anomaly_

Joined 14 years ago

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143
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ecommerce, lawyer, hacker
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Comment · 17 days ago
its a different business model? IBs dont generally hold debt to maturity. they underwrite the debt then gradually sell down in the weeks/months following the deal. their business is making money on the spread/underwriting margin.
Comment · 26 days ago
You understand that all business activity in an economy is driven by consumers. Everything is downstream of consumer demand.
Comment · 29 days ago
It’s extremely good. Chinese, Japanese, Korean. Had multiple instances of confusion because the counterparty thought I was actually a native speaker because we had only communicated over text. Both commercial and social contexts. Translation is now effectively solved.

Edit: I should add like all LLM usage, you need to prompt well. I also like to run the translation back through DeepL for a more traditional technology read on it and to identify any obvious issues.

Comment · 1 month ago
they don't light it on fire. it circulates in the economy. plenty of working class people doing enormously well from the data centre, chip production build out.
Comment · 1 month ago
So I assume everyone in your utopia is still writing code onto punch cards?
Comment · 1 month ago
Do you think the company that pays your wage thinks the same?
Comment · 1 month ago
What’s the issue? They didn’t like your licence terms, and rewrote the library under a permissive licence? You don’t have a right to users or an audience.
Comment · 3 months ago
Literally what? Do you understand what is being proposed?
Comment · 5 months ago
I'm sure all of them will move back to earn 60k euros instead of us$400k+
Comment · 5 months ago
Are you trying to be deliberately obtuse? Obviously, you can fudge the number with assumptions around churn rates/etc, but of course an investor would want a view of the rough 12m state of the business.
Comment · 5 months ago
You're just going to Galapagos your economy. Consumers won't put up with high prices and inferior goods. Unless you want to restrict internet/information access so your consumers don't know what they are missing out on.
Comment · 5 months ago
No meaningful amount of iPhone users use Brave.
Comment · 5 months ago
Yes? Commercial leases (and residential for that matter) commonly have increase clauses that operate automatically (CPI, 3/4/5%, market review, etc).
Comment · 5 months ago
Peak European comment

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