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Revenue based taxes are a an idea to consider as they have many advantages - a big one is that they are harder to evade. One disadvantage of them is that they give advantage to big…

VAT and income tax are completely different taxes. One is a tax on income. The other is a consumption tax - like a sale tax but with additional accounting steps.

>>Everything you named should be included in the price you charge for a cup of coffee. So the money you extract from it, minus the cost you named is your profit. When you first inv…

He doesn't need AI background to commentate on financials. Your post reads like a personal attack. His record talking about stock market doesn't matter either. There is about 0 inf…

The problem of money mattering more when you are younger is something that often appears in personal finance discussions. One thing is consumption but another are opportunities to …

Google search is getting shittier by the day. For example searching for "Adobe stock" returns PayPal Holdings stock (with a graph) for a few days now.

With any kind of gambling site your major cost will be credit cards chargebacks and other fraud. >>Is there anything I could do at a practical level to keep the game fair? (no tool…

>>A more modern approach instead “re-solves” each spot to a limited search depth and uses a neural network as an approximation function at the depth cutoff. Both tabular (e.g. Pios…

Yeah but that doesn't work for any kind of performant code which is the reason people who write those data structures use unsafe. This is one very annoying thing about Rust communi…

The point is not that those specific implementations use unsafe Rust but to illustrate that to write even basic data structures you need unsafe Rust.

>>, and that gives an approximate value of how using specific languages maps into monetary loss, and why companies are starting to care nowadays, given computers are always exposed…

Their stance on cyber-security is so naive it hurts. The bad guys will get access anyway and it will just hurt companies that don't. You don't need a huge model to find vulnerabili…

One recent case in point: Google Finance redesign. How anyone signed that off, especially senior engineers supposedly behind it is beyond me. Basic functionality like sorting by co…

>>$98B in unrealized gains on equity securities Now the question is how are those equity securities valued. If for example they value their Anthropic stake based on the latest fund…

Oral-B is an American company. Phillips is an European company. Phillips toothbrushes don't have removable batteries (at least none of many I owned had them). Now connect the dots.…

It's a culture thing. There are even smaller markets like Taiwan that developed industries EU didn't. Western EU countries are very risk averse, anti-business and has too conservat…

>>If you do HIIT you cycle as fast as you can for 10-15 seconds (or until properly worn out) then rest long enough to be able to do it again. You only end up working out for less t…

HIIT vs LISS is a false dichotomy. If you look at endurance athletes the most important part of the training is in "heavy domain" that is between what typical LISS and HIIT are. Th…

There are too many levels of indirection. At least in some countries you can vote on a person representing your town/area. This is one level of indirection less and allows people w…

It's not like we can do anything. We don't have democracy - we can't vote on issues and we (in most countries) can't even vote on people. We just vote on 2-3 non-fringe parties and…

EU is very lucky USA still has very strict immigration policy. If USA made it easy for highly skilled professionals to emigrate there then there would be almost no one capable left…

There might be a community effort at some point. This happened in chess where the community recreated and then improved on Alpha Zero. You could run small training chunks on your m…

They all get serious investments from public companies and a lot of public companies rely on those private labs buying stuff from them.

Is there any scenario where it's not catastrophic for for the frontier labs? They just got their market cut to a fraction. Investing in new tech is now very risky because even if t…

How do you want them to behave? There is more demand than production. How would they choose who to sell to at lower prices? Organize a lottery?