jkaplowitz

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   by jkaplowitz 9y ago

   Sales and use taxes are purely creatures of state or local law.in the US, excluding a few specialized federal taxes on products like alcohol and gasoline. The federal IRS has nothing to do with that. And if the structure is defensible in co
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   by jkaplowitz 9y ago

   It wouldn't have made sense to release Goobuntu publicly, since it was simply Ubuntu with central management and logging, integration with internal account systems, maybe some hacky bits specific to their environment, etc. They've
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   by jkaplowitz 9y ago

   Quoting their docs: "Compute Engine doesn't bill for instances preempted in the first 10 minutes," so that scenario is harmless in most application designs where preemptible VMs would make sense anyway. Disclosure: I used to