BasedInfra

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by BasedInfra 3y ago
The implication is that they do it purely for tax relief and not as an appreciating asset. If that was the case they would be losing millions each transaction.
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by BasedInfra 3y ago
Exactly. Presuming a 50% tax (highest end worldwide) rate and a full write off they spent 50 mil to save 42.5 mil on taxes. Usually it’ll be capital gains income where they would be writing off which is a much lower rate. Example 20% in whi
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by BasedInfra 3y ago
What utility do your NFTs have?
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by BasedInfra 3y ago
Savvycal integrates with Fastmail. https://savvycal.com/ https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-calendar-updates/
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Stability AI announces paid membership for commercial use of its models(theverge.com)
7 points by BasedInfra 3y ago|0 comments
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by BasedInfra 3y ago
This did happen internally and with authors like Tom Clancy and Brad Meltzer they came up with scenarios and mitigation. Also have the Red Cell unit made to mock attack US infrastructure and bases although they got a bit too real one time.
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by BasedInfra 3y ago
You can use Cloudflare access for internal which is tunnel + identity access management for end users.
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by BasedInfra 3y ago
UPS just over 100 billion revenue and 11.55 billion NET profit. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Parcel_Service
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by BasedInfra 3y ago
Mojo for when you want python. https://www.modular.com/mojo
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by BasedInfra 4y ago
You can put just ‘HMRC’ (UK tax department) on a letter (with paid postage) and it will get to them.
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by BasedInfra 4y ago
UK is not a part of the EU so it wouldn’t have to mesh at all unless I’m missing something?
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by BasedInfra 4y ago
They have a hosted on major clouds service called crunchybridge which seems reasonably priced. https://www.crunchydata.com/pricing/calculator
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by BasedInfra 4y ago
Maybe a basking shark filtering masses plankton but it’s no great white. A great white would have launched a GPT api competitor far earlier and recognised the search replacement use case. GPT3 came out in 2020. People had used it as a searc
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by BasedInfra 4y ago
What’s the worst thing Oracle has done aside egregious enterprise pricing?
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by BasedInfra 4y ago
>premium cards [are] commercial, corporate, or business cards issued by Visa and Mastercard Revolut Metal (personal) is not one of these cards. Commercial cards (business banking, business credit etc) are what these cards are and they ha
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by BasedInfra 4y ago
You use Cloudflare for DNS but are moving over to S3 to replace Cloudflare? Do you not mean Route 53, AWS’s DNS product?
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Ask HN: What’s the best books and resources for UI/UX in 2023?
6 points by BasedInfra 4y ago|4 comments
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by BasedInfra 4y ago
Lights, Time, Timers, News, Podcasts/Audiobooks. Asked Alexa today: - ‘Can dogs eat apples’ - ’How far is it to <location>‘ ‘How long to <location>.’ - ‘How many calories does 100g grams of cornflakes have’ Just stuff not w
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by BasedInfra 4y ago
Siri is the main issue holding me back from buying a homepod. Alexa & Google just bypass it in cleverness while also understanding my accent way better. The only major plus of Siri is tight integration into ios.
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by BasedInfra 4y ago
There’s a lot of gov.uk stuff open source. - https://github.com/alphagov - https://github.com/hmrc - https://github.com/dwp
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by BasedInfra 4y ago
Easy to avoid, Just ask the GPT model how to avert this outcome.
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by BasedInfra 4y ago
That’s an interesting change from a analytical to transactional postgres flavour. What workload is on this DB?
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by BasedInfra 5y ago
Stripe’s product pages are so beautiful and cover the product features brilliantly. Stripe tax should away the headache of being on the wild ride that is EU VAT as EU citizen. Congrats on the launch!
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by BasedInfra 5y ago
Probably caching set incorrectly. happened with steam years ago - https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/steam-caching...
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by BasedInfra 5y ago
Monopolies aren’t hostile takeovers. It’s companies buying competitors for market dominance with no regulatory pushback that’s the issue.
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by BasedInfra 6y ago
Airbnb has around 7 million listings vs the clone with 0 listings. It’s an apples-oranges question, these are just examples of OSS code not actual products.
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by BasedInfra 6y ago
Front running is illegal. Its payment for order flow which is earning off the spread while also keep it tight and liquidity in the market.
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Twitter announces paid Super Follows to let you charge for tweets(theverge.com)
42 points by BasedInfra 6y ago|7 comments
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by BasedInfra 6y ago
You think big finance is shorting ETFs with a combined value in the trillions to put downward pressure on GME stock price?
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by BasedInfra 6y ago
The pie is big enough and also don’t think big cloud players and DO are after the same customers. 34% of the web still runs on Wordpress. A lot want somewhere cheap and easy to use with more power than shared hosting.

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