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by pimmen 8y ago
"Stop robbing your people by artificially devaluing your currency" As opposed to every other central bank that also has low interest rates because inflation is still terrible? Sweden has negative interest rates for example and we&
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by pimmen 8y ago
You're correct, but that's not the case. They host all across the EU (and have special agreements with the local governments about power supply for example), have employees all across the EU, accept Euros as payment and wouldn&#x2
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by pimmen 8y ago
I agree, but some things we aren't comfortable making into highly competitive markets. To make housing more competitive for everyone, both tenants and landlords, we would have to do something about the notice of eviction (because if th
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by pimmen 8y ago
There are absolutely challenges to it, but the same goes for removing rent control. How do you make sure there is no discriminatory pricing for example. We can't just say no to everything that doesn't work perfectly if it adds a l
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by pimmen 8y ago
They have to follow German law because they have German users, German customers (German companies buying ads), use German infrastructure, German marketing and German offices housing German employees. If they would like to turn their back to
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by pimmen 8y ago
Something to do with transportation and logistics really. Free trade is just not going away despite populists doing their dardnest to make it more difficult and free trade runs on transporting stuff from A to B easily. If you could innovate
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by pimmen 8y ago
This is also a very good reminder of why discrimination takes a long time to defeat. The moment we legislate that we shouldn't discriminate by race, gender or religion the capital gained from all the advantages is skewed towards to the
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by pimmen 8y ago
I hope clearing this history would give me back the chronological feed, would maybe make me use Facebook more than once every month. I completely missed that one of my old friends graduated, another friend moving to a different country for
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by pimmen 9y ago
"Anti-Pattern 2 - Having integration tests without unit tests" The first project I worked from after graduating had this problem when I came onboard, all the tests were slow as all hell and 80% of each test did the same thing (cle
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by pimmen 9y ago
I wonder how much of this is about money and how much is about prestige. When you look a the figures at WADA, men are caught doping more often than females and women earn much less in sports. In Sweden, the women's national hockey team
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by pimmen 9y ago
Nice ads you're running there. Would be a shame if something were to block them.
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by pimmen 9y ago
You have to give consent to every use of your personal data. You can't agree to them using your data for 47 different purposes at the same time.
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by pimmen 9y ago
And yet when I ask my fellow Swedes to get rid of daylight savings I hear "it would never work, you just can't make people switch habits like that overnight" way too often. The inertia of complacency is very hard to change th
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by pimmen 9y ago
You could use the OAuth authentication API and let the user consciously giving user settings access to the service. As long as the service doesn't do anything with that data the agreement with the user doesn't permit, and the data
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by pimmen 9y ago
Lobbyists just make politicians’ work easier, even if the politicians would’ve received no money or compensation at all the politicians still like the service they provide. Politicians want, above all else, to stay in power. That’s their ac
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by pimmen 9y ago
Because after WWII Finland was very influenced by the Soviet Union. Finland tried to avoid enacting or supporting policies that opposed the Soviet Union during the cold war, especially during the first half when the USSR was Finland's
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by pimmen 9y ago
Yes, this is something I think will be more likely; English might lose its grasp of area A to one language and lose area B to another language. I don't think we'll see one national language dominate again for a long time because t
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by pimmen 9y ago
Too much pop culture outside of the US is produced in English even though it's consumed mostly by non-english speaking markets. Swedish music, for example. And lets not forget that software engineering's lingua franca is still Eng
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by pimmen 9y ago
The advertisers leaving is what really hurts Facebook. Remember, you aren't Facebook's customer if you're just a regular user; you're the product. Think of it this way; imagine a farmer having a bad harvest. that's
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by pimmen 9y ago
They can if they are willing to, but I doubt many companies are willing to. "This is a tough one; spend a year rebuilding our backend and terms of services or shut ourselves out from a market of almost 500 million people (not including
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by pimmen 9y ago
I would claim the opposite. If you're starting a business you'll research how to click your backend together in a way that doesn't leak all of your user's data in all directions. Than you'll build a backend that nev
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by pimmen 9y ago
Initiatives like this is what really makes the big tech giants change. Google and Facebook sees you as the product, when you switch services it's not really the end of the world. Keeping you on their platform is a cost. To cover this c
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by pimmen 9y ago
Sales tax, depending on the structure of the company. If a company has a solid presence in the country where the sale was made, with physical sales and marketing departments, who make the sale it will be taxed there. This is the case for Fa
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by pimmen 9y ago
Country D, I think. That's where the sale was made.
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by pimmen 9y ago
The My Lai massacre is an important event because what happened to the soldiers who committed the atrocities (nothing) echoes through history. Nobody is still being punished for what happened in Haditha, Abu Ghraib or Gitmo. During the 1940
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by pimmen 9y ago
This is an industry that has a long history of human rights abuses and funding conflicts, not even mentioning the price fixing they've done by forming straight cartels. Boo hoo.
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by pimmen 9y ago
How can you say it's not biased? It's clearly white-washing!
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by pimmen 9y ago
We use Titan DB and are updating it to Janus since Titan is dead. We used Neo4j for a small hack at an event at the office mapping up bus routes and homes living along the bus stops to find out quickly how accessible they were, and it worke
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by pimmen 9y ago
So, it wouldn't be too crazy to think then that those hardships finding another job would influence what they tell a customer asking them about whether or not they like their current job?
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by pimmen 9y ago
Then you're subject to sample bias.

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