marvin

Joined 19 years ago

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Norwegian software engineer. Loves philosophy, economics, technological progress, history, alternative lifestyle choices.
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Comment · 6 months ago
High market cap but universally hated by its end-users is probably not a great yardstick to measure consumer software against.
Comment · 6 months ago
Because it's a polite fiction that men and women are equally capable and expendable at warfare. Successful and enduring human societies practice traditions around warfare that reflect this.
Comment · 1 year ago
Well, you can make things yourself worth 365 x 100 million and decide to use them for something else.

Fortunately, the rules in well-functioning societies do not allow anyone other than the owner of something to decide how it should be used.

Comment · 1 year ago
There was a seriously sour grapes quality to that comment thread. I wouldn't give it too much weight without hearing from actual SpaceX employees.
Comment · 1 year ago
Norwegian here. People collectively lost their minds after the 2024 election. The USA is a great country, embodying values that bring out the best in humanity. You don't deserve this hate.
Comment · 1 year ago
Is the top half of the comments on this forum for entrepreneurs really discussing the communist revolution revisited?
Comment · 1 year ago
Nation-state politics often devolves to the level of children on a playground. This was one of those occasions.
Comment · 1 year ago
> The energy policy of most European countries was clearly mismanaged

Still is. That Germany continues to leave their nuclear fleet fallow in the face of this is absolute insanity.

Comment · 1 year ago
Another way of phrasing the situation is that Quantas _very inconveniently_ chose to put their flight path straight through the projected trajectory of rocket debris.
Comment · 1 year ago
Tesla will win this, followed by Cruise.

Waymo isn't scalable.

Comment · 2 years ago
In most European countries, you are only ever allowed to be in possession of a gun in public if you are travelling to or from the shooting range.
Comment · 2 years ago
Just ensure that there’s good a insurance system to finance the rare health issues, and the market will take care of the hubcaps and spoilers.

Solving e.g. male pattern baldness or bone loss from peridontitis means guaranteed billionaire from out-of-pocket treatments alone.

Comment · 2 years ago
I guess that most likely means not winning the bid with Apple. But these companies aren't exactly aged grandmothers who have walked all the way to the one pharmacy in town; I don't think this constitutes an abusive business relationship.
Comment · 2 years ago
Norway’s child protective services has 17 convictions against themselves and counting in the International Human Rights Court of Strasbourg.

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