matkoniecz

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Feel free to ask me about OSM mapping ( best at https://www.openstreetmap.org/message/new/Mateusz%20Konieczny - requires OSM account but it is needed for mapping anyway, please note that you write based on HN profile )

see also https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contact_channels https://community.osm.be/ for more standard communication channels

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Comment · 1 day ago

Unfortunately scrappers are problematic enough that for more and more organizations alternative is to stop serving traffic.

For example OpenStreetMap is using nowadays this or equivalents to prevent downtime and/or runaway costs.

Comment · 1 day ago

Gerrymandle shows popup asking me to "Create profiles for personalised advertising" at 116 vendors, so I am completely fine with them being cloned.

Comment · 1 day ago

Market can remain irrational longer than I can remain solvent.

Also, if I lose my money I am not in position to get bailout.

Also, shorting requires managing to not only predict drop in price but also when it will happen.

Also, I do not have large amount of money investable into risky instruments.

Comment · 2 days ago

not sure whether I am good developer but for me it is half of

> The easy (lazy?) answer is that they love writing code, or they’re worried about their jobs.

and half of using proprietary SaaS being something I deeply dislike.

Comment · 2 days ago

> Accountants are liable for crimes like embezzlement

and even then, if they already lost all money you may be unable to recover it

Comment · 3 days ago

- their data will be partially leaked in general, including my financial info

- someone who hates me personally will get access to it (see case where someone put their ex-spouse on no-fly-list etc)

- leak my private info via new version of LLM was trained on it

- sell it to everyone interested (maybe sold after their bankruptcy)

- give it to NSA and whoever else

from obvious ones

Comment · 3 days ago

At least in Poland it is not viable. Friend's business lost noticeable amount of money because accountant has not filed taxes and lied that they filed and lied that they checked it.

And there was no real path to recovering funds, except small part, after long court case.

At least they were able to fire them without severance pay.

Comment · 3 days ago

I tried and failed to get working account.

Comment · 3 days ago

Sharing all my financial info with LLM companies is not something that I like.

EDIT: good point that paying accountant does not ensure avoiding it

wonderful, you made a good point that make me dislike situation even more

Comment · 3 days ago

> Someone still needs to take liability for mistakes.

I am not aware of setups available to me that would transfer liability onto accountant.

So in either case I am taking liability.

(also, I am pretty sure that if corporation loses 10 millions over accountant making bad decisions, they are not going to recover that funds either)

Comment · 3 days ago

for me it would depend on a situation (I definitely would not want to be in a situation where this would be needed)

Comment · 4 days ago

I am well aware that being more evil can be profitable.

Being evil for no gain whatsoever is quite extreme absurdity, though it also happens to some.

Comment · 4 days ago

I assume the problem was that prominence of certain German use makes finding other meaning of this phrase tricky.

Comment · 4 days ago

I am betting that accurate one in USA is lower than 10% monthly.

Comment · 4 days ago

From my understanding, they are legally obligated to in this case.