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by vl 5y ago
Ireland's situation is a bit unique in that it was occupied for many hundreds of years and not really integrated. Usually occupations are either shorter, or integration happens. Of course occupants and occupees being on the islands did
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by vl 5y ago
Essentially it's a piece curved out of a country where descendants of occupants exceed in number native population. Of course it's occupied for so long that now it's "their own", still doesn't change the fact t
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by vl 5y ago
Lol, "Para military" on one side being actual British Army?
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by vl 5y ago
Messi is 169, average height at the World Cup is 182.4, this is quiet a difference. In fact he is in the lowest percentiles. Ronaldo is 187, Neymar is 175.
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by vl 5y ago
He also was lucky enough to be born. If you take to absurd, you can attribute anything to luck. A lot of kids where in position like him, and none made it to number one.
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by vl 5y ago
Of course hard work matters, but when VC tells you to work hard, take it with the grain of salt, because this is how VC is going to make money off your work. What is missing from this advice is what is sacrificed. If and when 10-20 year lat
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by vl 5y ago
Back then poker was way less developed though. Modern constructive approach is relatively a recent phenomenon.
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by vl 5y ago
But it's not exactly true. His body statistically is not the best for football. In fact he had a growth problem he had to take hormonal treatment for. Initial coaching opportunities are thanks to the parents, but then he had to work ha
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by vl 5y ago
EV is a good first step because it’s way easier to calculate than EU. Look at similar companies, do the math, compare to corporate EV and boom - 95% of startup offers are really uncompetitive. Reliable EU calculations are mostly possible fo
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by vl 5y ago
The name of product in question hypothetically might have started with A and ended with o. This was last-ditch effort to outwhatsapp WhatsApp. Essentially this is high-risk high-reward project. Google comp is not setup to deal with this. So
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by vl 5y ago
Google Voice was basically almost de-staffed for few years. Then they started to invest into it again around 2017, I don’t remember exact reason why the strategy changed.
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by vl 5y ago
But your integration into Google ecosystem was not an objective, and this is not a mess at all, it worked as intended - a lot of people got promos! Just imagine if there is a consistent, coherent multi-year strategy, it would be way harder
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by vl 5y ago
And my belief is that we should have educational vouchers that cover the cost of public schools. So parents can choose to send children to public school and apply voucher there, or to spend it as private school. Public schools with low sign
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by vl 5y ago
Probably millions left Russia after Iron Curtain fell and nothing really changed there.
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by vl 5y ago
And yet I know reverse story: a friend of the family had strange "flu" in February 2020, later tests showed antibodies. Granted it was in Seattle.
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by vl 5y ago
> which is objectively worse for everyone But why in this case it’s worse? Just allow sticky stuff to be used, compensate with ball design. Everyone will use it, no need to test and worry, no cheating scandals. Reminds me of current insa
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by vl 5y ago
This was surprisingly entertaining, I can’t believe I read through all of it!
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by vl 5y ago
I suspect that most of the drive to get back to the office is coming from the middle manager. You just can’t do ass sniffing at home at it’s essential for their carrier advancement in the megacorps.
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by vl 5y ago
There is a bit more character development in new Weir’s book - Project Hail Mary, but it still is a great book. Not as great as The Martian, but solid second.
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by vl 5y ago
Most likely explanation is that military was testing their secret drone from this AFB.
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by vl 5y ago
Oh, please. Softer version of this practice is well-known in tech industry since 2000s: when company demands perf curve from the manager, managers hire and keep low-performers on the team to satisfy the curve demand. Everyone who worked at
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by vl 5y ago
Out of all things such as app store monopoly abuses and taxes, right to repair abuses in both devices and cars, search/ads monopoly power abuses, consumer protection is already reasonably and well regulated and not the first thing that
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by vl 5y ago
It worked as it should have been - situation got resolved and on top of that Amazon got reputational damage.
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by vl 5y ago
While I think self-driving will be just fine with cameras, human stereo vision works at much longer distances than 15ft: you can easily test it by looking at few distant trees (150ft), and then closing one eye with a hand and blinking. You’
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by vl 5y ago
This is nothing new, in fact SV companies have a history of firing people for political beliefs.
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by vl 5y ago
Well, I agree that Soviet Union was failure from top to bottom (non-market economy and dictatorship can get you just so far). But with this said, it was possible to get excellent education in Soviet Union, and (with a lot of hard work) it w
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by vl 5y ago
Feds tried to induce inflation for the last 20 years, it’s good for them since they can just print more money. They largely failed to do so since dollar is so well propped by international demand.
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by vl 6y ago
(off) For your list of downranked content: it looks like crypto is either downranked or banned.
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by vl 6y ago
Ironically it’s other way around. The reason why flights are so cheap is because they are privatized and there is heavy competition. US used to have heavily-regulated air travel. Once it was de-regulated prices went down. Since railroads re
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by vl 6y ago
Article actually talks about this towards the end.

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