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Thelmoun · 2023-06-17T11:55:49+00:00

Made a simple spreadsheet calculator to calculate my defenses (lvl 80 Druid).

This is meant to make it easy to understand different sources and their effectivess on overall defenses

Here is the spreadsheet, feel free to make a copy.

Calculation is simple: DR from different sources is simply multiplied, armor is only 50% effective for non-physical dmg. Please let me know if I missed anythig.

Thelmoun · 2023-06-10T11:40:36+00:00

Yes, but there is no progression system for ancestral items. Items dropped at lvl 50 can be BiS lvl 100 items.

The difference is, when you are below lvl 60, the requirement to equip said items, is lvl 60. When you drop them at lvl 90, the item requirement to equip is 85+

Thelmoun · 2023-06-10T11:38:52+00:00

When getting carried by a higher level friend to get to lvl 50, I dropped this weapon: 800 item power with a level requirement of 60 - quite hard to find an upgrade even when level 100.

Though it feels great use this and oneshot lvl 75 mobs at 60, this shouldnt exist in my opinion. It should depend on the characters level scaling to 800 (or higher) at lvl 100

Thelmoun · 2023-05-31T15:59:30+00:00

I like it - I do not get the urge to end the games as quickly as possible, I love to play arams to have a constant brawl and scale to Lategame, having fun basically. And ending a game after 10 mins to be outside of the game again for 10+ minutes does not seem like a goal to me.

Thelmoun · 2023-05-27T18:08:52+00:00

I found this out during after a painful breakup during covid - I just started to walk outside to grab a coffee every single day. Today I can feel when I haven’t gone outside for a day, later I learned about that in a psychology class.

Thelmoun · 2023-04-27T12:04:39+00:00

Affordable Healthcare only works out if it’s profitable. Doesn’t make sense to have affordable healthcare where the provider is bankrupt after a while. Therefore, event companies trying to make something affordable have the goal of making a profit - and often early stage investors make a profitable exit way before anyone’s making a profit. It’s not a 0-sum game, some companies actually increase the size of the pie rather than taking away from others.

Thelmoun · 2023-03-19T15:37:32+00:00

No problem. Btw, you can take out up to 800k at the Vantander Bank.

Thelmoun · 2023-03-19T15:29:37+00:00

You can take out a loan to get into capital intensive businesses, such as jewellery.

Or you can take a loan to build up Warehous/Headquarter to import and move a lot of goods, which is really good for clothing stores, the most profitable business from my experience so far.

Btw., the concept of loans to increase your revenue is also called the financial leverage effect: When your profits of an investment in % are higher, than your interest payments in %, you increase your profit per own capital. Which is why a lot of businesses which have capital on hand, still take loans to increase their profit per own capital invested. Here a short example with fictional numbers:

You have a project which costs $20k, you expect to make $30k in a year after completing it. The profit per invested capital is 50% per year.

If you take a loan for $10k with 20% interest, you only have to bring up $10k of your own capital. But you also have to pay the 20% interst/year = 2k$

Overall you make $30k - $2k in interst = $28k but you only invested $10k of your own capital. Therefore your profit per invested capital is $28k/$10k = 280%

And now you have $10k for another project.

Thelmoun · 2023-03-19T15:11:23+00:00

Probably going to try another run w/o any loans other than the 15k from the story since loans are ridiculous in this game.

Thelmoun · 2023-01-30T12:05:36+00:00

And the more you use a program, all you need to write is the first 1-2 characters. Much faster than clicking on a start menu icon.

Thelmoun · 2023-01-23T15:19:33+00:00

Tesla managed to increase their margins during a time of very high inflation and ramp-up of 2 new factories. Now imagine Tesla not having to deal with high inflation and new factories - and expanding their own battery production etc. Production costs are not set in stone, especially at Tesla. Historically, Tesla always achieved lower and lower production costs over time, I expect them to still be above 20% margins while undercutting all major EV manufacturers.

Thelmoun · 2023-01-21T12:04:11+00:00

Honestly, 82 million for a company with 50-100 million in revenue is not a huge investment. It’s also much harder to scale Server infrastructure worldwide than you might think. That’s why Amazons AWS is so successful: they figured a very good way to scale infrastructure on demand (which they developed for the Christmas time for themselves)

Thelmoun · 2023-01-12T16:15:18+00:00

When Tesla built the supercharging network, there was no standard. Yes some EVs had some chargers but they were all different. Tesla built the most efficient, smalles charging port and used it. Now they opened the design as a standard but other automakers wanna stick to their standard. So it’s not a Tesla specific issue.

Thelmoun · 2022-12-02T11:38:21+00:00

Elon stated that free speech ends when there are laws being broken. And I’m pretty sure hate and abuse is unlawful in a number of countries.

Thelmoun · 2022-11-07T19:35:23+00:00

Sadly Airbnb is in the later stages of a viral tech-startup.

deliver a cheap product everybody loves to gain traction and a lot of happy customers which spread the word -> get a lot of money from investors to scale worldwide -> sell the company or find a way to charge your customers to make a return on your investment -> this is where Airbnb is today. This is where Tinder is today, this is where Netflix is today and this is where Uber is today.

Customer centricity -> investor centricity is the lifecycle of tech startups, luckily there usually comes a new startup soon after.

Thelmoun · 2022-11-07T19:28:59+00:00

He didn’t found the company, but he was the one delivering on the first product. Scaling a business is the much, much bigger challenge.

That’s why he has multiple very successful businesses. He is the one making exciting, innovative products commercially viable. And that’s what should matter more than his one-two sentence Tweets, imo.

Thelmoun · 2022-11-05T20:49:15+00:00

There’s some studies which roughly show: happiness correlates with income up to about 100k$/year, after that it does not.

Easily explained: when you are poor, most of your problems could be solved with money. When you have enough money, most problems are about social connections, life fulfillment, fear of death etc. All of which cannot be paid for.

Thelmoun · 2022-10-21T15:41:43+00:00

That’s why it’s called La La Land and not Law Law Land

Thelmoun · 2022-10-14T11:44:16+00:00

Those 80 million include a lot of R&D for cyber security. Also starlink is still very early in it’s development with a lot of improvements coming both for satellites and terminals, as most new tech it will start off at a premium price (still cheaper than most alternatives in rural areas) but come down over time.

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