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by hussong 15y ago
It's quite a drama and everybody can relate to the story as a potential host, traveler, or founder.
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by hussong 15y ago
Also, becoming the single largest stock owner of a company like Disney is probably not a strategy that generalizes well.
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by hussong 15y ago
Since when is Steve Jobs known for a 'very lavish lifestyle'? I thought he was known for being quite frugal, did I miss something there?
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by hussong 15y ago
I'm wondering whether the usage of (allegedly less offensive) Latin terms makes any difference to people who actually know Latin well, like priests.
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by hussong 15y ago
Something similar happened to us when we were staying in Mountain View for YCS09. We had found a cheap furnished apartment sublet via Craigslist. A couple weeks in, I had a friend visiting from Germany and we were having lunch at our plac
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by hussong 15y ago
Sure, in your case, the tenant's move was particulary bold. Owing two months rent to the landlord is grounds for immediate termination of the contract and eviction in Germany btw.
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by hussong 15y ago
I'd say your last sentence applies to renting out any kind of apartment. Once you catch the occasional deadbeat tenant (not paying rent for months, damaging the floors etc.), your business case is FUBR.
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by hussong 15y ago
Berlin resident here. I agree that it's a tough problem to solve and would make verification of hosts (maybe prohibitively) expensive. You'd have to check that the person listing the place is a) actually the tenant, b) is in good standing w
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by hussong 15y ago
You upload a document, add some signature fields, they email it to all parties for signature, you get the e-signed doc back including an audit trail. Works great for contracts and services agreements.
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by hussong 15y ago
Maybe they email a lot with the kind of people who embed their fancy company logo as a 50K jpg into their mails, then you're down to 100 mails per day.
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by hussong 15y ago
When you're doing a startup, chances are that a huge part of your team will be 20-somethings who love the Berlin dirt and parties.
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by hussong 15y ago
Of course it's a separate payment, I was thinking in terms of total cost per employee.
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by hussong 15y ago
It's apparently important for big corporations, but since a complex tax minimization scheme comes with huge setup and running costs, it's not really important for startups that are bootstrapping or seeking funding. I'd even say that a tax-o
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by hussong 15y ago
I think the main trigger for big corporations to set up their European subsidies in Ireland were the significant tax breaks offered. Now that Ireland is getting bailed out with EU money, it'll be interesting to see if they can maintain the
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by hussong 15y ago
Setting up an UG (sort of like a private partnership) has become relatively easy (couple days) and cheap (couple hundred bucks), while a GmbH (LLC) or an AG (corporation) is still a lot more complex and costly (min. 25K EUR capital brought
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by hussong 15y ago
Personal tax rates are higher, at the same time you get better (and cheaper) healthcare. Corporate tax rates are indeed higher in Germany. At the same time, there are lots of funding opportunities for startups from communal, national and EU
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by hussong 15y ago
The Delaware Division of Corporations' web app to file your annual report and pay business entity tax is available between 8:00 am and 11:45 pm Eastern Time daily. Go figure.
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by hussong 15y ago
I think my comment was more academic than pragmatic: Once you let go of the assumption that people will invariably do bad things in the absence of external control, the whole model falls apart. As for practical recommendations, I've seen
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by hussong 15y ago
This study only adds new data to a fairly old (and rather simple) model that falls back on persistent character traits ("true character") and consistent individual perceptions to explain the behavorial effects of visual anonymity. The model
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by hussong 16y ago
Thanks for reaching out! I've been using Ubuntu (currently 10.10 64-bit) as the sole OS on my laptops for the past four years, mostly for email, web, office, and a little front-end coding. I wish it was easier to replace Evolution. It alw
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by hussong 16y ago
Same prob on Ubuntu.
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by hussong 16y ago
FWIW, I don't think that was a Carwoo business partner.
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by hussong 16y ago
Awesome execution on the new site, customer service and youtube videos, congrats guys!
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by hussong 16y ago
That's so true. Over a year ago, I put a crappy PHP snippet on snipplr and forgot about it. Last week, I came back and found that eight people had saved it and three had left a comment. It's literally just one line of PHP, but it solved
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by hussong 16y ago
Maybe product companies should be run by turtlenecks.
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by hussong 16y ago
1. would also allow you to strafe...
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by hussong 16y ago
I'm wondering how useful Business Link is for startups. Any UK founders care to share?
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by hussong 16y ago
I'm going to play devil's advocate here: Would you rather have a hostel open up next door?
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by hussong 16y ago
I think the biggest improvements were in safety, efficiency and emission/noise reduction. Have you heard the A380? It's incredibly silent. Not as bad-ass as the Concorde, though.
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by hussong 16y ago
Not too concerned at this stage. We'll see how well the Prediction API will actually work in the wild for product and content recommendations. Beyond that, I'm not sure whether Google will excel in ease-of-use and support.

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