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by re-thc 10mo ago
> He just didn't want to buy another one. Wasn’t it loaned ie didn’t buy any at all? Apple should have loaned enough to flex.
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by re-thc 10mo ago
Estonia changed the rules recently in regards to handing out VAT ID to non-locals. Not fun at all. Not to mention a SaaS business has extra costs related to accounting and tax. The best remote options are likely US, Singapore or Hong Kong d
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by re-thc 10mo ago
> I’d rather pay an extra $100 for the phone than have ads all over it. With the average lifetime of a phone these days $100 might not justify it.
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by re-thc 10mo ago
They have some of their own, also use AWS and others too.
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by re-thc 10mo ago
> That they sell to the public? No way. They’ve clearly given up on server stuff and it makes sense for them. Given up is not a given. A lot of the exec team has been changing.
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by re-thc 10mo ago
> Many HN users would just do it themselves More likes “claim” to do it themselves. Commenting on the Internet is easy. Making effort is not. > Makes me wonder how many potentially successful businesses never get built, because too ma
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by re-thc 10mo ago
> Some areas do, some areas not so much. It still does change and you have to adapt. E.g. > databases (we use a mix of MySQL and PostgreSQL) and he's living off the learning he did 20 years ago when he was a junior Oracle consult
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by re-thc 10mo ago
> “why is I/O in docker slow, and how would you improve it” is pretty esoteric knowledge now, but would have been considered basic knowledge only 12 years ago. Yes and no. The world has also changed all these years. Why something is
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by re-thc 10mo ago
It’s a Google Labs experiment. We all know how that goes. Startups will be fine.
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by re-thc 10mo ago
Why are there no changes for plans with included minutes e.g. enterprise that has 50000 since the runners are now cheaper? So now the included tier has effectively been reduced.
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by re-thc 10mo ago
> Fines don't scale. The Australian mining company There's the problem. Australia doesn't scale... not the fines. In Australia, there are a lot of rules, a lot of fines but not much to gain.
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by re-thc 10mo ago
> for fifty to one hundred years Ballmer in 2007 also said the iPhone was not going to get any significant market share. It didn't even take close to fifty years, did it?
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by re-thc 10mo ago
Do people not spend on entertainment? Commercials? It's probably less of a bad idea than knowledge. AI giving a bad visual has less negatives than giving the wrong knowledge leading to the wrong decision.
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by re-thc 10mo ago
> That wasn't always true. The Robinson-Patman Act made it illegal "Legality" has never stopped big companies from doing these things. Google, Apple, Meta, etc has been receiving fines all day long and they still continue
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by re-thc 10mo ago
> So, I ask again - how do you know that the service you're paying for is all of those things? How do you know anything? How do you know the bank won't lose your money? How do you know the bank note you hold is worth what it sa
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by re-thc 10mo ago
> America has neither the interest nor the capital to chase EVs or force them down American consumer throats. Only if you see the market continue to be dominated by human drivers. We are potentially moving to self-driving cars like Waymo
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by re-thc 10mo ago
> How do you/I know that? I implemented OpenTelemetry in a project of mine recently and was shocked to see the number of AI authored commits Do you pay for OpenTelemetry? How is this related?
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by re-thc 11mo ago
> Oracle dropped 11% today due to over-investment in OpenAI Not even remotely true. Oracle is building out infrastructure mostly for AI workloads. It dropped because it couldn’t explain its financing and if the investment was worth it. O
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by re-thc 11mo ago
Soon you'll realize you're the "AI". We've lost control.
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by re-thc 11mo ago
> How long will it take them to ban communications ? Just ban Australia themselves. > A big reason they are pushing this is Cyberbullying Oh really now? It has been going on for so many years... A big reason they've been pushing
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by re-thc 11mo ago
> If more governments copy this move, they’ll lose revenue there too. That's like saying every government should copy the new tariffs too. If only it was so simple... > They’ll lose revenue in Australia. Why is it always 1-way? A
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by re-thc 11mo ago
> and you didn’t even _talk_ to a bear? You know how to? What language does it speak?
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by re-thc 11mo ago
> That’s a choice made by those services. They can change it. Why do these services have to lose? That's a choice made by this country's government. They can change it.
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by re-thc 11mo ago
> I believe that the line in the sand over which platforms this applies to is the ones that You know a law is broken when its definition is defined by random people "knowing" where and how it applies. > This sort of ban is t
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by re-thc 11mo ago
You never know. Could be both.
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by re-thc 11mo ago
> I wonder if the same thing won't happen to them that's happening to CDKTF here. This is clearly a business decision rather than technical. Pulumi is meant to be semi-automated (in generating the bridges) so perhaps is slightl
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by re-thc 11mo ago
> over half of all new compute capacity added to AWS over the past three years has been Graviton-based. That's an amazing stat. Yes and maybe no. They do "cheat" in that internal / managed services often use Graviton
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by re-thc 11mo ago
> Somewhat more difficult to run a business when an American multinational steals your revenue and your content. Somewhat more difficult to run a business when EU commissioners keep making up fines to steal your revenue.
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by re-thc 11mo ago
> How come only the EU needs to stifle existing companies to be able to have a chance to compete? It's not required to compete. It's just their style and old fashioned. A 1 point hitting kids was the way to go. We all know how
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by re-thc 11mo ago
> Play by the rules or don't operate in the EU market? Seems straightforward to me. Sounds like an invite for no 1 to operate. The rules just keep growing faster than the AI bubble.

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