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by richardjordan 13y ago
I think the reason it's easier in Sweden is the key cultural value of fairness. America is more of a "mine" society, where everyone cares about what's "mine" and lacks an ability to self-moderate based on what
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by richardjordan 13y ago
Well you could trust your 'feelings' or you can look at the evidence and determine whether or not Sweden is a prosperous society with a good standard of living, competitive businesses and motivated people.
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by richardjordan 13y ago
I don't get this. Is it a VC firm? They seem fuzzy on details. "We provide startups with funding" then a list of VC partners. Are they one of those 'we help you get funding' companies who actually do the opposite? D
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by richardjordan 13y ago
Care to turn that into a coherent argument? These views are hardly unusual, and many Europeans share them.
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by richardjordan 13y ago
Ah yes because Hacker News is the place for a thesis on modern history. I was being polite: let me be clearer - you are wrong and your comment shows an ignorance of the facts and I suggest you actually read up on said conflicts before spout
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by richardjordan 13y ago
If you're referring to the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, a conflict I was actually present for the start of interestingly, then that's a whole different issue and far more complicated.
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by richardjordan 13y ago
Those examples are somewhat extreme and don't support the premise that the US is the least racist society anywhere. You also need to separate out complicated ethnic conflicts that are largely geopolitical in nature than racist in a con
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by richardjordan 13y ago
I think there's an alternative explanation to your anecdotal suggestion black drivers don't pick up white hitch-hikers. Picking up hitch-hikers is inherently risky. Given that in any altercation or conflict the establishment and
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by richardjordan 13y ago
How can anyone possibly believe this? Not just attacking you but genuinely I find this incomprehensible. America is a deeply racist society. It's built on the genocide of the Native Americans who are still largely kept in poverty in
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by richardjordan 13y ago
Having grown up in the UK, lived in many countries around the world, and now been in the US for 15 years I dispute that. To fight anecdote with anecdote... Moving from the UK to the US I was shocked by the pernicious levels of institutional
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by richardjordan 13y ago
I'm very careful with advice. Even more so in personal contexts. The challenge is that there's a four square matrix of outcomes: they follow vs they don't follow; the outcome is a success vs a failure. If they follow and have
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by richardjordan 13y ago
Why do people still design pages unreadable on mobile? This sounded interesting but it's unreadable.
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by richardjordan 13y ago
Nobody had ever connected the dots? That's nonsense. I studied Physics in the early 90s and the various possibilities for early habitability used to crop up in conversation - in the common room if nothing else.
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by richardjordan 13y ago
Given how many countries and cultures allow women to be treated as property and owned with little recourse it's hard to say this is the last stronghold of slavery. We just prefer not to raise this too often, as it's often the res
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by richardjordan 13y ago
Oh, no way. Philip Seymour Hoffman was a genius actor, every role he's played he's been riveting in. He's consistently been one of the very best actors of his generation. One I'd hoped to see for many years to come.
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by richardjordan 13y ago
sure... it can be more broadly stated "you have a design problem and/or you're testing the wrong things"
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by richardjordan 13y ago
Shout out for Sandi Metz book POODR, and her Railsconf talk The Magic Tricks of Testing, if you're a rubyist (though the principles hold true for non-ruby OO programmers too). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URSWYvyc42M
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by richardjordan 13y ago
The comments section today looks like a support group for beginners/intermediates who struggled with TDD and gave up, and so want to explain why it's all bunk. I get this. I am not a great programmer. I'm self taught like
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by richardjordan 13y ago
As a long time fan of the BBC (well all my life really) their web written content often disappoints. When it's on a topic I know it's too often wrong or misleading. They need to bring their written web content up to the level of
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by richardjordan 13y ago
so i need to think about that - i was asked by one of the incubator runners - and a friend of startups everywhere who doesn't need naming here - to do a write up of my experience and i balked mainly because it's hard to do without
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by richardjordan 13y ago
This is true of all investors not just VCs. There is often a misalignment of interest between investors and startups without the founders ever realizing it. I've experienced the situation of raising money where one of the investors h
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World War II’s Strangest Battle: When Americans and Germans Fought Together(thedailybeast.com)
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by richardjordan 13y ago
The North Korean stakeholders both inside and outside the regime understand how tailored it is to needing a member of the Kim family at the top. The destabilization is something they fear tremendously. There's a lot of inertia here a
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by richardjordan 13y ago
I have two kids. One with special needs. I see no joy in a world of increasing instability, rising violence and significant economic shocks.
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by richardjordan 13y ago
where did i confuse apathy for lack of sympathy?
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by richardjordan 13y ago
The world increasingly DOESN'T send its best and brightest to America to be educated. Wealthy elites often send family members to establish themselves here for the economic benefits of a system controlling most of the worlds resources
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by richardjordan 13y ago
There's nothing particularly extraordinary in these claims.
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by richardjordan 13y ago
Is this titled so that we have sympathy with the Bitcoin startups?
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by richardjordan 13y ago
and this is why the politicians and the media elites are able to brush off these uncomfortable facts
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by richardjordan 13y ago
sadly this is exactly right - the American people don't care - they pretend they do but in reality they will just do what they're told to by the media and the politicians from whichever side of the one party with two faces they pr

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