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by bflesch 9mo ago
SLOC was a bad indicator 20 years ago and it is today. Don't tell them - once they realize it's a red flag for us they will use some other metric, because they fight for our attention.
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by bflesch 9mo ago
"Threat actor" is a relative definition, because for Italy the Cloudflare CEO was a "threat actor" who openly threatened availability of their systems. Cloudflare knows they are just a glorified firewall + CDN that'
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by bflesch 9mo ago
It's never to late to rejoin, we've all learned a lot about foreign propaganda in the last decade.
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by bflesch 9mo ago
> YC also needs to pivot it's marketing Depends who you're marketing to. Do they need to follow what others did or should they stay in their own niche? Because I'm not hanging out on a16z forum because they make fancy mark
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by bflesch 9mo ago
It's fine they include openai, they can be very proud of sam. What I found a bit weird is that the reddit founder picture shows only two people. History is written by the winners I guess.
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by bflesch 9mo ago
any details?
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by bflesch 9mo ago
Thanks for sharing, this is really impressive. Can you talk a bit about your stack? The about page mentions grep but I'd assume it's a bit more complex than having a large volume and running grep over it ;) Is it some sort of cust
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by bflesch 9mo ago
> Do you think stripe is correctly remitting US sales and county taxes? You tell me. Would the same people who help evade tax payments in the EU really do the same in the US? That's unbelievable! /s > The obligation has alwa
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by bflesch 9mo ago
Ignorance is bliss I guess? Unfortunately in civilized non-US countries we have a thing called accounting and if you spend money with the company credit card there is someone called "accountant" who wants to see the invoice. And S
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by bflesch 9mo ago
That's incorrect way of typing "tax fraud by US tech companies is theft from European citizens".
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by bflesch 9mo ago
It's simply an example of the principal/agent problem, finance 101. CapitalOne shareholders will decide if they want to sue the management over buying a company which primarily focuses on AI-bubble-startups. We're at a very l
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by bflesch 9mo ago
Stripe has built-in features for merchants to create invoices and receipts. Stripe does KYC for their merchants and exactly know that they are a company of certain type from the US. Stripe facilitates a sale of digital goods between the US-
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by bflesch 9mo ago
Ever since my first interaction with their support is was clear that they DGAF about usability improvements that I'd care about. Time to build an alternative I guess.
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by bflesch 9mo ago
There is no credit card terminal in the whole EU which is not tied to a point-of-sale system, which only purpose is to create INVOICES. Somehow the Stripe team forgot that fact.
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by bflesch 9mo ago
It was on his last newsletter, but I can't link it right now.
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by bflesch 9mo ago
Stripe has for years helped non-EU companies to do tax fraud in the EU, and in a just world their management would be charged. Every time a customer in the EU pays with Stripe, they exactly know if they are a private customer or not and in
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by bflesch 9mo ago
From website footer: > Brex is a financial technology company, not a bank. The Brex business account consists of Checking, a commercial checking account provided by Column N.A., Member FDIC, and Treasury and Vault, cash management servic
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by bflesch 9mo ago
It's as easy as some VC bros desperately searching for a bigger fool and finding it. Most likely CapitalOne management consists of friends with the VCs. It's just another case of the principal/agent problem and normalized whi
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by bflesch 9mo ago
In his newsletter Ed Zitron hammered down the point that GPUs depreciate quickly, but these kind of reliability issues are shocking to read. The GPUs are so common to fail that they hang out in a 24/7 slack channel with customers like
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by bflesch 9mo ago
> You're finding comforting explanations to allow you to act dismissively towards other people. No, none of this is comforting. For some people it is a big step to not drop everything just because someone is waiting for the bus and
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by bflesch 9mo ago
So if it is a european legal entity why they host it on .org which is only controlled by USA instead of using a .eu domain which is a ccTLD controlled by European Union?
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by bflesch 9mo ago
It's not some physical law that societies require rough areas where people suffer.
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by bflesch 9mo ago
Love your ignorance. What you call freedom is your freedom to hurt others through your ignorance: - freedom to be racist against people of color - freedom to do hitler salutes wherever you want - freedom to carry a gun to school or to mcdon
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by bflesch 9mo ago
Unchecked white-collar crime by US tech companies poisoning the world.
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by bflesch 9mo ago
I keep repeating myself: Back up your iCloud pictures via privacy.apple.com and move your mails away from M365. Worst case these things get blocked/deleted. I moved my mails from M365 to a 2€ Hetzner cloud server in one day, it's
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by bflesch 9mo ago
I call that "you are the garbage bin for other people's emotions". And once you realize this process you can't unsee it and re-evaluate some relationships. If it is each side taking turns being the "emotional garbag
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by bflesch 9mo ago
Attacks by russia on German railways happen at least once per month, the last one happened yesterday and a train with chemicals was targeted. They attack our production. - https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/rheinland-pfal
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by bflesch 9mo ago
That's a just incredibly naive.
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by bflesch 9mo ago
No need to simp for a megacorp. No matter how much these extremely well-paid US tech workers blame the "organizatioN" for their unethical behavior.
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by bflesch 9mo ago
Spoiler: They don't.

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