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jeofken commented on US High school students' scores fall in reading and math   apnews.com/article/naep-r... · Posted by u/bikenaga
theF00l · 6 months ago
I find that very interesting and also thought of using Anki for that but decided it wouldn't be useful for me now.

Could you give me an example and how it helped you? Thank you :)

jeofken · 6 months ago
- memorising names and birthdates of relevant people - private life and work life - anything I’m looking up more than ~5 times can go in Anki - spelling of words I often misspell (eg bureaucracy) - when reading anything technical I need for my work or study I have Anki open and type in what I learn in QnA format, and I will never forget it but have it easy within reach for an investment of only a few minutes per QnA over its (and my) life time - just for fun, the cantons of Switzerland, landskap of Sweden, provinces of Canada, and states and capitals of the USA - NATO phonetic alphabet which comes in useful more often that you’d think

Life-changingly useful program for every aspect of my life, when I can finish it every day

My top tips:

- put all decks in a master “daily” deck using the :: syntax in the deck names. Otherwise you feel “done” when having finished one deck, and feel like not starting the next. Have only one goal - finishing today’s Anki - for that master deck (and every other deck) go Study Options > Display Order > New/review order > Show after reviews. Otherwise it’s hard to ever catch up when slipping behind. With this setting, the system becomes somewhat self correcting

My only regret is not being able to pay more than $25 to the developers

jeofken commented on Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big   eidel.io/exit-tax-leave-g... · Posted by u/olieidel
xenospn · 7 months ago
Doesn’t every country have an exit tax, tho? Some are worse, some are better, but this is always the case.
jeofken · 7 months ago
The EU forces every member state to implement an exit tax to trap entrepreneurs in a disadvantageous situation (Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive).

Some countries such as Sweden implements this only minimally - making capital gains of Swedish companies you hold realised within 10 years of moving abroad are taxed, so just don’t sell in 10 years but take out credit with those assets as collateral.

Of course outside the EU, such as Switzerland and the UK, these governments are not bound by EU rules and don’t impose exit taxes.

Which is why so many European millionaires are doing their best to live in these countries

jeofken commented on Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big   eidel.io/exit-tax-leave-g... · Posted by u/olieidel
chaosprint · 7 months ago
Norway also has crazy exit tax and wealth tax. I heard lots of complaints that this system makes it almost impossible to build a decent vc-driven tech startup.
jeofken · 7 months ago
Norway has a high wealth tax (it’s gonna be 1.1% of total wealth per year in normal cases), high capital gains tax, and an exit tax treating moving abroad as a capital gains event.

This means, if you start a not-yet-publicly-listed company, get investment at a high valuation (on paper), you must pay wealth tax as if you had that money liquid in your own name. But you don’t have it liquid, it’s yet just a valuation of a VC, so you are screwed.

This means any Norwegian trying to start eg a fast growing software biz must relocate to Sweden if they want to be close to home, or Switzerland more realistically, as swedens top income tax bracket is >50%.

Scandinavia is attractive as a destination if you are poor and especially from the 3rd world and could benefit from free government services and welfare, but for anyone entrepreneurial or already wealthy, there are many better alternatives.

jeofken commented on Engineered Addictions   masonyarbrough.substack.c... · Posted by u/echollama
EvgeniyZh · 8 months ago
Camera and video calls feels like two major drawbacks. Also I've heard there are NFC problems.
jeofken · 9 months ago
For me, one of the hibreak pro buttons broke (top left one).

NFC payment works fine, but using google wallet on websites seem to fail for me.

Video calls are fine but obviously black and white and frame rate is approx 10fps or something.

Huge life upgrade compared to LCD smartphones. I’m crushing books like when in middle school. Best practical change to my life in maybe a decade

jeofken commented on Engineered Addictions   masonyarbrough.substack.c... · Posted by u/echollama
closetkantian · 8 months ago
I'll tell you what's been working for me: an e-ink phone. It's a Bigme Hibreak Pro. The interface is a bit clunky but it gets the job done. Social media is just not fun on this phone. It's still very usable if I need it, however. I'm also knocking out books at a rate that I haven't in years.
jeofken · 9 months ago
Searched for “ink” in this thread hoping to find someone else who solved the problem like this

An e ink smartphone gives me hours of my life back daily.

Can not recommend enough

LCD screens attract us like ants to a dropped ice cream

jeofken commented on Germany's 'Deutschlandticket' helps environment – study   dw.com/en/germanys-deutsc... · Posted by u/rustoo
Etheryte · a year ago
Somewhat curious, how long is the list of "basically all the countries" really?
jeofken · a year ago
Maybe GP means country as in “Bundesland”, like how British people call their regions “countries“
jeofken commented on How Airbnb measures listing lifetime value   medium.com/airbnb-enginee... · Posted by u/benocodes
huevosabio · a year ago
Mega-tangent: As a host, I feel compelled to rant about Airbnb whenever they come up in a discussion.

The last 2 years they have _really_ moved to squeeze the hosts. The customer service has been demolished and they seem to have taken a stance of "the guest is always right". I've spent countless hours going through their customer service as a super host, so I know I have a decent amount of anecdata.

My suspicion is that they found themselves with more supply than demand, so they are "improving the guest experience" at the expense of the hosts. Since they are a quasi-monopoly (depends on the market) it makes sense for them to prune supply in exchange for better guest experience, a full market approach makes less sense since they make money in proportion to the total amount of money transacted (which as a monopoly it can optimize for in the way a free market can't).

But I think this will blowback sooner or later. The biggest value for an Airbnb guest is the review system that allows you to have some degree of certainty of what you are getting. The biggest value for a host is the massive global audience. But guests and hosts, pay a steep fee (17%!) for this. For well-reviewed, long-living stays (like mine :)), paying 17% is way too much to access this audience: the listing already has an online record that provides that quality assurance for the guest, and the host could spend that money on advertising.

So that's what many of us are doing, moving to PMS + paid advertising / SEO to diversify on distribution channels. I think there's an opportunity for capturing that semi-pro host market and bundling them in a similar offering that 1) doesn't squeeze them, 2) offers a proper PMS software, and 3) charges a flat fee instead of a variable rate.

jeofken · a year ago
PMS as in Pantone Matching System or Premenstrual Syndrome?

AirBNB can be equally frustrating for users as well. Recently ended up at night in a new city in northern Japan where the host told me the listing was at a different address, where I found nothing, and got only radio silence from the host. Every hotel room in town was occupied that night. Airbnb support, seemingly in far away India, told me to try contacting the host, and that was that.

Also recently stayed at a place with a dog that shat inside due to the owner not taking them out; due to politeness no one had complained in the reviews.

Also Airbnb lists one price but when booking it always ends up being way more with more fees added.

I’m using hotels.com with a filter for “has kitchen” these days, which was the only reason I used Airbnb in the first place

jeofken commented on A better build system for OCaml   blog.janestreet.com/how-w... · Posted by u/gaws
jlarocco · a year ago
Too bad they didn't use their namesake:

https://mercurylang.org/

Would honestly be a lot more interesting than Haskell.

jeofken · a year ago
Anyone coding Mercury out there?
jeofken commented on Is stuff online worth saving?   rubenerd.com/is-it-worth-... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
zdc1 · a year ago
These days whenever I read an interesting article, I will take 2 minutes to copy and paste it into my Obsidian vault under my Articles folder. I'll take care to paste the images as images (and not links) and make sure I've got the author and source URL at the top, and have my separate notes section link to it. It's a bit silly and obsessive, but given how transient content on the Internet is, I think it's necessary to make a copy of anything you care about.
jeofken · a year ago
In my day browsers could save an archive of a page

Is this still the case?

jeofken commented on Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone   play.google.com/store/app... · Posted by u/jarko27
jeofken · a year ago
For me the only really useful intervention was getting a black and white e-ink Android smartphone. I started to read a book per month and my short video watching time was decimated.

I got the Bigme Hibreak which isn’t the worst, but lacks recent android versions. Gives me hours of my life back every day, compared to the phone addiction I experience with my lcd colour screen smartphone

u/jeofken

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