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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 something to make it better.
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 trust him, and if you don’t like it you can’t complain.
When SpaceX acquired xAI a few months ago, did a special committee of independent directors approve the transaction? Did Musk recuse himself from negotiations? Was the price set by independent valuation experts using a rigorous process? Did outside shareholders sue to block the deal? Stop. Musk wanted SpaceX to buy xAI, so it did.
[...] Surely SpaceX has created all that shareholder value more because Musk does what he wants than in spite of Musk doing what he wants; it is hard to accidentally create $1.75 trillion of value. SpaceX’s shareholders signed up for this deal — letting Musk cook — and have been rewarded;
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].
It is mostly just sports betting
https://closingline.substack.com/p/the-takeaway-kalshi-non-s...
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 upon an excluded commodity, as defined in Section 1a(19)(iv) of the Act, that *involves*, relates to, or references terrorism, *assassination*, war, gaming, or an activity that is unlawful under any State or Federal law.
Polymarket doesn't seem to care too much.
Makes it tempting to buy paid captcha solving just to enjoy life more
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 and introduce bugs" -- but proper observability, testing, and further prompting could fix those things in minutes to hours.
I was thinking about that the other day when I was automating a workflow: I hooked up Jira to Claude so that bug reports would automatically get a pull request. Opus 4.7 is pretty good at it. And compared to dev costs it's still quite cheap.
It's nice to not be distracted by simple bugs, but aren't I killing my own job?
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.
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?
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 discover new possibilities, but also assess whether new ideas are feasible.
Maybe I have a different understanding of "business context", but I would argue the opposite. AI tools allow me to spend much more time on the business impact of features, think of edge cases, talk with stakeholders, talk with the project/product owners. Often there are features that stakeholders dismiss that seemed complex and difficult in the past, but are much easier now with faster coding.
Code was almost never the limiting factor before. It's the business that is the limit.
Same in Germany and basically all of the EU.
DB machines have been accepting all sorts of cards for a long time (Visa, AMEX, Discover). Local vending machines might vary though.
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 profit the company should make.
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
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 compensation will not be paid. This threshold shall not exceed EUR 4 per ticket.
Sadly the MEPs cared more about railway companies than passengers.
and can only be cancelled in small windows a long time before auto-renew
any examples?
Amazon/Walmart
They are also in the advertising business. Walmart cleared $4 billion last year.
https://www.adexchanger.com/commerce/walmarts-ad-business-cl...
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 barcode that contains the URL to the image and the key to decrypt it. To upload the image into the cloud, the photographer will need to use a secure ID card to sign in.
https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/BSI/Publikat...
Was kinda interested in building software for this, but it feels like you need to pay a lot of people for fancy audits.
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 request examples would be convenient as well. I really don't know how easy or difficult your interface design is. It would be cool to see the API docs.
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.
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 all charging stations [0].
Supercharger in Germany are almost all open to third-party cars as well, though not as cheap as EnBW.
[0] https://www.enbw.com/elektromobilitaet/produkte/ladetarife
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 possession of the title at any time. So it will require you to go there in person.
Dealer plates cannot be used for export.
E2EE is not the default mode for Zoom.
Sucks because SES reliability is a mixed bag and more competition would be good.
But how can you be certain that the answer is actually correct instead of just sounding correct?
ChatGPT can come up with completely made-up answers that just seem right.
If lots of millionaires were losing money, everyone would say that the should have known better and had finance experts help them manage their money.
But somehow the same doesn't hold true for companies.
I would also like to add that the vast majority of people losing their money were not betting on a risky asset
But keeping all your money in one bank is surely a huge, obvious risk?
If someone’s bank goes bust they can loose a much larger proportion of their wealth
But only if they decide to hold their wealth in uninsured deposits to save money or effort.
If depositors aren’t protected, then it’s going to have a lot of downstream impacts
But doesn't that hold true for basically every situation where private companies lose money?
If my employer goes bust, then there is also downstream impact. FAANG laying off workers also has a lot of downstream impact.