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by njepa 7y ago
I agree in theory. The connection has a lot more value than the trips themselves. You could locate a company in these regions and access the talent and funding pool of the larger cities, and so could the employees. Unfortunately, many of th
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by njepa 7y ago
High speed rail isn't that good for what you want. It will churn through too much infrastructure for too little value for point-to-point. What it is good at is creating regions. Done correctly it can open up a lot of land and opportuni
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by njepa 7y ago
> I'm not sure what we could do about it though, we can encourage better eating choices but there is a limit on how much that works. I think the key is to realize that their is no sort of natural limit anymore and to actually enforc
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by njepa 7y ago
I just don't think the authors observation is very good. He is essentially saying that "a rising tide lifts all boats". But in reality it is the boats that are important more so than the tide. The invention of the sampler cre
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by njepa 7y ago
Which is generally fine. Because that is going to happen one day anyway. You want people to be paid well because then the transition becomes gradual. The most unproductive businesses and positions disappear first. People getting paid just o
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by njepa 7y ago
You should detract from the author's point, because it only works if you are largely ignorant of how things like this actually happens. It is essentially always not generics, but specifics. Specific people doing specific things in spec
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by njepa 7y ago
It isn't the same thing by any means, and doesn't really offer much over cards other than a slight improvement in convenience. Mobile payments in China are essentially peer-to-peer and universal. The closest equivalent is probably
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by njepa 7y ago
I definitely think it is needed. I just don't think Rust has solved the paradox that the more you need something specialized the less you can afford the overhead. Finding hundreds of web developers with some spare time who don't m
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by njepa 7y ago
In my experience C++ programmers aren't necessarily great programmers as such. Because low levels things usually requires domain knowledge and experience more so than programming brilliance.
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by njepa 7y ago
I think mainly because mastering new concepts increases the barrier to entry, overhead and scope. Which in turn affects creativity. There are many brilliant programming languages, used by brilliant programmers, yet, most really useful softw
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by njepa 7y ago
I would say largely the same, but mostly put the emphasis on housing. Capital isn't regional anymore, meaning housing largely goes for whatever people dare to sign for. This makes it a lot harder to live a more modest life. Disproporti
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by njepa 7y ago
Not really. You don't evacuate airplanes unnecessarily since people get scared, trampled or hurt. So once there is an evacuation you can't treat it like anything else than an actual emergency. At which point no one is expected to
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by njepa 7y ago
There is of course plenty of random luxury developments in those places, but high end malls tend to be pretty good. At least in the elaborate-sloppy ratio, as different developments will be competing for the high end brands. But looking mor
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by njepa 7y ago
The standard for luxury malls in the Middle East and Asia can be pretty high, so if it is some sort of international play it matters for sure.
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by njepa 7y ago
My impression is that it is often a series of random companies. A "factory" doing some part, or assembly, might not be larger than a class room. These days you can pretty much just search for something like "tablet factory sh
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by njepa 7y ago
For some reason many of them don't have much presence outside of China. (It is obviously not very hard to find Chinese branded products in China). Maybe the overhead or the cultural gap is just too big at the moment. I will however be
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by njepa 7y ago
Eh, the outsourcing, moving and selling have been very deliberate in many countries. It isn't limited to manufacturing. You can go to smaller European country and see the fall of social democracy, how taxes have been lowered and housin
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by njepa 7y ago
I would argue Chinese brands have probably already overtaken non-Chinese ones at this point. Many of them just aren't really available outside of China. But if you started with a blank slate today and could buy either only Chinese or w
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by njepa 7y ago
Usually doesn't mean anything more than self-promotion, which ironically mostly seems to be used to not become a better place to actually move to.
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by njepa 7y ago
Gigabit is a bit overkill, it doesn't do much that 100 Mbit can't. However the real game changer is low latency 10 Gbit+. That is when the paradigm changes, and you no longer need storage. That is when you can do high resolution,
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by njepa 7y ago
The article is a bit weird because as far as I know Stockholm hasn't become much more walkable, or bikeable, in the last 15 years. (They have spent billions on car infrastructure however). Copenhagen is much superior in this regard. Th
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by njepa 7y ago
Not that the meta of your assumption is particularly interesting (as a discussion), but there is plenty of mainstream articles questioning whether Uber can make money long term. https://www.economist.com/business/2019&#
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by njepa 7y ago
Southeast Europe is polluted as well, however mainly from coal. I think will see more and more of these articles about the West as the trajectory of our societies are changing. We even have emerging gambling problems in Sweden these days, w
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by njepa 7y ago
Sweden had a very good run during the USSR time period. Especially post war until the ~90s. Somewhat ironically partly because we wanted to be more [0], and less [1], like the US. [0] “In the end, all such authoritarian measures were dismis
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by njepa 7y ago
As far as I can tell that is exactly because they abandoned rent stabilization making that market incompatible as it now only applies to certain units and triggers rent increases when you move.
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by njepa 7y ago
No one should expect the rent controlled part of the Stockholm housing market to work as it is essentially defunct. 1. Subsidies for building rent controlled units were removed. 2. Publicly owned apartments were sold at below market value.
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by njepa 7y ago
It is essentially never how it works. Why would you actively regulate something so people can't move? It is when you abandon rent control that the systems become incompatible and people can't move.
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by njepa 7y ago
I don't disagree that the situation is bad. But you can just go on "blocket" and rent an apartment in a similar manner. Software developers are paid at least €3k after taxes, unless you are just out of school. For €1k to €2k
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by njepa 7y ago
It largely worked until it was dismantled. It is only 17 years because the market largely doesn’t exists. There are maybe a couple of hundred rent controlled apartments being distributed each year in central Stockholm. Which isn’t unique, m
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by njepa 7y ago
While I can appreciate the sentiment, the reason we can do things like this is because of all the research and development that went into things like integrated circuits, manufacturing and CAD. This is more the classic hacker thing, were yo

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