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its a different business model? IBs dont generally hold debt to maturity. they underwrite the debt then gradually sell down in the weeks/months following the deal. their business is making money on the spread/underwriting margin.

You understand that all business activity in an economy is driven by consumers. Everything is downstream of consumer demand.

It’s extremely good. Chinese, Japanese, Korean. Had multiple instances of confusion because the counterparty thought I was actually a native speaker because we had only communicated over text. Both commercial and social contexts. Translation is now effectively solved.

Edit: I should add like all LLM usage, you need to prompt well. I also like to run the translation back through DeepL for a more traditional technology read on it and to identify any obvious issues.

they don't light it on fire. it circulates in the economy. plenty of working class people doing enormously well from the data centre, chip production build out.

Make an educated guess.

So I assume everyone in your utopia is still writing code onto punch cards?

Do you think the company that pays your wage thinks the same?

What’s the issue? They didn’t like your licence terms, and rewrote the library under a permissive licence? You don’t have a right to users or an audience.

Literally what? Do you understand what is being proposed?

I'm sure all of them will move back to earn 60k euros instead of us$400k+

Are you trying to be deliberately obtuse? Obviously, you can fudge the number with assumptions around churn rates/etc, but of course an investor would want a view of the rough 12m state of the business.

You're just going to Galapagos your economy. Consumers won't put up with high prices and inferior goods. Unless you want to restrict internet/information access so your consumers don't know what they are missing out on.

No meaningful amount of iPhone users use Brave.

Yes? Commercial leases (and residential for that matter) commonly have increase clauses that operate automatically (CPI, 3/4/5%, market review, etc).

Peak European comment

You have autism, right?

Your imagined past was enabled on the back of exploitation poor people and minorities.

it also helped that the government stuck the equivalent $1T+ debt for building the highspeed system onto an off balance sheet entity before privatising the JR companies. so investors picked up the (barely) cashflow profitable lines without construction debt.

>Economic benefits can not justify the deaths of people

This is a absurd standard. Humans wouldn't be able to use power stations, cars, knives, or fire! Everything has inherent risk and we shouldn't limit human progress because tiny fractions of the population have issues.

What on earth are you talking about? 1) card collecting isn't gambling because there is no expectation of winning money, 2) Baseball and sports cards have been a thing for like 100 years at this point.

Based on OPs location and some of the marketing comments on their site, they probably think the Pope is the Anti-Christ.

GDPR is in the process of being unwound by the EU as it has been an unmitigated disaster.

It can’t be. Those uses are suboptimal, hence the users aren’t willing to pay the new prices.

Sounds pretty human like! Always searching for a shortcut

It's not a "processing fee". It's an distribution/access/market fee for the captive audience that Apple has spent tens of billions developing and supporting.

If you think you can make any money selling software on the internet and paying nothing other than $0.35 + 1.7%, think again.

Have you looked at a website in the last 10 years?

I bet they weren't as valuable as you think. This is a common issue with certain high performing line delivery employees (particularly those with technical skills, programmers, lawyers, accountants, etc), they always think they are carrying the whole team/company on their shoulders. It almost never turns out to be the case. The machine will keep grinding.

It's like half the poster on here live in some parallel universe. I am making real money using generated image/video advertising content for both B2C and B2B goods. I am using Whisper and LLMs to review customer service call logs at scale and identity development opportunities for staff. I am using GPT/Gemini to help write SQL queries and little python scripts to do data analysis on my customer base. My business's productivity is way up since GenAI become accessible.

He rolled away on his heelys.

I recently bought a handheld spectrophotometer for work (color assessment). The product from the leading US company (X-Rite) is ~US$15k in my market. I bought the Chinese equivalent for US$3k. Maybe if I needed guaranteed nine 9s of colour accuracy the US product would be worth it, but for 95% of users in the market, the Chinese product is more than fine.