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Much more of a disaster for England, which is pretty worrying for that declining nation. Scotland will have the single market as compensation.

There would be a hard border, which would become relatively efficient over time but cause real disruption. The use of the Euro in Scotland would cause friction for trade. More and more Scottish imports would come from Europe instead. England would continue to import from Scotland as it has no attractive alternative.

Realistically there are only two paths forward for England anyway: either the EU will fail completely, or England will eventually be forced to rejoin. So the border will only be temporary.

> Scotland's implied deficit in 2020-21 was £36.3bn, or 22.4% of GDP. [1]

How has the price of oil changed since then? Cherry picking much?

"Scotland won't be part of the EU"

Oh yes, and voting for Remain is the only way to stay in the EU.

I think that argument has long since sailed. The EU will undoubtedly fasttrack Scotland straight back into the EU and single market before independence arrives.

As a major English-speaking country in the EU, with ports at the periphery of Europe, strong exports, and a finance capital, Scotland will be in a great position. Brexit has given them a huge opportunity. They should capitalise on England's foolishness.

The Economist recently described English political views as "nasty". _The Economist_.

ETH down 20%, BTC 10%, I see it.

Na, Steve would probably say “using a crappy external monitor with low res will get you crappy results”

It was never about supporting your own hardware, it was - give us your wallet and we will make it all work.

Can’t they just sell maps data eg restaurant listings, traffic data, to third parties? Then the user wins with the app and the network effects ensure valuable data.

“This is what we, humans, do too when we talk.”

Citation needed.

I mean, it’s possible right? That we’re just randomly sampling sentences. Maybe that’s all we do. But it’s a hell of a strong claim that necessitates strong evidence.

I agree with you. I have other things to do, but good luck to you.

There’s an awful lot of cultural baggage in coding. Many of the concepts that seem essential - powerful text editors, devils tooling - can be completely removed. It requires rethinking from first principles and being willing to upset the Apple cart, but I believe it is possible.

I think that argument has been lost. Russia still invaded Ukraine and China still took Hong Kong backwards. America has invaded many countries. Taiwan is under threat. Interconnectedness doesn’t seem to matter a great deal when you have either a ruthless dictator in power or a country has a strong military advantage.

In the most general sense, “Document” is a better name, because more people understand what a document is than understand what a “buffer” is.

Sounds like an argument against the education system and not against math.

That’s a good point. I don’t know how widespread they are.

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I hope that you hold Zuckerberg in even more contempt. Do you?

Makes sense. It’s a no brainer for her. If things go bad, she comes back to try to turn it around. If things go _really_ bad, she’s safe.

> If office space is not required (or not provided) then it is a cost savings for the company.

It's just not very significant. Just fire an employee instead, unless your offices are in Manhattan.

> Anyway, if you have more on the topic, I would love to hear it. Also, check out this video, which is also very informative and comes from a pretty reliable source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH1bewTg-P4

Thanks, that was a great watch. I note he doesn't make any recommendations about working hours though, just "do ensure you have enough time to do these things that help".

> I do believe in outliers however. Some people really do seem to just be wired differently.

This is covered in the links. Basic response: highly sceptical that is true. If it is true, then you'll find that if that person _also_ took care of themselves, they'd get even more done.

For tech companies, rent quickly approaches zero in comparison to salaries.

> I'd say "being in the office" is a proxy here.

Recently I've been reading some docs on productivity, inspired by a comment on HN. There are some solid findings - don't work too many hours, put your team in a single office so they can directly chat to each other as and when needed, avoid external interruptions from outside that office, etc.

It seems that a lot of the findings of improving productivity in-person may also imply that remote work drops productivity. For example, being at home with a bunch of other people in your house might dramatically increase the possibility of external interruption to the team.

A discussion between two people in an office might be lower-friction and also instantly bring in other team mates to help if relevant - whilst that might lower individual productivity, the team as a whole is more productive. And this is not just speculation rather looking at existing studies and applying their conclusions to remote.

Speculation from me: there's also the matter of lost communication through coffee and lunch breaks. Building that mutual understanding between individuals and about the system surely increases productivity.

I think there's a big assumption on HN that individual productivity correlates with team and company productivity, and so if you get more "stuff" done wfh then it must be best. But that clearly isn't true from the experiments we've already done.

I think they’d reply that those salaries come from a time when in person work was expected.

It’s the remote companies that are effectively giving you a pay rise. Let’s see how it works out now their competitors are back in-office - the next few years will be a big experiment on the efficacy of remote work (unlike the last, where there was no control group).

> As I've said in other comments, the main problem is that academia has become hideously corrupted by "professional management" values leading to de-skilling as good people leave.

As I've said in other comments, this is correct - I can confirm this is the case at several top tier UK universities.

> Stop doing overtime, and read this: https://www.7pace.com/blog/overtime-kills and http://blog.approache.com/2010/11/rules-of-productivity.html

That was fascinating reading, thanks for sharing. This seems like absolutely crucial data for a startup. Rationally, these links imply that a startup should work 40 hour weeks.

Intuitively I'm not entirely convinced, but I want to be. I work 50 hours minimum and have regularly worked 60-65 in the recent past. I can't imagine that 40 hours would have gotten me as far. But obviously I may be misjudging myself.

I think a startup founder would rightly have this fear - if I ask people to work 40 hours, will the investors scream at me? What if my competitors work longer hours, will they beat me? These are such key questions that I feel you have to be _really_, _really_ confident about these results.

Agree except I had assumed the VCs were being opportunistic in unloading, rather than actually shaping policy. Do you have any evidence that they shaped it? Seems there were other significant reasons for stimulus programmes not just saving VCs.

Not a big gamer so apologies if it exists.

I feel like Pokémon go style games are massively underexploited.

Not just augmented reality but using cities as playgrounds. Nokia did some interesting things with this in the late 90s.

A fps might be problematic, but what about non violent trading (certain locations have mines etc, you can use resources to construct factories visible in augmented reality etc.) essentially a parallel world economy and reality that sits atop the physical word.

Is there a steady move to ESM within the node (rather than browser) ecosystem? Because it seems that CommonJS is used for new projects by major companies.

It’s a cultural difference not regulation, at least according to every VC and mentor I’ve ever met who has worked in both the US and Europe.

I know of American VCs who have been just as ambitious investing with U.K. startups as with American ones.

Just preparing I guess. If you’re a startup and you start worrying by the time BMW is laying people off, you’ve started worrying too late to do anything about it. The time to act is now. That’s the point.