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by kingstoned 3y ago
It's enabled for a certain period of time (usually a few hours) and I can do transactions during that time period.
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by kingstoned 3y ago
I use PayPal when buying digital products priced in USD because local banks approve those transactions automatically. When I try to pay via card directly, I have to call them to enable those transactions which is a hassle. It's not sur
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by kingstoned 3y ago
"I’ll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It costs a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It’s addictive. And there’s fantastic brand loyalty." - Warren Buffett
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by kingstoned 3y ago
How would a new bootstrapped startup founder maximize his or her chances of being approved for an O-1 visa? Would it be better to focus on the E-2 visa instead, where the criterion is mostly money invested?
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by kingstoned 3y ago
"One thing that makes me skeptical about the EU long term is the way they seem to view regulation not as an unfortunate necessity, but as an exciting project." https://twitter.com/paulg/status/105
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by kingstoned 3y ago
I don't serve ads on a website and I'm not blocking users who use adblockers. I'm trying to find a reliable way to detect usage of adblockers for legitimate analysis. Do you know a way to do it?
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by kingstoned 3y ago
I'm not trying to block people who use adblockers or make experience worse. There are other reasons why someone might want to know if some portion of users are using adblockers. I personally use uBlock. Do you know a reliable way to do
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by kingstoned 3y ago
What is the best way to detect if a user has enabled uBlock or Adblock? I wanted to do it for a project I'm working on, but many solutions fail.
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by kingstoned 3y ago
I hope AI voice tech like https://beta.elevenlabs.io/ will make audiobooks even better.
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by kingstoned 3y ago
AI is the new Climate Change
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by kingstoned 3y ago
India, like Brazil is perpetually the "country of the future".
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by kingstoned 3y ago
Given how successful Quaero ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaero ) was, I'm sure this will be another major success from Europe.
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by kingstoned 3y ago
The bottom billion are mostly self-sufficient farmers or hunter-gatherers. Money is only relevant in an interconnected modern economy. A small tribe of hunter-gatherers or a small farming village has a GDP of 0, but they have the basics cov
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by kingstoned 3y ago
For people who like these kinds of websites, there is a classic search engine: https://wiby.org/
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by kingstoned 3y ago
Let's read their next quarterly report in 10 days to see if ChatGPT caused a revenue decline in their search business.
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by kingstoned 3y ago
Interesting. Could you please share some links about it?
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by kingstoned 3y ago
I just read: https://graymirror.substack.com/p/gpt-4-invalidates-the-turi... . It makes the point that LLMs are not AIs, so we will need a different approach if we want a true AGI, not just incrementaly improving on the
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by kingstoned 4y ago
You could hire 10 hookers every month in Thailand or Colombia for that kind of money.
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by kingstoned 4y ago
Private does not mean for-profit. Funding and performance are two different things. Road construction is funded by government, but performed by private companies.
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by kingstoned 4y ago
Judging by how underwhelming Bard is, I think they are toast, but at least they have YouTube: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1620539538476249088
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by kingstoned 4y ago
Philip Greenspun wrote about how looting public corporations in modern societies is the equivalent to kleptocracy in the 3rd world: https://philip.greenspun.com/politics/israel/
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by kingstoned 4y ago
Good article to read: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/03/will-ais-take-al...
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by kingstoned 4y ago
Going to the nanny state to bail them out of the consequences of their bad choices
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by kingstoned 4y ago
Your explanation for why Americans (or anyone else) are rich is incomplete. I suggest you read this paper ("Why Isn't the Whole World Developed? Lessons from the Cotton Mills"): https://faculty.econ.ucdavis.edu&#x2
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by kingstoned 4y ago
We're talking companies, not open-source projects, protocols or non-profits. Europe has a bigger population than the US, so listing competitors that are much smaller than their US equivalents is not a good sign. Those companies located
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by kingstoned 4y ago
Even Spotify is mostly owned by US investors and pays out most of the money to US music companies and recently to US podcasters. Unfortunately, Europe strongly embraces socialism [1] and is hostile to entrepreneurs. According to a study [2]
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by kingstoned 4y ago
If healthcare is a right, who are you proposing to provide those services? How do we ensure healthcare workers are available to provide the services? What about their right to not participate?
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by kingstoned 4y ago
True. In developed, rich countries with welfare state and feminism, women don't need individual men. Instead, they can rely on government and corporations to be their protector & provider. When ecological pressures are relaxed, sex
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by kingstoned 4y ago
Healthcare services are a right in many countries. Sex can be put in a similar category. Just like lacking access to healthcare can lower the quality of your life, so can being alone and sexless. Healthcare services are a very intimate acti
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by kingstoned 4y ago
I suggest you read this: https://www.overcomingbias.com/2018/06/comparing-income-sex-...

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