@paoloardoino So many cash QR apps in Asia and all so different. Still heavily cash dependent and high bank fees
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Simone Semprini
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Today is the last day of my Asia trip ✈️
USDT is already widely adopted in the region, yet so much more can be built here. Ubiquity is the mission.
Thanks for all the support ❤️
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@soyadimiyazamam @HarryStebbings Moving for tax residency can bring some headaches. If taxes were lower, I think most rich people will not bother. Tax authorities chase (correctly) those people a lot for years.
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If I was Nik I would have absolutely made the same decision.
18% holding of Revolut.
Company will be worth $200BN without a doubt.
$36BN position at that price.
His cap gains bill alone would be $8BN-$10BN.
Now in the UAE it will be $0.
The Labour government has to realise we are in a global war for talent.
Sad and mega loss for the UK.
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Leggo con stupore le parole della Flotilla che mi accusa di considerare “un pericolo” civili disarmati e navi cariche di aiuti.
La verità è semplice: quegli aiuti possono essere consegnati senza rischi attraverso i canali sicuri già predisposti. Insistere nel voler forzare un blocco navale significa rendersi - consapevolmente o meno - strumenti di chi vuole far saltare ogni possibilità di un cessate il fuoco.
Perciò risparmiateci le lezioni di morale sulla pace se il vostro obiettivo è l’escalation. E non strumentalizzate la popolazione civile di Gaza se non vi interessa davvero il loro destino.
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@glenngabe The problem is when there is no spam and only Google sees it. What do you do in that case?
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Regarding the August spam update, yes, sites can recover from spam updates. Here's an example of a site that dropped heavily with the December 2024 spam update that recovered in February 2025. If you address the spam and Google sees the changes over months, you can recover. That recovery was pretty quick IMO... it can take much longer for some sites (depending on what the problems were).
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@noelcetaSEO Problem is that most of the times, expensive SEO doesn't guarantee it won't happen. The best is no SEO agency, at least you don't pay somebody who can't guarantee you anything, because it all depends on Google's will
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@0xLewis_gg @levelsio Totally agree. It's so crystal clear when you are self-funded, even if everyone will find a reason such as the ads are not optimized, the budget is too low, the segment is not the right one, and so on.
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I was part of a team that launched a photo realistic AI image gen mobile app in 2022 and it was crazy how quickly the ROI on ads dropped over a few months as VC-backed companies ramped up their ad spend
The way the online ad market is set up these days basically means everyone bids up ad spend until they are breakeven on unit economics and all the profit goes to facebook/google
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I already tried ads repeatedly and ROI was always negative
I hired the best people in the industry and ROI was still negative
I think the reason is basic economics:
I compete with VC-funded companies with $100M balance sheets who happily enjoy negative ad ROI if it means growing their user base
They can pay $1 per ad, lose $0.10, make $0.90, and it's still good because it means GROWTH. And growth means being able to raise another $100M for the next round. Then at some point they try push to profitability and IPO!
I can't do that cause I'm self funded, so everything I do has to be profitable
If you're competing for the same ad slot with those companies, you can't economically have positive ROI for very long. For a while yes, not for very long.
Patrick Kelly@pjklife
@levelsio @linode @FAL If you invested in ads, your revenue may double or more and profit way up. Profitable paid ads are incredibly scalable, never skip testing that part.
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@SlackHQ I'm currently locked out from Slack account, cause SMS 2FA doesn't arrive. In order to contact your support, I must login. How is it possible you have such a loop in the login? I've spent over 1 hour trying to find a solution. There isn't even a way to approve login via the app. Can you please assist?
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@fripchoc @MichaelAArouet assuming you're going to get a pension in 30 years. That system will collapse way before
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@MichaelAArouet not an apple for apple comparison … the reason the charges are so much higher is because it is funding retirement, which is 2-5x better/higher than most countries on that list.
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@PierreDeWulf Totally agree. Same in all western European countries.
You go through that once, and you will never make that mistake again
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🇫🇷 In France, company pays 100k€, employee gets 40k€.
I've been sick with how much we gave to the state so our French employees can get top notch salary.
60%+ tax on yearly bonus cause it was above thresholds.
I'm never building a business in France ever again.
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Google calls the @pewresearch study on AI Overviews "flawed" and "skewed" - added Google's full statement to seroundtable.com/pew-google-ai-…
Barry Schwartz@rustybrick
New research from @pewresearch shows searchers are way less likely to click on links to websites from Google Search results with AI Overviews on the page than without seroundtable.com/pew-google-ai-…
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@IntrovertGeekUK Thanks for sharing.
It's hard to say if it was full HCU, Mar' 24 had very little impact on your site. But in fall 2023 there were so many updates one after the other that is very hard to tell.
Anyway, great that you are seein a partial recovery!
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Day 4…
Alright Google, now you’re just being silly
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@glenngabe Ok, I've read the articles. I think the benefits are really really little, if not negative for AI platforms. They are currently getting evrything from site onwers with zero effort and zero payment. Why should they invest into something like that?
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OK, who is with me? :) -> The Case for ASC: ChatGPT, Perplexity, and others need to build AI Search Console reporting ASAP to provide site owners much-needed AI Search data
In my latest post, I explain how AI Search platforms should build their own version of Google Search Console. I cover what AI Search Console (ASC) could contain, the value it would bring site owners, AND the value it would bring those AI platforms.
Like I said in my post, we need ASC... like yesterday. gsqi.com/marketing-blog…
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@eastdakota @lilyraynyc Thanks for what you are doing. I think Cloudflare solution might work for news publishers, if the vast majority signs up. While for many sectors, it's hard to see it working, since the content was already stolen and used for training. New content is not so common in those cases.
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@lilyraynyc We can announce any content from anywhere. So why does the US matter?
But also: quite a few anti-trust courts in the US looking for remedies. I have one I can suggest.
Again, I’m actually pretty optimistic that Google sees the writing on the wall and will do the right thing.
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What about in the US though 🙃
Matthew Prince 🌥@eastdakota
@forgebitz @rustybrick Worst case we’ll pass a law somewhere that requires them to break out their crawlers and then announce all routes to their crawlers from there. And that wouldn’t be hard. But I’m hopeful it won’t need to come to that.
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@lilyraynyc @aleyda The opt-out won't solve anything. Only Cloudflare recent proposal makes sense. Antitrust is so slow that by the time they take a decision, the web won't exist anymore as it is today..probably even Google will have become a chatbot.
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@CharlestonCraft Never trust the flat fee upfront. I've always spent money without thr expected outcome.
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@bryanfcasey Google is doing its best at making more money in the short term, since they fear to go bust soon. All updates and Google changes since ChatGPT went in that direction. The rest is philosophy.
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Google has the strongest incentive of any company for the web to remain a healthy and dynamic space (in a way other companies do not) and everything I’ve seen suggests that they understand the assignment.
I think they are doing what they need to.
JH Scherck@JHTScherck
OK, so now there's links in the snippet? Is this what everyone has been sweating over? I swear, this industry loves fear mongering while being in a perpetual state of self-induced anxiety.
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AI Overviews aren’t just good. They’re necessary for the long-term health of the web.
It is time for a thread about AI, search and really the (nearish) future of publishing and the web.
(and plz subscribe to the podcast at the end in case all our traffic goes to zero)
RANT…
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@levelsio you only need to visit 127 coworking spaces across 32 countries to realize none of them get it right - so you build your own
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Gym and coworking is such a great combination, lifting keeps your mind fresh to code better
My home has an entire 100m2+ / 1000sq ft+ floor with a professional weightlifting gym and a coworking in it, now under construction
Done in a few weeks and it'll have a power rack, plates, barbell, dumbbells, kettlebells, gym flooring
And then the coworking has 10Gbps internet, Starlink backup, Steelcase chairs (as X recommended), Brazil coffee beans, Hario V60 dripper etc.
Then also a massage room and when you walk outside from coworking/gym there is a salt water pool and jacuzzi and 6-person sauna (but it can fit more :D)
In the same space!
Better than any gym or coworking space I ever went!
Like this pic but much bigger
James Hardwick@jamesdh
@levelsio @johnny_makes @csonotes I’m half tempted to open a combo cowork + gym/box in Medellin. Offices upstairs, squat racks and platforms downstairs. The cowork spaces here aren’t great and the general purpose gyms are terrible. I know it’d never make money but if it could break even I’d be content 😂
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