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Downvoters, look up Dunning-Kruger.
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It goes both ways. Swedes really liked Ericsson phones. They also really liked Nokia phones. Finns really liked Nokia phones. They also really like iPhones. Americans really like iPhones. They also really like Samsung Galaxies. Etc.
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Same as any nationality, ever.
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There is no such thing as "reverse sexism." There is only sexism. Making decisions based on gender is always sexist.
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Have you ever managed an organization? Then you would understand why it is a fundamental need for those in control to have the maximum amount of information possible. It's impossible to govern an organization of you know nothing about
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Intelligence collection is not about security but about * control*, though security is a small subset of control. The problem is that, as Gall's Law states, systems and organization eventually become counter productive: the NSA and the
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The real threat is not Artificial Intelligence but Artificial Stupidity.
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The more you try to emulate reality, the farther from reality you get. That's why interviewing practices are so absurd today -- cognitive tests, personality tests, whatever work test that tries to assign a quantifiable score to an appl
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Instagram deserves the Unicorn title. It is very useful for both personal and professional ends, and has changed photography fundamentally. The problem is with its business model - that it will monetize people's attention via ads - and
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So it's the same as in, for example, the United States or Sweden.
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Fun fact: The average mortgage repayment time in Sweden is 120 years.
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Even if this person was not rich as measured by capital, he is somehow privileged in other ways. Like running in the right social circles and knowing the people who hand out these rental contracts. Typically, people in media, the culture se
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It is the same in Stockholm, or worse even. Because of rent control, nobody builds rental apartments because it isn't profitable. Most rental apartments have been sold due to unprofitability and have been turned into owners apartments.
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A country can have open borders or a social safety net, not both. If you choose the latter, you're effectively denying the existing population the services they have already paid for, for themselves and their offspring, through their t
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Fail.
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Harj is not really interested in creating a service that "measures" a person's ability or "predicting" their future performance, because that's impossible to do. What they're really doing is creating a car
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>I'm all for automating jobs that technology deems unnecessary. The solution isn't to push everyone into some multi-disciplinary creative class. Many people would be very happy as uber drivers, or any other menial job, if they
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>Because of incumbent banks’ endless surcharges, late fees and other abuses, “there’s room for a product by young people for young people,” Levchin, 39, said in a phone interview this week. “That’s what Silicon Valley’s good for, and tha
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Ask HN: Could .html replace .doc?
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That labor is a commodity is not an "idea", but in the case of Uber drivers and the Foxconn workers who assemble iPhones, a fact. It is a fact because that's how those jobs and service/production processes have been desi
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Highly Artificial Intelligence http://research.modesvu.com/post/118179144182/highlandvalley