Travel apps never managed a "The winner takes it all" approach.
Regarding "match". You would be surprised how much fraud exits in the dating industry. How many people get payed to keep paying customers engaged with the app.
Also, just wait until your Tinder gold expries. You will get tons of (hidden) likes.
I don't think German is really difficult. Some things are strange for an English speaker: declension, therefore flexible word order and gender is more elusive compared to Spanish.
There is a saying: "Hungarian... the only tongue in the world the devil respects."
Volkshochschule are "low level" community training courses. Yet many people successfully learned Languages there. It is far below a University or a poly-technical college. It has nothing do do with a real degree.
FUN FACT: I read once a Serbian guy took a course there in Economics, had the certificate translated into Serbian and the translator translated "Volkshochschule", to "Peoples University" and became an Economics professor with this certifica in Serbia until the whole scam became public.
To give you the perspective: Basically every guy here on Hackernews could give a "Python course" there or something. for 2 hours every week for 6 months and one of the attendees would manage to become a CS professor with this.
Fernuni is a public/government university. The big thing is that you get a UNIVERSITY degree that is recognized in Germany. This may have implications, e.g. doing a MS after a BS there or getting a University degree after you attended a poly-technical college, both entitles you to better career options in the public service.
They have also several other niches. E.g patent lawyers are getting trained there after their STEM degrees.
I ignore the war statements since I would have to review several issues again before I could give an opinion.
"conservative liberal"
Not sure that the Economist is conservative. Sure, it is pro-market and pro "west" in the sense of Open Society and Democracy.
"The British should by all means do another referendum or the politicians should mimic the 2015 Greek PM and revert the result the of the referendum because "people don't know"."
This may have indeed the best solution since nobody really know what "Brexit" means since there are several options of Brexit. But I also remember the issue where they wrote: Now, as Brexit has happened, lets try to make the best out of it.
"Respect democracy or overturn it? ;-)"
Well, currently the majority of the British people are against Brexit. So it is the uttermost democratic principle, that opinions can change.
"When I was a subscriber I was getting informed for various matters all over the world, so if it's the economist vs nothing, I would prefer the economist. If it's the economist vs something else, well... I don't know."
Is is unlikely that there is a magazine that can afford the intelligence service of the economist. Maybe Bloomberg.
Not trying to troll here. But Monocle? I always wondered who reads this? Poor people who want to know how rich people live? (Trust me, no rich person I know of would buy this poser magazine).
I doubt there is a magazine in the world that can compete in deep, knowledge and network (And I can read magazines in at least 3 major languages, possibly four).
Would you mind to elaborate where the Economist delivers "wrong" information? Preferably give some specific examples.
I tend to disagree. While a pro market magazine, it often suggests strong government actions. I think you have never dealt with real fee market fetishists.
The only annoying things is the double Christmas issue and the "New Year outlook". They always write the same. The world has never been better and everything becomes better and next year will be better than the last.
Yes, likely. I also would not make sense for a small company to build distribution and marketing channels (marketing might not be necessary in this case).
Also, big name. Nobody knows BionTech but the name Pfizer signals trust. In most cases the small company is actually getting bought by big pharma.
I work on a medical consumer device. Would be madness to market this ourself. A big company has the resources for distribution and marketing.
"sometimes one wonders why you just don't shut up and tell
people to buy a PC with Windows or a Mac. No Gulag or lice, just a future whose intellectual tone and interaction style is set by Sonic the Hedgehog."
Illinois News Network reports "A Southern Illinois University at Carbondale poll from 2015 showed that half of the Illinois residents polled would leave the state if they could. The No. 1 reason: Taxes."
"For a long time, this volcanic island was one of Europe’s poorest countries, as only a small portion of the land is suitable for agricultural use and Iceland possesses virtually no natural resources. Thus, Iceland never developed into an industrial nation – the prosperity it achieved toward the end of the 20th century was due to the country’s booming services sector."
https://www.erih.net/how-it-started/industrial-history-of-eu...
"How are other Scandinavian countries less Viking?"
They are much more diverse and have interacted much more with the outside world. You can not compare Sweden with Iceland.
Sweden is a very progressive country and always have been in the modern age. Not being condescending but I perceived the people in Iceland very bold and and often interacting and dressing in a way that would be considered "low class". I also must say (downvote expected) that the Icelandic women by far do not live up to their reputation (looks).
Sweden had mining, coal, the industrial revolution etc. Iceland did not have mining, did not have coal, did not have gas, did not have an industrial revolution due to lack of natural resources. They were a poor area and stayed poor until recently when they were able to harvest energy from their volcanoes. In fact, it is now a society with one of the highest energy consumption in the world. Well set for the future due to cheap energy and easy cooling of servers.
It is true that the Icelandic society is much more coherent than others. In general I observed that if you look for a second passport, look in a small country. The smaller the better. (Incredibly difficult to get a passport in Liechtenstein, Andorra or Monaco). In big countries like Russia, USA, Brazil or China a citizen is mostly expendable.
"Admissions should disregard such superficial peacocking and focus on metrics like the SAT that disentangle intellectual and academic potential from wealth."
Why? Not trying to troll here but you assume that intellectual potential leads to success. I remember reading an article - unfortunately I am not able to track it down/google it - that looked into exactly this issue.
There were free US high school selecting on just intellectual ability and when they looked at the careers of the students they were far less successful in their careers than you would expect from such a selection. (What stood out was that they seem to be much happier than average persons).
The counter example was Harvard that selected on many criteria. The article mentioned a guy getting rejected because he had "pig ears" (not the official rejection but a note taken in an interview or something). The unfortunate fact is that rich, famous, driven, well connected people will be the better selection of success than intellectual ability. George W Bush was unlikely a brilliant intellectual. Yet he went to the top schools and him becoming president showed that this was the right decision by the schools that took him.
Regarding "match". You would be surprised how much fraud exits in the dating industry. How many people get payed to keep paying customers engaged with the app. Also, just wait until your Tinder gold expries. You will get tons of (hidden) likes.