I work at a tech startup in Cape Town (in the data analysis & visualization space.)
In my experience the challenge is that the local market isn't supportive or capable of supporting in some cases, and breaking into the international market with the weak rand is a tough nut to crack when your competitors all have several hundred mil in investment (x 17 for the exchange rate.)
So you sit with a product that fits locally, has some international potential but you can't really get enough sales locally to support an international launch and you kind of end up seeing the end of the runway whilst realizing that you're unlikely to have enough lift to get airborne by the time you reach it.
I'm sure that with enough funding this isn't as much of an embuggerance.
Any investors want to take advantage of the weak Rand? We have good devs and designers here, we speak English and we can get a lot done for about a 20th of what it would cost in the US...
This is a much better analysis of the current environment I would say.
Broforce did a lot better than I was expecting it to to be honest. I think I have just become jaded that SA wont ever have any successful game dev stories, so when I watched the trailers etc my mind automatically (and wrongfully so) just flips over to "Oh that looks cool, pity it will never make them any money."
Could the relative weakness of ZAR be a benefit for international investors? If I'm an American making an investment and I was offered identical investment opportunities in 2011 and today, the investment I make today is at a ~50% discount
We just have to figure out how to take advantage. I think the IT industry is better placed than any other given that we're not trying to build using imported materials (or at least, we can charge a lot more than the cost of our imported computers).
I can jump in here. I lost 16kg on a ketogenic diet.
My gut is a lot happier as evidenced by more regular and better (firm, soft, not runny) bowel movements.
There is a definite smell (breath) associated with ketosis. It varies by person but it is often noticeable.
I asked my wife to track it as it's very hard to notice it yourself and she says that my system produces a slightly metallic smell the isn't objectively bad, just different to normal.
I have Muslim friends and during Ramadaan there is a noticeable smell which is subjectively bad from some of them.
A friend who works as a nurse in a very low income area says that she can detect someone who isn't eating normally by the smell - very important to spot if that person is also pregnant.
It's a long way of saying: yes there is a smell, it varies by person.
During Ramadan Muslims are not allowed to drink water, right? That probably means their mouth is very dry during the fasting time meaning there's more than usual amount of odor-causing bacteria in their mouth.
>why can't the SJW's and their ilk who came late to the party go find their own place?
Because their cause is evangelical in nature.
Were it just kept to Tumblr then they wouldn't have much with which to stoke the fires.
SJW's are specifically about pointing out to others where they are wrong/insensitive/racist/sexist/ableist/etc.. if they just kept to themselves then who would they persecute with their 'justice'?
Absent the kind of hyper-exaggeration that makes people invoke Godwin's law, no, it doesn't. Your freedom of thought and expression is not imperiled if you get bounced out of a private club for being hateful.
This has nothing to do with Nazis, please get a grip.
Fascism is a clearly defined concept, and there are many examples other than Nazism. In point of fact: it is not necessary to invoke Nazism in order to define fascism.
The kind of autocratic and intolerant behaviour that you suggest is clearly reminiscent of fascism.
Anyway, I have seen the arguments you raise before and I don't really see that we'll arrive at any kind of agreement here.
There are complications about the origin of both concepts, but in context, absolutely nothing.
What's wrong is not noticing that your conversation is nothing but white and male. It implies that there are people who have been driven out, one way or another, and you aren't surprised by their absence.
K&P offered to not seek legal fees if she agreed not to appeal.
She appealed.
At that point, the offer was dead. Withdrawing the appeal later doesn't change that.
Maybe she and her husband will file bankruptcy. Again.
> I had neither the time nor resources to talk with reporters or journalists. Kleiner reportedly had four full-time PR people plus their defense lawyer arguing their points and providing information and their perspective to the press in real-time during the trial. Their efforts contributed to online aggression against me personally, and even toward my family, leading to what is now viewed as the one of the largest trolling attacks in history.
I find it spectacularly weird that she thinks the reddit backlash against her was orchestrated by a PR firm.
I work at a tech startup in Cape Town (in the data analysis & visualization space.)
In my experience the challenge is that the local market isn't supportive or capable of supporting in some cases, and breaking into the international market with the weak rand is a tough nut to crack when your competitors all have several hundred mil in investment (x 17 for the exchange rate.)
So you sit with a product that fits locally, has some international potential but you can't really get enough sales locally to support an international launch and you kind of end up seeing the end of the runway whilst realizing that you're unlikely to have enough lift to get airborne by the time you reach it.
I'm sure that with enough funding this isn't as much of an embuggerance.
Any investors want to take advantage of the weak Rand? We have good devs and designers here, we speak English and we can get a lot done for about a 20th of what it would cost in the US...