oldspiceman
Re:China to create $6.5B venture capital fund to support start-ups
on Thursday January 15, 2015 @06:51PM (#8896270)
There are already American companies in China which replicate all the ideas from the US and apply them within China. They've been doing so for 5+ years. Nothing wrong with a little home-grown competition. Certainly people in the US would be up in arms if the opposite was happening to them.
Re:How automakers invented the crime of “jaywalking”
on Thursday January 15, 2015 @06:41PM (#8896229)
Reminds me walking through the streets of Saigon. You just slowly start crossing and the motorbikes 10-20 deep on main streets magically separate around you. Traffic doesn't move more than 40km/h anywhere in the city.
Re:SNB Unexpectedly Gives Up Cap on Franc, Lowers Deposit Rate
on Thursday January 15, 2015 @09:26AM (#8892583)
German groceries just got way cheaper.
Re:Ask HN: Salary in Stockholm?
on Monday January 12, 2015 @07:04AM (#8873436)
$143.83 (122 euro) NYC to Stockholm Wed Jan 21. norwegian.com
Re:Ask HN: What can we do to show we don't support the response to Aar...
on Thursday January 08, 2015 @10:16AM (#8856698)
Propose a ballot measure in your state.
Re:How Software in Half of NYC Cabs Generates $5.2M a Year in Extra Tips
on Monday January 05, 2015 @06:05PM (#8841857)
Link from a while back on the case against tipping: http://www.vox.com/2014/7/17/5888347/one-more-case-against-t...
Re:My Resume Is Total Fiction
on Friday January 02, 2015 @09:38AM (#8826837)
I've noticed a good positive correlation between income and the level of bullshit people put on their resumes.
Re:The End of Gangs
on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @03:58PM (#8821050)
Interesting idea. "kids with nothing to do get up to no good" has become "kids with nothing to do go on facebook / reddit"
Re:How Colonel Sanders Became Father Christmas in Japan
on Sunday December 28, 2014 @03:26AM (#8805749)
I love that. Same thing happens in most European countries.
Re:How Colonel Sanders Became Father Christmas in Japan
on Sunday December 28, 2014 @03:23AM (#8805744)
A regular coffee at starbucks in japan costs $4. And every starbucks is packed to the brim with people. Same in Korea.
Re:Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In
on Friday December 26, 2014 @01:49PM (#8799709)
Completely agree. I don't have any desire to live in the states.
Re:Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In
on Friday December 26, 2014 @01:47PM (#8799691)
The states is made up of immigrants. Why wouldn't people outside the states be similarly talented? Sure if you don't have access to education you will not have the opportunity to develop your skills, but that doesn't mean you have less raw talent.
Re:Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In
on Friday December 26, 2014 @01:39PM (#8799652)
Which is interesting because there is such an oversupply of lawyers in the states.
Re:Why is everyone so busy?
on Wednesday December 24, 2014 @02:11PM (#8794113)
Thanks, I've never been trolled here before.
Re:UI Performance Decline – OS X Tiger to Yosemite [video]
on Wednesday December 24, 2014 @06:18AM (#8792441)
Discovering the glitchy flash in the system preferences pane was really unsettling. Almost a uncanny valley type situation.
I need to see a video of this moment.
Re:Why is everyone so busy?
on Wednesday December 24, 2014 @05:50AM (#8792392)
Necessary reading for anybody who's sick of hearing people talk about how busy they are: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=the+busy+trap&gws_rd=ssl
"Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness; obviously your life cannot possibly be silly or trivial or meaningless if you are so busy, completely booked, in demand every hour of the day."
Re:UI Performance Decline – OS X Tiger to Yosemite [video]
on Wednesday December 24, 2014 @05:39AM (#8792376)
After Mavericks I swore I would wait to upgrade until the second patch of the next os. So I'm sitting here on Mavericks waiting for 10.10.2 to drop.
If you slightly shift your upgrade schedule you're only 3 or 4 months behind. No big deal.
Re:Apple Stops Online Sales in Russia Over Ruble Fluctuations
on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @04:50PM (#8759788)
They hedge their currency risk so it's unlikely they have much exposure to the Ruble.
Re:Apple Stops Online Sales in Russia Over Ruble Fluctuations
on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @04:44PM (#8759736)
By far
Re:Apple Stops Online Sales in Russia Over Ruble Fluctuations
on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @03:51PM (#8759383)
Why is that meaningless?
Re:Apple Stops Online Sales in Russia Over Ruble Fluctuations
on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @03:50PM (#8759373)
If Apple is slow to update its prices online you have a clear arbitrage opportunity.
Re:Apple Stops Online Sales in Russia Over Ruble Fluctuations
on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @03:47PM (#8759362)
It's not so much that they can't predict the price it's that every dollar is worth significantly more on the black market as the official market rate. Compare the dollar blue (Blue) row with the offical bank rate (Oficial). 13.19 vs 8.57. Many people change every peso they earn to dollars immediately. (www.dolarblue.net)
Ruble Tumbles Most Since 1998 as Traders Pressure Central Bank
Re:France Says It Will Ban Uber’s Low-Cost Service in New Year
on Monday December 15, 2014 @11:50AM (#8752891)
Agreed, Taxi service in Paris is outrageously expensive. Rivaling Toronto even.
Re:Why I’m Giving Up My Passport
on Monday December 08, 2014 @05:07PM (#8719541)
How could Germany have an inefficient tax filing program? That doesn't make any sense. Please explain somebody
Re:Why I’m Giving Up My Passport
on Monday December 08, 2014 @05:04PM (#8719525)
But you do pay $25 USD for a cheeseburger.
Re:Why I’m Giving Up My Passport
on Monday December 08, 2014 @05:03PM (#8719516)
"government of the people, by the people, for the people"
Re:Android Studio 1.0
on Monday December 08, 2014 @04:53PM (#8719458)
Is Google planning to release a 2d graphics library like SpriteKit but for Android?
Re:What kind of funny is Kafka?
on Tuesday December 02, 2014 @05:44PM (#8690544)
The kind of funny where you deplore your best friend to burn all your writings after you die but then he publishes them anyway. "Dearest Max, my last request: Everything I leave behind me ... in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and others'), sketches, and so on, [is] to be burned unread"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka#Max_Brod