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by 0xfaded 6y ago
I worked in SF for 4 years and then founded a robotics startup in Denmark. (I'm originally Australian). The biggest difference is where startups get their funding from. I worked at 2 startups in the bay area, both raised low millions i
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
Highly recommend the book "Rentier Capitalism" as a follow up to "Capital in the 21st Century". Royal Dutch Shell receives a detailed study as a resource rentier, and be warned that Shell is basically just a holding comp
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
This inspired me to do my math. I have 8 t-shirts in rotation, most 3-4 years old. Only one is unwearable without a sweater over the top (and yes, I still wear it).
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
When I lived in SF I didn't buy clothing except for socks and underwear. I only needed to visit a tech campus and I was stocked for the next year. I even have a pair of socks from Gusto I still wear. These days I live in Europe and get
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
This was done in the UK and parts of Europe basically to appease the taxman. See https://www.netlawman.co.uk/ia/ir35 The consequence, as partially intended, is that companies are hesitant to work with individual contra
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
I live in Europe now, and I'm fine with high taxation. But for heaven's sake, call a tax a tax. There are so many little things, whether its TV licenses, overpriced interactions with the DNV equivalent, overpriced tolls that were
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
In Denmark's case, the rates are set to defend the krone's peg against the euro. Denmark being above average in terms of stability within the euro zone sets negative rates to shoo people from parking their money there, which would
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
wow, this is the first time it was pointed out to me that I shouldn't be running my new fat tires at 120 PSI anymore. (face palm).
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
I have a friend from Ibiza who described the same problem of vastly disproportionate income opportunity for locals compared to the price of real estate. For them, moving out from the home means leaving the island.
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
No, it's called getting shafted. The EU has more or less the same wealth floating around as any other western country, but it's in total stagnation. We can argue about why this is, but the end result is that asset prices are high,
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
I moved to Denmark and yes, it's out in the open. I'm a white Australian and I can still see it, granted I have a lot of international friends here.
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
Given that 16% of the sample (from relocate.me) is from India, and Indians have virtually no path to PR in the US, I'm guessing residency. Europe (at least the technocratic level) has been pro immigration for a while, so network effect
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
Given that hopper is supposedly going to be on 5nm, and seeing the M1 performance, I actually cancelled my early 3090 order. I'm going to go with something cheaper and leave my big purchase until next year.
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
We'll, it will take a decade, but this is one of the few European projects I believe might actually work. It's a well defined goal (fab chips) and the winners of the contracts is more or less predetermined (AMSL, etc). That's
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
Not convinced. Apple's spend a lot of money on privacy focused branding, and I'll not sure it makes sense for them to contradict that. What did out to me is where these ads are being published ... in newspapers ... which are proba
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
As a consumer I also believe something that needs to be done to regulate big tech, but the problem of directing money into productive capital is huge. Every unicorn's valuation is basically realized by establishing some sort of monopol
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
One consequence is that this will continue to keep European tech valuations low. Silicon valley startup valuations allow some crazy and amazing ideas to be tried, but it's all based a premise that startups may one day become a unicorns
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
This is beautiful. I've been working with computer vision since university, but now days work underwater. I guess I should have a pretty good understanding of this stuff, but I still occasionally get caught out by optics. This is the b
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
That's one view. But my view is that affiliate links have created a massive race to the bottom, polluting search results and creating a new style of prose optimized for inserting key words and links. I may not be able to stop that, but
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
Hmmm, these meta affiliate links have confused my moral compass ;) Lucky I'm not in the UK :)
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
Is there a good way to contact an online business directly and say "It seems you pay a 20% affiliate fee. I would like a 20% discount?" Amazon kinda does this with smile and donations, even though I don't use amazon anymore.
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
Every regulation like this is a band-aid, and more band-aids will just make the EU even more quintessentially the EU. If the governance focused on restoring negotiating power to workers, you wouldn't need to write to your MP to go to t
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
I didn't work at google, but of the people I know, if H1B wasn't an option they would usually push through an O1.
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
HAHAHA, this sounds laughable similar to all the "startup competitions" where the grand prize is pitching to some noname investor.
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
You're forgetting about the tax deduction for interest payments on your home, which you've front loaded so that you only pay off the principle after you've retired.
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
I have the opposite take. The US has something approaching a free labor market. That sucks if you're at the bottom. It's awesome if you're in demand and can get a 20% pay rise at any time by jumping employers (and yes, that 2
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
I lived in SV and moved to Europe to do a startup. If things were to go south, I wouldn't even consider regular employment over here. Even when told, most people still refuse to believe the compensation numbers achievable by even fairl
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
The Zurich google office is pretty cool. Had a fun slide.
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
Rent seeking is an interesting point, since every tech giant is basically a rentier in some form. The path to billions in revenue is to control eyeballs, marketplaces, platforms, without ever strictly selling it away. Rentierism is fundamen
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by 0xfaded 6y ago
The whole gas thing is classic Diplomacy through Trade. Similarly for continuing to abide by the treaty with Iran to the degree possible while avoiding sanctions across the whole financial system. Concrete example of European reliance on th

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