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merek commented on Highly sensitive people more likely to experience mental health problems   medicalxpress.com/news/20... · Posted by u/merek
merek · 6 days ago
> The meta-analysis of 33 studies, the first of its kind, looked at the relationship between sensitivity and common mental health problems such as depression and anxiety. Researchers found there was a significant, positive relationship between the two

> In the study, sensitivity was defined as a personality trait that reflects people's capacity to perceive and process environmental stimuli such as bright lights, subtle changes in the environment and other peoples' moods.

> Around 31% of the general population are considered highly sensitive

merek commented on Cloudflare recommends migrating from Pages to Workers   developers.cloudflare.com... · Posted by u/mmarian
merek · 14 days ago
I recently deployed a few static websites on Cloudflare. I use AWS as a registrar, and I had to use Pages since Workers don't support "Custom domains outside Cloudflare zones" [1]. There's no way I can transfer the domain since I have subdomains tightly integrated with AWS services.

If anyone from Cloudflare sees this, are there plans to have Workers support external custom domains, or is this a fundamental limitation of Workers?

[1] https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/static-assets/migr...

merek commented on Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big   eidel.io/exit-tax-leave-g... · Posted by u/olieidel
csomar · 17 days ago
This is fraud and you'll end up in jail. Your company is not "you". You are a shareholder but as a CEO, you should do what's best for the "company" and what you described is criminal activity to bankrupt the company.
merek · 17 days ago
It's not bankruptcy if the company has no liabilities. You're allowed to wind down a profitable company because you can't be bothered running it any more.

A question of legality might come from German authorities determining if this is solely to avoid tax, which is open-ended. It might be hard for them to make this argument if you can prove you transferred operations to country X to maximize company's growth, access local talent, closer proximity to customers etc.

Regardless, anther commenter pointed out that the exit tax applies to all companies that you own regardless of location. In that case, the approach isn't feasible.

Also it goes without saying, seek your own legal advice rather than trusting random comments on the internet.

merek commented on Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big   eidel.io/exit-tax-leave-g... · Posted by u/olieidel
merek · 17 days ago
There's a note at the end

> You could, of course, sell or wind down your company, which would solve all problems outlined here. But this is not an option for most entrepreneurs.

For a software business, you could presumably:

- Incorporate a company in your country of choice

- Transfer subscribers from German company to new foreign company (depending on payments provider, this can be a massive effort, for example, not a simple form field in Stripe).

- If new company incorporated in a country you want to live in, use it to obtain an investor Visa

- German company now has 0 in revenue, wind it down and leave.

merek commented on FDA approves eye drops that fix near vision without glasses   newatlas.com/aging/age-re... · Posted by u/geox
merek · 18 days ago
> The FDA approval comes based on trial data submitted by the pharmaceutical company, so it's worth noting that published peer-reviewed reports are yet to be published. Peer-reviewed publications often follow regulatory approvals, not precede them, which is common in the field of ophthalmology and dermatology.

Does anyone know the reason that data is published after approval rather than before? Seems illogical at face value, but I'm obviously missing something.

merek commented on What'll happen if we spend nearly $3T on data centres no one needs?   ft.com/content/7052c560-4... · Posted by u/rwmj
izzydata · 20 days ago
Unless something fundamentally changes I don't see myself ever spending a single dollar on LLMs.

If this whole endeavor somehow becomes profitable it will be a miracle.

merek · 20 days ago
Our chats might soon look something like this

Human: Provide some weight loss tips

AI: I'll get right on it! But before I do, have you had dinner yet? KFC's new finger-licking MEGA feast will bust your hunger for only $19.95. Click here to order.

merek commented on The largest map of the universe reveals over 800k galaxies   newatlas.com/space/larges... · Posted by u/thunderbong
Eddy_Viscosity2 · 2 months ago
Huh, I thought there would be more. Like billions of galaxies.
merek · 2 months ago
They only observed an area of sky approximately the size of "three full moons"

> By using the data from the James Webb Space Telescope’s 6.5‑meter (21-ft) mirror, scientists at UC Santa Barbara have surveyed 0.54 square degrees of sky, which is equivalent to the area of three full moons when viewed from Earth. Charting nearly 800,000 galaxies, the COSMOS-Web dataset covers almost 98% of cosmic history.

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