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I also might be wrong but I assumed that a local app still has an edge over a website. This [1] is an old video about how Excel is used professionally. If that's not possible then the website is not good enough. [1] https://
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Am I mistaken or are all the note taking systems optimized for isolated usage? Some allow some form of communication by publishing notes but the last time I checked, there was no public pool of notes that were open for discovery. I would lo
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Capitalism can also mean that politics shouldn't intervene when monopolies dominate markets. Then markets may also disappear in capitalism.
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Why is there a need to remain employed for vesting? Can't OP offer the right to vest in the separation package and terminate immediately?
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Why is there not a non-typical UBI trial run by those who believe in UBI? It doesn't have to be tax funded and it doesn't have to pay out in a low purchasing power country. For sure there is a 'living on one dollar a day
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Doesn't Google use the Libreoffice code on the server side? You still need at least a locally running spreadsheet application for the Excel wizards. If I were Google or Slack, I would push Libreoffice Calc to be better than Excel. Onl
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Without an income tax, would the spending power remain at the lower and middle class? The housing market has shown that people are loose with their money and pay any price that they can finance. Likewise, all goods will become more expensiv
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This feels like tablets all over again. Microsoft had them for years but couldn't make something convincing. The core of Facebook is the idea of reinventing Myspace as a business app with a formal design. From that point of view, it ma
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Slack should invest in Libreoffice and offer a better office suite.
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Can this already be called the spiritual successor of Lotus Notes or are important components missing?
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Global warming shows that we have already passed that point. People care more about status and lifestyle than life. But is it bleak? When we go all in on virtuality, and the resolution is high enough and all senses are covered, what would b
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Have you considered the network effect? Users can't switch if there is no competitor with possible matches.
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Instead of cloning, they could just pay stackexchange to host it.
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Bhutan is a country that does improve on well-being. They measure Gross National Happiness (GNH). That should give a first approximation of the potential of that idea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_National_Happin
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Do you have an example for the 'shitting'? I don't understand how the shitting, and slapping right back is economically relevant. How is it preventing a country or a region from picking a market and becoming a global leader a
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To spell it out: >President François Mitterrand argued for the single currency because he hoped to bolster French influence in an EU that would otherwise fall under the sway of a unified Germany https://www.economist.com/
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If you look at the USA then the profits are made at the periphery. Profits can be made anywhere. Sooner or later, they will be made where living is more pleasant and that's at the European periphery. Which cultural problems exists that
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>It's definitely not worth an engineer's time to resolve random customer issues, especially as Stripe has grown from ~500 people to ~7000 people That's true if you assume a constant rate of incidents. But when engineers ar
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There is also the internet. Maybe everybody agrees and there is no objection to a correction? It could be as easy as creating a Mastodon instance to find out.