surfmike

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by surfmike 2y ago
Exactly, and for American producers, sales tax does get applied multiple times and can’t be deducted from VAT
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by surfmike 2y ago
European producers can deduct VAT on their intermediate business inputs, but American producers can’t deduct the sales taxes on their intermediate inputs.
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by surfmike 2y ago
Your European competitor will be able to deduct all their local VAT taxes on business inputs but you won’t be able to deduct your local sales taxes on your inputs.
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by surfmike 2y ago
Because they are not able to deduct US state sales taxes on business inputs from the final VAT. While Europeans can deduct their local (VAT) taxes on business inputs.
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by surfmike 2y ago
Well, because we don’t have a VAT, it is, isn’t it? The article puts the blame on the US sales tax system. But regardless, US exporters to the EU end up paying more taxes than domestic EU producers. > Europe’s VATs are not tariffs and ar
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by surfmike 2y ago
Another browser in this space is https://ultralig.ht/ , it's geared for in-game UI but I wonder how easy it would be to retool it for a similar use case.
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by surfmike 2y ago
Which webview does it use?
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by surfmike 2y ago
I believe it uses Operational Transforms
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by surfmike 3y ago
You might want to try doing something like https://www.xeneta.com/ too, giving shipping price data
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by surfmike 3y ago
Try this YC startup: https://speak.com/ But nothing beats in-person. Find language meetups, social events, etc. The people who I know who get fluent fastest don't care about making mistakes and getting out there, most
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by surfmike 3y ago
I thought NACS _is_ Tesla's charger? i.e. they're been migrated from the start?
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by surfmike 3y ago
how is fly.io reliability these days?
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by surfmike 3y ago
Don’t those just go through OpenAI anyway?
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by surfmike 3y ago
Isn’t it the other way around?
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by surfmike 3y ago
Also there's a lot of advantages of play-based open-ended learning especially at that age. That's what we've focused on instead of trying to put our kid through a curriculum or stuffing facts in their brain. (That said... he
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by surfmike 3y ago
No, existing models use more numerical methods. This is using a completely different approach. > GraphCast utilizes what researchers call a "graph neural network" machine-learning architecture, trained on over four decades of E
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by surfmike 3y ago
which ones are you thinking go? I'm interested in this space too-- it'd be great to get in touch and discuss (my contact info in my profile).
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by surfmike 3y ago
The article claims nobody’s tried a language natively compatible with C++, but that’s the approach that Google’s Carbon is taking: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang
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by surfmike 3y ago
How many billions has Apple “lost” on the vision pro?
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by surfmike 3y ago
This company has been extending fractional ownership to a lot of communities in California. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacaso
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by surfmike 3y ago
How does that work without batteries? Where does the energy go?
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by surfmike 3y ago
Wait, you're saying if you lost your job you wouldn't tell your partner?!
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by surfmike 4y ago
Which heat pump do you have? I’m on a Mitsubishi which requires a bridge unit which has its issues.
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by surfmike 4y ago
I keep reading that, at least for air source heat pumps, it cuts into a lot of the efficiency advantages if it’s cycling a lot. Better to run at a low stage for a long time as opposed to a higher stage on and off. Maybe I should just try an
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by surfmike 4y ago
If only someone made a good thermostat for them. Nest and Ecobee integration doesn't work very well since they need to go through a two-stage controller interface.
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by surfmike 4y ago
You can replace the thermostats with dumb versions.
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by surfmike 4y ago
Why not also have a way to integrate with Nest, ecobee, etc?
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by surfmike 4y ago
Re: "economically uncompetitive" Here's a list of US counties by per capita income: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_counties... Lots of suburban countries here— Arlington, Fairfax Cou
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by surfmike 4y ago
How does this differ with Vantage Autopilot https://www.vantage.sh/features/autopilot ?
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by surfmike 4y ago
The argument was they saw positive returns for hiring additional people. Revenue grew as they added people. Did they go too far? Maybe. But being timid would have prevented them from growing as much as they did.

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