On the positive side, Gamescom has been on the rise for a while, together with other more local gaming events. It shows how the focus of a live event changed from bringing news, to providing entertainment to hundreds of thousands of cosplayers and fans. With maybe some "news" on the side, which then becomes available on Youtube 5 minutes after.
Readit NewsIt fits so well with the Norwegian stereotyping of Danish people, which is likely the reason why so many believe in it. It's also worth noting that Denmark also have quite a large oil industry.
Another myth seems to be that Norway was a very poor nation before the discovery of oil. According to Jan Eivind Myhre[0], professor emeritus in history at the University of Oslo, this isn't true. Norway has been one of the wealthiest countries in Europe for hundreds of years. We had, and to some degree still have, a huge merchant fleet. We've always been big in shipping insurance, probably a by-product of the merchant fleet. The fishing industry has always been a huge part of the economy, same with raw materials.
It's an interesting read, but perhaps a bit more debatable than the myth about a drunk danish minister.
[0] https://www.sciencenorway.no/economy-history/crushing-the-my...
Fascinating. Maybe a similar mental model applies as in Switzerland. I am a foreigner living in wealthy Switzerland. They also talk about themselves as being very poor a few decades ago. Maybe it is that people really were poor back then, just not as poor as the other europeans, and this for them is hard to imagine.
According to the statistics that I can find, they have been one of the wealthiest european nations for 250 years now, with GDP per capita being 50% higher than the Netherlands consistently for the past 70 years.
kaon123 commented on How to Work Effectively with Someone You Don't Like forbes.com/sites/tracybro... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac
Nothing works if that person is your superior and holds absolute power over you.
Examples situations close friends of mine have experienced:
1. You are a PhD student and he (and it usually is a he) is your professor.
2. You are in a profession with limited opportunity (say, HR) and he is your boss.
3. You are an immigrant, and losing your job means leaving the country.
4. All of the above.
I feel articles like these are written by people that have never been in above situations. If you are in a dependency situation, you are fucked. Pro lifetip: Avoid dependency situations whenever you can. And sometimes you can't and just have to hope for the best.
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kaon123 commented on Brother have gotten to where they are now by not innovating retro.social/@ifixcoinops... · Posted by u/anotherevan
Omg why was I unaware of this? I bought an HP laserjet last year and am fighting SaaS software crap every time I want to attempt to print or scan. I am tempted to just trash my printer now.
In London there are plenty of both smaller more independent individual and small chains like Second Home [1] of co-working spaces as well as larger players like The Office Group [2].
I've not found the environment at most WeWorks to be anything special compared to most of these others, often not as good. WeWork's one big advantage is how uibiquitous they are in major cities, which is incredibly handy when travelling.
[1] https://secondhome.io/ [2] https://www.theofficegroup.com/uk/workspaces/coworking
Will take a look thank you!
I worked in WeWorks office for a year (Barcelona) and was awed by the amazing quality and design of their offices. Focusing on my work was easy, interchange with my colleagues natural, and the post-workday beer kept me staying late. Most of their buildings have gone, and now it is back to the dreary and loud staple office space. It makes me sad.
Is anybody else having a similar experience? Is there anything outside the US with a similar level of quality?
kaon123 commented on Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation youglish.com/... · Posted by u/vikrum
Looking for Tomato (recommended you do this)
US: Tomaydo UK: Toma`o AUS: Tomahto
I feel the aussies got this one right.
kaon123 commented on How to Make a CPU – A Simple Picture Based Explanation blog.robertelder.org/how-... · Posted by u/accrual
It’s actually probably not possible. We’ve exhausted all the easy to find/surface layer minerals. Oil doesn’t just leak out of the ground anywhere. Iron, copper, coal, are all underground.
Very good point. I read Olaf Stapledon's First and Last man, a sci-fi book which describes the next few billion years for mankind and deals with this issue.
In one scenario, human society collapses, spends 80 million years living as hunter/gatherers (with some evolution) and then develops once again to a technological civilization, in part because the minerals and fossil fuels have been replenished.
kaon123 commented on Populating the page: how browsers work (2020) developer.mozilla.org/en-... · Posted by u/sigma5
Fun read that puts a lot of things together that I "sort of knew" but never really knew.
But even then, given a large universe, why would this be mathematically impossible? If galaxies formed evenly everywhere, couldn't this have happened by coincidence? Which theory is violated here?
Sorry my knowledge is a limited "The great courses Cosmology" course from 2009