paulus_magnus2

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by paulus_magnus2 8y ago
actually if they look closely enough they'll find out companies really want to hire clever workaholics who have modest salary requirements, never ask for raise or promotion and are easily taken advantage of. That's the perfect emp
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by paulus_magnus2 9y ago
He's in damage control mode / managing expectations. Come on, when your data is the product, who do you think will buy it and what can/will they do with it other than bad things. I can't think of a legitimate use for s
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by paulus_magnus2 9y ago
(Based on my experience) the best form of job guarantee is another 10-20 employers willing to hire me.
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by paulus_magnus2 9y ago
There were discussions: is it time to break up google et.al [1], with no clean indication of when someone is "too big". Obviously "too big" is when politicians are compelled to be involved in investment decisions of the
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by paulus_magnus2 9y ago
not a programmers keyboard. semicolon at the hardest to reach position
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by paulus_magnus2 9y ago
If you aren’t aligned with a human need, you’re just going to build a very powerful system to address a very small — or perhaps nonexistent — problem The problem is we're primarily aligning with the need of the shareholder, not the cus
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by paulus_magnus2 9y ago
£0.04 per item shipped. (220 working days x 8h) as a customer i'm happy to pay another 4p per item shipped to have workers only process 125 items/h. But capitalism doesn't work this way. Bezos would just pocket the 4p and ke
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by paulus_magnus2 9y ago
Relevant excellent TV series [1]. After Raegan/Thatcher privatization there was a 2nd wave Clinton/Blaire of liberalisation. The idea was to dismantle "old hierarchy" / Big Government and replace it with market form
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by paulus_magnus2 9y ago
Sony’s VAIO X505 had some impressive specs when it first debuted in 2004. It was just 0.38 inches at its thinnest point, and used Intel’s ultra-low voltage Pentium processor. It was the first laptop to feature a "chiclet" keyboard
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by paulus_magnus2 9y ago
Fairy tales have provided a source of inspiration for the Disney studio.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Disney_animated_films_...
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by paulus_magnus2 9y ago
Question from European side. We hear there's a shortage of good people in SV / USA. What if you plainly ignored all companies that whiteboard? There should be plenty well paying jobs left. disclaimer. a major tech company whiteboa
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by paulus_magnus2 9y ago
In Europe it's cheaper[xx] to leave car driving around (indefinitely on a roundabout etc) than to (short-term) park in the cities or at airports. [xx] 1h city driving = 20km fuel @ €10/100km driving = €2 parking = €3-€3.50 EVs wou
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by paulus_magnus2 9y ago
Can someone from the AD industry list a few (3 or more) legitimate uses for ‘pervasive’ tracking.
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by paulus_magnus2 9y ago
There are tons of new inventions happening every day. People do new things only for themselves. What is impeded is bringing these to mass market due to markets being concentrated in few hands.
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by paulus_magnus2 9y ago
tl;dr. Being an asshole isn't a crime. Analogy to put this in perspective: at your daughter' school, there's a collection for a new electronic whiteboard. Everyone pays their share. Except due to an old / obscure rule fa
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by paulus_magnus2 9y ago
Economy. If Moon was made of gold it wouldn't be worth going there for it [1]. Perhaps reusable spacecraft can change that. For strategic / military reasons (money no objective) we can achieve much more than if profit is the only
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by paulus_magnus2 9y ago
“There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesn't matter who gets the credit.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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by paulus_magnus2 9y ago
So all this time being "unable to" tax giants was a lie.
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by paulus_magnus2 9y ago
Watero. $25 bags of clean water freshly filtered your personal $500 dispenser
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by paulus_magnus2 9y ago
>>So sorry but they want to keep using land to farm you. Very good point. Rich have cornered housing markets in all #1 cities effectively farming workers & capturing value they create. Road to serfdom?
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by paulus_magnus2 9y ago
Beyond a certain point more wealth has zero marginal utility (pure greed). I don't envy the rich nor am a communist so let them be as rich as they want as long as we don't compete for the same resources. Yes. Houses (actually Lan
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by paulus_magnus2 9y ago
Apple apologizes for iPhone slowdown drama, will offer $29 battery replacements for a year https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/28/16827248/apple-iphone-ba...
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by paulus_magnus2 9y ago
You have no business being in #1 cities if you don't have monetary capital to go along your skills. In London home prices (average) increases every year by more than average salary. If you've not bought in, you're being bette
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by paulus_magnus2 9y ago
The shorting started. Let's see if there's anyone willing to protect BTC and at which level.
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by paulus_magnus2 9y ago
Making battery non-user replaceable we're engineering a time sink + cost sink on the side of the user. This isn't progress, it's rentseeking. $79 per year x 1 billion phones. Apple profit on the transaction is smaller than my
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by paulus_magnus2 9y ago
"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place," Schmidt tells CNBC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6e7wfDHzew https://en.wikipe
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by paulus_magnus2 9y ago
Cities just don't work if everyone drives their own personal car. And keeps it parked 90% of the time. Perhaps when autonomous cars arrive we'll be driven around more but right now public transport is faster, more convenient, chea
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by paulus_magnus2 9y ago
$1000 phones are a bubble. Time to wake up and rationally look at the other end of (generalised) Moore's law. $100 one laptop per child, still waiting for it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child $1
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by paulus_magnus2 9y ago
I'd like EU court to look into Apple iOS and now MS Windows, Google Chromebooks lock the user into a single source of "apps". It's like you were limited to fill / charge your car at stations owned by the manufacture
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by paulus_magnus2 9y ago
In countries like Morocco, Egypt, China etc EVERYONE is a taxi driver. Stick your finger up and they'll drive you a few km/miles for a few bucks. Uber incorporated / centralised that. It's not some vague digital enabler

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