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by biztos 5y ago
IANAL but I was looking into starting a US consulting company recently, and one of the tricky things is you have to "foreign-qualify" (IIRC) your Delaware/Nevada LLC in California if you are going to do any business there,
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by biztos 5y ago
I think this is the correct advice, but keep in mind that procuring the laptop might be a difficult thing for them to do bureaucratically. On the other hand, you renting a laptop and charging them for it, would be pretty simple, presumab
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by biztos 5y ago
Is trading an index fund that much better, when you are effectively The Government and can make decisions, let alone know about them in advance, that will affect entire markets?
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by biztos 5y ago
I didn't know about the crisis on the Poland-Belarus border[0] until half way through because I wasn't paying attention to the news in Hungary (a very pro-Poland and anti-"migrant" country) and then was surprised by it w
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by biztos 5y ago
Some more feedback, after watching the video and taking a quick look at the site: - I think I really like the idea but I didn’t see how you get from comments to a conclusion. Somebody reads the comments and edits the Description and Outc
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by biztos 5y ago
> lies are unsustainable Lots of lies are perfectly sustainable, but I have a feeling they tend to be the flattering lies (to someone). We only hire the best.
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by biztos 5y ago
Is Apple Maps really free, or do they monetize your attention and collect fees from the (suspiciously few, outside major US metros) businesses? Serious question, I don’t know, I only use Apple Maps for satellite since it doesn’t do transit
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by biztos 5y ago
I agree but there is one thing -- if enough of the crypto-rich convert enough of their crypto-money to "fiat" then eventually, we may have a class of billionaires even more disconnected from the traditions of society than the Sili
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by biztos 5y ago
Even worse (better?) no sane programmer is going to sign a real-world contract guaranteeing the code is bug-free, and if you trust the wrong programmer to work on your complex blockchain program they might put in a sufficiently complex ex
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by biztos 5y ago
Or, you could be honest with the public and call it voluntary. In many countries, compulsory quarantine was enforced. In Germany it never was, but they still presented it as compulsory and held out the possibility that it might be enforced
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by biztos 5y ago
Also the "honor system" for quarantine. Also the closure of museums (airy, 25% capacity, everyone masked) but not department stores (crowded, many ignoring mask rules). Also the fact that my art-supply store in Berlin had to cor
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by biztos 5y ago
I’m not questioning PoW per se, I was just surprised it worked out to that much per transaction.
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by biztos 5y ago
The interesting thing is not that you would need a blockchain to trade wine futures — obviously you don’t. The interesting thing is that if you can sell the futures as (for example) NFTs then you put them into this Wild West of crypto enthu
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by biztos 5y ago
The NFT is supposed to work like a bearer bond. You have to trust the issuing entity to honor it, but beyond that, possession is 10 tenths of the law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearer_bond IIRC with wine futures y
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by biztos 5y ago
In the case of wine, the real-world version of “going bad” is just that it’s not very good. When you bought the future wine, you were betting that it would be very good wine and you could resell it for more. The winery was selling it to y
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by biztos 5y ago
People buy unbottled wine all the time, so maybe? https://www.winemag.com/2019/10/01/a-beginners-guide-to-wine... I’m not saying blockchain makes this any better, except in one sense: a lot of people with a l
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by biztos 5y ago
What if they could have that power? Imagine something like Robocop hooked up to the EVM, if you put your RealID in the escrow contract and then the ubiquitous camera network is unable to verify that you honored the transaction, well then yo
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by biztos 5y ago
Whoa, so Ethereum is burning 64 kWh per transaction? I wonder if there is any mapping of “gas” to electricity. I guess it would have to be approximate but still, it’d be interesting to estimate how much electricity a particular smart contra
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by biztos 5y ago
But if I build an ASIC computer for $100 and sell it to some miner for $120, have I (the ASIC company in China) not created $20 in value? If Bitcoin goes to zero I still made my $20.
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by biztos 5y ago
Can't comment on kits from after about '80 but this reminds me, when I was a kid my older brother would labor extensively to build the most elaborate and beautiful spaceships, while I would pack my bricks tight into a minimalist i
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by biztos 5y ago
When I was a kid in the 70's we would (more or less) build the "picture on the box" (sometimes with, sometimes without instructions) exactly once after getting a new Lego set, then liberate the bricks to never inhabit that fo
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by biztos 5y ago
I agree that a lot of browsers call it the "home page" or similar, but I don't think a lot of people call it that, so the term is ambiguous at best. How many people know that their browser has a Start Page (often customiza
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by biztos 5y ago
It gives awesome cover to slackers though. "Yeah I don't think I was put on an appropriate team..."
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by biztos 5y ago
Lots of this in construction too, at least in Berlin.
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by biztos 5y ago
May I ask how you used physical notebooks before? I’m really tempted by the ReMarkable — decent PDF reader with good annotations, and replacing pen and paper in meetings, would be enough. But I’m a pretty hardcore pen and paper user. I fi
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by biztos 5y ago
Does “comfort” not include ease of use and discovery? I’m on Kobo and I’m a nerd and I have “workflows” for content I already paid for but isn’t Pocket compatible (lookin at you, NYRB!) and I’ve never even heard of z-library. Maybe the aver
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by biztos 5y ago
To be fair, wasn’t the fancy-car abandonment thing just a result of people taking on crazy debt in a country that still has debtors prison, and then bailing out when they were predictably close to that jeopardy? Seems like rational behavior
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by biztos 5y ago
There was just recently a thread about this, apparently it's no longer the case that most of their work is done in Romania. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29319776
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by biztos 5y ago
Couldn't the UK just solve this problem by making it super easy for those people to get work visas? Your best tech talent coming from Bucharest to London has always preferred to go to San Francisco if they could, but the EU made it s
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by biztos 5y ago
I just checked and it seems the Subaru Outback is bigger than the Golf Variant and has otherwise similar stats. Are they not the same class of car?

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