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PaywallBuster··on Microsoft eyes $10B bet on ChatGPT
10B is what this article says

https://www.semafor.com/article/01/09/2023/microsoft-eyes-10...

Also mentions a profit distribution, where MS would get the majority of profit until its investment is paid back

PaywallBuster··on Portugal’s digital nomad bubble
Portugal is heavily bureaucratic and centralized in Lisbon

Fire/reduce public servants and spread them away from Lisbon, there, solved!

sources:

"highest increase in jobs can be seen in central administration"

https://www.portugalresident.com/number-of-public-sector-wor...

https://ec.europa.eu/social/BlobServlet?docId=19963&langId=e...

76% centralized government https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/b9b...

PaywallBuster··on Portugal’s digital nomad bubble
also frozen rents: too many buildings have elders paying 50 eur rent that is frozen for decades

So landlords have no option to evict them, don't make enough money for any kind of renovations, have no option but to wait until the elders pass away and the units become available

PaywallBuster··on I am done. I give up
> There are freelance sales people that will sell your product for a fee, with the advantages of using their network and their feedback in an early stage of development

Can you elaborate on this please?

PaywallBuster··on I am done. I give up
building startup = testing a new idea / market / product from 0

digital nomad = selling a common service - probably cheaper since you can work remotely from cheaper countries

PaywallBuster··on Tesla shares tank after U.S. discounts doubled on key models
Tesla fanboys claim Tesla is a vertically integrated company competing in different markets, hence having a huge TAM and higher chance for growth.

Still!

PaywallBuster··on Palantir’s SPAC bets backfire
your interpretation of SPACs seem very cynic

In the end it's just a "shortcut" for a private company to go public by acquiring an already listed company

Retail investors tend to loose, but just the same as they would with a proper IPO or any crypto ICO

PaywallBuster··on SEC Charges Samuel Bankman-Fried with Defrauding Investors in FTX [pdf]
probably because FTX.com wasn't supposed to be servicing US customers

So US customers who may have used FTX.com were circumventing whatever minimal measures they had preventing them to signup/use the platform

PaywallBuster··on Ask HN: Have you ever used an image consultant?
Two suggestions

https://twitter.com/tannerguzy

https://twitter.com/WellBuiltStyle

PaywallBuster··on Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location
AWS Fargate / GCP Cloud run

Upload a docker image, specify container size (1cpu 2gb)

go live

scale from 1rps to 1000 rps any time

stateless

pay per request or pay per container

PaywallBuster··on Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location
Quite impressive the numbers they're doing

78M profit on 290M revenue

(See [0] above)

_ edited figures _

PaywallBuster··on TSMC to make 4nm chips in Arizona for Apple, AMD, Nvidia
There's usually weekly limits

So you could do 12h shifts 3/4 days a week and/or have extra days off

PaywallBuster··on While crypto bro scammed clients, reporters scammed readers
Regarding FTX:

How come VC and the Canada Teachers Pension are doing a series B that raised 420M without any due diligence? Why didn't we hear about this before?

PaywallBuster··on The Sam Bankman-Fried empire crumbled. What happened?
Evidently he wasn't a "true believer"

he's just one player in the ecosystem, trying milking as much as possible

good job building FTX into one of the largest CEX but.... :)

PaywallBuster··on NYC jail complex to be restored into citywide green energy hub
probably not that bad considering shifts, holidays, etc
PaywallBuster··on Binance to acquire FTX
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cashandcashequivalents....

> Cash and cash equivalents refers to the line item on the balance sheet that reports the value of a company's assets that are cash or can be converted into cash immediately.

> Cash equivalents include bank accounts and marketable securities such as commercial paper and short-term government bonds.

> Cash equivalents should have maturities of three months or less.

Don't know specifics on FTX/Alameda but this is probably normal to a degree for banks/brokers or just any regular business?

PaywallBuster··on EU electricity production by country and source
some of the recent issues were due to lack of maintenance or delayed maintenance during covid
PaywallBuster··on EasyList is in trouble and so are many ad blockers
my bad, not native speaker
PaywallBuster··on Pyinfra automates infrastructure super fast at scale
Have releases up to 2.13

https://github.com/willhallonline/docker-ansible

Still multiple major releases behind but still

Also I wonder how often the new releases are used (market share?) since so many people moved to cloud/k8s

PaywallBuster··on Internet down in multiple cities across France after suspected sabotage
Marsaille is a major landing point for fiber cables and has had major impact on global transit yesterday between AP and EU too.

https://www.submarinenetworks.com/en/stations/europe/france/...

PaywallBuster··on EasyList is in trouble and so are many ad blockers
beluga

> You pay 1¢ (or less!) for every Gigabyte of data accelerated over our cloud network.

doesn't seem clear cut as they bundle it in a subscription packages, but at this volume you'd surely need their enterprise package (10Tb+), which you'd expect to get 0.01 or less

bunny

> First 500TB $0.005 /GB

> From 1PB-2PB $0.002 /GB

PaywallBuster··on EasyList is in trouble and so are many ad blockers
Cloudflare claims that R2 have free egress/bandwidth

You could try that instead of the "CDN" service

--

Alternatively, try the "cheap" CDN services like Bunny or Beluga, which have packages for high volume like 0.005c/gb

Cloudflare is not really selling a CDN, but all the "smart" services on top of it.

That's why you don't have as much control (like blocking IP/Geos without Enterprise), or run into issues for breaking their ToS.

PaywallBuster··on Live Counter of Uber's Net Losses ($27B and Counting)
Should do for other companies like Tesla

popular target for short sellers - numbers are getting better but depend on what numbers you looking at (FCF, net earnings, EBITa, etc)

edit: maybe the criticism is outdated, I'm not following too closely

PaywallBuster··on More U.S. companies charging employees for job training if they quit
training options:

2000 USD for a certified trainer come to the office give you a lecture

200 USD for a subscription on e-learning service

20 USD (times x) for books on specific topics

What would the employee choose if they had to pay, what would the company choose (for whatever reasons they have)

PaywallBuster··on Rent going up? One company’s algorithm could be why
It's just information

It's up to the landlord to negotiate based on his individual situation (condition of the unit, demographics, furniture, etc)

Not different from a company asking for "market data" regarding salaries and use that to _guide_ their salary offers to new candidates

In the end the company will adjust their recommendation based on results/feedback from candidates (some companies could be popular/well liked and get away with lower compensation, and vice versa)

PaywallBuster··on Ask HN: How to learn to sell?
Fanatical Prospecting

Should be the book name (I just tried to find it)

PaywallBuster··on Tell HN: Getting Ready for Unemployment
Did you ask more details?

try to find out what is lacking in your experience from their POV

Finding a job can take time even during good times, you already quit so only thing you can do is be persistent now and flexible to whatever comes up

In the meantime, Github is always a good option: contribute to OSS projects, show activity and your experience.

Maybe some of the companies regularly contributing to OSS would consider hiring you (RedHat etc?)

PaywallBuster··on Show HN: Earn 9.62% on US Treasury I Bonds on Yotta
> If anyone wants to control their Treasury Direct directly without Yotta, they can request it, and we will transfer over their account to no longer be managed by Yotta.

This implies the bonds are stored on their account, not the end users

PaywallBuster··on Apple asks suppliers to shift AirPods, Beats production to India
hopefully a lot more than 10%

> and it would take 8 years to move 10% of it to other countries

PaywallBuster··on Apple asks suppliers to shift AirPods, Beats production to India
scary

At the same time, Apple is big enough it could possibly "disrupt" supply chains and suddenly a new manufacturing center somewhere else and bring the house with it?

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