msvan

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by msvan 10y ago
I'm also a Swede who has also lived in SF and Beijing. The social problems of SF are certainly a bit of a shock coming from Scandinavia, and I can understand the author's excitement about Beijing. But there are a couple of deal-br
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Medical benefits of dental floss unproven(bigstory.ap.org)
25 points by msvan 10y ago|6 comments
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by msvan 10y ago
Presumably they want you to be working full-time on this for six months.
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by msvan 10y ago
Is there no antitrust law in China? Surely the optimal solution to two big corporations hemorrhaging money in competition for consumers is not that they stop competing, but rather that they cut costs. Or is such a scenario simply not possib
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Declassified: America's Secret Flying Saucer (2013)(popularmechanics.com)
1 points by msvan 10y ago|0 comments
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by msvan 10y ago
My point is not that you will have enlightening discussions in English with the average Beijinger, but that there are lots of people who live in expat areas and mostly hang out with expats and Chinese people who speak decent English. Some s
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by msvan 10y ago
I had beers with the P1 team in Beijing about 3-4 years ago, so I probably met you too :) Seemed like a cool little company at the time. I'm surprised that you were able to get a Z visa (?) as I thought that required a degree? OP: I ca
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by msvan 10y ago
I will have to agree that the Swedish system works really well. Most of the population is using 2FA for banking and dealing with the government. In contrast, my US bank made me log in with a password to pay my bills.
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by msvan 10y ago
It's a shame that Barcelona isn't the startup capital of Europe. Amazing weather, beautiful streets, close to other major European cities, lots of great food. SV will always win on weather against other cities.
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Storing and Querying a Unidirectional Graph in MySQL(engineers.younoodle.com)
5 points by msvan 10y ago|0 comments
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by msvan 10y ago
Any space that lacks competitors is probably lacking competitors because there's no money in it, or because it takes a huge amount of work. The bar is high, but we're certainly not "done" with desktop software. For examp
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by msvan 10y ago
Import/export has been postponed AFAIK.
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The IPO is dying. Marc Andreessen explains why. (2014)(vox.com)
2 points by msvan 10y ago|0 comments
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Cecilia Malmström, European Commissioner for Trade, on the documents: > First of all, and contrary to what many seem to believe, so-called "consolidated texts" in a trade negotiation are not the same thing as an outcome. They r
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by msvan 10y ago
Is capital really getting more expensive? Aren't we still seeing truckloads of cheap cash still getting shepherded into private tech companies? It sounds to me like this investor would like to see a return to investments in profitabl
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Containing Multitudesl(themanual.org)
1 points by msvan 11y ago|0 comments
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by msvan 11y ago
Source? If anything, the substitution effect is much stronger than the income effect. People will still work because work gives you purpose, engages you with people around you and can even be fun. They might do work that would go unpaid tod
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by msvan 11y ago
I don't think we'll be running out of jobs anytime soon, though I do worry about the social and economical consequences of technology. I agree that technology has disturbing effects on society. But this article gets it wrong. >
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by msvan 11y ago
https://nomadlist.com/
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by msvan 11y ago
Yes. A J-1 visa is relatively cheap and fast to process.
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MIT scientists build world's first scalable quantum computer(computing.co.uk)
2 points by msvan 11y ago|0 comments
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The Current State of Venture Capital in 2016(mattermark.com)
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by msvan 11y ago
"European" is a myth. It doesn't mean anything. It means what is convenient politically and economically. Sweden and Spain don't have that much in common. If Silicon Valley were in Turkey, you'd love to call them Eu
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by msvan 11y ago
Many tech markets are ruthlessly competitive and will be swallowed by the companies that are designed for growth. Code's biggest advantage is that it scales so well. Lifestyle businesses exist but still take hard work to pull off.
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by msvan 11y ago
I do mean suppressing ideas before they take root. I don't think getting caught is a necessary part of it. The most worrisome example of today is China, which has an iron grip on the spread of ideas within the country. If China deemed
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by msvan 11y ago
Civil disobedience is an important form of democracy. Maybe in the future, when all of our calls, messages and identities are monitored in full by our benevolent overlords, we won't be able to practice it anymore. Right or wrong, faraw
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Notes on Artificial Intelligence(frnsys.com)
2 points by msvan 11y ago|0 comments
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Upvote someone you disagree with today(martinsvanberg.com)
2 points by msvan 11y ago|1 comments
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by msvan 11y ago
(Meta: This comment is not inflammatory, poorly written or gratuitously negative. Disagreement ≠ downvote)
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US economic system unfair, say most Americans(pewresearch.org)
9 points by msvan 11y ago|3 comments

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