DaedalusII

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by DaedalusII 6mo ago
yes obvious but this is not a secret, its the whole point of yc yc is explicitly an imitation of harvard , right down to calling people 'alumni' this is how to find supertalent. much like american idol it works well but not for ev
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by DaedalusII 6mo ago
zenefits didnt commit fraud in the social sense they allowed people to sell real financial products without having a broker licence. its more like not wearing seatbelts than scamming people the car was real, but there was no drivers licence
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by DaedalusII 6mo ago
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/apparently-the-nhs-is-the-wor... https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/removi... nhs is famous dumb and has spent years trying to stop
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by DaedalusII 6mo ago
he clearly meant that all the servers and computers were manufactured in his non-EU village in Bulgaria I for one want Pravetz cloud
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by DaedalusII 6mo ago
this looks like it was vibe coded using an american llm also, why not chinese or indian alternatives? they're cheaper and oftentime work better
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by DaedalusII 6mo ago
"Iran has 90,000,000 people. More than 2x Ukraine. More than 2x Germany. " >Germany's population is approximately 83.5 to 84.1 million as of early 2026 agree with analysis of iran industry etc, cant see cuba happening. us
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by DaedalusII 7mo ago
fumigating houses, pest control at commercial food facilities, commercial premises etc is a big dirty difficult job and involves expensive equipment and hazardous chemicals etc plus as OP noted requires exams before you can do it for 3rd pa
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by DaedalusII 7mo ago
I have to call out this disingenuous mob like language which is basically saying "because this person served in the military of a UN Security Council member, it is justifiable to murder them in the street years into their retirement&qu
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by DaedalusII 7mo ago
what do you think of theory that denuclearisation movement in west europe was funded by CCCP? it makes sense to think CCCP/Putin would finance subversive movements to remove nuclear and coal and make the region dependent on russian ene
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by DaedalusII 7mo ago
its literally cheaper to create a low earth orbit satellite constellation than deal with bureaucracy
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by DaedalusII 7mo ago
nasdaq listings can be rough, not sure if anyone remember fb ipo but how else will they own spacex, openai, anthropic, nvidia, in such concentration
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by DaedalusII 7mo ago
there arent enough retail investors in the world to buy this ipo but they will get a lot of flow from sovereign wealth fund and pensions you might wonder why anthropic spend time in australia, a country with less economy than canada and alm
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by DaedalusII 7mo ago
simple, just have a private bank relationship jpm and gs will let you open an account in the us if you have $50m cash
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by DaedalusII 7mo ago
Heraclitus — 'For the best men choose one thing above all—immortal glory among mortals; but the masses stuff themselves like cattle.'
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by DaedalusII 7mo ago
nassim taleb is primarily a philosopher who pretends to be a hedge fund guy, jordan peterson, robert kiyosaki, tim ferriss maybe, sam bankman fried, the tech lead yt archetype is people who sell their success as a model for you to follow wh
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by DaedalusII 7mo ago
the old saying goes that every entrepreneur wishes they were a philosopher, and every philosopher wishes they were an entrepreneur generally holds true soros marc rich bill gates musk thiel nassim taleb epstein etc
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by DaedalusII 7mo ago
bad grid, bad fibre, #146 in the world in electricity production per capita. less power output than many US states, rule of law risk, civil unrest risk, and data sovereignty (gdpr), must get expat engineers (and get them visas) large scale
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by DaedalusII 7mo ago
cant fund infrastructure because that is when the bad governance results in money and asset being stolen rule of law why country like singapore and finland end up being richer than brazil or argentina
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by DaedalusII 7mo ago
you have never worked in africa. its cheaper to build a data centre in low earth orbit than most of africa 1 physical security is a problem, and in some countries like equatorial guinea or south africa foreigners arent allowed to own assets
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by DaedalusII 7mo ago
singapore/malaysia/indonesia one of the best places in the world for datacentres. just have to build absurd cooling systems and use coal power plants the bottleneck is they keep running out of water for cooling
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by DaedalusII 7mo ago
good question, but there is a rational answer. remember if youre going to tie up a few billion in a project you want strong laws around ownership singapore ran out of land. malaysia ran out of water and electricity indonesia is unstable pol
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by DaedalusII 7mo ago
i made a mistake. i meant e3 visa https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary... a nz cit can live in au for 4 years then become au citizen then move to the US if they go to college in au then most lik
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by DaedalusII 7mo ago
the capital gains tax system in nz is complicated and inconsistent compared to most countries, bright line tests the way that nz taxes foreign sourced income is also very complex with 'deeming rules' etc it results that rich peopl
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by DaedalusII 7mo ago
nz has no meaningful economy. they have a real estate market and agriculture which has maxed out its productivity, because they have completely run out of land. they have cheap, generally low quality colleges, and attract middle class/
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by DaedalusII 7mo ago
my point is the government/DoD/DoW/state can set conditions that it wants, and do what they want. DOD can literally invoke DPA with trump and force anthropic to sell them the product "On October 30, 2023, President Biden
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Polsia – vibe coded companies with live revenue and digital marketing(polsia.com)
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by DaedalusII 7mo ago
agencies create many regulations which affect companies, with no input from congress. the ATF in 2017 banned 'bump stocks' by reclassifying them as machineguns with zero input from congress. companies and the people who work for t
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by DaedalusII 7mo ago
yeah man what a mediocre loser all he did was create the first cloud based ecommerce platform , sell it to yahoo for $49m in the 90s, then co-found the most successful early stage VC firm of all time, which made THIS forum which you are usi
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by DaedalusII 7mo ago
well yeah but should Smith and Wesson just be like man the US Gov doesnt align with our corporate values so we are just gonna start selling belt fed machine guns to civilians absurd yes but same principle. companies have to be subject to go
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by DaedalusII 7mo ago
its reasonable praise. a 19 year old social outcast who grew up in the midwest drops out of ivy league and starts a company before smartphones exist that he sells for $43 million dollars at age 27, then invested almost all the money into mo

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