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by anovikov 1y ago
Problem with these small things is that they don't scale thus can't exit. It means you will have to just milk them for profit over many years and they never get big. If a SaaS has a 6x revenue multiple as it does now, it doesn&#x2
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by anovikov 1y ago
What's newsworthy about it? That's what used to be called shareware in the good old days of yore, some 25 years ago, and schoolkids and uni students did it from all places in the world making about same money which meant hell lot
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by anovikov 1y ago
Productivity means using less labor to make same amount of stuff.
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by anovikov 1y ago
Why not just move US H1Bs back to India and keep paying them US wages? They will be filthy rich in India, their living standards will literally skyrocket. They will be highly unlikely to leave. And keep them on same roles as they did in US.
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by anovikov 1y ago
Well to keep salaries high, productivity will have to be increased, is that a surprise?
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by anovikov 1y ago
Meters?? that's certainly an exaggeration
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by anovikov 1y ago
Bullshit. Just exited in Prague airport an hour ago, about to board a plane (intra EU flight, to Cyprus! just not Schengen). Stamps are still mandatory.
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by anovikov 1y ago
I've been building an innovative guided munition for Ukraine for the last 4 months, we have first prototypes made and have arrangements with the testing range to begin flying them soon.
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by anovikov 1y ago
We saw how they tried to implement this in the Soviet Union. Sure there were almost no rich. Everyone was poor af. And there was no escape from it unless you willing to hijack a plane.
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by anovikov 1y ago
Fun fact: outside of the Anglosphere it's mostly people who pretend to be men, siphoning money off lonely women. Typical fake profile is a handsome American colonel deployed to Iraq (i met several women who flirted with "him"
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by anovikov 1y ago
Especially when one's main source of income in custom development, and in custom development you are motivated to be a perfectionist and develop a skill of explaining a client how even small defects are unacceptable - because otherwise
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by anovikov 1y ago
I had enough time. It was the weight of responsibility indeed. While i realise that my refund rate was quite low and the app was certainly not unacceptably buggy.
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by anovikov 1y ago
That's the thing, failure stories are entirely uninteresting. I tried so many things, almost all of them ended with "i built and tried selling it but no one was buying". What is it to learn from it, for anyone? The only two e
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by anovikov 1y ago
In a manual mode these days it certainly can't work. People are no longer that gullible. But to think, in 2010 it likely could! So that could be a thing.
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by anovikov 1y ago
What is a "scam dating site"? A site where AI-driven profiles you contact with, phish or socially-engineer your money out of you? That probably couldn't happen in 2015 let alone 2010, AI tech wasn't yet there. If you mea
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by anovikov 1y ago
Can't upvote this enough. Sadly, very few people will care about calling bullshit and i even doubt there's money in calling bullshit. Everyone is happily betting on it - and they seem to be winning!
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by anovikov 1y ago
2:5019/19 here
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by anovikov 1y ago
There is no such thing as "good matchmaking". Because intentions of both sides are different and it's a zero sum game where secret of skill is making the most plausible pretense that your intentions are not what they are, dat
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by anovikov 1y ago
It will create demand for electricity. Demand always creates supply. Perpahs that was the missing link to the mass deployment of solar (because there's just no other way similar amounts of energy can be produced).
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by anovikov 1y ago
Certainly, to limit oil imports and consumption, we should ensure that poor people can't drive gas-powered cars.
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by anovikov 1y ago
Too little and too late. Draconian measures are necessary to push automakers into compliance and to push consumers to buy. It's expensive unless we want to sell out to China completely, but necessary and in the end, affordable.
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by anovikov 1y ago
But that's govspace, it's not at all about efficiency or economy, it's a jobs program.
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by anovikov 1y ago
It should be 44 bytes i believe? But perhaps less on macos. PS: correction. i tried and it's 44 on Linux and 32 on a Mac.
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by anovikov 1y ago
Question must be asked: why would anyone teach teenagers coding these days? People naturally love coding, especially teens. It's addictive. And it no longer leads to any career prospects, or chances to contribute to society, or money,
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by anovikov 1y ago
Payroll taxes of course don't come from the rich, they don't make money as salaries. And their consumption is quite limited so they don't pay much VAT either. Money in Scandinavian countries is coming from the middle class. T
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by anovikov 1y ago
I think panic is unjustified. A lot of the deficit is essentially a baked in inflation of the already existing debt. If US budget deficit was 6.4% in 2024 and debt to GDP ratio was 124%, inflation 2.9% and GDP growth 2.8%, the budget defici
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by anovikov 1y ago
So what is your theory of it? Also, how is this an exception? Didn't many the other Southeast Asian countries do the same, with the result being less remarkable just because of their smaller size?
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by anovikov 1y ago
It is a rather absurd view that any country might see investment into it as a problem that needs solving. That is the icing on the cake of globalisation, this is what countries dream about... But well, the view that immigration is a problem
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by anovikov 1y ago
It's super simple - they aren't firing people because there's no demand for products or they fail the competition. It's just simply that the workers are being deported/self-deport by the million. What needs to be us
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by anovikov 1y ago
That sounds like a really stupid idea, for sure one could just take a loan secured with these options and if they were guaranteed by the government the interest rate would be same as gov bonds rate as these will be effectively gov bonds. So

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