Kon5ole

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by Kon5ole 24d ago
All the things you mention also apply if the company is Norwegian, and then you can also tax the profit. So there is no benefit here, only downsides. By having this policy, the country not only loses all the money they could get from taxes
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by Kon5ole 26d ago
>why is Omarchy getting funding that's more in line with a distro that already has its own infrastructure? A few reasons spring to mind but I'll focus on the one I care about: It's damn good. I've used Linux for over
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by Kon5ole 26d ago
It's unethical to make a million by controlling a drug someone needs to survive or bribing politicians. But it's not unethical to make a billion by writing a popular app, website, book, movie or performing songs. So the amount is
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by Kon5ole 26d ago
>Now no one has to worry about those people using their money to command Norway's significant resources to implement their stupid ideas It doesn't though. It only prevents people who actually live in Norway from implementing &q
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by Kon5ole 26d ago
That again forces someone to get rid of their creation when it gets successful, which I can't get behind. I like the idea of taxing personal loans where shares are used as security. That seems to be the main loophole for getting tax-fr
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by Kon5ole 27d ago
This is what can happen: You start a co and have a million shares. Some guy buys a share for a thousand bucks, which means you get classified as a billionaire. Then the state says "Hey pay us ten million of that billion". When you
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by Kon5ole 27d ago
>Perhaps by realizing a portion of the gains and handing over the resulting wealth? That means the state forces you to sell your company if people start to believe in it. Why can't they instead tax you once you do realize the gains
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by Kon5ole 27d ago
Magazines all over the world talk about the wealth of business owners as if it is equivalent to the wealth of say sports stars or musicians, who get paid millions to their bank accounts. Forbes and other finance magazines create top lists a
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by Kon5ole 1mo ago
I couldn't believe it either because it seemed so expensive! EU based colleague got a high-ish end japanese unit (purhased and professionally installed with over 20% VAT on parts and labour) for less than that. The devices can be had f
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by Kon5ole 1mo ago
You are correct but there must surely be good modern books too. Problem is finding them. Could also be an unavoidable effect from reading many books I guess, the more you read the harder the competition is for the next book.
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by Kon5ole 1mo ago
This used to be true because most published books were well written. I don't think that's true anymore. Too much noise and too little signal so to speak. I feel a growing trend where books read like the author's main inspirat
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by Kon5ole 1mo ago
I also like them so I can mention some things that spring to mind: - Some are very good tools that have no clear GUI superiors. Vim, Emacs, Mc for example. GUI wrappers over these don't make them better. - Efficient, meaning fast and l
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by Kon5ole 1mo ago
The aggressive headline is a hook which is what bloggers have to do I guess, but it doesn't need to be polarizing. The argument boils down to "If you made a TUI only because making a native app is hard, then LLM's fix that fo
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by Kon5ole 1mo ago
>I think the currency point stands though: value the money our soldiers carry, tax collectors will be along for it shortly, welcome to the Roman Empire. Well OK but a decimation was no small thing, it was documented to have happened just
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by Kon5ole 1mo ago
>Also, in ancient Rome, coinage with Caesar's face on it was traded above its bullion value. They'd kill 1/10th of your population repeatedly until you agreed to this (such was the origins of the word "decimation&quot
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by Kon5ole 1mo ago
>You're acting like everyone here doesn't have hundreds of hours of experience with LLM coding. We all do, we all know what it's like. But the opinions expressed are basically polar opposites, so there's clearly somet
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by Kon5ole 2mo ago
The easy explanation is that the lists don't work and you and your friends are just lucky to not get spam calls. Yet. I also noticed a drop when the GDPR kicked in, but it doesn't solve the problem. It ironically just removes the
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by Kon5ole 2mo ago
>They get the money from the peer networks that are the source of the spammers. What peer networks? Vodaphone, AT&T or whatever the largest operator in India is? You're going to cut off India because someone there calls people c
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by Kon5ole 2mo ago
>I guess it's my word against yours :) What should we do? It only takes one example of someone on the list getting scam calls to prove they don't work. And also, no matter how many on the list are not getting calls it doesn&#x2
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by Kon5ole 2mo ago
But your idea is basically that the telco pays anyone 90 dollars per spam call they receive, how does that become a profit center? They can't get the money from the spammers, if they could this wouldn't be a problem in the first p
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by Kon5ole 2mo ago
>It has not, why would GDPR have an effect on the telemarketing companies The GDPR has fines up to 4% of the company's turnover if they contact people without consent or prior business reasons. If that doesn't work, then a &quo
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by Kon5ole 2mo ago
>I know for a fact it works in Spain and Sweden How do you know that a call that never reaches you was stopped by the no-call list as opposed to your number not being on the list of numbers to call today?
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by Kon5ole 2mo ago
>unless we're being clear what lists/countries we're talking about here, it's borderline FUD rather than helpful to the conversation. Why would a no-call list work well in one country but not others? I don't get
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by Kon5ole 2mo ago
>The company name can be reported to police (or whatever authorities are going to handle this) who can then fine the telemarketers. This kind of happens today, but I think the problem is too big. You'll need to employ thousands to p
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by Kon5ole 2mo ago
Great idea! Telemarketers have ruined the phone network for me. I haven't answered an unknown call for the past 10 years, which sometimes means I miss important ones. 99.9% of all calls are an attempt to get money, and the 0.1% that&#x
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by Kon5ole 2mo ago
I have no idea if this was LLM assisted or not, but it fits my expectation of what will happen when skilled developers start using agents effectively. All kinds of software big and small should see a very noticeable increase in activity. So
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by Kon5ole 2mo ago
By all means use chatGPT, but your linked chat session hasn't understood the conditions. It answers mostly based on what actually happened, not taking into account the scenario I described. Try asking chatGPT something like: "just
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by Kon5ole 2mo ago
>How is it irrelevant? Because it only looks at what has happened, not what could happen. And what could happen is the interesting thing. Before Chernobyl happened, the statistics didn't tell us it could happen. Before Fukushima ha
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by Kon5ole 2mo ago
>Even if deregulation increased nuclear deaths per watt by two orders of magnitude (which I strongly doubt!) Why doubt it? Chernobyl alone was very close to causing millions of deaths. The actual accident released only about 5% of the co
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by Kon5ole 2mo ago
> I think you're seriously misunderstanding the statistic I posted. Not at all, i am very familiar with this argument, but it’s flawed. It doesn’t matter at all how many people have died so far. It is entirely irrelevant for determi

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