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by abxyz 1y ago
Yes you can set price caps. The cost of a query is understandable ahead of time with the default pricing model ($6 per TB of data processed in a query). People usually get caught out by running expensive queries recursively. BigQuery is ver
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by abxyz 1y ago
Renting is expensive because people can’t buy, driving up prices. If buying were cheap because of increased supply, rent would be cheap too, and much more appealing for the practical benefits. The problem is housing supply, not buying or re
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by abxyz 1y ago
Expanding on my previous comment with an example: I obtained a long term residency visa a few months ago. I was in the country at the time and didn’t want to fly 15 hours back to my home country, and the embassy in the neighbouring country
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by abxyz 1y ago
I don’t know about Schengen but that’s not correct for Japan. You can get a visa to visit Japan from an embassy in a country you’re not a resident or national of, there’s no requirement for the visa to be issued in your country of nationali
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by abxyz 1y ago
I think we are talking about different things. I’m talking about a country’s requirements whereas you’re talking about a specific embassy. An embassy will often have its own requirements based on the locality, whereas the visa requirements
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by abxyz 1y ago
Really? Do you have any examples? I’ve had visas around the world (and encountered numerous weird requirements) but never have I been required to apply for a visa from my country of nationality. Even China, which is very restrictive, allows
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by abxyz 1y ago
That’s not an accurate description of the case you linked. No reason was given for the denial. The subject of the story was asked about work by the immigration officers but nothing indicates that he was removed from the country because of w
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by abxyz 1y ago
I’m as cynical about crypto as any sane person but I think you’re hand-waving away the challenges of international business. How can you transact in dollars if you’re a business in Argentina? As you say, if you’re operating in Europe, this
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by abxyz 1y ago
I find it confusing too. There are a bunch of different things that influence pricing (what's "auto" vs. "fast"?) and also "results"? Does that mean if I ask for 25 results, I pay $5 per 1000 requests, and
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by abxyz 1y ago
What you’re describing doesn’t make much sense: why would a registrar lock your account? Why would a registrar change your domain’s nameservers? If you have direct contact with the CEO then you’re already far ahead of wherever people here c
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by abxyz 1y ago
What’s the rationale behind NextJS for this client? If you’re not using Vercel, NextJS doesn’t make much sense. Something like Astro is likely to be a much better fit.
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by abxyz 1y ago
“I almost always book the minimum flight, basic economy, whether or not I am paying. There is so little to be gained from moving up compared to the price.” Perhaps I’m too precious but economy class is awful compared to business class. Lie-
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by abxyz 1y ago
Outcome-based billing is interesting. I think some people may balk at the idea of trusting customers to self-report their outcomes but self-reporting already happens often in enterprise billing. A customer can defraud their service provider
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by abxyz 1y ago
The bubble narrative is coming from the outside. More likely is that the /acquisition/ of Scale has led to an abundance of talent that is being underutilised. If you give managers the option to hire, they will. Freezing hiring whi
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by abxyz 1y ago
Lots of companies have great success using GitHub repositories as a marketing tool. Coplay seem to have identified this and decided to invest in the idea without considering strategy. Owning a popular repository that your audience is engage
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by abxyz 1y ago
A lot of (talented people in a field) are idiots / irrational in other parts of their life. A very talented engineer with options may buy in to Elon’s public vision (which sounds good on the surface) and may be completely incapable of
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by abxyz 1y ago
They paid about $50k for ch.at. I have a single letter country code domain (3 characters total, x.xx). There are still some single letter country code domains available to register, you could get one for under $1k USD if you want one. Here’
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by abxyz 1y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-de...
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by abxyz 1y ago
AI safety is focused on AGI but maybe it should be focused on how little “artificial intelligence” it takes to send people completely off the rails. We could barely handle social media, LLMs seem to be too much.
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by abxyz 1y ago
Correct transaction coding is required, sure, but I think you buried the lede a little. Processing transactions for adult content is very high risk because of the increased rate of chargebacks (from fraud) and the exposure to illegal activi
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by abxyz 1y ago
Yes it does. As far as I recall, all major email providers handle inbound email. Sendgrid, Postmark, Mailgun, SparkPost, AWS SES. (I don’t think this compromises the value of AgentMail, just clarifying what is supported elsewhere.)
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by abxyz 1y ago
I argued this in the previous discussion about oxide’s compensation structure: I disagree that sales must be commission based. Yes, finding sales staff that are willing to work for a salary and equity shrinks the pool but the same is true o
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by abxyz 1y ago
its a stylistic choice, it’s a statement: content is all that matters. Brutalist websites have been around for a long time. https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
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by abxyz 1y ago
“As recently as 200 years ago, 90% of people were farmers growing food to survive. Advances in technology have steadily freed much of humanity to focus less on subsistence and more on the pursuits we choose” More people today are dying from
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by abxyz 1y ago
The most honest version is the company is paying for the tool. The most stretched version I’ve seen is a former employee of a company uses the tool in a personal capacity. Most commonly for newly launched things it means someone with an @co
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by abxyz 1y ago
We're nerds. We understand the nuance, we understand the way these tools work and where the limits lie. We understand that there is web enabled and not web enabled. Regular people do not understand any of this. Regular people type into
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by abxyz 1y ago
“The conversation” is well understood to mean “the things being talked about in the mainstream”. 80% in favour of a law is so overwhelmingly positive that it is rarely seen. My initial comment, a lifetime ago, was in the context of someone
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by abxyz 1y ago
My position is very simple. I believe that most of the world is fine with age checks on the Internet. I think that the U.S. free speech laws and attitudes are unique and because English speaking internet culture is U.S. culture, these discu
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by abxyz 1y ago
The U.S. is the outlier, not the U.K. Go do a Nazi salute in Germany, or Australia. Burn the Quran in Sweden. So on and so forth.
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by abxyz 1y ago
Again, this is a radical internet-libertarian-freedom-at-all-costs view. Normal people do not think that proving you are 18 is notable. We’ve been doing it for decades with credit cards. The system is more mature now but it is not fundament

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