Have a look at HideAway VPN for some advanced split tunnelling - lets you create custom rules to route apps, websites, ports and IP addresses to different locations simultaneously, or block/exclude. So you set your rules up once and don't need to turn off the VPN to change them - it's like running multiple VPNs at once. Instant connection and great speeds too.
Did an experiment to give a software product a dark theme. Gave Both (GPT and Gemini/Nano) a screenshot of the product and an example theme I found on Dribbble.
- Gemini/Nano did a pretty average job, only applying some grey to some of the panels. I tried a few different examples and got similar output.
- GPT did a great job and themed the whole app and made it look great. I think I'd still need a designer to finesse some things though.
Exactly! Nothing if you don't ship physical goods.
I've been doing this for 24 years and only collecting sales tax for users in my home country. All other countries I just say on my invoice that any sales tax is included in the price. What are the going to do about me not charging sales tax in their country and remitting it? Come and get it?
I mean, I do understand if you’re big enough to be a target, but seriously, how is Germany or Taiwan or Argentina or wherever the fuck else going to 1) even know that I (a little US-based SaaS app doing under 8 figures in revenue) exist, 2) know that their citizens are paying me, 3) know how much, and 4) be able to do absolutely anything about it?
I’m genuinely asking.
For the pearl-clutchers here, I don’t do anything for GDPR for the same reason. Pass whatever laws you want in your county. Not my problem.
Are some of your customers buying the product as their business? Because if they put it in their expenses the record is there. If then for some reason somebody starts to dig you would be liable for all those taxes going back.
Sorry but these are laws those customers countries set and its not just EU. Every other country is now considering similar system because digital products is huge outflow of unpayed taxes.
Btw “not your problem” it would be if you were not doing bussiness with those countries. Nobody stops you to not sell to EU. Imagine you were buying physical product from EU. Would you also expect not paying taxes on it just because they are from abroad?
It’s not my problem because I don’t live in those countries, and their citizens are coming to me and purchasing something. It’s analogous to a citizen from Germany coming into my restaurant in Chicago, and then the German government declaring that I owe them taxes. Ridiculous. I’m not going to incur any extra work or cost just because some random other country decides that they deserve a cut.
Ultimately though, it’s not my problem because there’s no enforcement mechanism whatsoever, so I just ignore it. The bureaucracy on the other side of the world can stomp their feet all they want, but unless they have a way to make me pay it, I won’t.
It has everything to do with breaking laws conspicuously enough to get noticed. I’m sure the guy providing encrypted messaging thought he was doing nothing wrong, and I’d tend to agree with him.
Let’s not pretend govts have no tools. A friend once had their bank account seized by the state of California due to a moderate balance after six months.
I finally ditched Outlook last month - and settled on eM Client and it's really nice. It does a lot of stuff.
Outlook for years had these recurring issues:
- mail profile gets corrupted - requiring me to re-setup my mail accounts
- from time to time, emails would sit in the Outbox not going anywhere. Then I'd notice hours or a day later. Frustrating. Have to restart Windows to fix it.
Maybe the New Outlook is better, but when I first tried it, it was missing lots of stuff.
It still is. Complaining on the Microsoft "support" site for an MVP saying you should just stick to outlook classic and new outlook was only for home users.
They didn't respond when I pointed out the official notification that classic outlook was intended to be deprecated (and apparently now is)
This guy says a lot of interesting things, and I like the sound of his voice. But, googling for stuff that really quantifies these effects isn’t turning up much. Like if 130 kcal of almond get absorbed in one part of the digestive tract, and 30kcal get absorbed farther down, it still sounds like 160kcal of almond is going into the body, and has to come out somewhere else, or it’s going to stay in there.
I've listened to about half of each and I think I believe the spotify / Lustig argument more.
For example, around 25:00 Lustig claims...
"[fructose in] fruit is okay because of the fiber and the fiber is what mitigates the absorption
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you're feeding your microbiome. that frucose isn't for you."
And arouvd 10:50 Layne counters that
"I could find no evidence that fiber inhibits the absorption of fructose"
But searching for "fiber slows glucose absorption" on google scholar gives me a few frequently cited results [1], making me doubt Layne's research.
Also in terms of background, Lustig is a professor guest starring on a podcast sponsored by various companies (including one that sells supplements [2] [3]) versus Layne who runs a company that sells workout guides / supplements [4]. Not to say there's any obvious conflict of interest here, but I think the professor actively involved in research has more credibility.
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> [the 30kcal] has to come out somewhere else, or it’s going to stay in there.
That's a good point. I'd love to know what the practical difference between my gut bacteria consuming energy vs rest-of-me consuming energy is too.
But yeah Lustig saying sugar was as addictive as heroin also raised a red flag for me. Maybe true in a technical sense but definitely shows he's trying to push a point (anti-corpo maybe?).
You're absolutely right. Their website is terrible to book anything on or do any admin with, probably got many different antiquated systems in the background
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