rehtona

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by rehtona 11y ago
The reason we're eating wheat even though we're not made for it is because we could support larger populations on that versus hunting and gathering. Farming societies eventually won, even though hunters and gatherers were more hea
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by rehtona 11y ago
The US and China both have the "unfair" advantage of a big homogenous market. I think that's the main reason you don't see a Microsoft, Google or Facebook in Europe. For example Spotify, headquartered in Stockholm, initi
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by rehtona 11y ago
$3.6 million in VC funding for a news site about wrist-watches? I wonder what that pitch was, it must have been good.
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by rehtona 11y ago
A country without any problems or immigrants: the USA!
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by rehtona 11y ago
I think some personality types are just prone to the attitude that everything's turning to shit. The same people that feel that the world is less safe today while statistics show the opposite. That doesn't mean he doesn't hav
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by rehtona 11y ago
Now do this for the Hadoop ecosystem. I'm ripping my hair out because of the complexity of it all. I get that distributed is difficult, but this just feels like too much. Abstraction upon abstraction upon abstraction. Hadoop is this th
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by rehtona 11y ago
I have realised that what I want want is not necessarily a startup, but freedom and doing something that I feel matters. A startup would be one very risky way to accomplish that, and I might still if there is the right opportunity. But I ha
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by rehtona 11y ago
$150k is really a ridiculous amount of money in Sweden. Not that living expenses are low or anything, but most of life's big expenses are taken care of already: you get a real pension, universal health care, paid for university (no nee
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by rehtona 11y ago
The title of the photo says "composite photograph", perhaps several close up photos were stitched together?
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by rehtona 11y ago
How is it terrible exactly? It's standard practice where I live. My niece went to child care shortly after 1 year and she loves it. I'm sure she would be immensely bored just being home with mommy all day, every day.
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by rehtona 11y ago
I wish I was able to feel good doing manual labor or outdoors activities but I just can't for the most part. That includes farming, carpenting, fishing, sailing etc. My father is a very handy man, and I've tried to keep an open mi