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shanghaiaway commented on South Korea and Sweden are the most innovative countries in the world weforum.org/agenda/2018/0... · Posted by u/starpilot

tanzbaer · 7 years ago

I hate these articles. Some group decided on a less then meaningful set of criteria to measure how innovative a country is and measures the US outside of the top 10. This is used as the headline.

Then it's reported how a different group picked different criteria and puts the US on rank #2 behind Switzerland.

Overall benefit of this article is less than zero because it wastes people's time. Of course the US is one of if not the most innovative countries in the world. Everyone with eyes can see that.

shanghaiaway · 7 years ago

Butthurt because Murica isn't #1

shanghaiaway commented on Facebook Referred to Kids as Young as Five as “Whales” for Its Monetized Games usgamer.net/articles/face... · Posted by u/throwaway2048

onion2k · 7 years ago

how do we create a society where this can't happen

Don't hire developers who have worked for companies involved in these products. If you see Facebook on a resume, put it in the bin.

shanghaiaway · 7 years ago

Put it in the bin, write a blog post about it, submit the post to hn.

shanghaiaway commented on YC 120 blog.ycombinator.com/yc-1... · Posted by u/jameshk

endorphone · 7 years ago

What type of person is that? I'm honestly at a loss because it asks for nothing more than a simple narrative for why this opportunity fits the candidate, where the complexity of the video can be "turn on my phone's front camera and recorded for 60 seconds".

Is that a type of person? Is it a bad type of person? I don't understand the insinuation.

shanghaiaway · 7 years ago

They're optimizing for people who are good at storytelling. Storytelling is emphasized on at Ivy league admissions and MBA admissions. So that's the type of people they'll get.

shanghaiaway commented on Rural America's “brain drain”: How student debt is emptying small towns cbsnews.com/news/rural-am... · Posted by u/SQL2219

qzy · 7 years ago

Given than in Europe we have no debt but we don't do any of those things either, I'd say you're looking at something else.

shanghaiaway · 7 years ago

As a European, student debt after a masters degree will be $50K or more. Yes, without tuition.

shanghaiaway commented on Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Toward Piracy motherboard.vice.com/en_u... · Posted by u/SirLJ

yomly · 7 years ago

Licensing by country is so infuriatingly backwards for what is supposed to be a globalized economy. Maybe it made sense when you had fragmented countries with their own separate distribution networks (and cinemas) but when it's one provider direct to the end-consumer it's really just a relic of legacy processes being incapable of adapting.

shanghaiaway · 7 years ago

No, actually explain why licensing by country is backwards.

It's obvious and perfectly rational.

shanghaiaway commented on Snap CFO Tim Stone Is Resigning techcrunch.com/2019/01/15... · Posted by u/cribbles

gammateam · 7 years ago

1 year cliff, non-news

Still bad news for Snap confidence, of course

edit: didn't make it 1 year, whoops hope they got the golden parachute negotiated in

shanghaiaway · 7 years ago

Useless comment.

Lasted 8 months at Snap, 20 years at Amazon. Something is clearly wrong with Snap, and it's their CEO.

shanghaiaway commented on Apple Leak Accidentally Reveals Radical New iPhone forbes.com/sites/gordonke... · Posted by u/mises

shanghaiaway · 7 years ago

iPhone Xi, unapologetically designed in California for China

shanghaiaway commented on Ask HN: What books should we get non-technical product managers to read · Posted by u/solresol

shanghaiaway · 7 years ago

This is so arrogant

shanghaiaway commented on Which countries are on the right track, according to their citizens ipsos.com/en/what-worries... · Posted by u/zachguo

ciguy · 7 years ago

No surprise that countries with the most oppressive internet surveillance and censorship also rank highly in self reported satisfaction. Chinese citizens probably got a boost to their social credit score for answering positively on this survey.

I was just in Beijing and Shanghai for a few weeks and almost everyone I talked to in private admitted that they expect an economic crash in the near future. So this survey is essentially useless for countries where privacy on the internet is not expected and dissent is punished.

shanghaiaway · 7 years ago

Being a tourist is far from being an authority on a culture

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