CosmicShadow

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by CosmicShadow 22d ago
What I don't think most people realize is that for many consumer goods coming from Canada the Americans are not paying the tariffs, Canadians are paying it instead because USPS is not setup to actually collect tariff payments from thei
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by CosmicShadow 1mo ago
Who cares? It's probably not better than a TV anyone else can afford and why would a billionaire need a folding tv in one of their 24 room homes? The fact that you can buy a 72" tv for less than $1k now is nuts, and I assume there
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by CosmicShadow 2mo ago
Great article, finally something worth reading fully on here. As a serial entrepreneur this definitely hits home and is something I've had to learn the hard way over my 17 years of entrepreneurship. Just because you come across a great
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by CosmicShadow 3mo ago
I think if you are in public, you can't expect to be in private. You can try, but it obviously doesn't always work and we are exposed to all types when out of the house.
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by CosmicShadow 5mo ago
So far since continuing coding/debugging with 4.7 it's failed to fix 3 simple bugs after explaining it like 5 times and having a previous working example to look at...hmmmmmm....
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by CosmicShadow 7mo ago
She checks them every time she's on her computer, no point in closing them and they are always posting to social media every day, whereas you may get a generic email once a month if they even have a mailing list. Instagram is admittedl
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by CosmicShadow 7mo ago
Yet my wife uses it daily and has to keep 16 separate tabs open to people and bands she wants updates from because Facebook refuses to put them on her feed, despite her commenting on every post and story from them; she instead gets all thes
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by CosmicShadow 7mo ago
This sounds like a company idea someone just came up with yesterday off the cuff, pitched it, and got money for because of their credentials so no one can really say no to investing in it, despite nothing new or different? What's the s
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by CosmicShadow 7mo ago
Is this one of those, Hey turn off the overcharge protection because you can go $50 into debt for free, and then maybe you'll just keep going and not notice you owe us an extra $500 type of situations?
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by CosmicShadow 9mo ago
Facebook Messenger constantly tells you shit like "Hey, it's been 1 minute since someone messaged you, you better check it out!", Uber Eats is constantly telling me about meal deals even directly after I just ordered food on
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by CosmicShadow 9mo ago
Yet if I turn off my ads my sales drop to nearly nothing, but when I turn them on again I get a steady flow of new customers as well as some repeaters who either forgot about us or needed a reminder to buy again, sometimes literally years l
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by CosmicShadow 9mo ago
Interesting to see this whole thing shown outside of Astrophotography, sometimes I forget it's the same stuff!
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by CosmicShadow 11mo ago
This is really amazing, I've been working with AI generation for months and it's amazing how fast separate tools are coming together into one and are usable on your own local machine. I've been using Ovi for about a week and
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by CosmicShadow 1y ago
I also don't bother advertising to Canada anymore as it's just more valuable for me to sell to the US in USD. I've spent a lot of time working on getting shipping as cheap as possible to make it alluring for the US and it cur
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by CosmicShadow 1y ago
Unfortunately we make custom items. We'd have to move our actual operations to the US to really get ahead of the game, but I don't want the nightmare of having to hire someone and do business from within the US, especially if some
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by CosmicShadow 1y ago
You, good sir, have made the mistake of thinking people can and will read! We've put warnings for things on every single page, step of the checkout, and emails, and people still complain that things are a surprise, even after checking
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by CosmicShadow 1y ago
I sell a niche, handmade product for a living from Canada and 90% of my sales are to the US and this bullshit really fucking sucks. Even our shipping partners don't know what is going on and usually can only fill us in on or after a du
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by CosmicShadow 1y ago
One was with Topaz Video, the other was with SeedVR2.
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by CosmicShadow 1y ago
Wan2.1 was great, but Wan2.2 is really awesome! Here's some samples I made locally with my 5090: - https://imgur.com/a/VeTn4Ej - https://imgur.com/a/CujxVX3 Those were both Image to Video and
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by CosmicShadow 1y ago
I already had to go through so many hoops to sign up for a teams account for 5 separate accounts for myself, I wonder if this will be any better or not. At least if one account starts getting dumb or somehow runs out of context, I can just
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by CosmicShadow 1y ago
I feel your frustration, only 100 times over as nearly every title on HN is missing the: ...in the US
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by CosmicShadow 2y ago
The exciting thing about AI is it let's you go back to any project or idea you've ever had and they are now possibly doable, even if they seemed impossible or too much work back then. Some of the key pieces missing have become tri
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by CosmicShadow 2y ago
But the value is still there. I see ads in it that I never click (they are garbage and never change and made for Americans, which I am not), if I do click a link, I've got adblockers on, and every single site is pretty much an advertis
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by CosmicShadow 2y ago
Digg is the only daily email I actually get with some sort of news or missed memes and I enjoy it. People make fun of me for still using Digg, but it's just short enough to keep me up on what's the latest and 4 of the biggest news
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by CosmicShadow 2y ago
Yep, I have 2 accounts I use because I kept hitting limits. I was going to do the Teams to get the 5x window, but I got instantly banned when clicking the teams button on a new account, so I ended up sticking with 2 separate accounts. It&#x
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by CosmicShadow 2y ago
The point of an experience is totally about the experience, it's why I don't even take my phone out to take pictures or videos at a show. People get hung up thinking this is about "proving" you were at a show, they even
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by CosmicShadow 2y ago
Well if you've got a pile of ticket stubs that you've been collecting for 20 years and suddenly you can't keep that tradition alive, it kind of ticks you off. Sure you can start adding printed photos or something else, but it
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by CosmicShadow 2y ago
I've got a stub binder that started having print outs of tickets in it or post-it notes. When I would go back to see what I've been to and get a burst of nostalgia, I'd just get mad at the lack of ticket instead of the good m
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by CosmicShadow 2y ago
Thanks, I appreciate it! After many startups and business ventures to not get anywhere, it was nice to have one finally hit, and one that I actually care about too!
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by CosmicShadow 2y ago
I definitely think it's a minority, but even so it's a very large group of people that liked to save tickets. It's why I made Stubforge, so I could keep adding tickets to my own collection. I've got a lot of repeat custo

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