shortnamed | 8 years ago | on: Estonia, the Digital Republic
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shortnamed | 8 years ago | on: Entrepreneurs Aren’t a Special Breed – They’re Mostly Rich Kids
Jan Koum of WhatsApp. He brought Soviet-issued notebooks to the US cause the family was too poor to buy US ones.
shortnamed | 8 years ago | on: Battle for the Internet
Most of the US websites that I visit are owned by major multinational corporations, which do more business in the rest of the world than they do in the US (http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-iphone-sales-region-chi...), (https://www.recode.net/2017/4/29/15479932/alphabet-revenue-g...), (https://about.twitter.com/company)
Are they even US companies anymore?
shortnamed | 8 years ago | on: Battle for the Internet
London has been the biggest European city for banks, but with Brexit looming on the horizon many of the banks are relocating to mainland EU and they seem to be doing just fine.
The companies, the entrepreneurs that would be affected could move their operations just the same way.
shortnamed | 8 years ago | on: Battle for the Internet
love the blatant americentrism in the site:
"This is a battle for the Internet's future." - just American internet's future
"Team Cable want to control & tax the Internet" - they will be able to control the global system in which the US is just a part of?
"If we lose net neutrality, the Internet will never be the same" - American internet, others will be fine
shortnamed | 10 years ago | on: Why I Defaulted on My Student Loans
If you think you're paying too much in the most capitalistic country in the world, maybe you should just move elsewhere?
shortnamed | 11 years ago | on: I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA
Hi Sam!
As a high school student / developer with a (seemingly great) idea and no same-age peers, would you suggest waiting until college to find a cofounder, or going through with the idea now alone?
shortnamed | 11 years ago | on: Xiaomi laptop leaked online with specs
Xiaomi produces their devices and sells them for almost no profit: they only made $56 million in 2013.
shortnamed | 11 years ago | on: Ionic Creator – Fast Visual Ionic Prototyping
Tried developing a hybrid app in Ionic about 6 months ago, about 8 hours in I had seen so many bugs and inconsistencies in the docs that I ragequit.
Looks like it still hasn't changed to something usable.
shortnamed | 11 years ago | on: Updated MacBook Pros
*distinguishing
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