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by atlasunshrugged 4mo ago
I previously wrote a book (Rebooting a Nation) on how the country of Estonia modernized post re-independence from the Soviet Union. As part of my research I also learned about the Forest Brother movement where tens of thousands of men, wome
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by atlasunshrugged 4mo ago
Not from China? One country has a recent track record of massive amounts of industrial espionage and one doesn't.
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by atlasunshrugged 4mo ago
Ha, thank you!
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by atlasunshrugged 4mo ago
I saw this a lot when I ran BD for the program (I'm also an American) and its good you know there will be US tax complications but I would say that unless you expect to 1) have many EU customers and 2) working remotely globally and red
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by atlasunshrugged 4mo ago
I think the main reason is to have a business incorporated within the EU if that's relevant for the person. Delaware is great, and UK filled this role until Brexit but after that if you needed an EU incorporated company it was a massiv
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by atlasunshrugged 4mo ago
Yes, it was stable for a long time but has been changing mainly due to factors associated with the war in Ukraine (spikes in inflation, especially related to energy prices as well as a need for increased defense spending)
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by atlasunshrugged 4mo ago
Its been a few years but I ran BD for the program in '19-'20 -- I would say that people underestimate the difficulty in shutting down the company if that needs to happen, sometimes getting access to a proper bank account can be an
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The Age of the Solopreneur(stripeeconomics.com)
5 points by atlasunshrugged 4mo ago|0 comments
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White House Executive Order on Quantum Innovation(whitehouse.gov)
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by atlasunshrugged 4mo ago
From the abstract: We estimate that data centers caused average retail electricity rates to fall modestly in the United States from 2015 to 2024 using an instrumental variables approach. Despite prevailing sentiment, the finding is consiste
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Have Data Centers Raised Your Electric Bill? Causal Evidence from the US(arxiv.org)
4 points by atlasunshrugged 4mo ago|1 comments
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Which people do the AIs value most?(values.safe.ai)
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by atlasunshrugged 4mo ago
As someone who only speaks English but listens to songs in other languages pretty often (Angele does truly sound angelic!) I found this quite interesting
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Spotify's post-English AI future(restofworld.org)
6 points by atlasunshrugged 4mo ago|1 comments
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Population tool: How will pops across the world change in the 21st century?(ourworldindata.org)
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by atlasunshrugged 4mo ago
I'm working on a mobile game that is something of a homage to the Forest Brother movement in the Baltic states post Soviet occupation where tens of thousands of men, women, and children fled to the woods and then waged guerrilla warfar
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Europe 2031: What getting AI wrong means for us(europe2031.ai)
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by atlasunshrugged 4mo ago
I strongly second this -- this was also one of my main takeaways from my research on how Estonia modernized and became quite prosperous (especially relative to where it started post re-independence from the Soviet Union).
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by atlasunshrugged 4mo ago
Shameless plug but you might also be interested in Estonia's story if you want to hear about how a formerly Communist country also became quite developed in a single generation (and churned out startups like Pipedrive, Veriff, Bolt, Wi
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Open-Source Software Is Starting to Help Robots Think(spectrum.ieee.org)
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The American Missile Crisis(research.contrary.com)
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What the Pope Got Wrong(transformernews.ai)
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by atlasunshrugged 5mo ago
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/05/department-com...
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Quantum stocks soar as U.S. plans $2B award, taking equity stakes(cnbc.com)
7 points by atlasunshrugged 5mo ago|2 comments
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by atlasunshrugged 5mo ago
This is basically the idea of enshittification popularized by Cory Doctorow right?
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by atlasunshrugged 5mo ago
Indeed, a few years ago I spent a couple hundred bucks to travel from DC to LA (in a seat, not a cabin). It took 3 days and was only a little cheaper than a flight that would have taken five hours, but it was something I always wanted to do
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World Robotics 2025 – Industrial Robots [pdf](ifr.org)
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Embodied AI: China's ambitious path to transform its robotics industry(merics.org)
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Asserting American Leadership in Open Source AI(a16zpolicy.substack.com)
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Building the Agentic State in Estonia: What is taking shape(luukasilves.substack.com)
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