njepa

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by njepa 7y ago
They are already doing that, this is presumably part of what the entire conflict is about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_China_2025
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by njepa 7y ago
I don't see the point of just not addressing the article. It quite specifically argues that as technology isn't emerging any more so startups can't commercialize those emerging technologies. Many of these companies were absol
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by njepa 7y ago
Having that work is specific to Japan. If there is a single example of someone managing to do that successfully, especially with multiple companies, I would like to hear about it. Transit/retail or rail plus property is used in other p
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by njepa 7y ago
Right, but similar interventions are also completely unthinkable today. Which is why Stockholm have some of the most expensive property in Europe.
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by njepa 7y ago
They are reconstructed. https://blog.gaijinpot.com/problem-with-wooden-buildings-in-...
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by njepa 7y ago
It is also meaningless. Yes, if you get to choose what to do, you can do whatever you want. But you don't, so affordable housing remains an unsolved issue in most places. Things haven't changed and aren't changing just becaus
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by njepa 7y ago
They are private in ways specific to Japan that, what I know, you pretty much won't find anywhere else.
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by njepa 7y ago
I never understood this argument. Japan is one of the most different places relative to everywhere else. That you can't find a more familiar example almost becomes a counter argument. There is something about housing markets that makes
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by njepa 7y ago
Honestly I don't really follow your point. "Where there is a will, there's a way" means that if you are motivated enough you will find a way to succeed. Which as I understood was your first point. That if billionaires cr
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by njepa 7y ago
As far as I remember that is what he has said. The idea from the beginning was just to fund a launch. Here is someone else retelling the story: https://medium.com/@toledoalbert/starman-is-mars-oasis-reali... Musk start
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by njepa 7y ago
I think systems have become increasingly unpragmatic, but not necessarily people's behaviour. In 2010, which the article refers to, youth unemployment in Sweden was ~25%, the housing market had become a mess already and various rules f
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by njepa 7y ago
Behaviour, especially widespread behaviour, is rarely irrational. Despite its reputation Sweden has become surprisingly unpragmatic in recent years. It is very easy to end up in a situation where you can't continue your studies, but yo
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by njepa 7y ago
Chances are inspiration is overvalued today. Remember when Elon Musk was going to put a plant on Mars with an ICBM? Instead he managed to leverage the fact that the US has a space industry. He has pretty much argued this himself in that he
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by njepa 7y ago
Building public infrastructure just isn't a priority in the US. We can analyze the differences all we want but at the end of the day it just isn't that important. US society and politics isn't focused on that kind of thing an
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by njepa 7y ago
Things like this absolutely isn't intuitive to people. Partly because the industry have done a "good" job downplaying it to make a lot of money. Many industries, like banking, does similar things. It is just a bit sad that te
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by njepa 7y ago
> Because the Internet has enabled clusters like Silicon Valley or Hollywood to be even more prominent. And bigger cities in general. But I also think people tend to underestimate changes. Small and medium sized cities have been hit hard
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by njepa 7y ago
I am not sure the situation is the same. Code used to be somewhat valuable, like in for example a game engine. Today code is to some extent free, and programming is a service. You don't sell software, you sell whatever investors wants
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by njepa 7y ago
> Much of Europe still has a strong middle-class. Debatable if we factor in the cost of living in many places.
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by njepa 7y ago
You simply shouldn't believe the talk about automation. Most people don't even know what they are talking about. What do people think Chinese workers do? Mr. Marsh is right, it is about trade. If you can make something where worke
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by njepa 7y ago
In Sweden, where taxes pay tuition, it costs about $4500 per year to educate a student in humanities and twice that in STEM. The salaries are of course lower though.
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by njepa 7y ago
I wouldn't really see it like that. The limits of physics are with us every day. That is why cars are impractical at speed and why there is latency to other continents. For all the development in technology, it is mostly the same since
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by njepa 7y ago
It isn't an uncommon thought. Unfortunately this isn't very popular, partly because it is actual socialism (which is even less popular than social systems). In general I think it is also too late to introduce such a system. You ha
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The People's Republic of the Future(youtube.com)
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by njepa 7y ago
I am just not sure it is a super strong market. As far as I can tell those cards have been selling for roughly the same price or more as when they were introduced 2 years ago. A lot of people would just stick with what they got, or get a la
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by njepa 7y ago
That is probably true, but if I am buying a GPU for hundreds of dollars I don't care as much about the cost of the CPU. I think AMD needs to do something if they want to fulfill the potential of Ryzen. (Removing or minimizing the role
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by njepa 7y ago
Mostly just because there isn't much urgency to improve in the west. There is plenty of IoT in China. I wouldn't say 5G will be amazing in this regard though.
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by njepa 7y ago
I see what you are saying, but as far as I know this is happening everywhere. Jobs have centralized and you are paying a premium for the opportunity. Otherwise service jobs are mostly what is left. While these apps are less common we certai
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by njepa 7y ago
Which part? I don't necessarily agree with all of it, but it certainly seem to describe the situation of myself once upon a time, many of my friends and many who I have met.
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by njepa 7y ago
I don't disapprove, though it does seem a bit out of touch. Maybe developers aren't the most thoughtful people, but the state of things isn't without reason. If you moved to another city, you are paying a lot of rent, you wor
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by njepa 7y ago
I definitely think computers have gotten better since the '90s. Mostly because of the very real scarcity at the time. Unfortunately the last 5 years have been mostly a wash with cpu, memory, storage and gpus not getting better as befor

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