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by tomaha 4y ago
Like high frequency trading players front-running trades, faking liquidity, manipulating prices, and changing infrastructure to benefit them to really screw people that want to buy or sell stocks? Never heard of anyone getting prosecuted by
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by tomaha 6y ago
It's only marketing. There is no integrated assistant. It's a plain old button that can be used to activate one of these useless voice assistants on your phone because some people like it. If you're like me, you can use it as
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by tomaha 7y ago
They already expensed $3 B last quarter.
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by tomaha 7y ago
It's really about planning. Modern Swiss towns mostly consist of high density buildings with parking underground and most of the areas around the buildings are for walking & biking. The really good thing about high density is that
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by tomaha 7y ago
Teach them QWERTY. I use Programmer's Dvorak and I love it. But I also have a very specialized setup and everything optimized for myself. Your kids will have to work with different setups in the next decade or two. For them it's m
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by tomaha 8y ago
You mean like the Dark Ages?
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by tomaha 8y ago
Incinerating toilets also work with propane, which makes more sense for vans etc. I didn't check this specific one but they all work similar no matter what creates the heat.
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by tomaha 8y ago
You could try something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rdkGUFzvfc . It burns your waste and you'll have to empty the ash tray every 2+ weeks. It's more expensive initially but is also much more conven
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by tomaha 8y ago
Did you check inside your company. E.g. Google gives a lot of freedom to people with 10+ years with them and I know at least one other company in the same area, which did it with even less. So might not be the worst idea to look for somethi
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by tomaha 8y ago
What happens when the battery is dead on this device? Why can't they make a simple USB C stick and focus an security instead of adding new potential entry points?
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by tomaha 8y ago
The problem with that is that it depends on what you measure (same with GDP if e.g. education is free). E.g. Germany and Switzerland have different branches in education that are well regarded but you don't go to university (e.g. nurse
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by tomaha 8y ago
It's an advantage to have wealthy and/or educated parents no matter what kind of system you have. But in Germany your chances are much better than in the US. No one in my family went to university before me and I had disadvantages
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by tomaha 8y ago
Memory usage is still terrible with Java but at least there are plans to address part of it with value types etc. But for a web service performance is pretty good (just look at techempower benchmarks and the fact that most high scale compan
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by tomaha 8y ago
At least EU citizens should have no problem to immigrate at the moment.
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by tomaha 8y ago
Can't tell much about contractors but e.g. Google pays you 10-15% more in Zurich than in Mountain View and you pay much less taxes (and you don't have capital gains here). It's more expensive to live here but you'll stil
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by tomaha 8y ago
No capital gains is what does it for you because it means the money you earn in your sleep is tax free (at least if you are not a US citizen). There is no need to use the banks or brokers in the country you're citizen of. It's imp
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by tomaha 8y ago
A better example would be you own 75%+ of the cinemas but revenue wise you only control 50% of it. And in that case I think it's fair to do it. If they would force Apple out that would be a problem, but instead they even give you the b
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by tomaha 8y ago
I agree that assumption is the wrong word. But do you have examples of monopolies that didn't take the profits and control the pricing of the markets they control?
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by tomaha 8y ago
The problem with this definition is that it also assumes that if you have 75%+ market share you're likely having a similar share of the profits which is not the case here. If you take profit into account it's really at best a 50-5
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by tomaha 8y ago
The Waldo zk proof isn't a good example. You can easily fake knowing where Waldo is by gluing a Waldo to the board you use to hide the book. That way you can even proof you know a solution for a picture that doesn't even have Wald
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by tomaha 8y ago
One important part you need to add: The equity vests over time. So if one of the co-founders leave they just walk away with the part they earned over time and not the same share as the rest that stays.
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by tomaha 8y ago
Try sending money around the world and you will get to know how much manual work and paperwork is involved. Banks don't live in this century yet and if multiple countries are involved it gets worse.
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by tomaha 8y ago
Sadly I think this is the new way of doing things. It gets more and more acceptable to crucify people using social media. But at the same time I don't agree with your conclusion that this makes it right for Medium and Github to remove
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by tomaha 8y ago
That's great. Thanks.
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by tomaha 8y ago
Do you have any plans to add memory usage to the benchmarks? It adds an extra dimension and sometimes even shows if there's a problem with a specific implementation (e.g. in the benchmark game it's often a hint for a program that
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by tomaha 8y ago
It would be great if companies like GitHub would figure out how to earn money. I love more diversity in companies and not just a handful of them dominating and being insanely profitable. The only good thing I see about acquisitions like thi
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by tomaha 8y ago
I really liked investing in companies I love to use or just want to succeed because I think they are onto something. More risky but at the same time 'supports' what I like and with more reward if it works out than index funds (whi
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by tomaha 8y ago
There is a difference between consuming and getting what you need to live.
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by tomaha 8y ago
But one important part of their success was to invest their income. I know too many people that use their money to consume. Investing early in your life is what makes the difference. It's very easy to spend it on little things and clai
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by tomaha 8y ago
The problem is to determine what matters. It sounds nice but especially at the bigger companies which measure pretty much everything today it's one of the reasons that there is no creativity. It optimizes short-term goals (and most of

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