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by tluyben2 4y ago
Not the PP, but for instance, I get everything from the people in my town; every laptop, phone, tablet that they bought a newer substitute for. I have a museum for 60-90’s systems and I never found modern (after 2000) that interesting, howe
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by tluyben2 4y ago
In NL a you have healthcare by mandatory insurance (and they cannot refuse you), so I think there is room for a rule like this in NL; I think that’s not the case in the UK or other places like ES and PT.
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by tluyben2 4y ago
There is a golden visa ; it has become somewhat stricter basically you can buy a house/property over a certain value (think 350k euros) and that gets you a visa. Sell it after x years when you get a passport.
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by tluyben2 4y ago
I have had this issue in NL and ES; both tax offices accepted that the the decision making was not in respectively NL or ES because most of the decision making (directors and shares) were not in either country.
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by tluyben2 4y ago
My banks had me sign that my income is not from US. So owning a company in the US that I invoice or that pays dividends or something would not land well.
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by tluyben2 4y ago
You mean the NHR? That’s only for 10 years though. Many countries have a similar system (including Spain [0]), either for personal or your company or both. [0] https://www.europeantax.blog/post/102h41p/thinking-of-
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Yes, I agree, hence I said not apples to apples, but like said, the same exact vps costs over 10x as much on aws. That’s not good. I encounter 10-10000x higher bills on aws ; most 0s are self inflicted but the last few 0s I don’t think you
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by tluyben2 4y ago
But at what price… I have said it here many times, but I am a nobody so I can repeat it; one of my weekend side businesses is optimising overall performance for companies. They contact me with something like ‘I am paying 50k$/mo for aw
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Custom silicon for what? AI training sure but what else? Most workloads outside that domain are fine with cheap ARM SoCs. Just call everything ‘compute units’ and deliver SDKs for common envs to package and deploy. No need to inform what yo
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by tluyben2 4y ago
We moved more north for the rain; east of Porto. No children (by choice) so cannot say anything about that.
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by tluyben2 4y ago
I am bad at natural languages, but I am Dutch so my television when I was young was English, German, French, Flemish and bad bad Dutch tv. So I have some advantage but communicating with a few words, English and hands and feet works fine wi
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Not a professional farm but for our own food (as vegetarians); Spain first and now Portugal. Land is cheap and plentiful, a lot of stuff grows multiple times per year. Water is an issue which is why we moved to a wet part of Portugal. We gr
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Idris 2 writes pretty quickly and you can prove the parts you want. It’s not blazingly fast but fast enough for many purposes and I definitely have far far less bugs and generally better code. Only for hobby projects so far but it is quite
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by tluyben2 4y ago
But if we know how they technically work and not patentable then countries (like India) can recreate and use them for the people. I think AI researchers should get together in a social movement and demand no patents and at least open public
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by tluyben2 4y ago
> lots of people still have the sluggish VMs in mind. I did, until trying firecracker.
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by tluyben2 4y ago
In my opinion we should not fight against advances in AI, but rather against having that AI be owned by a few big corps. AI must be open and when it gets to the point you describe, we might not have to work anymore; we need only to guard th
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by tluyben2 4y ago
I wrote one (very opinionated) in C# ASP.NET a long time ago (14 years or so and since ported to all versions of .net core besides 6) because I hated the plumbing I had to do with most options in the space. 4 years ago, I started a large pr
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Well the hiring process still seems rather insane; there are tons of companies who might pay a little less or the same that have a more sane process. There is no shortage; the hiring process is broken.
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Sure, got your point. However, you said he has no fraudulent intentions. I think he does and that it is one of the pillars for his success; manipulate to get more money, use that money to fund ideas (and get others to co-fund which is easie
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by tluyben2 4y ago
The word 'friend' is really abused these days (guess because of Facebook etc) and people are somehow falling for it. Seems it's becoming quite common (in my circles anyway) that people use the term friend for basically everyo
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by tluyben2 4y ago
This exactly; when your banking or investment app shows the stock, you assume already that it has been vetted by people who know so much more about all this than you.
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Well, are you sure about that? The whole market manipulation he does with stocks and crypto is not ‘fraudulent intentions’? Sure, he might not be frauding with his products, but I would think it is fraudulent. Did he not actually pay a secu
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by tluyben2 4y ago
I work in fintech saas and yes this has been an issue; my 11 year old x220 felt faster than the m1 when working on our monolith and services written in asp.net core and the docker services it needs. For everything native, it’s really fast.
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Guess it depends on the location? We used it to drive through rural Canada and if we had followed any of the many wrong ways it tried to send us, we would be very dead.
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Animal torture (seeing trucks with bleeding pigs on the highway) and not liking meat very much anyway. These days I can add environmental concerns (I was a bit ignorant about that 20 years ago). I just quit cold turkey 20 years ago and I do
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Yep, work in b2b banking as well and there is a huge issue with banking ‘test’ environments. Our partners (100s of companies, mostly banks/brokers/insurers/etc) mostly don’t even have test envs and if they do, they don’t repr
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by tluyben2 4y ago
> Do checks really take 3-6 months to be received from clients? We resisted way way too long before using a factoring agency; it costs money but it takes away the chasing, stress etc and, very importantly, they make the contracts and inv
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Yeah, but there are layers; I have seen plenty of places where ‘top level’ engineers spec out every detail of a task for the others. Not in startups (well seen that once or twice too), but in bigger corps.
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by tluyben2 4y ago
But you don’t need millions of ‘coders’ that now have jobs basically (incredibly error prone) are playing copilot in 100000s of companies all over the world. They get told, via tasks and in detail what and how to complete the objectives and
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by tluyben2 4y ago
We simply have both status (not verified) and a type (password) fields; so an type sso login or signup will never encounter a type password record and a not verified record will never let you get logged on. Then we purge not verified record

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