schnitzelstoat

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by schnitzelstoat 5d ago
It depends though - I'm not in the US and in my country ETFs get taxed continually whereas mutual funds don't get taxed until you sell. In general, invest in low-cost index funds is pretty solid advice everywhere. In different cou
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by schnitzelstoat 5d ago
The biggest problem nowadays is the focus on low-value industries like agriculture and tourism. The Civil War and subsequent dictatorship help explain how the country ended up in this situation but I think people often focus on them too muc
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by schnitzelstoat 5d ago
It was blocked for me on O2, which is part of Movistar - have you tried it now?
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by schnitzelstoat 5d ago
Yeah, I'm on O2, which I think is part of Movistar? And it's blocked. Fortunately, I already have a VPN anyway :)
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by schnitzelstoat 10d ago
> Piddington — home to roughly 350 residents > the Government announced plans to house 1,256 male asylum seekers in a nearby former military base. It seems a bad idea to put them all in one place where they will outnumber the local
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by schnitzelstoat 12d ago
Given that a lot of the 'offshoring' comes here to Europe (due to our much lower salaries) if the US starts encouraging their firms to cut jobs here via tariffs then the EU should absolutely respond - if this is how the US treats
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by schnitzelstoat 12d ago
But at the moment there are quotas right? So it's basically the same - there are N visas to give out so you rank by salary and pick the top N.
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by schnitzelstoat 12d ago
It's just a textbook example of regulatory capture. OpenAI and Anthropic are in the lead now so it makes sense to 'slow down' and ensure Qwen, DeepSeek etc. aren't given the opportunity to catch up.
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by schnitzelstoat 12d ago
I stopped using my Roborock because it was such a pain to move everything out of the way (chairs etc.) so it could do a good job. Once I had a toddler, it was basically impossible to use. Given that this is a much simpler problem than a ful
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by schnitzelstoat 12d ago
What sort of robot would you need to load and unload a dishwasher, collecting and storing the crockery etc.? What sort of robot would you need to load and unload the laundry, fold and store the clothes? The biggest reason for humanoid robot
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by schnitzelstoat 23d ago
In Spain it's 30km/hr in the city on most one-lane roads. Most people comply, maybe people will go 40 but I can't imagine people going 60 down them.
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by schnitzelstoat 24d ago
I think the joke is that he massively simplified the line down into simplified English. But I think that's fine as I don't want Claude to write literature, I want it to solve problems.
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by schnitzelstoat 2mo ago
Roomba made some of the first robotic vacuum cleaners and they were based in the US. Nowadays, they are just more expensive and inferior to the Roborock ones though. But thanks to the wonder of protectionism soon the customer won't be
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by schnitzelstoat 2mo ago
Yeah, I wasn't a great fan of the story - it felt like they put a lot of emphasis on Keanu Reeves given he's a big celebrity and helped promote the game. Hopefully, the sequel (which I believe is already being worked on) won'
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by schnitzelstoat 2mo ago
The Oslo Report was crazy too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_Report Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.
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by schnitzelstoat 2mo ago
It's one of the most annoying. I have a dishwasher so I do minimal washing up. I don't have a dryer as I air-dry my laundry but I could get one if I wanted to. I have a Roborock although I don't use it much since having a tod
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by schnitzelstoat 2mo ago
Or we can use the free time to go to the gym. Anything that frees us from labour is good.
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by schnitzelstoat 2mo ago
In Europe, I think it is more common tbh. Even in the UK my dad would let me try making cocktails etc. at the weekend when I was 17. It meant when I got to university I knew how much I could drink (although as a student I was too poor to dr
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by schnitzelstoat 2mo ago
You can also be a resident, paying plenty of taxes, yet not be a citizen.
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by schnitzelstoat 2mo ago
It's not uncommon to see people (and young people) reading on public transport here in Spain. The odd thing is how popular actual paper books are vs. e-readers. Since I got my Kindle in 2015 I haven't read a paper book since. That
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by schnitzelstoat 3mo ago
The new Xbox CEO was on the guest list. But yeah, I agree it's a bit like a conspiracy theory.
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by schnitzelstoat 3mo ago
He's referring to this list of invited guests: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/24/peter-...
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by schnitzelstoat 3mo ago
They are talking about purchase plans like Klarna etc. and like people have for their iPhone. Because it's going to cost as much as an iPhone.
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by schnitzelstoat 3mo ago
Yeah, there's lots of stuff in Steam that I never use and don't even understand. Like the Steam Points and the Trading Cards and Steam Level and so on. But the purchasing experience is top notch and they even have a generous refun
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by schnitzelstoat 3mo ago
It's good for emulation too and it'll run GTA6, so I'll get mine out of storage.
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by schnitzelstoat 3mo ago
Yeah, they could have spent the money on founding new studios. With that sheer amount of money you could pretty much poach any talent you wanted too, but it wouldn't be as obviously anticompetitive. Instead, they paid way over the odds
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by schnitzelstoat 3mo ago
I lived there for around 6 months like 15 years ago so perhaps it's changed a lot since then. But even as an Englishman, it was very different to home. I remember the supermarket was shut all Sunday and was only open until 12 on the Sa
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by schnitzelstoat 3mo ago
I'm not American so I don't really care if it's Chinese or not. But at work I can only use the approved Enterprise Plans we have and we only have those with Anthropic and OpenAI.
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by schnitzelstoat 3mo ago
It gives them a massive advantage because they can cut the cost per token by a lot and eat Anthropic's market share. In what universe is any company going to give that advantage away? In any case if they take away a lot of market share
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by schnitzelstoat 3mo ago
My company has a Claude Code and Codex one and I use Claude Code because I am more familiar with it. That said, I just use Opus for planning and Sonnet for implementation and it's pretty cheap. Codex seems decent too so I should try it

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