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Striime Logistics | Software Engineer (with AI/ML) | Berlin, Germany | Onsite or hybrid (come to Berlin from time to time)

Striime teams up with small and medium freight forwarders (think travel agents for cargo) to accelerate their outstanding customer focus with cutting-edge AI technology. Together, we're building the world's most customer-friendly freight forwarder. Our partners shine in relationship-building but often drown in paperwork and data shuffling. Striime’s AI copilot removes the toil from their workflow so that they can focus on their customers and partners.

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Karl Lagerfeld died in 2019, so I'd say he's not too bothered.

The discover page looks like a flow of SEO optimized AI-generated content.

They raised at EUR 240m valuation post-money. So, 43%.

The goal here is not to shrink the black market. It's harm reduction.

Can you give an example?

Yes, California's population is in slight decline, the reason is that California did not build nearly enough housing in the past decades, making it increasingly unaffordable to live there.

With a CS or engineering degree, it's also very easy to immigrate to Germany on a blue card, with a relative short path to permanent residency and citizenship.

Yeah, because San Francisco barely builds anything.

Some landlords are stupid enough to put it in writing.

You can beat it because you don't need a few years, acres of land, and a large amount of water.

It's not about loyalty. It takes time for a new employee to be productive, especially in senior and leadership roles where understanding the context of the company is important, and building relationships is key to you performing your role. If you're gonna leave after a year it's not worth it to invest 6 months or more on ramping you up.

People who buy art do not buy it because of the technical execution. You may need to execute a piece in some way to get a desired effect, but the technique is the mean not the goal.

This is not to take away from the achievements of AI. It's that creating pictures adhering to a prompt with some degree of creativity is very little of what art is. Maybe it will replace some part of commissioned illustrations where the artist's name does not matter (e.g. some avatar pic?).

We still value, financially, some material goods for much more than they cost to produce. Or for much more than their almost identical mass-produced counterparts.

I live in Europe and routinely do bank transfers in seconds on weekends.

It's also much easier to eat a very high amount of calories in relatively little volume, compared to any other time in history. It's very easy to eat thousands of calories in what would be a healthy volume of vegetables. Pack more calories and people will eat more calories before they actually feel full.

Do you have resources on the simplest way to establish a startup in Germany?

I am tempted to switch to Kobo just for the Pocket app.

What is your evidence of higher inflation?

You're talking about targeting a billion people. Who is that billion people? Is that the western world? Or people in the world with no cooking skills?

Do you have an idea of the distribution of cooking skills in the world / western world? How many people need to develop basic skills?

LGV Sud-Est, France's first and Europe's most used HS line, sees 240 trains/day/direction, with a capacity of 13 trains/hr, to be improved to 16 tr/hr in 2030. It's a trunk line with many different service patterns though, mostly linking Paris to southern destinations.

Playgrounds still look like this all over Berlin.

> The most common form of inflation is due to an increasing money supply

Not really. The money supply only affects inflation in that it increases demand for some things quicker than supply can meet demand. In that regard, untargeted stimulus money did that. Let's not forget though that there is also significant supply disruptions with covid, the war in Ukraine... There's also strong supply-side factors to the inflation we're experiencing.

The fundamental difference is that the US is the currency issuer of the USD, and that the USD is still overwhelmingly a reserve and trade currency for other states.

Neither of these are true for El Salvador and BTC.

Prices are a function of supply and demand, largely. New money being created and spent is only an issue when it durably creates more demand than supply can absorb. This is where inflation happens. With covid we had across the board stimulus that didn't care too much if supply was matching, but we also had supply disruptions everywhere.

This is incredibly hard (impossible?) to do in practice, but imagine that you create new money and use it to buy goods where supply can be perfectly adjusted in regards to demand. Now your money creation has zero effect on prices.

On top of that, a low level of inflation is actually a policy target. Low, but not null, because public policy wants to incentivize productive investment and not hoarding cash. And because deflation is much harder to curb (hello Japan) than inflation for a reasonably developed and productive economy.

Automation shifts productive labor to intellectual labor. A century ago value productive labor was probable 99%+ physical labor, but it's probably now much less.

China has a very short window of time before their demography crashes.

You can access EU-served data from all over the world, that's not a problem. What's in question is bringing data from EU residents outside of the EU to process it.

There are no citations, this is just wild speculation.

All European online banks can verify your identity with a video call in 5min. They check your info, your ID documents, that you are indeed the one holding these documents, and the security features of these documents.

The same rebalancing happened in Europe, and Europe doesn't have close to the issues the US has regarding supply chain. Europe's major ports are automated and operate 24/7, port to hinterland relies much more on rail than trucking. Overall, the US supply chain was already very fragile and outdated.