thesimon

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by thesimon 23d ago
Can't comment on all European jurisdictions obviously, but a 1 person LLC/Ltd. is not a great shield in Germany. Usually they'll still consider the owner/director liable because they were making those executive decisions
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by thesimon 23d ago
> for which every consumer also pays. Idk, at least in Germany paper and (plastic) recycling is free. I only have to pay for organic trash and trash to be burned.
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by thesimon 26d ago
What about banking apps and stuff? Does the device binding still work or do you need to set it up again?
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by thesimon 1mo ago
> I have QR enabled payments available across maybe 10 different countries Any experience or rec's for Thailand?
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by thesimon 1mo ago
> Hopefully they allow foreigners some track to access UPI in the future. https://havemony.com Not cheap and only to business QR codes (so proper shops which probably will take credit card anyway), but it works.
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by thesimon 1mo ago
> the limitation of tourist wallets is that they can't be utilised for P2P payments - exactly what UPI is most used for across the country Same issue in a lot of Southeast Asia. After jumping through all hoops to get the correct app
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by thesimon 2mo ago
> 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 recently. After looking at the footer some "we
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by thesimon 2mo ago
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 Economist->Kindle transformation with Claude or some
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by thesimon 4mo ago
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 weird stuff, and you have to
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by thesimon 4mo ago
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_Nederland
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by thesimon 4mo ago
It is mostly just sports betting https://closingline.substack.com/p/the-takeaway-kalshi-non-s...
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by thesimon 4mo ago
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 agreement, contract, transaction, or swap based upo
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by thesimon 4mo ago
Makes it tempting to buy paid captcha solving just to enjoy life more
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by thesimon 4mo ago
> 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 application unintentionally a
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by thesimon 4mo ago
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 Groupon.
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by thesimon 4mo ago
> 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 experience? In $ or tokens?
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by thesimon 7mo ago
> 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 are, and what is possible. From there they can discov
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by thesimon 9mo ago
Same in Germany and basically all of the EU.
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by thesimon 9mo ago
DB machines have been accepting all sorts of cards for a long time (Visa, AMEX, Discover). Local vending machines might vary though.
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by thesimon 9mo ago
> 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 that owns all shares and thus can decide how much prof
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by thesimon 11mo ago
> 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
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by thesimon 11mo ago
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 a minimum threshold under which payments for c
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by thesimon 11mo ago
> and can only be cancelled in small windows a long time before auto-renew any examples?
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by thesimon 1y ago
> Amazon/Walmart They are also in the advertising business. Walmart cleared $4 billion last year. https://www.adexchanger.com/commerce/walmarts-ad-business-cl...
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by thesimon 1y ago
> 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 cloud and at the photographer you'll get a barcod
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by thesimon 1y ago
> 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 would already be useful. Some simple code or reques
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by thesimon 2y ago
> 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.
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by thesimon 3y ago
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 signup to something like EnBW, which you can use for almost
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by thesimon 3y ago
> 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 to the Zulassungsstelle so that you will not be in posses
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by thesimon 3y ago
Dealer plates cannot be used for export.

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