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I wrote a long post about technicalities of becoming a contractor in the UK github.com/tadast/switchi… Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9726182

@adamwathan I'm working on something today that would be a perfect use-case for this, would love to test! GH: tadast

Quick ui.sh demo — generating multiple design ideas to choose from, no matter what tech stack you use:

The dumbest person you know is being told 'you are absolutely right' by some LLM right now.

@AceDailyX @MrBeast This guy would eat the marshmallow

@MrBeast Anyone choosing 50k a month just admitted they don’t trust themselves with 5 million. Freedom now or comfort forever, that choice says more about your mindset than your math.

If you won Beast Games would you rather take $5,000,000 upfront or $50,000 a month for life?

@MrBeast I'd have 1cent on day one that doubles every month for the rest of my life

@WISE16 @lb_southwark Yes, there was also another message saying direct debit payment failed, but it had a wrong amount. They must be testing a new system and mistakenly sending text to real customers 😅

Have anyone else got this text message from @lb_southwark council?

@johnrushx @levelsio to work around most of these problems would be financially unfeasible, at the moment.

@johnrushx @levelsio Very few employees would be willing to work from neutral waters/space. Nobody will do banking with you. Most countries won't allow you to operate/have customers in their territory if you're not legally established. Also, you'd be a perfect target for pirates and rogues states

Interestingly private companies might just bypass governments and nation states altogether by setting up their companies and offices in space Especially as taxes keep getting higher and higher to pay for unsustainable social welfare combined with AI job losses in the future The wealthy will first move to Dubai, Switzerland, Singapore etc. but further into the future maybe leaving for private space destinations will make more sense Just like sci-fi predicted and truly dystopian But governments have become so wasteful and corrupt on Earth that maybe the only way out is literally out

@r00k Do you see sauna as a utility or as a recreational activity? Depending on the answer, optimise for that use case! Or just build both if you can afford. I'd personally go for the lake view

I might use it more in the basement, but it'd be more special with the view. I'd probably use the basement one alone, but could more entice guests to the outside one.

Should I build my sauna in the basement we're finishing, or as an outbuilding with a view of the lake?

In the last 100 years, Russia has attacked at least 19 countries, some as many as three or four times. None of those countries has ever attacked Russia. - Kaja Kallas

@jasonfried It applies to hardware systems too. The number of times I've fixed a thing and was left with spare parts to wonder about is far from zero.

Is there a law for "the bigger a system is, the more likely any one part of it will be missed, ignored, not used, or underutilized"? If not, let's declare one and name it.

@aanand I think we should just put one massive rubber glove on the ground so that everyone's safe, not only this guy

Either works fine. The important thing is to only wear one or the other – if you wear both, they cancel out and you will die instantly.

"When I hear that Ukraine is supposed to hold elections, I respond that Russia should also commit to holding free and fair elections, which they haven't had for 25 years. We need to shift the focus to where the real problem lies." - Kaja Kallas.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk just dropped a truth bomb. He’s calling out the 'wait-and-see' crowd in Europe. Either we send the money to stop putin in Ukraine today, or our own kids will be bleeding on the frontlines tomorrow. No more excuses. "Now we have a simple choice: either money today or blood tomorrow. And I’m not just talking about Ukraine. I’m talking about Europe, and this is our decision, and only ours. I think that all European leaders must finally rise to this occasion. And that’s all I can say today." Tusk said in Brussels.

@strehldev When you give credit, you do it consciously. I can't help but notice David chooses to give credit and align himself with far right figureheads, even when they have a track record of doing the opposite of what David is arguing for. Surely there are better free speech activists?

@tadas_t @dhh He said Vance was right in Munich. Right about the things he said in his speech. Where did he praise Vance or his government. I can disagree with a person’s broader actions and still give credit when they present a good argument/point.

Europe has already slipped into the totalitarian shadow on speech. 12,000 yearly arrests in the UK for SoMe posts. Germany doing their best to catch up. France detained Pavel. Danmark convicting people for jokes. @JDVance was right in Munich. world.hey.com/dhh/europeans-…

@levelsio What has happened in the past with schemes like this is installers just bump the price and pocket the extra margin with little benefit to the end consumer

🇬🇧 UK will now subsidize AC installs for £2.5k Great work!

Half-Life is now 27 years old - released November 19th 1998

@levelsio I'm not a fan of communism, but if you have abundant or infinite resources and make them available to everybody it sorta sounds like ... communism?

I completely missed the opportunity to link planning with communism "Central planning" of course was the essence of communism Capitalist abundance and free energy means anything is available instantaneous and scales up to infinite customers instantly "Fully booked" is the epitome of scarcity and therefore communism

This shows what it means to be a democracy and part of the European Union: Lithuania’s GDP per capita is $29.3K, while Belarus’s is just $8.3K. Belarus could be where Lithuania is today — if not for dictatorship and the eternal Moscow yoke around its neck.

❗️Very important point by Lithuanian National Defence Minister Dovilė Šakalienė @DSakaliene: For Russia, strategic dilemmas are its tools, its weapons. Russia is very good at creating strategic dilemmas for us. Are we finally ready to create strategic dilemmas for Russia? The strategic dilemma is not less reward or more reward. The strategic dilemma is more pain or less pain. Therefore, until Russia feels that it will suffer consequences of its war of aggression that would impair its ability to expand its military power, everything else is just talk.