lorenzobr

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by lorenzobr 5y ago
The sms and phone service infrastructure is more centralised than you might think and carriers probably have less redundancy than big tech when it comes to it. [1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/21/20974692
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by lorenzobr 7y ago
Cloud
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by lorenzobr 7y ago
I think this revolution will need to start from the bottom, new buyers need to realise that buying an ICE car does not make sense anymore, even if having EVs everywhere would only affect climate change by a small percentage, the benefits ev
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by lorenzobr 7y ago
I bet you don't believe in climate change either, do you?
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by lorenzobr 7y ago
The real option is autonomous cars which you can call with a Uber-like app when you need it. That way we would have less cars but we would maximize the utilization rate of the ones we'd keep on the roads.
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by lorenzobr 7y ago
Except that most non-technical users will never read ProtonMail blog.
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by lorenzobr 7y ago
Exactly. I find it embarrassing for the society as whole how many people these days comment on articles or posts by just reading the title.
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by lorenzobr 8y ago
> Hospitals want you to visit more often Maybe this is true in the US but not sure it's valid point in Europe where, given how the health system works, most of the time patients are actually a cost for the business hence less patien
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by lorenzobr 8y ago
What really kills meal-kit companies is just one thing: churn. If you look at some published data from a while ago, Blue Apron has 15% user retention after one year, Hello Fresh 11%. As a consumer, at first might sound a good idea and conve
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by lorenzobr 8y ago
Although it doesn't sound right, on the other hand why would Neumann rent his commercial real estate assets to WeWork competitors? Maybe the question should be, why the hell Neumann bought properties directly instead of using the WeWor
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by lorenzobr 8y ago
I find it's funny how people these days think the problem is with Facebook. Literally every company that has access to users' data has in one way or another some kind of business model based on selling that data. Every day I come
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by lorenzobr 8y ago
Surely though that's different from fake likes assuming the advertiser is aware of it. I feel like YouTube by now is more similar to TV advertising, you take in consideration that people could just have the tv on in the background whil
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by lorenzobr 8y ago
dodgy dealings = lobbying. Everyone does it in every industry unfortunately for us consumers.
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by lorenzobr 8y ago
I'm not the one who said the market is "extremely competitive". For sure is a market with high barriers to entry, very expensive to be in and profit margins are not that high either. So if you are Ryanair you aim at doing mor
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by lorenzobr 8y ago
> Ryanair is the only airline to certain destinations Surely it's not Ryanair's fault if others are not willing to compete for certain destinations.
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by lorenzobr 8y ago
I travel quite often in Europe and took a fairly amount of Ryanair flights as well. The amount of people rushing in to the plane and messing around when it's time to put their stuff in the overhead lockers is incredible, even as fellow
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by lorenzobr 8y ago
See, the problem is that here we don't need principles. We need real facts and real solutions. Many - across Europe - want to leave the EU on principle. The UK is giving the perfect example to everyone that principle is not aligned wit
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by lorenzobr 8y ago
For a starter, "wanting to leave the EU" without having a clue of how to do it or proposing practical solutions is not the finest thing to do. And also the entire immigration discussion was some bs considered the non-EU migration
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by lorenzobr 8y ago
Exactly and tbh Google could just buy a newspaper and not give a shit about it. Many newspapers are rubbish and publish rubbish content anyway so that's the problem, not the copyright.
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by lorenzobr 8y ago
Do you really believe this is something politicians came up with in the first place? This is another example of the classic lobbies-driven political decision where politicians pass legislations as a favour to their friends in corporate A or
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by lorenzobr 8y ago
Yeah, it seems to me UKIP has good track record of things "getting rammed through without a public discussion" by now, like the 350 million for the NHS with Brexit.
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by lorenzobr 8y ago
It's because we are growing up with VCs teaching us that you have to burn money for 10 years before you can be profitable. Honestly, I'd sign with my blood if I could get my business to make £5M a year in profit and own nothing to
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by lorenzobr 8y ago
I bet ya a signed dollar it won't.
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by lorenzobr 8y ago
This is just another shitshow driven by publishers, unions and music labels lobbying politicians in the attempt to make money given they have no clue how to innovate and make money anymore. I wish people in the news would call this bs out f
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by lorenzobr 8y ago
I think it would be difficult for Facebook to acquire Airbus :) http://www.airbus.com/defence/uav/zephyr.html
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by lorenzobr 8y ago
It's definitely a design choice. Generally, every city has big transportation hubs - airports, train stations and so on - located at strategic places within the city. Musk's idea is to ditch these hubs and replace them with more f
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by lorenzobr 8y ago
I'm indeed surprised and I'm sure there are other cases like this out there, it would be interesting to know the thinking behind it. In my experience of working with big corps, if you are using Jira and Confluence, Bitbucket simpl
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by lorenzobr 8y ago
Atlassian would have pretty much no reason to buy GitHub, unless it's to shut it down. They have Bitbucket and I think is pretty safe to say that they don't care about people hosting their open source stuff. Of course you can use
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by lorenzobr 8y ago
Also and much simpler, good luck suing Apple.
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by lorenzobr 8y ago
Exactly this. A lot of these "challenges" are about the theory but the real job is never about the theory of things. I mean knowing the theory is a nice to have but I don't remember last time I used it on my daily job, especi

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