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by nopzor 11y ago
No US tax at all, on the first USD 100K-ish of income earned while living in Singapore. At least that was the case a few years ago.
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by nopzor 11y ago
American Airlines already operates dozens of direct flights to Cuba, from Tampa and Florida. I think these are technically categorized as "charter" flights due to current DOT restrictions.
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by nopzor 11y ago
I think your instinct is correct. If you're in SF paying market rate, with say a dozen employees, presumably your expenses BEFORE office space are in the range of 200K/mo+. Unless they're gold plated, your "lavish"
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by nopzor 11y ago
Been following Gitlab pretty closely. At raintank we run a fairly large open source project on Github: Grafana. We're pretty frustrated with a lot of limitations on Github. These limitations are becoming more painful as we grow our tea
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by nopzor 11y ago
I lived in Singapore for 15 years. I founded a startup in the US, and we ended up opening an Ops and Sales office in Singapore. Being +12 hours ahead of NYC, it worked out great for us to get to 24x7. Back in 2008 it was easy for us to brin
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by nopzor 11y ago
There are absolutely limits/ratios on EP's for foreign employees.
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by nopzor 11y ago
But still, as the previous poster pointed out that rate is still zero overhead and zero profit. Plus, if you did use that rate and could somehow achieve 24hr utilization, you'd presumably be putting on ~1000 miles per day on the car. A
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by nopzor 11y ago
I assume that people who say "not having to pay employer tax share for contractors" they mean things like unemployment insurance, and other employer-components of "payroll tax"? Is that still a red herring? Also, it seem
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by nopzor 11y ago
I don't disagree with your comment, but I think that drivers that see themselves as business owners are delusional. There are a lot of definitions of a "business owner" and the uber:driver relationship meets none of them.
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by nopzor 11y ago
It isn't a matter of "enough" profit. Uber wants to get so big, and make prices so low, that they decimate current competitors and discourage future ones. It's a winner-take-all model; a land grab. The drivers are just a
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by nopzor 11y ago
The whole thing is pretty convoluted. In the US, if the merchant doesn't pay, or is fraudulent then Paypal would have full liability. Same situation with Stripe. From the perspective of a Paypal or Stripe, letting someone accepting cre
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by nopzor 11y ago
Definitely not so. AWS is the most profitable part of AMZN. They are printing money on the markup on egress.
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by nopzor 11y ago
Do you have actually ship your AWS cloudwatch metrics into datadog? Or just events? I'm curious if the costs of doing that (sucking all metrics from aws cloudwatch) start to get really high at scale?
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by nopzor 11y ago
Watching how players in the space are evolving how and what they bill for is interesting. I think that charging by host is a lot easier for general buyers to understand and things generally average out. I was recently also interested by the
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by nopzor 11y ago
Grafana (in v2.5) now has a bunch of overlap with this. It's arguably a better solution [disclaimer: I'm biased; co-founder of raintank, the company behind Grafana]. Best of all its open source and used for metrics viz by a lot of
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by nopzor 12y ago
The goal is to have an easy, seamless migration path for existing grafana 1.x users. We have a tool/wizard that imports your dashboards from elasticsearch (removing that dependency for graphite users). Keep in mind that grafana 2.0 wil
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by nopzor 12y ago
Elasitcsearch is really a document database of sorts. Think of using it to store logs or messages. InfluxDB is a time series database. Think of using it to store periodic measurement data (generally samples or point in time measurements). F
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by nopzor 12y ago
Kris is a great guy and the team at NSONE are really solid. Really good to see such a detailed article that addresses the topic from top to bottom. I think more and more people are going to want to use something like this to build a global