I left my home country for Portugal when I was 18, and was refurbishing iPods for money while living in a hostel. In my free time, I developed a Bluetooth kit, a crude first version which required hours of hand-soldering soldering, CNC milling, etc. to manufacture. While selling these I used the money to prototype and manufacture the second revision.
That's the version you can purchase today, which can now be assembled in about five minutes. This has allowed me to scale the business, and now we're a few employees big, shipping worldwide. A few grey hairs have appeared at 22 but finally I can relax a little.
Hi Peter. Which countries are the most popular destinations for founders to immigrate to, in your opinion? I've heard Dubai is the best place right now. Thanks!
I also find access to limitless information addicting, and get bored at work sometimes. Practical advice:
1) Cut internet to your house, or get someone to change the WiFi password if you can't do that.
2) Remove your SIM card and glue it into a dumb phone
3) Delete social media and things you find distracting (steam, instagram, etc.)
4) Organise your work tasks by priority if you haven't already. I use Kanboard for this. Otherwise the former steps will leave a void you'll fill by procrastinating.
That is essentially the only thing that worked after trying many other solutions over three years. Some people don't have to go to that extreme but... different strokes for different folks. One year later and I'm still going strong! I now rent in a co-working space, but a library was perfectly adequate before that.
On the other hand, being constantly ostracised from public spaces isn’t great either… something I find infuriating when I travel abroad. If there were at least a few smoking bars where you don’t have to go out into the cold to smoke I think that would be nice.
Eugh, god, no. It isnt ostracism if you are being asked to go outside because you want to light something on fire.
That being said you arent alone in this desire. The work around appears to be clubs with a membership fee and volunteer bartenders (at least where I live). If its something that pops up for you frequently then it might be worthwhile to pursue.
> On the other hand, being constantly ostracised from public spaces isn’t great either… something I find infuriating when I travel abroad. If there were at least a few smoking bars where you don’t have to go out into the cold to smoke I think that would be nice.
I'm a smoker, and I absolutely don't want smoking allowed in public indoor places, and some outdoor public places as well. I don't smoke indoors even in my own home.
On the other hand, when I duck down an empty alley and light up, I'm going to be annoyed if someone walking on the main road comes in to complain about how my second-hand smoke is going to give them cancer.
Too many times I have had people go out of their way to inhale my second hand smoke, and then complain about it.
> Too many times I have had people go out of their way to inhale my second hand smoke, and then complain about it.
Too many times I have had people go out of their way to walk in front of my 3 ton truck driving 100 mph in a pedestrian zone to almost get hit, and then complain about it.
> Too many times I have had people go out of their way to walk in front of my 3 ton truck driving 100 mph in a pedestrian zone to almost get hit, and then complain about it.
Maybe you shouldn't be doing 100mph around other people.
> Sure, if you stop smoking around other people ;-)
Maybe english is not your first language, but you did read what I wrote, right? You did read my post saying that I get annoyed at people who go up to lone smokers and then complain?
You know what that means, right? It literally means "I don't smoke around other people!"
I'm afraid I am unable to simplify it any further.
My point is if you are the user/owner of a device capable of killing (huge car, cigarettes) there’s a big responsibility on you to prevent harm on others.
There’s always a grey area, but generally I’d say in a public space it’s the smoker who should actively move to avoid non-smokers.
If you’re allowed to smoke in the bar then I’m allowed to bring my bucket of rotten fish.
All health issues aside, it’s just disgusting. It smells awful, it makes everything else smell awful. I always hate ending up in an elevator with a smoker, it’s nauseating. It truly is a disgusting habit.
When all bars allowed smoking, all bars were the same. Then there came a govt ban on smoking in bars. So all bars are the same. (they all wailed loudly, but because it applied equally clientele had nowhere else to go.)
As a non smoker there are now options to go out I never had before. Restaurants are now safe again. (well except for parents who think it's OK for a child to be on a phone playing games at full audio volume, but we'll save that rant for another day.)
Please don't break the site guidelines like this. You may not owe cancer-causing habit-holders better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.
Can we chill on the hate? Be impassioned, sure. But this 'people like you deserve' is not welcome. You arent going to convince a smoker tgeyre wrong by being a shining example of the prototypical asshole non smoker
Congrats, you just proved you're the asshole and I was right about what a piece of shit you are for forcing your cancerous chemicals on everyone around you, and then complaining when they decided you weren't welcome around them while you were lighting up.
I wasn't super involved, but they (the office in Ukraine) liked getting USD and people who visited would often carry an envelope with cash in it when traveling for business trips from the US to there.
There was some other thing with using US based debit cards over there, apparently it was an easier flow to fill up the US accounts and have them use it over there than to do a bank to bank transfer.
Yeah, paper currency. It was important for the bills to be crisp, otherwise they'd trade at a ~10% discount. I don't know how crypto has changed things, I don't do anything related to Ukraine anymore.
That was the same in monte negro with euros. They only accepted crisp euros even though I had brought those from an actual EU country - they wouldn’t accept them. And that was their “official” currency
Funny, for me it’s the opposite. I always try to use the web view, and there’s an annoying pop up that redirects me to download Google maps. When I switch back into the web browser to go back to the web view, it auto redirects me to the app download again. Super annoying.
As if a Brazilian court cares about consumer protection. I wouldn't be surprised if the courts are _happy_ Apple are still not shipping iPhones with the charger, now they don't have to invent another reason to fine Apple to "protect consumers". €19M is peanuts for Apple, this is obviously not going to change their behaviour.
That fine is sure going to line a few bureaucrats' pockets though!
You have written “it’s” instead of “its” on the last two occurrences of the word. It should be without the apostrophe, as it’s indicating possession. I used to get this wrong all the time too.
You are relying on unenforceable government incentives (copyright law) to create an income for yourself. Find a way of commercialising the information in your head that makes it technologically difficult to propagate without yourself being paid. Books aren't the answer if you want $$$.
Copyright law is actually enforceable though. At least enforceable enough to keep book piracy more inconvenient than Kindle for most people of any means.
I left my home country for Portugal when I was 18, and was refurbishing iPods for money while living in a hostel. In my free time, I developed a Bluetooth kit, a crude first version which required hours of hand-soldering soldering, CNC milling, etc. to manufacture. While selling these I used the money to prototype and manufacture the second revision.
That's the version you can purchase today, which can now be assembled in about five minutes. This has allowed me to scale the business, and now we're a few employees big, shipping worldwide. A few grey hairs have appeared at 22 but finally I can relax a little.