ArtTimeInvestor

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by ArtTimeInvestor 10mo ago
All of these problems would go away if we had micropayments. So that the user could pay for the resources they use. The user would know that each pageview is $0.001. The website owner would know each pageview pays for itself. We probably co
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by ArtTimeInvestor 11mo ago
Hetzner is awesome. I wish they would go public. Would be very interesting to see how their business is doing compared to IONOS and OVH. We need more public cloud companies in Europe.
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by ArtTimeInvestor 11mo ago
This is cool. It tells you something about how much a gambling place the market is when a site like this has a one day default for the price change. When it comes to a high level view of the market, why would I care for a comparison of toda
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by ArtTimeInvestor 1y ago
Because I am interested to hear about the experience as a customer. How content are you with them? Have you tried alternatives? You don't think the web interface is chaotic?
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by ArtTimeInvestor 1y ago
Are you using them?
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by ArtTimeInvestor 1y ago
US companies seem to sell into Europe just fine? Amazon, Google, Microsoft - they all make tens of billions of revenue in Europe. Why wouldn't a company based in Europe be able to do the same?
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by ArtTimeInvestor 1y ago
Hetzner is not a publicly traded company.
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by ArtTimeInvestor 1y ago
Are there any publicly traded European cloud companies that will benefit from Europe hosting more of their stuff on their own? I looked at IONOS, but it seems they just let their cloud product rot away? The cloud backend looks outdated and
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by ArtTimeInvestor 1y ago
The way I understand it: Introducing quantum resistant addresses is possible via a soft-fork, so rather easy. Work on it already started: https://github.com/jlopp/bips/blob/quantum_migration/bip-pos... I
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by ArtTimeInvestor 1y ago
You're cherry picking Microsoft was the largest public tech company by far in 1999. So I wouldn't call that choice cherry picking. And wasn't Amazon with about $30B market cap the largest internet pureplay at that t
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by ArtTimeInvestor 1y ago
The all time high of the Shiller PE was in December 1999. If your hypothesis at that time was that the internet would benefit tech companies, it was not a bad time to invest: Microsoft shares were $58. Now they are $510. => 9% annualized
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by ArtTimeInvestor 1y ago
If one country manages to outpace all others in the race to better AI, all other countries are at the mercy of that one country. Depending on how the one country treats the others, it might be ok - like it is kind of ok for some animals to
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by ArtTimeInvestor 1y ago
1:1 cash/cash-equivalent reserves, which means the best they can do is things like US treasuries / money-market funds Whether US Treasuries are "cash equivalent" is debatable / depends on the speci
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by ArtTimeInvestor 1y ago
What you describe sounds like the opposite of my perspective. You make it sound like stablecoins offer a benefit to all sides because of better technology. My expectation is that they offer a benefit to the borrower because the borrower is
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by ArtTimeInvestor 1y ago
This is how I understand the uprising of stablecoins, let me know if I am wrong: One of the best businesses is to offer this service: Give me your money, I'll give it back to you later. Because then you can lend out that money
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by ArtTimeInvestor 1y ago
From your link: In March 2023, the New York Times identified a list of just 34 Bitcoin mining facilities (controlled by 22 different entities) in the United States, which represented about a third of the total worldwide
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by ArtTimeInvestor 1y ago
First, relying on plans some corporate leadership states is the opposite of a decentralized approach. Second, permissionless does not mean decentralized. You can have all validation of a POS chain ending up on a single computer.
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by ArtTimeInvestor 1y ago
Welcome to crypto project number 206701341. At least that is how many are listed on CoinMarketCap: https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/number-of-cryptocurrencies-... Bitcoin is decentralized because the sun distributes en
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by ArtTimeInvestor 1y ago
Not sure if that is due to ETFs. US companies have great reporting. Every quarter you get a nice report with GAAP numbers. In Europe, for example, reporting is less frequent and murkier. Reports often don't even include standardized ne
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by ArtTimeInvestor 1y ago
You seem to like self-checkout processes. I don't. I avoid any place where I have to interact with a screen. Be it a screen installed on-premise or the screen on my phone. It is not a relaxing experience for me.
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by ArtTimeInvestor 1y ago
Is the theft really happening at the checkout? And if so, why can't we detect it via camera + AI?
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by ArtTimeInvestor 1y ago
Every day when I am out in the city, I am amazed by how many jobs we have NOT managed to replace with AI yet. For example, cashiers. There are still many people spending their lives dragging items over a scanner, reading a number from a scr
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by ArtTimeInvestor 1y ago
iOS, the iPhone operating system, which allows users to make certain queries via GPT-4o Any iOS users here who use any AI provided by Apple on their devices? I have not seen a glimpse of it yet (I think it asked me once to ena
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by ArtTimeInvestor 1y ago
I understand the rationale behind open sourcing llama.cpp. Because it has a lock-in effect. But I don't see how open sourcing weights has a lock-in effect. In fact, it seems OpeanAI's open models can be run on llama.cpp. So by off
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by ArtTimeInvestor 1y ago
Oh, wow. Following this line of thinking, what seems like a noble gesture on the surface is a scorched earth approach in reality.
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by ArtTimeInvestor 1y ago
Why do companies release open source LLMs? I would understand it, if there was some technology lock-in. But with LLMs, there is no such thing. One can switch out LLMs without any friction.
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by ArtTimeInvestor 1y ago
That means you would have given up on the internet in the 80s. That is what I mean by point 3 in my comment.
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by ArtTimeInvestor 1y ago
SEPA is not a cross-border payment system for interbank payments. Fort Knox still exists. US gold reserves are still increasing: https://www.statista.com/graphic/1/188843/united-states-offi...
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by ArtTimeInvestor 1y ago
I think people here on HN keep underestimating the relevance of crypto for four reasons: What crypto is already useful for is not to replace the cash in your pocket and your savings account. It is useful to replace SWIFT and Fort Knox. What
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by ArtTimeInvestor 1y ago
That does not prove that Tesla's robotaxi service cannot scale. A robotaxi service is geofenced. The community tracker is not. As soon as Tesla manages to nail Austin, they can expand aka scale. How close are they to operate safely in

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