matt-p

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by matt-p 2y ago
In theory, you're right, however it ignores some key points; -Some of their costs are in fact linear based on the cost of the item. Inventory cost doubles, perhaps now they have to take out higher interest debt to finance that. Things
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by matt-p 2y ago
Must be more, surely.
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by matt-p 2y ago
Firstly I think it's a little impolite to frame a opensource project trying to find a sustainable funding model as "weird", whatever your concerns this is still much better than closed source. I don't think the number of
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by matt-p 2y ago
I mean obviously we're not really privy to market share but I'd say they've had a pretty massive decline in say the past 5 years or so.
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by matt-p 2y ago
I do kind of yern for the simpler days when if a website didn't mind bots it allowed it and if they did they blocked your user agent.
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by matt-p 2y ago
Price /Month, it mentions that in the column header only at the moment. The pricing cell is already cluttered, but I agree it might be better there! Thanks.
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by matt-p 2y ago
Indeed.
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by matt-p 2y ago
So is the Yen, Pound and swiss Franc - many currencies are. What's your point? Pound is about 5% if I remember correctly, which is a higher weighting than the Euro for trade:reserve holding ratio.
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by matt-p 2y ago
You're right I think it's MAX(10%,(imports-exports)/imports) as a general tariff plus targeted reciprocal (in some cases, not all)
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by matt-p 2y ago
Yet they also are a British territory and the UK has a 10% tariff. What bonehead came up with that.
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by matt-p 2y ago
Russia is a interesting catch, but you can easily imagine why now is an inoptune time to piss them off. The others make sense since they have worse tarrifs (though different, yes)
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by matt-p 2y ago
Ok and who will administer the basket? I'm not saying it's impossible just a bit impractical perhaps.
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by matt-p 2y ago
Of course, several of these islands with 10% tarrifs are ex-colonies of various EU countries. Of course any french manufacturer will send goods to the islands (0%) then from there to the US (10%) rather than pay 20%. It's obvious, then
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by matt-p 2y ago
10% is the hard minimum, nobody has less than 10%, so ergo 10% is actually the most favourable rate . Even the UK gets 10% which is truly mad given we have balanced trade and tarrifs (if anything the US tariffed the UK more than they did t
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by matt-p 2y ago
I think it's basically reciprocal adjusted for trade deficit, with a floor of 10%. So obviously you'll end up with 10% on all sorts of places where you actually have a trade surplus and no tarrifs on your goods, or, yes, islands i
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by matt-p 2y ago
Bizarre, tax/tariff evasion or "Mistake" does seem like the most likely explanation - yet US$1.4m is too little to bother evading tax on really. I mean that could be a refit on a boat or something -- $1.4Mn is literally nothi
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by matt-p 2y ago
Major question is then, what currency should be reserve? Euro? - Nowhere near as stable as the dollar, and some quite shaky fundamentals and history? Yen? Pound? Swiss Franc? I suspect Yuan will be unpalatable.
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by matt-p 2y ago
Thanks for the support. Growing the number of providers is the next focus now I've got something live, will be adding some more shortly.
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by matt-p 2y ago
I think it shows real maturity to take this approach and makes me feel more comfortable that they'll be sustainable.
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by matt-p 2y ago
Thanks for checking it out!
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by matt-p 2y ago
Happy to answer questions here, this is still early stages.
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Show HN: Compare Cloud and Bare Metal Servers(serversearcher.com)
21 points by matt-p 2y ago|8 comments
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by matt-p 2y ago
I was hoping this was a parody, god I would hate to have a manager like that.
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by matt-p 2y ago
ServerSearcher ( https://serversearcher.com ) to make it easier to find cloud/virtual and bare-metal servers that match specific requirements like RAM, location, or CPU. There needed to be an easier way.
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by matt-p 2y ago
Me too, but it's actually really nice ergonomics to have the backend in the same 'codebase' for small projects. Of course this can all be done manually, but the last thing I want to be doing when starting a three day project
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by matt-p 2y ago
Looks like a pretty good option thank you
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Show HN: ServerSearcher – Compare [Dedicated/"Cloud"] Servers(serversearcher.com)
3 points by matt-p 2y ago|0 comments
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by matt-p 2y ago
To this day I still use pages only. Long term or for a new project I guess I'll have to look into astro or vite/express
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by matt-p 2y ago
Why not just switch now then? Perhaps better for the environment.
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by matt-p 2y ago
Maybe. I think the kind of people who do 20 items even when it only needs to be 2 are probably not freelancers.

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