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by thedarkproject 9y ago
Why would someone from Switzerland - a country that seems superior to the US in every relevant aspect for quality of life - move to the US?
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by thedarkproject 9y ago
This might be the single most arrogant comment I've ever read on HN. At least those enterprise developers perform actual engineering instead of copy pasting the newest JS framework tutorials and pushing pixels around like all the boot
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by thedarkproject 9y ago
This might me valid for the US. Anecdotally, where I live (Switzerland/central Europe) almost nobody uses iMessage, and WhatsApp is the big dominator.
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by thedarkproject 9y ago
Security by Obscurity never works. Source: Information Security 101
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by thedarkproject 9y ago
Switzerland's health care systems beats those by a mile. Every expat who knows these countries can confirm this.
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by thedarkproject 9y ago
In Switzerland it's usually 2-3 months notice, for both sides. Depends on what's written in your contract. But escorting people out after firing them seems very harsh and overdramatic to me. Never heard of such things in Europe.
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by thedarkproject 9y ago
Exactly, I can't understand how you got downvoted. Sweden is rich, Switzerland is rich, Luxemburg is rich. But Azerbaijan? Since when do natural resources imply wealth? By that logic, Venezuela would be rich too. Distribution of wealt
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by thedarkproject 9y ago
And somehow magically the continuously overcrowded streets and traffic jams don't apply to the Googlr car? Have fun waiting in traffic..
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by thedarkproject 9y ago
> The other main reason is that you want to avoid banks and government, which is certainly a smell that you may be a criminal. These benefits aren't for people who are honest. It is saddening that this argument is used even on HN.
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by thedarkproject 9y ago
I was looking for a good primer and I found the original Bitcoin paper itself to be a pretty good starting point: https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-paper Furthermore, I suggest the Princeton cryptocurrency intro course on
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by thedarkproject 9y ago
That's what I meant yes. Of course if it's applied onlx on routes where utilization is low a priori, my argument doesn't apply.
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by thedarkproject 9y ago
I agree with you mostly, but I would like to bring up the ecological concern of flying with empty seats. It increases the avg carbon footprint per passenger.
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by thedarkproject 9y ago
From an ecological point of view, this is very problematic. As far as it's value as a business idea goes, I'd say this an interesting idea.
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by thedarkproject 9y ago
> nowadays most of the business logic is mostly on the frontend This is a design flaw imho and should not be used as a reason to motivate the use of such projects. If your logic is in the frontend you should rather build a backend that c
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by thedarkproject 11y ago
Would recommend looking into ElasticSearch too. Recently had my first hands-on experiences and I am pretty amazed.