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Comment · 13 days ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO8V72pDw1o
> My name is Nathan Fielder, and I graduated from one of Canada's top business schools with really good grades.
It's the opening line of the directors previous TV shows
Comment · 2 months ago
Can't comment on all European jurisdictions obviously, but a 1 person LLC/Ltd. is not a great shield in Germany. Usually they'll still consider the owner/director liable because they were making those executive decisions.
Comment · 2 months ago
> for which every consumer also pays.
Idk, at least in Germany paper and (plastic) recycling is free. I only have to pay for organic trash and trash to be burned.
Comment · 2 months ago
What about banking apps and stuff? Does the device binding still work or do you need to set it up again?
Comment · 2 months ago
> I have QR enabled payments available across maybe 10 different countries
Any experience or rec's for Thailand?
Comment · 2 months ago
> Hopefully they allow foreigners some track to access UPI in the future.
Not cheap and only to business QR codes (so proper shops which probably will take credit card anyway), but it works.
Comment · 2 months ago
> the limitation of tourist wallets is that they can't be utilised for P2P payments - exactly what UPI is most used for across the country
Same issue in a lot of Southeast Asia. After jumping through all hoops to get the correct app, id verified and paying a hefty fee, it was still a gamble if the restaurants would have a business QR code or a personal one.
One time in Laos I was on an island that didn't have an ATM, almost no cards were accepted and I had run out of local currency. So I ended up asking for the QR code before ordering at the restaurant to make sure it would work out.
In India it's super annoying when taking autos because the drivers won't have change and in 99% of the cases they have a personal code. So I just ended up using Uber with credit card, much less hassle.
I don't know, central banks seem super afraid of money laundering somehow. But just allow me to spend $100 or what, I just want to buy a quick coffee or a fruit from a street vendor, not a Rolex.
Comment · 3 months ago
> Why would you do this to your business?
Maybe they hired someone to get a website and they were sold this AI slop?
I've seen a lot of SMB in my area get terrible AI slop websites recently. After looking at the footer some "web agency" sold them. They claim to sell "hand crafted, no framework" websites, but it looks super terrible.
Comment · 3 months ago
I would love to, but no official Kindle publishing exists and at least the open thingys out there kinda suck. It's okay, but I don't like the formatting.
Maybe write a better Economist->Kindle transformation with Claude or something to make it better.
Comment · 5 months ago
Matt Levine described it well (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2026-05-21/spa...)
> The deal, with SpaceX, is that Elon Musk runs it however he wants, and he does weird stuff, and you have to trust him, and if you don’t like it you can’t complain.
> When SpaceX acquired xAI a few months ago, did a special committee of independent directors approve the transaction? Did Musk recuse himself from negotiations? Was the price set by independent valuation experts using a rigorous process? Did outside shareholders sue to block the deal? Stop. Musk wanted SpaceX to buy xAI, so it did.
> [...] Surely SpaceX has created all that shareholder value more because Musk does what he wants than in spite of Musk doing what he wants; it is hard to accidentally create $1.75 trillion of value. SpaceX’s shareholders signed up for this deal — letting Musk cook — and have been rewarded;
Comment · 5 months ago
These stores are a big thing in Portugal as well, but doesn't really seem to be a thing in Germany.
Closest I guess would be Action [1].
Comment · 5 months ago
It is mostly just sports betting
https://closingline.substack.com/p/the-takeaway-kalshi-non-s...
Comment · 5 months ago
Yeah, Kalshi can't pay. 17 CFR § 40.11
> A registered entity shall not list for trading or accept for clearing on or through the registered entity any of the following:
> (1) An agreement, contract, transaction, or swap based upon an excluded commodity, as defined in Section 1a(19)(iv) of the Act, that *involves*, relates to, or references terrorism, *assassination*, war, gaming, or an activity that is unlawful under any State or Federal law.
Polymarket doesn't seem to care too much.
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