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by uola 10y ago
Google is very dominant in Europe, 90% is not unrealistic for search.
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by uola 10y ago
If it wasn't for "renter-friendly" laws many renters would have had to move already or wouldn't have moved there in the first place. It's like saying that programming would be much better if we required everyone to
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by uola 10y ago
It's not really unexpected. The road to success was paved a decade or two ago. Stockholm has very few "random" successful startup, it's pretty much all things that Sweden has been traditionally good at. Creative industri
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by uola 10y ago
That's a pretty silly statement though. It's like expecting actors not to do movies in Hollywood. Even if they would have stayed (like a number of Swedish game companies) they would have most likely been bought by a US company in
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by uola 10y ago
"Hacking on a side project is one of the things you could do once you stop spending hours saving dollars." Hacking on ever recurring side project can also be a huge time sink, especially since projects tend to have a disproportion
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by uola 10y ago
I unfortunately think that the reason why programming has been accessible is because we didn't know better. The standard for what can be publicly accessible on the Internet or what will compete for users attention is much higher today.
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by uola 10y ago
Agreed, but there's also a fine line between frugality and being cheap. You should optimize what you get for the money, not lower your quality of life in an unsustainable way.
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by uola 10y ago
I think the point is that it's very easy to convince yourself of the time is money concept when you really just don't want to care about money or want fancier things. While forgetting that money is also time.
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by uola 10y ago
The alternative solution is what we have today when large tech companies prefer to hire people from high status schools.
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by uola 10y ago
First part was slightly disappointing (all the usual stuff), the full one turned out great though.
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by uola 10y ago
There's a supreme mismatch between the state of software (and infrastructure) and how we use it today. If nothing else people should be concerned about this because it makes the Internet de facto not open, since most people can't
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by uola 10y ago
The Nordic countries aren't spontaneously homogeneous though. It's because we (social democracy mostly) worked hard to make it so. As the Nordic countries are becoming more like everywhere else we also see the rise of things like
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by uola 10y ago
Social mobility is by definition that your own future shouldn't be determined by your parents. So "parenting" is not really a valid excuse if you want social mobility.
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by uola 10y ago
Computer software can also be updated, yet almost everything is broken. Rushing self-driving cars is not pragmatic, it's keeping the lack of safety culture that driving already has. Whatever lives you save in the short run is likely to
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by uola 10y ago
I don't really get the "taxi cartel" thing. Taxis aren't exactly brilliant everywhere so I buy the better service argument, but if you're concerned about corruption and cartels I don't see how a global company
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by uola 10y ago
I find that very unlikely in the long run. As long as you there's a company to put pressure on it will happen sooner or later.
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by uola 10y ago
One thing I don't understand how Signal implemented by platform providers is supposed to work with lawful interception? Either it doesn't work, in which case we expect law enforcement to just give up the right to wiretap things wi
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by uola 10y ago
I believe we are largely moving from a situation where any single technology or idea can have big impact to where the ones who can organize, standardize and connect things will be the winners. A lot of the problems startups have been trying
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by uola 10y ago
"That's all this stuff is, tools to aid reasoning by identifying common patterns and antipatterns in thoughts and perceptions about the world around us." Identifying patterns is second to learning something. Logical fallacies
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by uola 10y ago
"This list is useful for people who are already used to thinking in these ways, intuitively, by being exposed to other people and learning by osmosis. Formalizing intuition leads to easy growth." That's exactly what I'm
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by uola 10y ago
I think if you want to see the show you have to get on the road i.e. the future is happening in places like China.
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by uola 10y ago
Ugh, maybe I'm the only one but I don't find this list useful. Not because it isn't interesting, but the implication that it will actually make you smarter. The problem today isn't information, it's knowledge. Even
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by uola 10y ago
I'm not sure it's that important, but I would say there's a difference between preventing people from doing what they want and inviting people do to something. That said, I'm also not sure the article actually claims tha
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by uola 10y ago
The fundamentals hasn't changed. Everything else being equal the increased convenience of self-driving cars and the low running costs of electric cars will put a lot more cars on the road that will take longer journeys. There's no
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by uola 10y ago
Not sure why discussions on HN always have to turn into fictional comparisons, but to play along I would note that everything else has also gotten more efficient and will continue to get even more so.
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by uola 10y ago
That didn't seem to be the sentiment of the speaker though, which is why I mention it.
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by uola 10y ago
I assume you're being sarcastic, but while I like Switzerland it is a peculiar place. It's not at all uncommon that visitors experience culture shock, thinking people are unfriendly and not realizing how expensive things are. I wo
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by uola 10y ago
Yes, my understanding is that they did (and to some degree continue to), especially before the new Mac Pro. We're talking about users that spend 99% of their time in an application suite.
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by uola 10y ago
Investors speaking without the chance of rebuttal from people who have significant experience in the subject is pretty useless. Another thing that stand out is presenting Switzerland as a role model, which has been far from problem free. Un
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by uola 10y ago
The best opportunities, Windows XP being retired and Apple neglecting their pro users, have already past. With Google entering the market there is even less holes in the market today for other Linux variants.

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