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I have spoken with a number of Swiss people and non-Swiss people living in Switzerland. All of them expressed dissatisfaction with the healthcare system saying that it is overpriced and unfair. They highlighted how the system is inefficient and there are perversed incentives in place where doctors are the ones benefitting the most at the expenses of the population. It is also clear from statistics that Switzerland has one of the most expensive healthcare system per capita in the world. Given the fact that Switzerland is a direct democracy, why do Swiss don't mobilize to change the system in their favor?

Sol 6.1 is much better than Sol 6.0 but it is incredibly slow. I recommend it for overnight tasks, not idea for urgent tasks.

Hi! I’d like to go to The Wave in October. I don’t have a car, and from where I am in Redland, it takes about 1 hour and 45 minutes each way by public transport.

I was wondering if anyone who goes there regularly, or is planning to go by car, would be willing to share a ride. Of course, I’d be happy to contribute toward the fuel costs.

Cheers!

We make the machines and components for advanced chips

We have some know-how in chip-making and plenty of good universities

We have the capital

Why the heck we don't make our own GPUs/TPUs/advanced chips factories?

I’m looking at a portfolio-style approach where several FTMO CFD accounts would each run their own independently developed EA, rather than mirroring one strategy across every account. Potentially something like 3–4 × 100k accounts while staying within the overall allocation limit.

The idea would be:

• different signals and positions on each account
• independently developed strategies
• normal, consistent risk management
• no trade copying between accounts
• no intentional hedging/opposite trades across accounts
• no HFT/latency or execution exploits
• no intentionally blowing evaluations
• no third-party/shared EAs

If one evaluation simply fails through normal trading, I might eventually buy another challenge and use it to replace that slot.

What I’m trying to understand is less the published rulebook and more what happens in practice once you start receiving payouts.

Has anyone here run several different automated systems across multiple FTMO accounts for a meaningful period of time?

I’d especially like to know:

• Have you received repeated payouts across several accounts?
• Did FTMO ever ask for information about your EAs or trading logic?
• Have you gone through a risk/compliance review?
• Did they ever consider genuinely different strategies to be too similar?
• Has repeatedly replacing normally failed challenges caused any issues?
• Did your experience differ between 1-Step and 2-Step?

First-hand experiences would be much more useful than speculation. I’m mainly trying to understand where the practical compliance boundaries are for someone treating several independent EAs as a portfolio rather than copying one system across accounts.

We got a second round interview with a partner 2 weeks ago. The in-person accelerator batch starts in a week.

During the interview the guy was "oh wow so impressive what you have achieved in so little time, please send me these data and I'll let you know asap".

Data sent. Two follow-ups sent. Complete silence.

Since the batch starts so soon and it is in person we even postponed booking flights to conferences which is our main GTM channel. This damaged us in turn because flight prices went up in the meantime.

There is no excuse for not telling people about your decision. We got stuff to plan and sending a "sorry, we preferred other candidates" takes you literally 30 seconds, maybe less.

I’m paper trading BTC/USD and ETH/USD through Alpaca and frequently seeing websocket quote timestamps 15–45 seconds behind real time. My bot currently rejects quotes older than five seconds, so otherwise valid setups are being skipped.

Has anyone experienced this? Is it even possible to use Alpaca for crypto algotrading given these big delays?

Why would somebody give away their alphas to them? And why would a successful quant become a consultant for them since their maximum pay for top performing quants is only 8000$/quarter? Is this a scam for talented people from poorer countries that don't have any other options?

I recently launched Appeal Compass, a free and open-source tool for homeowners researching comparable properties for a Cook County property-tax appeal.

The project started as an attempt to make public property data easier to explore. Users can enter a property PIN, select a jurisdiction, and generate a list of similar residential properties. The results can then be refined using filters and adjustable similarity criteria.

The tool also provides summary statistics and lets users copy their selected comparables for further research.

Cook County already offers its own comparable-property tool, but I built this project to experiment with:

-a cleaner user interface
-customizable similarity weighting
-a foundation that can eventually expand to additional jurisdictions

The code is open source, feel free to provide any feedback!

Project: https://appealcompass.com

Appeal Compass is an independent project and is not affiliated with Cook County. It does not file appeals or guarantee tax reductions, and users should verify any comparable property before relying on it.

Hope you find it useful!

I get it, nobody will ever share their money-printing strategy. But what about sharing failed backtested strategies?

I have the feeling that we are backtesting over and over the same identical strategies. Wouldn't it make sense to pull together our collective knowledge so that we don't waste time re-testing stuff that doesn't work?

Hi everyone, I built a free, open-source website called Appeal Compass to make it easier for Cook County homeowners to find properties similar to their own.

It may be useful for anyone researching a property-tax appeal and looking for comparable homes.

To use it, enter your property PIN, choose your jurisdiction, and select how many matches you want to review. You can then narrow the results with filters, change how different property characteristics are weighted, view summary statistics, and copy the comparables you find useful.

I know that Cook County already provides a comparable-property search tool. I created Appeal Compass because I wanted to build a more modern interface and eventually support multiple jurisdictions through one website, not just Cook County.

If people appreciate the project I will add more Illinois jurisdictions.

You can try it here:

https://appealcompass.com

All feedback is welcome, website just launched so some bugs might still be there.

This is an independent open-source project. It is not affiliated with Cook County, does not submit appeals, and cannot guarantee a reduction. Property details and comparables should always be independently verified.

Hope you find it useful!

P.S.: I requested permission to the mods before posting this in case anybody wondered.

I recently launched Appeal Compass, a free and open-source tool for homeowners researching comparable properties for a Cook County property-tax appeal. In the future I aim to add more jurisdictions.

The project started as an attempt to make public property data easier to explore. Users can enter a property PIN, select a jurisdiction, and generate a list of similar residential properties. The results can then be refined using filters and adjustable similarity criteria.

The tool also provides summary statistics and lets users copy their selected comparables for further research.

Cook County already offers its own comparable-property tools, but I built this project to experiment with:

• A cleaner and more flexible search interface
• Customizable similarity weighting
• Support for multiple jurisdictions in one place
• A foundation that can eventually expand to additional areas

The code is open source, would love any feedback!

Project: https://appealcompass.com

Appeal Compass is an independent project and is not affiliated with Cook County. It does not file appeals or guarantee tax reductions, and users should verify any comparable property before relying on it.

Hi everyone, I built Appeal Compass (https://appealcompass.com), a free, open-source tool that helps Cook County homeowners find residential properties similar to theirs. It is useful if you are thinking to appeal property tax and need some comps.

I know that a tool made by the County exists, I made mine because:

a) I wanted to make a tool that allows comps search for multiple jurisdictions in one place (I will add more in the future).
b) I wanted to make something a bit less clanky and with more features.

Enter your property PIN, select your jurisdiction and choose how many comparables to review. If the initial matches aren’t useful, you can refine them with filters and adjusted similarity weights. The tool also calculates summary statistics and lets you copy the results.

Any feedback is much appreciated!

Appeal Compass is an independent open-source project, not an official Cook County screening tool. It doesn’t file appeals or guarantee a reduction, and every comparable should be verified before relying on it.

You can try it here: https://appealcompass.com

Enjoy, hope you find it useful!

I was reading today that big consulting companies like Deloitee, BCG, Accenture, etc are basically eliminating junior positions because they have been made unnecessary by AI. The same is happening in software engineering where there has been a collapse in junior positions. The trend is clear: jobs for the youngsters have been disrupted by AI.

The problem is that we still need people in workplaces, right? Or we have surrendered to the idea that humans are not needed anymore therefore it's fine to not train new professionals? I don't see any politician discussing the problem which is so evident to me. So what's the plan? What shall young graduates do?

I'm CTO of a govtech startup. About a month ago we received the contract for a pilot with our first customer. My co-founder (CEO) wanted to have the contract revised by a lawyer since it is our first contract and didn't want to take any risk. In fact, there are a couple of clauses in the contracts that are favouring our client too much, so I do believe that a revision was necessary.

What frustrates me is that it has been a month since we received the contract and we haven't sent back the revised contract yet. That's because of how long it took to engage a lawyer expert in these things and the lawyer is not done yet with the revision. I thought the whole thing would take a week, 10 days max.

The contract is very important for us because it is all about market validation (and it's a pretty fat contract too since it includes not only the pilot but also what follows after that). I think taking so long for a contract revision might jeopardize this opportunity and is poor execution.

What do you guys think? Is it normal to take so long to send back a contract? Do lawyers normally take that long? What should have we done instead?