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FinnLobsien
1,700karma·540submissions·July 18, 2019
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> Oh, absolutely. There’s also plenty of anti-US propaganda nonsense.
Language requirements, crazy bureaucracy and 50% tax rate. I wouldn't be surprised if a well-paid SWE in Bangalore has mo…
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Are you categorizing the article as a brain drain advertisement? I think the objective truth is that the United States is currently the very best place to run a tech company from almost every angle (m…
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> One reason Europe struggles to attract top talent is language fragmentation. And regulatory fragmentation on top of overregulation. We build billing and just invoicing alone is crazy with differe…
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I got rid of Instagram and Facebook and have never looked back. It did lead to me losing touch with some people and slightly less serendipity (i.e. someone being in town, which I see on their Instagra…
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Robert Kurson's diving books (Shadow Divers and Pirate Hunters) are some of the best books on startups I've ever read. They're stories about some of the most ambitious wreck divers out …
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All of the author's books are great imo. If you like cold war spy stories, you'd also enjoy Billion Dollar Spy.
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Maybe this is a dumb take, but how much of this is just demographics? Countries are getting older as birth rates decline, so you would expect a decline in things that skew younger in the audiences the…
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typical Gell-Mann amnesia. I write a lot so I see this when I've used AI to generate writing. If I ask it to generate something that I understand: "Wow this is the most surface level garbage…
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I think the car analogy is interesting because I'd say 90+% of drivers don't really know how the engine works besides gasoline being burned to make the car move lol.
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Yeah I've tried a few times, but never as an actual project - mostly just to see if I could make something that actually runs. But when something didn't work I instantly ran into the issue o…
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so sounds like your take is the "it doesn't replace the humans, but augments them" argument, right?
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Interesting. It sounds like there are two parts to this: a) Product sense becoming more important i.e. talking to users and figuring out what they want and how to build it rather than the pure ability…