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by uola 10y ago
This is just the latest justification among security people to not having acknowledge their own incompetency in things like risk management. Since when was "doing what you feel" considered a reasoned solution? Many times these thi
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by uola 10y ago
Personally this is my least favorite artifact from hacker culture. Not necessarily thinking about these things, but the embellishing of it. There used to be a time where information was scares so it was hard to learn thing, today that isn&#
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by uola 10y ago
I can see your concern, but I think your overthinking it. It's a high level report. We can argue how important any one is for well-being, but that isn't necessarily the point. The point is, in this case, that if you have a certain
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by uola 10y ago
"Yet that's what has to work well to beat the competition, which is taxi dispatchers with paper maps, phones, and radios." In some part (maybe even a large part) of the world, yes. But in markets where taxis are from differen
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by uola 10y ago
"There's a fundamental issue with this report. It doesn't provide insight into why these indicators for well-being are important." Not really, it's getting tiring to read these sort of comments on HN. If you actuall
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by uola 10y ago
> And those tax rules tech companies take advantage of are not loopholes or tax breaks. "The regulations, however, had significant unintended consequences and opened the door to a host of tax avoidance schemes. Under Subpart F, pass
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by uola 10y ago
I don't necessarily disagree, a balanced life is a good thing. But on the other hand it's just a slightly lesser conformist one. What you really want to do is to channel your energy and ambition in another direction. Unless you&#x
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by uola 10y ago
I'm slightly surprised people seem excited about this. My impression is that the computer hardware market is pretty stagnate. There seems to be a severe lack of competition across the board (excluding flash storage). Maybe I'm mis
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by uola 10y ago
There a case to be made that innovations which require a lot of research won't be made, but I don't agree that nobody would have incentive to innovate. When there's no intellectual property you can't afford not to innova
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by uola 10y ago
In my experience police / border guards in the west threat people worse in normal situations. In most of the rest of the world they are just local bureaucrats who are trying to get through their day without trouble. If you do something
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by uola 10y ago
I think the question is why San Francisco doesn't expand like, say, New York has? Where each new neighborhood becomes somewhat self sustaining. I seem like there would be a queue of people that wants to start a company in the cheaper p
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by uola 10y ago
Yes, there seem to be a common misconception that it's density as such that matters. Successful big cities are not based on density, but the fact that they go on and on (making some areas very dense indeed), while San Francisco quite q
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by uola 10y ago
Although I'm slightly biased towards rebellion, I don't buy it. Innovation, as rebellion, happens when there's enough cracks in the model that enough people thinks something else is worthwhile. This usually happens when thing
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by uola 10y ago
I think you misunderstand, or at least the article misunderstands. It's not innovation as such, it's the ecosystem. Even without network effects Chinese companies are starting to stand on their own. Xiaomi is maybe even second to
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by uola 10y ago
"Who exactly would that help?" The banks. I don't even think they pretend otherwise at this point?
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by uola 10y ago
I would definitely say there's a gender problem in many blue collar jobs leading to a culture that negatively impact safety, productivity and the long-term well being of workers.
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by uola 10y ago
To be clear, I'm taking about the peak of the urban village which isn't very representative of China as a whole. http://www.city-data.com/forum/world/1773063-top-10-densest-... http://www.yi-m
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by uola 10y ago
I'm not sure all these analogies are that useful, the concepts are fairly simple after all. If I would to make one though, I would say that running a startup is like sailing. You're trying to get somewhere as fast as possible, but
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by uola 10y ago
Of course those streets are wide by (some) Chinese standards where they build entire blocks with 10+ story buildings meters apart.
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by uola 10y ago
By definition those leaving SF are those who didn't "make it". The whole point of being a center that you have the most power over something that people need, controlling access to markets. It's already very apparent for
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by uola 10y ago
The unsurprising problem is that the bay area isn't one of the European cities that grew dense and people therefore like to take as an example. It's very like that if the bay area want to grow significantly it has to do so with a
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by uola 10y ago
It essentially never happens. What can happen is that you develop new neighborhoods so the city overall becomes less expensive. Edit: If you disagree it's quite simple to simple mentioning the relevant market were this has happened ins
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by uola 10y ago
I'm not sure how useful analogies are in this case, even so I get pretty upset over a lot of popular poor quality business books (and similar) that have real impact on things. If you want to make a comparison you can equate things to h
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by uola 10y ago
I know a couple of people who've done that, they all regret it to some extent. Not necessarily doing it, but ignoring other factors of their lives and not being able to easily quit when it wasn't fun anymore. Not saying people sho
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by uola 10y ago
As far as I know the cross is technically the coat of arms, which probably has to do with the whole confederation thing. Passports do usually have quite different backgrounds inside, but generally you of course want them to be as recognizab
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by uola 10y ago
If my post is so full of ignorance it should be easy for you to formulate an argument against it, like I did against your comment. Yet, you seemingly can't. Europe has been far better at adopting technology than the US has. Everything
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by uola 10y ago
Of course it's about perspective, I just don't think you have a very broad one. That Google didn't come from Europe has little to do with the current situation. Europe doesn't lack innovation at all, in fact the reason t
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by uola 10y ago
We already have "sub-standard foreign technology" from US companies. China that has excluded much US companies are doing much better than Europe in term of domestic services. Other than that your comment is troll level.
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by uola 10y ago
I'm just not sure that those layers are actually functional. I see little reason why things couldn't be more like AWS if there were standardized ways to e.g. configure things. A lot that one deals with is glue between the turtles
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by uola 10y ago
I'm not sure running on AWS instead of on your own server is actually going down a turtle. I run pretty much everything myself, but that is mostly dealing with complexity which isn't very enlightening. Might very well be that som

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