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by uola 10y ago
My lasting (but maybe wrong) impression of the semantic web was that it was basically about interconnecting things. I think when focus shifted to mobile, where closed app store with isolated apps were the norm, that idea became less practic
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Sorry, I have little idea what your point is. She's was/is a recent graduate, she's new to any industry. If you "stick around" long without increase in salary, equity or experience (preferable all fo them) you'
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by uola 10y ago
I have a hard time seeing how that is accurate. People misjudge the timing and widespread it will be, but those next big things you mentioned are billion dollar industries now. WebTV -> YouTube, Netflix. VR -> Warcraft, EVE Online, Mi
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by uola 10y ago
I think it's a fair characterization of some sort of minimum commitment as an employee. Especially if you're new to the industry sticking around for 5+ years is going to be a waste of time, rarely will the company match your marke
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by uola 10y ago
Don't forget that not only is the chinese market huge, and one of the few where there's limited competition from other western companies, it's greatly positioned for the needs of rising economies. Especially if IOT takes off.
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by uola 10y ago
That's actually far more relevant than a lot of YC startups. Custom packaging is a big trend in Asia and far more evolved than in the west.
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by uola 10y ago
Yes, but the technology they are researching (full autonomous) is still further down the road than something like highway autonomy only. Which would still give you most of the benefits of an autonomous car in boredom, accident and unproduct
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by uola 10y ago
Generally I would say that a company like Google is researching self-driving, while a company like Volvo is building self-driving cars . It's very likely that Google has the edge when it comes to something like autonomous taxis (i.e.
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by uola 10y ago
Well, to some limit. I run into chinese form all the time that doesn't accept more than 10 characters. PS. Thank you for reposting my comment comment in an earlier thread [0], but it's not that I've been flagged, I've be
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by uola 10y ago
Signal itself works, but since Google is blocked no phones are sold with Google Play Store and even if you hack it onto your phone (which will break when it wants to update play services) it will drain your battery trying to connect to bloc
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by uola 10y ago
"Perhaps they've decided that this is a small and declining market." For consumers (and facebook is a consumer company) it's all about who owns mobile (and can also compete with facebook). They want desktop to just be en
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by uola 10y ago
Yes, phone numbers are public enough that they are shared everywhere, but unique enough to lead to a single person not to speak of that persons movements. And "just use twilio" isn't a motivation for using phone numbers in th
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by uola 10y ago
To me, unless things have changed, electron is crazy. Many people today use some sort of abstraction layer that generates their html/css. I really hope they move towards interfacing js or node.js directly with skia (which is the graphi
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by uola 10y ago
I don't buy his arguments. It's one thing to say we have to be on Google Play Store or we have to use phone numbers despite the privacy implications because that is what people use. But ignoring much of the developing countries (s
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by uola 10y ago
Usually, at least in jurisdiction where this takes some time, companies will be pre-registered under a generic name and there's no real need to change it if you don't use it for trade. https://www.apintertrust.com/
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by uola 10y ago
"IMHO, members of HN are the vocal minority in their outright hatred for Trump" Trump (followed by Clinton) is the most disliked candidates in (at least modern) US history. http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/
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by uola 10y ago
Not a fan nor particularly informed on Thiel. But my brief impression is that he (also) considers himself some kind of realist. Trump is less conservative on many issues and presumably will push the republicans in that direction. While I (u
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by uola 10y ago
Mostly "I don't know too much about the world, but the white house said they did great". If Europe had any larger responsibility for the conflict, it was probably that it couldn't stop the war from happening (even though
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by uola 10y ago
While I like Signal, it's essentially dead in the water as a mainstream platform [0]. They were too late, the network effects are too great and they didn't execute the user part very well. The technology can do a lot of good for u
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by uola 10y ago
I just don't see what the huge improvement would be. It's really not that hard to type compared to have voice recognition for all kinds of languages, dialects and accents. Not to speak of "press button, speak into phone, wait
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by uola 10y ago
"Apple murders this space." Not really, you just don't know what you're missing because you've never had an ecosystem like wechat and qq.
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by uola 10y ago
It's one thing if you happen to end up with investment in some less ethical business because someone is managing investments for you. But in this case you have to pay tens of thousands of dollars and sign contracts for nominee director
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by uola 10y ago
Mostly not. When talking about privacy in terms of tax havens it's rather wheter or not they have signed and comply with information sharing agreements i.e. privacy from the government.
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by uola 10y ago
It's probably not that hard to figure out what's going on if you live in a european welfare country and suddenly are asked to sign nominee contracts and have passport copies sent to Panama.
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Legality as such isn't really relvant when it comes to tax planning. Not only that, but most people don't actually care about illegal tax planning even if they say they do, because in that case you would ask for a receipt ever tim
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Well, at least we didn't start the war, not even under false pretenses, we welcomed a lot of refugees, held real trials, didn't torture or assassinate anyone and sent countless of soldiers on peacekeeping missions. And it wasn&#x2