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DaedalusII··on Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice
now try closing your company for less than several thousand. lol.

you should consider UK company, enormously better. or sweden. continental EU is mostly backwards.

DaedalusII··on Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly
its faster to use an LLM + MCP (chatgpt or claude integration cloud integration) to search your email than to use the search field in the web browser now

its also possibly cheaper than the monthly licence fee for the desktop app suite

DaedalusII··on What happened to nerds?
public defender lawyers who fought for workers rights and against items like company towns, abolitionists, etc. many good lawyers

finance people who invented life insurance, health insurance, car insurance, friendly societies. as much as we complain about insurance here in the US, life was immeasurably worse when there was none. there was no such thing as state health care or social security in those days

you would be surprised to find that there are many people in finance who never tried to make a quick buck, and are pretty altruistic. this is evidenced by the large amount of family owned banks

tech now going through what finance did in the 1980s, shift to greed and excess

DaedalusII··on Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine
tolkien largely copied the nibelungsenlied and accidentally inherited western chauvinism and many other ideas from that lore, including especially a great amount of racism
DaedalusII··on Claude Fable 5
a more honest way to look at it would be that the government gets 50% of the employees total expense to the company, so it is basically 50% income tax
DaedalusII··on How do you design a $30k electric pickup? Inside Ford's skunkworks
the ironic factor is - this is how vw itself started, as did mitsubishi etc

this is called: sensible state industrial policy

DaedalusII··on LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do
perfect IT response

regulation are written ambiguously and the specifications do not match the industry

I have even seen regulators refuse to specific legislated laws because "thats not what the government meant", giving a company the choice of following the law and being fined, or breaking the law to please the regulatory agency

DaedalusII··on LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do
you should rewrite this comment with chatgpt if you do not want to be dox

https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/ai-can-now-identify-anonymous-i...

DaedalusII··on Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
opinions vary, but this was the opinion adopted when formulating this index

it probably makes it easier to ship in europe where some private banks and pensions (eg denmark gov) ban defence investment

DaedalusII··on Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
There are many valid complaints about public markets undervaluing businesses in comparison to private markets, now that everyone is putting their money on the line we start to see a different view being taken

which is exactly why public markets have always been a superior price discovery mechanism in comparison to private markets

DaedalusII··on Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence
you cant take out life insurance on your spouse without them signing the paperwork in most cases

you dont take out cover on your business partner, the company itself does

DaedalusII··on Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence
some life insurance policies pay out for suicide after an initial exclusion period. this is often six or twelve months. insurers can include it because suicide claims are relatively uncommon.

if there is evidence that someone took out the policy with the intention of creating a claim then the insurer may treat it as fraud and decline it.

DaedalusII··on Hindenburg’s Smoking Room
yeah its awesome, the only side effect is mental illness and dementia
DaedalusII··on Hindenburg’s Smoking Room
it also did not seem to impact lifespan for them

dying in your 60s was par for the course until second half of the 20th century.

lead petrol, cigs, war, asbestos, lead paint in children bedroom

DaedalusII··on Hindenburg’s Smoking Room
absolutely not true

they erode your gums

and the accelerated rate of nicotine absorbtion probably has side effects we do not yet understand

DaedalusII··on GPT-5.5
think more broadly than 'labor theory'

finance today mostly valued on labor value following ideas of marx, hjalmar schact, keynes

in future money will be valued as energy derivative. expressed as tokens consumption, KWh, compute, whatever

you are right, company extracting surplus value from labor by leveraging compute is a bad model. we saw thi swith car and clothing factories .. turn out if you can get cheaper labor to leverage the compute (factory) you can start race to bottom and end up in the place with the most scaled and cheap labor. japan then korea then china

DaedalusII··on Advancing human gut microbiota research by considering gut transit time (2023)
you may evaluate the concept of a milk enema, dramatic and rapid defecation ensues in comparison to a saline enema
DaedalusII··on The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood
you are a real american now, you play outside in your private land that you drive to. there is peace in the universe again

now, if your child is too playful for Ms. Karen, they will give them a shit load of adderal as well

you may consider paying for a private school to avoid Karens drugging your children

DaedalusII··on The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood
america is more dangerous than many 3rd world and developing countries on the street

once my friend get arrested in LA by police when he jogging. they say they arrest him for his own safety because he shouldnt be out jogging in "this neighborhood"

turns out people in america get murdered and attacked in the street all the time for... no reason. yes literally, no motive.

DaedalusII··on Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner
mercedes and honda interior almost indistinguishable now

and mercedes is just like aws in dumb charges. new tires, EUR1000+ for set. replace car keys? EUR1000+

DaedalusII··on Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime
does anyone else start to wonder about these companys issuing vps/online space with no hardening and no warning

you can basically go on hetzner and spin up a vps with linux that is exposed to the open internet with open ports and user security and within a few hours its been hacked, there is no like warning pop up that says "if you do this your server will be pwnd"

i especialy wonder with all the ai provisioned vps and postgres dbs what will happen here

DaedalusII··on Claude Opus 4.7
i suspect they get cheap off peak electricity and compute is cheaper at those times
DaedalusII··on €54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs
on the one hand if you play with petrol you cant complain about burning down your garage

on the other hand hetzner sell ipv4 instance with no security on by default, just raw ubuntu 24.x

within 3-4 days of deploying one, it will be hacked and have crypto miners installed unless additional special config is added. i do wonder what % of hetzner vps instances are compromised

DaedalusII··on Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning
>get letter from bank

>"to fix this, please install our app"

>search BankName

>comes up with other banks, BankNames US app (not the country you are in)

>revolut etc (cant use in the country you are in)

>ten minutes later

even worse when its your telecomm telling you to install their Official App so you can pay your bills or they will cut your cellular service, and you cant find it

DaedalusII··on Newly created Polymarket accounts win big on well-timed Iran ceasefire bets
spend more time on twitter. nyt is just twitter 16 hours late
DaedalusII··on Newly created Polymarket accounts win big on well-timed Iran ceasefire bets
everyone is assuming this is americans but what if it iranians or israelis or pakistan people . is not just white house cabinet in these rooms
DaedalusII··on I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue
hmm, if i give customer refund i can make less paperclips

if i target tomahawk missiles the government will give me money and i can make more paperclips

effective paperclipism strikes again

DaedalusII··on Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?
why dont UK start enforcing the Marine Insurance Act 1745 to combat this or the Life insurance act maybe 1775

this law literally make it illegal to gamble on marine risk that you do not have direct economic interest in

DaedalusII··on Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?
by this logic investing in SAFEs is obscene gambling with perverse incentives and we should shut down the venture capital industry
DaedalusII··on Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits
yes you right, i assume you using claude code which can in fact accidentally run the wrong command

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1n1moqy/how_did_c...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1sa3fx8/claude_...

https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1jfidvb/claude_tr...

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