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> 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…

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 Econo…

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 w…

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]. [1]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_N…

It is mostly just sports betting https://closingline.substack.com/p/the-takeaway-kalshi-non-s...

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 ag…

Makes it tempting to buy paid captcha solving just to enjoy life more

> Yeah, there's the nice thoughts like "we wouldn't know how to maintain our app" -- but Claude would do a decent job in a single dev's hands, or "AI will potentially change the ap…

I'll be visiting next month so can't comment yet if it is any good, but kayaking Sydney Harbour sounds like a lot of fun. Lots of tour operators doing it, deals on BookMe and Group…

> Runs against your regular Claude Code subscription (Max plan recommended) — unlike /ultrareview, which charges against your Extra Usage pool. How expensive is it to run in your e…

> This is a great insight. For software engineers coding is the way to fully grasp the business context. > By programming, they learn how the system fits together, where the limits…

Same in Germany and basically all of the EU.

DB machines have been accepting all sorts of cards for a long time (Visa, AMEX, Discover). Local vending machines might vary though.

> They are forced to (at least try to) make a profit for their shareholders [...] Not true. Shareholder primacy is not as huge as in Delaware. And in the end it's the government th…

> when seeing labels that talk about kWh/day That's at least kinda reasonable. I'm always amused when I see TV energy labels that state xx kWh/1000h

Can complain to your local MEP about that. They updated the passenger rights regulation recently, but still kept this/ Regulation (EU) 2021/782 > Railway undertakings may introduce…

> and can only be cancelled in small windows a long time before auto-renew any examples?

> Amazon/Walmart They are also in the advertising business. Walmart cleared $4 billion last year. https://www.adexchanger.com/commerce/walmarts-ad-business-cl...

> In Germany there is a discussion The discussion concluded with it being codified into law. How it's gonna work apparently is that the image will be stored E2E-encrypted in the cl…

> HaystackDB is accessed through a RESTful HTTPS API. No client library necessary. That's cool, but but I would prefer to not reinvent the wheel. If you have a simple library, that…

> Well yes, Ryanair itself put their flights on Amadeus Pretty sure 99% of OTAs don't book Ryanair flights through Amadeus, but through screen scraping.

Rented a Polestar 2 multiple times from Hertz in the summer. It included both a home-charging cable and a charging fob. The Hertz charging fob is quite expensive though, cheaper to…

> it is super duper easy to register a car online. If you are in possession of the title of the car, yes. However if you lease a car, the leasing company will just post the lease t…

Dealer plates cannot be used for export.

E2EE is not the default mode for Zoom.