes, what the difficulties are, what to look for when buying a boat, what to do about heating in the winter,
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Limits to Growth was right. New research shows we're nearing collapse(theguardian.com)
2 points by mixmax 12y ago|1 comments
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Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault(foreignaffairs.com)
14 points by mixmax 12y ago|17 comments
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by mixmax 12y ago
Seeing the video in the article I was reminded of a corporate video they did a few years ago. I know the director second-hand, and he was basically given free reign to go wherever he wanted and spend as much money as he deemed necessary to

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