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by toohotatopic 6y ago
It's not only the hopefully temporal inconvenience of being replaced. There is a finite amount of resources. If more people have the means to access them, less is available for those who currently consume them. Having 9 billion people
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
I haven't said 'find a rich benefactor', but 'be the benefactor'. There is no need to be rich. Spouses stay at home and are not worried if their partner has a regular job. It doesn't have to work for everybody.
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
Why do you need a critical mass? Everybody with an income can try it at any given moment: Find one or more persons who _you_ want to support and support them with a basic income. If UBI works, they will also start supporting other people. S
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
I mean with 'entirely hands-off' that the computer just keep on running. On Linux, most packages are part of the repository and update automatically. On Windows, those packages have to be updated manually. Even if everything is au
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
>moderately size AI research lab Isn't their AI lab actually quite good? If I remember correctly, they create personalized news stories that are actually read and consumed.
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
>and only have equity to pay them There are legal forms to share a company that are not a GmbH but come with personal liabilities. There is also always the option to use an English Ltd or that Swedish form. >there is no right answer t
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
15 people opening the same deck is not the same as 15 people opening 15 different decks that have just one slide in common.
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
You can always release the game with some generic art and offer the copyrighted assets in a shop. With some luck the game becomes popular and people add further assets to your shop. Demand some commission and you may have created a cash cow
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
It's just a funnel. As a strategy, you 'commodify' the resources that you cannot control, especially those that are profitable to your opponents. MS is losing in languages, they don't own the important languages for mobi
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
> It's still much easier for IT to manage 7000 Windows desktops and a couple hundred Linux ones than it would be to manage 7000 Linux desktops. Why? I have never seen Windows being managed entirely hands-off whereas Linux just works
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
>but hard to sell to merchants, since the merchant pays fees. There is a nice article which hopefully somebody can link that explains that visa was a success because merchants reduced their costs, too. They had to do informal credit acco
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
Have you tried more advanced features like making lists in word? Word and word online behave differently. And when it comes to file sharing: how do you copy the name of a file into the clipboard?
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
>Teams is leagues better than Slack simply because of how well it integrates with all of the other ms apps. In which way? From what I have seen, teams functionality is so much worse than the native counterparts that I wouldn't call
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
This is all valid if you need a GmbH. But if you are building a website you can do without. Which risk do those students take that cannot be stomached? On the other hand, since you have 25k, where else but in your startup can you invest you
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
>Android 10 Is killing Termux terminal app Remember who owns Android. It's not worth investing time into a platform that will be further restricted sooner or later. Why should they treat the tablet differently?
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
You are right. I just wouldn't see those points as essential problems: * If you have co-founders, 25k shouldn't be a problem if you pool your money. A group of people who have worked for some years should have that much money or I
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
That's for a GmbH [1] where you create an independent legal entity. Actually it's 25k and almost 1k in legal fees. Though, you only need an accountant if you have millions in assets or plenty of employees. [3] However, that's
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
>you need enough money to start That's true everywhere, isn't it? >Taxes are so high that you will likely struggle (or just close) the first two years You pay taxes on profits. Especially during the first years you should ha
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
>Working for a startup is an extremely risky decision. As a top engineer, you get shitty pay, and a really good options package that in most cases ends up being worth nothing because most startups fail. How about structuring it different
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
Two things that don't fit: 1) Even if electrons have consciousness, why should it be linked to our consciousness? 2) Why is decision making the essence of consciousness? The Schroedinger equation is just a model, not reality. There doe
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
>In fact these days we are all that man or woman; you only need to resort to Wikipedia to realise how outdated the idea of knowing everything — or indeed anything — has become. The word is polymath, like polyglot. We don't expect a
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
We are back at the assumption that farming cannot be substituted. For a society, it is true that farming can hardly be substituted. But for an individual, it's more than possible to have another profession.
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
And yet the industrial revolution has allowed children of farmers to take other professions.
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
It's not the same. You cannot transport voice over a pigeon, at least not instantly. If you don' allow substitutes then every brand has a monopoly on the products of their brand. Technically that's a monopoly. But nobody comp
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
Otherwise it wouldn't be a monopoly and the farmer wouldn't have to accept the offer. The farmer, or rather, the human, can source resources from other markets and sell goods or services that don't depend on farmland. Once th
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
This assumes that the farmer has to remain a farmer. This can be true for one generation, but the next generation can choose another profession. People don't become farmers if they have to pay too much.
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
One reason people invest in stocks at the moment is hedging against a falling dollar. In a great market turn, it could be that those $500,000 are the price for a cup of coffee. If you lose access to your shares at that moment, it doesn&#x27
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
And by loaning out shares to short sellers [1] Which to me begs the question: do you actually own the shares when you buy them with those brokers? What happens if supply is limited and the loaned shares actually have to be sold? [1] https:
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
Thanks. The prices are even more surprising if that quote by morphle is true and he can offer a TB for $0.25. From that perspective, even B2 is expensive.
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
So the GB on the AWS sites are actually bytes?

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