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Cost and scale aren't the same though

Correct, this is one guy doing an experiment sending a dozen emails out, and the other is ad companies sending to millions of people.

Ask Russia, they are making bank on it. Especially with the rubble not being worth much.

Are they? I would have thought that Russia's oil exports to countries that are ignoring/bypassing sanctions are far more valuable to them.

Of course, but the price increase of gold made their reserves that much more valuable. The worth of their gold reserves increased by 200B since 2022.

Stockholm syndroom, they are a captive audience, they already bought the stock.

Maybe they can also get FIFA Peace prizes next?

They should get UEFA peace prize to temporarily get off Greenland.

Not fucking-up in the first 8 weeks does not seem too difficult to achieve

It’s not difficult to achieve to setup a company within 15 minutes too but here we are.

If you're starting a business from scratch, that's 50% of what you do, and it lasts longer than 8 weeks.

Tariffs on Chinese EV cars that would obliterate the German automotive industry and economy?

Is that why Texas is gerrymandering their maps again? Is it to have "fair" elections?

Or why GOP legislatures in states like Wisconsin or North Carolina remove powers from Governor, AG and other elected positions only when Democrats win but not when Republicans do?

Why doesn't China gerrymander their maps?

Changing topics I see

Because they have the most fair elections. Duh.

Don't they also depend on chips for a lot of components?

Probably a lot more from TI and Intel than Taiwan.

I'd be curious how many of the design and verification (using computer vision) tools used at TI and Intel rely on on farms of stock GPUs thus chips still made in Taiwan. They might have in house chips just for such part of their workflows though, any insight appreciated.

The USD dollar sank -10% this last year versus the euro.

The Euro sank -10% this last year versus the Zambian Kwacha

Zambia doesn't actually matter though.

Yet it's a stronger performing currency

All you're saying is "it went up more". Still irrelevant impact in the world.

How could the founder manage to live his life with merely tens of millions of dollars. What a tragedy.

Did you miss the part where they paid millions to a jurisdiction where they didn’t actually conduct business? Or are you of the wealth envy “taxes as punishment” mindset that believes every dollar eared is one immorally coerced from others - because thats how your comment reads. Personally, I’d rather see that money redeployed either as local taxes or even just capital to be spent in the founders own jurisdiction.

> Did you miss the part where they paid millions to a jurisdiction where they didn’t actually conduct business?

You mean besides opening a company in said jurisdiction? They took advantage of said jurisdiction by incorporating there and then had to pay taxes for it. Seems pretty straight forward.


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