raulgalera

Re:Evernote has laid off most of its US staff and will move operations... on Monday July 10, 2023 @03:31AM (#36663146)

Labor laws are much tougher in EU than in the US, especially when it comes to big layoffs

Re:How Qantas is bringing back Airbus A380s from the California desert on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @04:23PM (#35632844)

i totally agree re: the smoothest flying experience. the takeoff is so long and smooth you almost don't realize that you're up in the air. it was sad to learn that airlines were trying to get rid of it.

Davos Elite Can’t Agree About the Economy and Neither Can Markets

Posted by raulgalera on Monday May 30, 2022 @01:54PM
from the wsj.com dept.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/davos-elite-cant-agree-about-the-economy-and-neither-can-markets-11653568913

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Re:Should Freelancers Offer Free Trials? on Saturday May 21, 2022 @10:30AM (#31458230)

nope

Re:Not a single car was sold in Shanghai last month on Monday May 16, 2022 @10:25AM (#31397754)

In Spain we had a very strict lockdown (not as strict as the Chinese but still) between March-May 2020 and still over 4k cars were sold that month. Which at the time I thought it was an extremely high number considering everything that was going on (link in Spanish): https://noticias.coches.com/noticias-motor/ventas-de-coches-...

Re:Minnesota Wants to Ban Under-18s from User-Generated Content Services on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @05:10PM (#31345817)

how are they even planning on enforcing this?

Show HN: Belanja Eat – Give or Get a free meal while helping small F&B merchants

Posted by raulgalera on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @04:55AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://www.belanjaeat.com/

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Re:Facebook Dating on Thursday September 05, 2019 @03:16PM (#20889869)

isn't that what instagram is for?

Re:EU Council of Ministers Approves Copyright Directive on Monday April 15, 2019 @09:55AM (#19665293)

Agreed. Even Netflix nowadays feels like just another traditional TV channel.

Trump Booted Foreign Startup Founders. Other Countries Embraced Them

Posted by raulgalera on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @07:14AM
from the bloomberg.com dept.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-01/trump-booted-foreign-startup-founders-other-countries-embraced-them

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Re:Zombie Startups in Europe on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @11:28AM (#18122581)

"The first step is inevitably to raise money from dumb/ignorant investors who couldn't care less about your startup: that would be the government / unemployment benefits in France / tax-incentivized angel investors in the UK."

I have seen many entrepreneurs who just kept repeating step #1 for years. They would hop from one startup accelerator to another, joining as many government grant programs as possible (Startup Chile et al.) without ever really building an actual business.

There's one particular case I know of someone who managed to get more than $300,000 in grants in just a couple of years.

Re:Latin American delivery startup Rappi valued above $1B on Saturday September 01, 2018 @09:13AM (#17891668)

same here, I used it a lot in Medellin and it was super convenient