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   by pinaceae 11y ago

   oh yes, the spam it allow will be beautiful. twitter spam has been of limited value due to the constraints. would be more useful to move links, @mentions, etc. out of the character limit. but hey, if they do it, it opens the opportunity for
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   by pinaceae 11y ago

   As an European living in the US, the US health system is so utterly broken and asinine, it's not even funny. You take a non-free market (I get sick, I need help - no choice involved) and apply seemingly free market logic to it. The res
3. 213.▲
   by pinaceae 11y ago

   fits nicely with the stuff @pmarca has been tweeting and retweeting recently. taking absolutely asinine stuff from the likes the national review (everything the left ever did was wrong, starting with the french revolution) to grover norquis
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   by pinaceae 11y ago

   explain HPV vaccination then. and the banning of abestos. and all anti-smoking legislation. and all other EPA regulation banning carcinogens. etc etc etc.
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   by pinaceae 11y ago

   they optimize for locals, while killing usability for foreigners and travellers. try using google in spain - even the results are worthless if you're not a spaniard. local search results get prominence, which is hilarious when searchin
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   by pinaceae 11y ago

   Because humans suck in predicting the future.
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   by pinaceae 11y ago

   what I am saying is that once your app is using multiple languages, is available in multiple geographies this "just use labels" stuff goes out of the window. Cancel becomes what, "Zurücksetzen"? "Abbrechen"? Al
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   by pinaceae 11y ago

   this english-centric viewpoint of the article really bothers me. no mention of i18n, no language variation. just try using labels with a more verbose language like german. welcome to hell. a good icon works across cultures and languages, al
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   by pinaceae 11y ago

   Sir Karl Popper will blow your mind.
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    by pinaceae 11y ago

    The power of default. Never underestimate it - Dropbox should be worried about such a move.
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    by pinaceae 11y ago

    actually guarantee it is WORSE for the generations that grew up without a computer. or who do you think is the target group for spam emails? teens?
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    by pinaceae 11y ago

    compared to the germans? sure. compared to swedes? nope. /schluchtenscheisser
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    by pinaceae 11y ago

    hm, as a European I miss radio news more. not dedicated channels like here, but the mandated news breaks every radio channel needs to broadcast. no one can escape getting at least a tiny amount of information. it is so easy to be complete
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    by pinaceae 11y ago

    everyone agrees jumping from the roof of a 6 story building will hurt - but please go ahead, try your debate theory against it.
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    by pinaceae 11y ago

    only the US and NZ allow direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs. let that sink in a bit. from germany to japan to ghana to timor leste - everyone else has disagreed on this approach.
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    by pinaceae 11y ago

    PR piece. "Because I want to win in the start-up lottery and cash out." would be more honest - and there is nothing wrong with that. but this claim of making the world a better place - oh come on.
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    by pinaceae 11y ago

    utter bullshit. while 30% of the population vote far right, there is also a strong left tradition in Austria, as exemplified by Red Vienna (Das Rote Wien), with its revolutionary social housing and socialist Mayor (re-elected, again).
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    by pinaceae 11y ago

    Austria did not exist a nation state before 1918, it was a piece of the Habsburg monarchy/empire. After the empire got split up, it was clear for the populace that it could not survive on its own, surrounded by former "colonies&qu
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    by pinaceae 11y ago

    I'd suggest Icarus. Flying high on wings of wax - until the sun gets too hot.
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    by pinaceae 11y ago

    which other elected leader of a western-style country has ended any kind of surveillance? realpolitik is far more messier than lofty moralism, the US never had a clean slate, ever. just like any other country. and for the posters bitching a
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    by pinaceae 11y ago

    oh boy. if you run your own biz, you work for someone - your customers. and you need a steady supply of those, which looks easy at the beginning, but a couple years in can get really, really hard as they retire and you suck at sales. seen t
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    by pinaceae 11y ago

    so let's say I am being attacked by the first wave of tanks the Germans have fielded. The wave consists of 10 tanks, but from the first batch of tanks produced. 1,5,6,9,12,15,18,20,21,25 how did the allies double check that their sampl
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    by pinaceae 11y ago

    Ok, can someone explain why this method performs so well? Take the highest serial number, add a tenth of it then subtract 1. Presto. What is the underlying logic here?
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    by pinaceae 11y ago

    no worries, was clear when I posted that the downvotes would come in heavy - this is HN after all. big fan of this ideology, especially personified by the likes of Peter Thiel, who went on record stating that letting womenfolk vote in the U
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    by pinaceae 11y ago

    so, against the government and against big business? what's left then? and, awesome how his stance is ultimately self-defeating as any other political direction/movement will embrace the organisation of a big construct. libertaria
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    by pinaceae 11y ago

    right now some genious at ATT is calculating the business case for roaming charges between US states. not like the US has anything like the EU commission enforcing rules against corporations. oh man, the billions to be reaped. and hey, how
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    by pinaceae 11y ago

    hmm, let's see. iraq, afghanistan, syria are obvious, no? being white makes you a target for assassination, kidnapping. china and japan have slurs against whites, see them as brutes. being white and walking into areas in much of latin
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    by pinaceae 11y ago

    replace drone with car. still stupid?
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    by pinaceae 11y ago

    different VCs in biotech, not the same as the software ones we discuss here usually. isn't YC also dabbling in outlandish areas?
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    by pinaceae 11y ago

    i wonder if there will be an overall impact on VCs branching into non-software areas. the software-is-eating-the-world kool aid might have gotten to some heads. "disrupting" social media or ads is one thing - health, energy, etc i