bluecalm

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by bluecalm 8mo ago
Almost certainly not. Microsoft was the only email provider we had problems with a few years back. We only sent emails to people who paid us several hundred USD to send that email. We didn't sent anything else - no follow ups, marketin
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by bluecalm 8mo ago
I think the deal is quite clear: subscription for personal usage in their products, API token for everything else. You get a rebate for subscription because they get the data. I would be quite sad if they removed the subscription option jus
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by bluecalm 8mo ago
Sure, if that happens then it needs to be investigated as a potential war crime. It still doesn't change the fact that Israel is in no position to apply that standard because fighting Gazans don't use uniforms. Obviously they will
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by bluecalm 8mo ago
Israel has to apply that standard because Hamas operates without uniforms unlike IDF. So yeah, Gazans shouldn't apply the same standard because unlike them Israeli military operates in uniforms so it's easy to distinguish between
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by bluecalm 8mo ago
Rockets regularly target Israel. If that happened to USA the war would start with the first one no matter if it was intercepted or not. Same with any other self-respecting country. Israel is fully justified trying to eliminate threats to it
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by bluecalm 8mo ago
The evolution was also interesting: first the engines were amazing tactically but pretty bad strategically so humans could guide them. With new NN based engines they were amazing strategically but they sucked tactically (first versions of L
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by bluecalm 9mo ago
>>That's when a huge bubble will collapse. Maybe there will be a "huge bubble" in the future but it doesn't look that huge right now. Forward P/E for S&P500 is about 22. That is 4.5% yearly return even if
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by bluecalm 9mo ago
>>No, the gatekeeping is done by local banks and governments to protect their oligopolies/cartels. If you are pointing the distinction between gatekeeping at the EU level and country level I am not contesting that. It's clea
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by bluecalm 9mo ago
>>As a European, I am glad that this is finally discussed in the open! I have made multiple comments in the last weeks that one of the most important things, for me, is an alternative to the Visa/Mastercard duopoly. The main reas
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by bluecalm 9mo ago
For me the only feature I want from a taskbar/status bar is ability to hide it permanently so it never comes out until I press a key on a keyboard (like meta/Windows key or even a key combination if needed). Task bar auto popping
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by bluecalm 9mo ago
Dividends in effect force you to sell while buybacks redistribute to people who want to sell/realize it. They are also more efficient tax wise. The only good reason to pay out dividends instead of announcing buybacks is a view that you
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by bluecalm 9mo ago
Is the exception still valid? I thought the new central regulation in effect removed those (if the region has exceptions then you pay federal "solidarity" tax). They introduced it to fight Madrid's and Andalusia's exempt
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by bluecalm 9mo ago
>>Tax on investments are averagely taxed compared to other countries. That is only if you haven't accumulated wealth yet. The combination of quite high capital gain tax with sky high wealth tax, pretty high income tax isn't
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by bluecalm 9mo ago
The problem with academia is that it's often more about politics and reputation than seeking the truth. There are multiple examples of researchers making a career out flawed papers and never retracking or even admitting a mistake. All
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by bluecalm 9mo ago
For me it's very stressful to not comply with the regulation on purpose hoping I am too small to not get punished by the authority. It would be easier to just ignore the regulation. I get this makes me not well predisposed to do busine
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by bluecalm 9mo ago
>>Kinda, but misinterprets the VAT itself. >>Basically, VAT is paid at the point of sale and local thresholds apply. The threshold is 10k EUR (total sales to EU). The point of sale in case of software/electronic services is
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by bluecalm 9mo ago
>>If dealing with VAT is a large problem for your business today It's not a problem for me today. It was a big problem when I had no revenue, needed to do all the paperwork, meet ridiculous local accounting requirements connected
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by bluecalm 9mo ago
I would pay at least 300$/month just for hobby projects. The tools are absolutely amazing at things I am the worst at: getting a good overview on a new field/library/docs, writing boilerplate and first working examples, deali
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by bluecalm 9mo ago
If you think Polyrmarket is not an accurat predictive tool you can easily exploit and make a fortune. If you think some politician is paying to manipulate the market just take their money by taking the other side. It's not perfect but
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by bluecalm 9mo ago
>>Having a startup in the US is a huge mess due to all the states and taxes, In EU you will need to deal with VAT basically from day one (10k EUR of revenue). In US you will not deal with it until you can afford it as thresholds are v
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by bluecalm 9mo ago
EU like making new regulation. There are simpler steps to make doing business here easier: -force banks to respect EU free trade union and stop them from discriminating EU citizens and companies who are not citizens -stop abuse when it come
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by bluecalm 9mo ago
News already broadcast tons of nonsense. Political commentary is just brain rot. Economic commentary might be just as well generated by one of those Markov chain string generators - it would make as much sense. >>out it will be four o
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by bluecalm 9mo ago
>>At least in gambling they don't let the sports referees and players gamble. Oh c'mon now. This is completely impossible to police. Players and referees are not under constant supervision. They have families, friends, partn
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by bluecalm 9mo ago
Isn't Polymarket very low stakes? For example "Will Trump acquire Greenland before 2027" market (the main one for this issue) has only 14m USD volume. This is like 2 orders of magnitude less money than is bet on El Classico 2
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by bluecalm 9mo ago
I was referring to mandate to use it at big companies. This is a political achievement. Teams/contributors making their own choice and then shipping good software counts as technical one but that wasn't the main point of the post
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by bluecalm 9mo ago
>>It is a clear mandate on those companies that whatever used to be C or C++, should be written in Rust for green field development. >>Any hobby language author would like to have 1% of the said modest Rust's success, I rea
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by bluecalm 9mo ago
Right? People must really like the design choices in Zig to do that instead of choosing another language. It's very interesting just because of that.
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by bluecalm 9mo ago
Idk, I find it easier to press control on a Thinkpad because it's closer. It being in a corner would be farer away. Anyway, control should be (and traditionally was) where CapsLock is. Just remap it - everything is suddenly easy and er
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by bluecalm 9mo ago
It's an M1 one.
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by bluecalm 9mo ago
I have a newer Thinkpad (T14, Ryzen 6850) and while the sound is clear it's shameful how much better my wife's Macbook Air is. I only headphones now. I can't unhear it.

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