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keltex
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- keltex parentC# supports the "using alias" like this: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-ref...
- When you say "VAT" I assume your are in Europe? Aren't there ETFs in Europe that allow you to own gold that wouldn't required VAT payments?
In the US we have GLD and others that let you do this.
Also apparently in Europe and the UK there are "investment gold" coins that are exempt from VAT:
https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/932...
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/investment-gold-coins-and-vat-no...
- They are trying to close the de minimis exception which is a, "100-year-old tariff loophole that Trump wants to close."
https://www.theverge.com/news/605483/shein-temu-amazon-trump...
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- The biggest one I've run into is GDI support (Graphics Device Interface). This covers things like two-dimensional vector graphics, imaging, and typography. So simple things like transforming or drawing images are no longer supported.
There are decent third party open-source libaries like SixLabors/ImageSharp that have stared to fill the gap.
- In case you're curious what this costs: "In Canada, participants get invited through a local dealer and pay about half of the $20,000 cost to attend but the trip includes a plus one. Dealers often pick up the other half of the cost as a reward to a client for years of business or as a way to firm up future business. In the U.S., the cost is $14,500. It includes the full day of ice driving, two-night accommodations at Hotel Sacacomie, all airport transfers and meals. "
https://driving.ca/car-culture/speed-performance/lamborghini...
- You used to be able to deduct any consumer debt. But that stopped in 1986. The reason was "Congress believed deductions for personal interest encouraged people to consume and stifle savings."
https://www.telegram.com/story/news/local/worcester/2007/03/...
- Perfect example of this is google analytics. The depreciated Universal Analytics on 7/1/2023:
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/11583528?hl=en
But the API to access the replacement GA4 data is still in Beta: (for dotnet / go / python and node):
- I've been playing around with Swift and SwiftUI for the past few months and the thing that baffles me is why are certain features only available with a minimum iOS version.
For example async required iOS 15.0. Why is this tied to the OS? Why can't they include newer runtimes be downloadable like Node / Java / .NET etc?
Other examples are from SwiftUI. For example the NavigationStack appears much more useful than the older NavigationView but that requires iOS 16. Which means that you can't support anything older than an iPhone X.
- Related article: The reason why Billy Joel refuses to sell front row seats at his concerts
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/reason-why-billy-joel-refuses-s...
- I think the indended link was: https://old.reddit.com/r/dotnet/comments/16fu7o0/why_isnt_do...
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- This is something Google Cloud should learn from. It doesn't matter if product XX still makes money or fits in your business model. There are people who rely on it. And they'll remember if the vendor kept it running trouble free for years. They'll also remember if it was arbitrarily shut down or the price was suddenly increased by 4x and they had to spend many man hours migrating to another option. (Google maps api?)
Then in the future when that same person is responsibly for choosing a vendor for a new project, they'll remember.
- Reminds me of a SPAM email we get quite frequently, the "World Company Register". The attached PDF reads, "To update your company profile, please print, complete and return this form. Updating is free of charge. Only sign if you want to place an insertion."
Then at the bottom in tiny type it says that you've agreed to a 3 year insertion at 995 Euro per year.
I can see small businesses easily falling for this.
- My only concern with Expo is once you're using it, you're going to get charged per user and per update. It's $0.005 per user per update (plus additional bandwidth and storage charges). So if you have 100K users, that's $500 per update. One update per month would be $6K per year. So you have to factor in the economics of your app.
- Here's the actual paper that this article refers to:
- Same here with our website https://www.meetways.com. This product was created around the time google created their maps API. In fact we worked extensively with google to help them iron out some of their API issues. They even discuss our product on their blog: https://mapsplatform.googleblog.com/2008/10/geocoding-in-rev...
This site made a little bit of money, but not that much. But then 5 years ago google raised their prices so much that we were suddenly in the red. We had to drop the places API (replaced with Yelp) and the autocomplete API (we don't even use that anymore). Recently we've been moving to Apple Maps API which has a pretty generous free tier. Stadia Maps also looks interesting.
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