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by harha 4y ago
Just makes the rest that can avoid it more powerful. KYC doesn’t protect you from much, all sorts of scams still send money to bank accounts and you wont get your money back from the bank it was sent to even though they should have systems
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by harha 4y ago
It’s funny how regular software now seems fishy now that everyone is calling home. I’m close to getting a VM or a raspberry pi to run Citrix and zoom because they have all this junk that runs at startup and removing it causes strange error
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by harha 4y ago
it's too bad so much goes missing from the original DVD / Blu-ray - not even sure if the streaming releases are cut further or not. Probably there's also less effort in collecting and making this content available.
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by harha 4y ago
Right, but the letters are typically directed towards employees.
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by harha 4y ago
That’s why in most situations it would make sense to think about how to do and take less
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by harha 4y ago
Misaligned incentives do their part too, from fixed rent for older buildings to energy efficiency standards not considering the energy used in rebuilding
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by harha 4y ago
Curious how we got here, given that so much effort is being made in UI research, product management, etc. There’s the obvious dark patterns when you want to nudge users, but what about all the rest where a product is supposed to sell by bei
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by harha 4y ago
Truffle oil is the devil, even worse than overloading food with garlic or Sichuan pepper because on top of making all other tastes disappear for the rest of the meal, it also tastes like a high school chemistry project. Where I live it’s in
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by harha 4y ago
Well to me it’s quite unfriendly to small businesses to (without telling you in advance - UG is always advertised as the simplification that it isn’t) require so much money for essentially nothing. I think it should be much cheaper and eas
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by harha 4y ago
Well in theory that is. Who actually reads the notice and if the company hasn’t paid yet, how do you know they still have money? It’s a bureaucratic exercise that most countries manage to avoid.
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by harha 4y ago
Agree that bribes should be part of the analysis, but I would do the comparison with the time and cost to accomplish a goal, without judging the method. If you look at the outrageously high fees and lack of competition (notaries and tax acc
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by harha 4y ago
> That's bankruptcy. So you're saying for a small UG you should always spare 1-2 years (most likely more than 1) in case you decide not to pursue the business anymore? I'd rather spend 2-5k on other things. Apart from bein
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by harha 4y ago
Getting to a notary when not in Germany, all the agencies, getting to the notary a second time when it’s done, all the things you need to file (3 tax filings, 2 different accounting statements, etc), getting the letters from the agencies -
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by harha 4y ago
Setting up is still the easy part, managing (the bureaucracy part, not the actual business) and getting rid of it is much more involved. I don’t see any positive factors to being in Germany as an entrepreneur, only reason to be there is if
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by harha 4y ago
Don’t think this is related to capitalism though, more about attitude to risk. If you always do the obvious things, you’ll end up as a mediocre company that might not survive. If you say yes to any project that comes to mind, you’ll end up
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by harha 4y ago
PM here: I actually also got pretty excited reading this. The challenge is selling analyses with unknown outcomes to the bean counters who end up deciding. Blog posts like this help.
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by harha 4y ago
Then they shouldn't sell at all, only rent out.
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by harha 4y ago
Thanks for the explanation. Just discovered: Shortcuts actually has a gallery with a lot of examples. Also I can let it run shell scripts (at least on the Mac), so it looks like I'll be able to get inputs from other programs to another
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by harha 4y ago
Agree to all points, haven’t been using one yet, even though it sounds quite powerful: Automator. Do you have any good examples?
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by harha 4y ago
Yeah and at least in tech you get to play with: technology. So it’s fun, but I have this constant feeling that I could actually create value and also earn more. All the paths seem to be closed though whenever I dig a bit deeper. I was optim
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by harha 4y ago
No, but let’s not overestimate what the rest of us are doing. I studied engineering at a prestigious school, I don’t think any of my jobs was particularly useful and this applies to most people I’ve met in my professional life. Something’s
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by harha 4y ago
Sounds to me like they’re operating as usual.
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by harha 4y ago
There’s an easy solution: the airline automatically owes the maximum amount. This would save everyone much time and put some burden back with the airliner (by potentially paying more than the customer had, though at around USD 1800 it shoul
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by harha 4y ago
Also at least in Germany you risk the costs with no compensation for taking that risk.
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by harha 4y ago
They won't compensate you unless the luggage hasn't been delivered within three weeks. Even then they'll put up a battle and make you go through a bunch of forms and hotlines, request receipts that you might not have anymore
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by harha 4y ago
In theory yes, but in practice it could easily cost you more to deal with the airline and it might well be that you don’t have the receipts anymore. With another European airline I recently waited exactly one day less than the three weeks r
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by harha 4y ago
This is exactly why I’m so opposed to government bail outs - even though it was repaid in most countries (famously Austria chose the worst way to save them, give them free money to not repay). It would have been nice to see this massive com
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by harha 4y ago
I was going to comment when the Citrix Workspace updater popped up even though I explicitly asked not to be notified about updates, a setting that is hidden by the worst settings menu I've ever seen on a Mac app (there seem to be ways
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by harha 4y ago
The two worst things about going to work are Citrix and the coffee. WFH only fixes one of them.
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by harha 4y ago
What the world really needs right now is the dial-in sound of a 56k modem.

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