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@AlexJonesax It works reliable but obviously if you can get full fibre it does not make sense at all
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Alex@AlexJonesax·
Has anyone in the UK gone for starlink (residential) over a traditional ISP? What have your experiences been - worth it?
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Vitalii Dodonov@vitaliidodonov·
I just finished writing my most valuable PDF yet: "From Zero To Launch In 10 Days: How We Beat OpenAI on Producthunt + Got 1,000 signups + $4K MRR" (36 pages). I might charge for this in the future, but for now… Reply "MRR" and I’ll DM it to you for free (must follow)
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@borekbruhh Germany on €50k: ~14.8% tax + ~21.9% social = ~36.7%. Not 52%. And the US is literally the only country with citizenship-based taxation. Trading an EU passport for a Georgian one, really? Just move to Cyprus or Bulgaria.
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BOREK@borekbruhh·
my german bro renounced his citizenship at 18 made $50k this year germany wanted 52% even if he moved abroad "wtf are you paying for?" "muhammed" a country he's never going to live in again public services he won't use infrastructure for people his government imported who didn't pay in who don't speak the language who outvoted him before he could vote he picked up a georgian passport in 2 months now keeps 95% of his income and sleeps fine most germans his age will work 40 years hand over half of everything they earn fund the country that replaces them end up minorities in their own neighborhoods he chose to leave at 18 after dropping out of high school passport shopping is the new patriotism
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Josh Pigford@Shpigford·
evernote is doubling the price of my subscription to an arguably insane price, even for a PE-acquired business. we've got 15+ years of docs stored there (huge % are scanned PDFs). trying to figure out my move here. i don't want another note taking app. i kind of just want a vault for dumping all our random document files (again, mostly PDFs) that's thoroughly indexed/searchable. big caveat: needs to be also be easily shared with my wife. wonder if there's something there from a biz perspective? 🤔
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@StefanGrub25828 @Defence_Index Germany is co-developing Tyrfing with Norway, but it won't be fielded until 2035 — so procuring Tomahawks as an interim long-range strike capability makes sense.
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Stefan Gruber@StefanGrub25828·
@Defence_Index why...why has germany still not developed it´s own cruise missile that can reach more than 2000km? they have some of the best engineers in the world and the war has started in 2022? why are their politicans so retarded?
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Defence Index@Defence_Index·
🇩🇪🇺🇸 NEW: Germany eyes 400 Tomahawks after US cancels missile deployment plan Berlin is seeking to buy 400 Tomahawk cruise missiles and 3 Typhon launchers from the US after the Pentagon scrapped its planned missile deployment in Germany. Defence Minister Boris Pistorius is expected in Washington to push the deal forward, with talks likely involving US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth. Source: Financial Times
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@doctoruklondon @Defence_Index Germany is buying around 600 Taurus Neo with delivery starting 2029. Keep in mind Taurus have half of the range of Tomahawk (Block V) so it makes sense to precure them to have credible long range capabilities.
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@vonderburchard Weiß man denn wie viele FP-5 so gerade produziert werden?
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Hans von der Burchard@vonderburchard·
Es verdichten sich die Hinweise, dass Putin tatsächlich einen Ausweg aus seinem ruinösen Angriffskrieg suchen könnte (vorsichtiger Konjunktiv!) Ein wesentlicher Grund: Die ukrainischen Langstreckenangriffe — wo Deutschland viel mitgeholfen hat — setzen Russland immer mehr zu. Dessen immense Größe und strategische Tiefe, lange ein Vorteil in der Verteidigung des Landes, wird nun zum Nachteil. Denn Kyjiw will Russland ja nicht erobern, sondern mit Luftangriffen die russische Kriegswirtschaft schwächen. Und Moskau hat nicht die Luftabwehr, um strategische Anlagen wie Ölhäfen oder Waffenfabriken quer durch das riesige Land ausreichend zu schützen. Moskaus Eliten scheinen gerade immer nervöser und unzufriedener zu werden. Selbst bei der Siegesparade in Moskau muss man Angst vor Angriffen haben — ein Ausdruck der Schwäche. Zugleich beißen die Sanktionen zunehmend. Die EU bereitet gerade ein 21. Paket vor, um Putin an den Verhandlungstisch zu zwingen. Dass Donald Trump diese Woche plötzlich so positiv über Selenskyj spricht, dass in Europa plötzlich Stimmen für eine stärkere Verhandlungsrolle (mit Russland) laut werden, fällt in diesem Zusammenhang auf.
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@_MG_ Did not just ping via satellite coms where he is?
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“Ghost Murmur” is wild. The CIA seems to imply they can detect magnetic signals from a beating heart at 40 miles range. All I can do is imagine all the other applications… many things that thought they were hiding may no longer be! So what I can glean from the article: they imply they are able to detect the magnetic signals (H-field) of a heart beat from 40 miles away. That’s something normal only doable across a few meters before the signal falls below the noise floor. Reading between the lines, it seems like they are probably using a distributed array of sensors, sensor fusion (h-field, e-field, motion, thermal, etc), and then add AI to infer the below-floor signal. H-field typically drops off very rapidly as it travels from the source, where E-field (typical RF energy) is what propagates very far. It’s a bit hard to imagine that even an array of sensors, sensor fusion, and signal inference is enough to pick up H-field at 40 miles without there also being some sort of physics breakthrough as well. Even in a barren desert that has the lowest noise floor you can find. But either way, the implications seem fun to consider. SCIFs rarely shield H-field emissions. Can their emissions now be picked up at significant range? Same for air-gapped systems. Did data exfil just get a lot easier? H-field propagates through all kinds of material, including dense earth. Do previously unknown underground facilities suddenly glow? All kinds of electronics that are viewed as passive because they do not transmit RF might be much easier to detect by simply being powered on. Maybe even passive detection of drones and aircraft? I have so many questions and so many ideas.
New York Post@nypost

'Ghost Murmur,' a never-used secret tool, finds airman in Iran: 'If your heart is beating, we will find you' trib.al/64PSElN

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@RasmusJarlov Could you be specific in which area Europe / NATO ex USA is inferior to Russia right now? I would argue in conventional warfare it is unlikely Russia would be more successful than in Ukraine.
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Rasmus Jarlov@RasmusJarlov·
How do we arm Europe quickly and build up a massive European defence Industry so we can be safe from Russia? The answer is: We cant. Not quickly. Sputhern Europe is still sleeping but Northern and Baltic Europe is wide awake and armring like hell. Several countries are now spending significantly more of GDP on defence than the USA. Finland is already strong and Poland is very close to being ready. The rest are on their way. But we need more time. Five-ten years from now, we will not need to fear Russia. They will be outmatched. But right now, Russia is a real danger. So what do we do? There are only two options: 1) Try to keep the USA as an ally for as long as possible until we are ready. That means keep stroking Trump’s ego and humiliate ourselves Marc Rutte style. Accept extortion, insults, threats and concessions while calling Trump “Daddy” and giving him made up peace prizes. The problem is: Even that is not going to work. Regardless of what we do, Trump and his gang will want new humiliations every week. Giving in to a ridiculously unfair trade deal did not make the USA friendlier to Europe. Doubling defence spending has not made them less hostile to Europe either. Nothing will. They hate Europe, support Russia and cant be won over. They will not be there for us, and Russia knows it. That leaves only one option: 2) Support Ukraine like our lives depend on it because they do. As long as Ukraine stand between Europe and Russia, we are safe. Russia can not even take Donbas from Ukraine and would be in way over their heads if they also had to fight the Nordic countries, Poland, Germany, France, Britain and Canada in Eastern Europe. We must demand that EVERYBODY in Europe contribute. No more free-riding from Italy, Spain and France. Not a eurocent in subsidies from the EU to traitors like Hungary and Slovakia before they also join. It is real. This is not a drill. It is time to step up. We can easily do it and I am confident, that we will. Glory to Ukraine and glory to Europe.
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Smart Money Crypto@Smart_Money·
Du bekommst 50.000 € Abfindung. 35 Jahre alt. Zwei Kinder. Hypothek läuft noch 22 Jahre. Dein Bankberater hat den Geldeingang gesehen und dir ohne zu Fragen einen Termin eingerichtet. Dein Kollege schickt dir den #Bitcoin Charts. Deine Frau sagt: Fass das Geld nicht an. Die Kinder haben auch Wünsche. → Bankberater: „Festgeld. 3,2 %. Sicher." → Kollege: „All-in $BTC. In 4 Jahren dankt mir deine Familie." → Frau: „Sondertilgung. Gesamtschuld 180.000 €." → Schwiegervater: „Gold. Hat schon immer funktioniert." → Kinder: „Wir wollen ein Pony!" Kosten 7.000 €. 50.000 €. Eine Entscheidung. Fünf Meinungen. Er sitzt abends am Küchentisch. Kinder schlafen. Excel-Tabelle offen. Hypothek, Zinsen, Inflation, $BTC-Szenarien. Er schreibt DIR. Was antwortest ihm? 👇
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@mayukh_panja Are you living in Berlin? The take is a bit off. The reality is that there are more people currently looking for well paid engineering jobs in Germany than there available and especially STEM graduates struggle to get hired.
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Mayukh@mayukh_panja·
I understand Germans are upset but let me point out some realities for you. It is really really hard to find young Germans with a STEM education in large numbers. Even for very well paying jobs you can only fill 30-40% jobs with Germans because it is not easy to find German software developers, statisticians, analysts, etc. There is a very specific reason for this which is not really discussed. Most back-office jobs are considered boring, unsexy, and uncool. They pay well but no one is going to think you are cool if you are a web developer. Go to a Berlin comedy club. You will find out which jobs are considered hip and trendy, and they are all in fashion, art or psychology. Crunching numbers using code is a back office job that offers no visibility. You are not going to be the face of the company, you are not going to be doing podcast tours. You come in, write code, generate spreadsheets and collect your paycheck. That’s it. That’s the job. And I have met so many young smart people who find this deeply repulsive and have actively walked away from these types of careers. A common major I find young people in Germany take up is Business Administration. It offers a pathway to consulting, finance and management. Jobs where you sit in board meetings, get to wear fancy suits and maybe travel internationally. Unfortunately in any economy consulting and management jobs are limited. You need a lot more people to do the actual dirty work, writing the codes, doing the analysis and building the product. Germany obviously has very smart people. The market however doesn’t really care how smart you are. It rewards grit, perseverance and discipline far more than raw intelligence. I kind of get it though. If I had grown up in a first world country I would have probably studied film studies, art history or psychology too.
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Germany has a shortage of workers - so it's turning to India for help bbc.in/4uJSNqn

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@itsolelehmann @cryptic_tits Same in Greece. They don't really use any Moisture Barrier when building the house so moisture in winter creeps up the walls. Would not say that every house has mold problems though. Condos also don't really have that problem if you don't live on the ground floor.
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Ole Lehmann@itsolelehmann·
@cryptic_tits many many housese have mold issues. more than i ever saw anywhere. and most people just paint over it^^ i know someone who got an expert to test every house and they werent able to find any without
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Ole Lehmann@itsolelehmann·
i've lived in cyprus for the last 5 years here's my (more nuanced) view of pros and cons: the pros: 1. people are insanely friendly. people genuinely talk to you in cafes and everyone is SUPER sweet to our baby 2. tax status is the best option in europe, both in terms of tax rate and flexibility (you only need to be there 60days/year) 3. weather is elite from april - june and september - december 4. there are few distractions, it's a great place to lock in, work out and work (but more in the cons section..) 5. living costs are decent (though been rising A LOT). 6. growing expat community (mainly germans in paphos, more russians in limassol) 7. slowly growing availability of organic food sources (still in its infancy tohugh) 8. pro business mindset (compared to other european countries, not to US lol) 9. I love the sea in cyprus (great colour and very clear!) , and they also have mountains too hike in troodos mountains 10. easy and fast to get any doctors appointment (and cheap!) 11. very safe, I would always leave my backpack with my car keys out in the open while swimming etc. low crime rate is awesome. 12. everyone speaks english! and very well. now let's get to the cons: 1. it's very hard to maintain friendships with the expats because MANY of them will be traveling outside of cyprus for 70% of the year. I personally want a place where most peopel stay permanently, not only a couple of months. It's ok if your 24 and nomading (which im not). 2. the sun is extreme in juli, august. especially with a small child thats kinda fucked and hard to navigate (UV index 12...) 3. it often still feels like 2018. in a good AND a bad way. there's not much to do compared to other places where I lived before. 4. you need a car (despite what people been telling you on X). sidewalks are often times fucked up, especially if you are pushing a stroller around 5. culture, music, art scene is extremely small. I love these things so it does matter to me. 6. there is no real big city in cyprus. something i'm genuinely missing 7. there's close to 0 significant companies here, no good events, tech ecosystem is very very small (despite what people try to tell you on here). on a world scale, cyprus doesn't matter at all 8. a lot of "entrepreneurs" coming here are coaches or actually employed to someone. I have met 10x more interesting entrepreneurs in big european cities in a days vs in 6 months in cyprus. there are some but it's far from a "tech hub". might be skill issue on my end lol 9. there's a lot of dodgy shit going on with casinos, russian money in cyprus. but I guess that happens in many countries 10. its an island, so everything needs to get imported. many shops don't ship to cyprus. there is no amazon (only if you order from a different country + pay the shipping 11. cyprus is very far away from the pulse of culture, it mostly feels like every trend is happening 5 years later here 12. lots of mold in almost EVERY house. cheap build quality and a lot of cookie cutter ugly investment properties 13. very close to the wars in the middle east 14. there no great architecture in any city my tldr: we're looking at other options in europe right now, but we might stay here and just move to limassol but a kind of house I want is probably 6-9k/month so it's expensive af there (over 2x-3x from paphos) personally, I mainly miss the vibe and drive of a more metropolitan city but that's just me! the main factor I don't like is how so many people only stay a couple of months in cyprus, making it hard to compound and friendships but people like @marclou moving here def make me want to stay more :D
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@studioanf @itsolelehmann I visited a few schools last autumn to check them out for my kids. Heritage school and Pascal in Larnaca are the best. In Paphos probably Aspire. They are surprisingly affordable compared to international standards. Would not recommend ISOP.
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A N F@studioanf·
@itsolelehmann have you researched international private schools? thanks a lot for your impressions. i can live with most things, right now the proximity to the middle east has me a little worried.
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@akarlin You forgot one major positive: no honking in traffic
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Anatoly Karlin 🧲💯@akarlin·
I have been in Bangkok for a week now. Doing touristy things aren't a priority, because I plan to be here and in SEA broadly for a long haul. I am mostly focused on just observing and vibing with the place, so here are my impressions so far. * Thailand, and SEA broadly, likely have the best price to quality ratio on the planet. This is the primary reason why I decided to relocate here. In Bangkok, you have a relatively clean, well-functioning, and low crime megapolis with near Third World prices for rent and food. - Street food - healthy, delicious, and optionally spicy - costs nothing by developed world standards. That chicken and rice dish with broth on the side in the photo below? $1.85 (60 baht). A dozen prawn shumai for like 100 baht. Three small satay skewers for $1 (30 baht). - The 7-11s stock those Japanese crustless egg sandwiches for $0.75 or 27 baht (I like them a lot, bread crusts are a federal psyop). Incidentally, these 7-11s are everywhere, they are like the Zabkas in Poland, there's apparently more of them in Thailand than anywhere else outside Japan. Cappuccinos can range from $1 to $3.5. The cheapest (drinkable) cappuccino I know of in SF is at the Capital One cafe for $2.87 and that's if you have their card. Singha 0.5l beer can is $1.7 (55 baht) and they have some nice local IPAs which are only modestly more expensive. - Obviously, there are more upscale places. Sit down indoor restaurants are pricier. Still, I had a blue crab curry for 620 baht at a relatively upscale restaurant. - Not that I care about this, I am mostly just interested in the food itself. But the quality of service at restaurants is way above anything you see in the US and Europe. (The US itself having plummeted to European levels over the past decade). At least for foreigners life is frictionless, much lower risk of career ending cortisol spikes. - Very nice Airbnb condos in serviced highrises with rooftop pool and gym for $1200/month. (I understand these can go as low as $800/month if on a yearly lease... I will look more into this in a few months). I can live in comfort here for prices I was paying for rooms in crowded group houses (in between occasionally bumming around offices) in SF. - You can get a 5 star hotel room for as low as $120-150/day. (This is budget inn tier in the US). - Cuisines. The cheapest food is (obviously) Thai, Chinese, and (surprisingly?) Japanese, if we're talking of street food and basic holes in the wall. Indian food is (surprisingly?) quite a lot more expensive. I guess it never really caught on with the locals so it caters to Indian expats and tourists. Thanks to the expat population, European staples are very easily available, if modestly more expensive than the local cuisines. This changes when some cuisine pretty much exclusively caters to expats (e.g. Mexican), as well as steakhouses. These are one of the rare categories that are more expensive than in the US. * You get a two months visa on arrival, which can be extended to three months. However, the real draw is the DTV (Destination Thailand Visa), which gives you pseudo-residency rights for 5 years, the only requirement being to cross the border once every 6 months. To qualify, you need to maintain $15,000+ in your checking or savings account for >3 months, as well as to satisfy one of the following conditions: (a) Be a freelancer or content creator with a portfolio that you can present as proof; (b) Have a remote job; (c) Learning or promoting Thai culture, such as attending Muay Thai or Thai language classes. This seems relatively easy for anyone in the First World with some minimal degree of agency to satisfy, and the DTV strikes me as OP relative to other such nomad visas such as the ones in Portugal and Mexico. Standard practice is to go to Vietnam and apply for the DTV from there, and that's what I intend to do in a couple months' time. * There is a large Chinese minority, about 10% of the population. The Thai Chinese, unlike Malaysian Chinese, are integrated into Thai society, and as in the rest of SEA, own some ridiculous proportion of the economy. Unsurprisingly they seem to be overrepresented in central Bangkok. * Bangkok is a massive expat hub. There are plenty of Americans and Russians (I heard close to 100k), many Europeans, large numbers of recently arrived Indians (goes to show that this Indian wave is truly global), and a lot of mainland Chinese and Japanese (who are less visually noticeable for obvious reasons but are similar to Russians, Americans, and Indians numbers wise). I would estimate 5% of the population are expats in the central areas, and I assume similar percentages in the resort cities. While many of these expats are probably not exactly "Elite Human Capital" types (basically various kinds of "content creators" and people who claim they are "building" things on their Macs and are "into crypto" which tbf describes myself to a good degree as well) I do think they're a notch or three above the Dubai set. * Unsurprisingly, crime appears to be very low. Funnily enough, a young Arab man pretending to be from Dubai did try to scam me by requesting to take a look at my Thai banknotes (this is the so-called "Dubai family" scam where they discretely pocket some of those notes if you're foolish enough to give it to them). I am quite skeptical by nature and very alert to scams so it was never likely to work on me, but I suppose they must catch some fish from time to time if there are actual immigrant gangs who specialize in this in Bangkok. The other slightly unpleasant experience was with a boorish and I suspect mentally ill Russian man who loudly pestered me and other randoms with strange conversational approaches. So 2 negative encounters, both with foreigners, but nonetheless a refreshing change from America's street-shitting hobos and problematic groups that are impolitic to mention. * Nobody is going to write home about the architecture. Bangkok is not a beautiful city. There's only one and a half proper parks in the center. But on the plus side, housing policy is full YIMBY and rent is extremely cheap. You can get a cheap studio in the suburbs for less than a trailer park spot in the US. Public transport infrastructure is good, though it is way too car centric and hot/humid to be comfortably walkable. I can easily do 25,000+ steps a day in SF or other temperate cities, but here I am knackered after 10,000. Perhaps that will change as I get acclimatized to the tropical hothouse, but nonetheless, so far as I personally am concerned, the climate is the single biggest negative. I am not a fan of the tropics. YMMV. * Surprisingly few Thais speak English (big contrast from Morocco, a curious nation of polyglots). Younger people, and employees at more exclusive restaurants and hotels, do speak English, but real fluency is otherwise quite rare. (I can only imagine what it is like in the small towns and rural areas outside Bangkok, Chiang Mai, and the coastal resorts). If I end up staying here, I will probably have to brute force learn some basic Thai, if only to make everyday interactions less awkward. Most Thai Chinese do not know Chinese (unlike Malaysian Chinese). This is probably good for Thailand, as its society is not ethnically fissured like Malaysia's as a result, but it is less convenient for me personally as I know some basic Chinese. * Another unsurprising observation, Thais are placid and quite orderly. They understand queueing. Polite (they call their country the "land of smiles"). Very clean relative to its GDP per capita - more so than the Balkans or Turkey; way more so than Morocco. (I hear they differ a lot from Vietnamese). The streets are often gridlocked, but drivers are not aggressive. Crossing the street is reasonably safe and stop signs and lights are respected. Very different from Arab countries where they are a suggestion at best (I lived some time in Casablanca). * Many establishments advertise themselves as LGBT friendly. (Thailand was the 3rd country in Asia after Taiwan and Nepal to legalize gay marriage). I saw color coded recycling bins for different kinds of rubbish. Quite curious and endearing to see an $8000 GDPpc country aspire to $40,000+ GDPpc cultural practices. Overall, a very curious mix of First World (boutique establishments; SAPL/SWPL culture; the gay stuff), Second World (solid infrastructure; nationalism and lese-majeste laws; 0.8 children per woman TFR), and Third World (ubiquitous street food; cash heavy economy) attributes "with Asian characteristics" (malls as centers of community life; love of cold sugary drinks; animal cafes). * Thailand vs. Vietnam? So far as I'm concerned these are your core two options in SEA. Cambodia is too poor and outright Third World. Laos and Myanmar? LOL, gl. Malaysia perhaps okay for conservative family types, excellent infrastructure, KL is even marginally cheaper than Bangkok despite Malaysia being quite a lot richer ($14k GDPpc), but ultimately, it's a pretty rigid Muslim society that most Westerners will have trouble adapting to. It's more conservative than Turkey, and I suspect even Morocco. I am mostly only interested in visiting it to see Balaji's Network School. (Why is Thailand poorer than Malaysia? I have some extensive thoughts on this, but this post is too long already. May revisit at the blog.). So returning to Thailand vs. Vietnam. Thailand is richer ($8k vs. $5k GDPpc); infrastructure is more developed - Bangkok has an extensive light rail system, while Saigon is just beginning to construct its equivalent; digital nomad infrastructure is way more developed; Thais are reputed to be more orderly, quieter, and cleanlier. Vietnam is considerably cheaper - I suspect it's the cheapest country anywhere that is not blatantly "Third World"-coded - and Da Nang in particular appears to be what Bali was 15 years ago (though it has been "discovered" by influencers in the past 2 years). Worse, in Vietnam, you are still dependent on the vagaries of immigration control tolerating your visa runs, whereas the Thai DTV has made digital nomadism safe and predictable. Personally, I don't think the cost savings in Vietnam relative to Thailand (Thailand being very cheap anyway relative to Western baselines) are worth the extra hassle of Vietnam's more visible "Third Worldish" vibes, undefined legal regime for digital nomads, and lesser political freedoms (it being an actual Communist state). Nonetheless, I will likely be in Vietnam this May, which will give me an opportunity to refine these thoughts. * Obviously, there is no comparison between Bangkok and SF, or other major world cities like NYC, London, even Berlin, for "Elite Human Capital" concentrations. Tokyo overshadows it in East Asia. OTOH, a question that some may consider asking themselves - how often and frequently do you NEED to commune with EHC? We live in an age of extremely cheap, almost free, air travel. US - SEA return flights can be found for as little as $700 (and potentially much lower if you invest some time into researching how to stack credit card benefits). But even $700 is the monthly rent differential between a very nice high-rise condo in Bangkok and a cramped group house in SF! Obviously, this doesn't apply to startup founders and the like who actually have to constantly network with VCs and researchers and lawyers and so forth (or very wealthy people, or people whose jobs require physical presence). However, if you're at the level of personal wealth where staying in group houses is advisable in SF, but would likewise having appreciate having your own apartment and time-saving amenities in order to be more productive - again, cooked food, cleaning, taxis, transport, clubbing, weekend getaways to other cheap SEA and East Asian destinations - are all massively cheaper than where you live, then SEA is wildly competitive. This is ultimately the main reason why I moved here, even though I expect to fly back to SF 1-2x a year since I am still involved with various events and organizations there. Only time will tell whether this will be sustainable, or a failed experiment.
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Anatoly Karlin 🧲💯@akarlin

Serious Q, where in SEA should I hunker down for several months to finish my IQ/acc book in 2026. Somewhere cheap, civilized, safe, warm in winter. Friendly visa run policies. Won't confiscate retard vials. Mostly trying to decide between Chiang Mai and Bangkok tbh.

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@mschmidtxr1 Nice. Meine BMW Werkstatt holt meine Fahrzeuge von zu Hause ab und stellt es einen Tag später wieder vor mein Haus. Die Teile sind im Lager vorrätig.
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Michael Schmidt
Michael Schmidt@mschmidtxr1·
Außerhalb der Tesla-Community hat man keinen Schimmer, wie weit man zurückliegt. "Ein normaler Händler hätte das nie getan." Mein Sohn sagte dies, nachdem er heute Morgen sein Tesla Model 3 beim Tesla Service abgegeben hatte. Der Tesla-Service beginnt, sobald Sie den Termin buchen. Fragebögen, Anfragen nach Zeitstempeln und zusätzliche Optionen erscheinen fast sofort nach der Buchung. Teile werden oft im Voraus bestellt, basierend auf Autoprotokollen oder Benutzerbeschreibungen. Der Check-in-Prozess ist nahtlos und einfach. Sie müssen nicht hineingehen, wenn Sie es vorziehen. Sie können Reparaturen in der App verfolgen. Brauchst du eine Mitfahrgelegenheit? Das können sie auch tun. Wir checkten um 8 Uhr morgens ein und waren um 8:25 Uhr fertig, einschließlich einer technischen Fahrt. Die Abholung ist ähnlich einfach. Egal, ob Sie ein Leihgerät zurückgeben müssen, eine Mitfahrgelegenheit bekommen haben oder in der Lobby warten, Sie können es einfach abgeben und losfahren. Sprechen Sie nur mit jemandem, wenn Sie Fragen haben. In der Zwischenzeit beginnt Legacy Auto nicht an Ihrem Auto zu arbeiten, bis Sie es abgeben. Keine Vordiagnose, keine Teilevorbestellungen und keine berührungslosen Serviceoptionen. Nur ein kleiner Aspekt des Tesla-Eigentums und was ihn anders macht.
TechOperator@TechOperator

“A regular dealership would have never done that.” My son said this after dropping his Tesla Model 3 at Tesla Service this morning. Tesla service starts as soon as you book the appointment. Questionnaires, requests for timestamps, and extra options appear almost immediately after booking. Parts are often ordered in advance, based on car logs or user descriptions. The check-in process is seamless and easy. You do not have to go inside if you prefer. You can track repairs in the app. Need a ride along? They can do that too. We checked in at 8AM and finished, including a tech drive, by 8:25. Pickup is similarly easy. Whether you have a loaner to return, got a ride, or waited in the lobby, you just drop and go. Speak with someone only if you have questions. Meanwhile, legacy auto does not start working on your car until you drop it off. No pre-diagnostics, no parts preorders, and no touchless service options. Just one small aspect of Tesla ownership and what makes it different.

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Till@knuesting·
@Jack_ng01 The obvious answer is to look for a better one and give him enough equity so won't leave.
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JACK The Builder™
JACK The Builder™@Jack_ng01·
So my backend engineer called my day before yesterday to inform me that he will be leaving the company 😔 He just signed a contract with a canadian company as their new CTO with 20% stake and $20k monthly pay I have been processing the Information since he Informed me and I don't know what to even say Have never worked with anyone half competent as this guy Was even discussing our new phase of development few weeks ago and immediately I mentioned what I want us to build, he said "mad ooo; let's build" I don't know if I should be happy for him or what I'm expected to do now? This is more than a heartbreak to me Working with someone that knows what the hell they are doing and also believes in your project is a bliss; I experienced it first hand with this dude! Nwanne, adim grateful but what should I do now 🥹🥹🥹🥹
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Till@knuesting·
I love Bangkok 😘
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Vitalii Dodonov
Vitalii Dodonov@vitaliidodonov·
Most people take 6+ months to hit $10K MRR. I did it in 14 days. My "14 Day Revenue Launch Blueprint" breaks down every single step so you can do the same. Follow me + Reply "10K" and I’ll DM you the link right now.
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@bardonadam Where are you moving to in Bangkok? Sathon?
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Adam Bardon 💡
Adam Bardon 💡@bardonadam·
I'm moving to Bangkok! 🇹🇭 - DTV visa secured ✅ - 1 year lease signed ✅ - $0 MRR 😅 I'm super excited! I spent there ~140 days last year, met some amazing people and indie hackers, made a lot of friends and it just feels like home. But it also feels quite bittersweet. I love the city where I live right now(Brno 🇨🇿). I have this very cool office/music production studio, bunch of guitars and solid home theatre/audio setup. This Means I have to sell a lot of things. The money will definitely come handy, but still... I almost shed a tear when I sold my bass guitar today. Brno is great, but I moved here because of my ex, with not many friends here... I met a lot of great people, but nobody is a builder. Nobody can relate to my situation and I can't relate to theirs. That's why going to place with big indie hackers community feels like the best step for me right now.
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