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by servs 8y ago
I am not surprised. I have been following copyright and "digital" law for about two decades. Most people just haven't changed their minds on copyright, wiretaps or many other things. If you want to convince people it has to b
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by servs 8y ago
Now this is just getting silly. > You seem to think that technology equals "venture capital that shows up in the tech news". The companies I mentioned all have had great real success. They have hired thousands and thousands of
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by servs 8y ago
> Much of YouTube content is (perfectly legal) remixes, responses, or criticisms of other YouTube content that embeds part of the referenced video in their own video. That actually isn't legal in many countries and is e.g. why regio
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by servs 8y ago
As I said a cluster is powerful when it produces these effects. Otherwise it is just a bunch of companies with nice titles waiting to go work in banking. Countries like Sweden have consistantly shown that their clusters are powerful by prod
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by servs 8y ago
You are saying that it is special because of the clustering, so I am wondering what indicates that? If you look at Sweden or Israel it is fairly obvious that they are successful in at least half a dozen areas. You can trace the path from on
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by servs 8y ago
I wouldn't say so. SV has always had quite specific points that, for a lot of people, made it more appealing than the alternatives. There are a number of technology "interested" areas in the US including Dallas, Chicago, Bost
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by servs 8y ago
Despite Switzerland's reputation, and even arguably better conditions, relatively similar countries like Israel and Sweden have been running laps around Switzerland in the last 20 years when it comes to startups (possibly excluding pha
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by servs 8y ago
In Sweden you don't really have a plan. Everyone is covered regardless including basic sick pay. You can have zero income, pay zero taxes and file zero forms and still be covered like everyone else. The maximum co-pay per year includin
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by servs 8y ago
People always tend to complain about things like groupthink. Doesn't mean it isn't real, just rarely a concrete problem. Sweden has a ton "first world problems" like status, fear of missing out, vanity etc. Still absolut