We’re talking about Twitter. Mastodon exists. It is not about making software. Maybe about selling it or marketing.

You probably think about Munich and LiMux. Well, Microsoft had to move their German HQ there to get them back.

And at the same time, Germany spied on Obama.

Ack. I went down that rabbit hole to "just" build a static Python: https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/python_bazel.html

For GitHub just use Jekyll provided by GitHub itself?

Gold price is high, so why not just sell it?

Meanwhile Germany could silently buy gold at home and let the market handle where it comes from.

You also need to build the infrastructure to take on 1,000 tons of gold. I doubt that's done in a month. IIRC, London has the biggest storage after NYC, so that's probably where it'll end up in the interrim. Eventually, I'd guess Switzerland will rise to do more gold storage.

We're essentially creating the same scenario as WTI vs Brent oil, where gold is partitioned into multiple different products depending on location.

At that scale, I'd bet that selling (even if buying at home) would be obvious to professional traders in the gold market. And quickly hit the headlines.

Which is exactly the scenario you'd want to avoid, if you were concerned that a certain President might decide that "your" gold, locked in "his" vault, meant that he had you by the bars.

In my memory, the original vibe of Ycombinator was more like "achieve fuck-you money in your twenties" than today's unicorn chase.

It is the classic justification of the big bad evil guy.

When you reduce it to that tagline, what other people want or need is an obstacle.

I recently discovered these: https://www.schenker-tech.de/en/

Is my primary user agent, my web browser, still allowed? /s

Maybe if you'd actually read the agreement

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