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Switzerland is a tiny country with most companies being service companies that cater to foreign customers just like in Singapore. Larger countries cannot function on that kind of taxation. The cantons can individually negotiate taxes btw. s
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You can find a dataset of a previous banking leak if that kind of stuff interests you. Just google Cayman banking leak.
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China may be a developing country, but it's not a messy place where people steal electricity like in much poorer south east asian countries. Electricity is very reasonably priced (especially in rather rural areas where the factory is b
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Its just my observation from living in second tier cities in China (not in Beijing). I'm not sure who gets the money in the end, but it's a popular option for poorer workers.
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Some startups are so casual, that work is not considered work and more of a paid hobby, with unpaid overtime being insisted upon...
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Add those to the health consequences of breathing in extremely polluted BJ air all day and you're on your way to chronic illness and early death.
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Had the runs from Bellagio once, not sure if it was due to the ever present unsanitary food handling everywhere or due to the food itself. I have never heard of sunshine kitchen, but I don't live in BJ, so that might be why. Western co
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$200 for a phone that relies on new HTML5 apps to be better than a phone at half of it's cost? I see another failure in the making...
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Salesman = professional blender. Nobody making that kind of money would live in moldy squalor like that. Just another fake it till you make it guy.
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Don't eat oily food and eat in buddhist vegetarian restaurants. Even expensive hot pot restaurants got temp closed for using oil from questionable sources, so just paying more is not a guarantee for better quality ingredients, although
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In stark contrast to the rat tribe, there is the pigeon tribe aka the rats of the skies. These people live in illegal make shift buildings on top of apartment buildings, which are usually invisible to anyone that doesn't live in a buil
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Sweatshops themselves aren't the problem, but rather the fact that the game is rigged against the average person. They could just farm self sustainably, however they lack the knowledge and large landowners own the land. They also tend
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Shows the desperation to hire quality employees, but for anyone with solid skills it's a questionable offer, as they likely count on you getting guilt tripped into giving them preference when it comes to job offers while you save peanu
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There are all female houses on airbnb, but I'm not sure if they'd qualify as hacker houses. Given that it's SF, I'd guess that that a large amount work in tech though.
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Employment prospects are worse than ever for the average japanese person, with about 40% of the workforce working on temp contracts with no job security. Shitty income and no job security = no marriage = no kids.
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I don't do b2c e-business, but friends who do tell me that there are no good solutions in HK right now aside from PayPal, but good luck if they ever freeze your account. There are company structures possible though via a second company
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OP is a EU citizen though. I have no idea about the legal intricacies involved for US citizens, but that doesn't change the fact that there is no corporate tax for the HK setup I described.
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I don't want to spam anything here, but there are tons of agents you can find via google. The registered address in HK can be provided by the agent. I'm not sure what else you mean by physical address. You'll need to visit HK
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That's for locally sourced income or if you have a real office in HK. To pay no tax all your income needs to come from outside of HK in addition to not having a local operation.
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HK - easiest, cheapest and no taxes for income sourced outside of HK.
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He was a professional conman (before he made money with mega by actively pushing pirated content) known for making false claims, so be weary about the reliability of his encryption claims.
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Copy stuff people post on forums - sell it in form of a book - pitch it in a way that makes it sound profound - ??? - profit
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In before the site gets taken down as they use the word PayPal in the domain. People hate PayPal ever since it gained traction back in the days and they're known to cause people huge problems via frozen funds for a decade or so and no
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Tons of money to fight the extradition + him being good at exploiting the US gov hate of the people to make himself look like a freedom fighter instead of the greedy scumbag that he is via well done PR campaigns.
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I would argue that most countries just make really half assed attempts at creating an international startup environment and this is one of them. Mostly there are very few investors locally, visas are difficult to obtain, the laws aren'
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I would say obesity implies inactivity, so the headline is rather misleading.
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Sorry to break it to you, but there are a few similar sites already like weworkremotely.com etc. Also your site is blank in a mobil Browser without JavaScript and plugins.
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For the previous owners there was never a point in taking the company public because they didn't need additional funds and it allowed them to do things that public companies like party gaming could not do for legal reasons. Another re
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Usual dodgy rags to riches story. I'm rather sure the Scheinberg family (the founders and previous owners of PokerStars) engineered the takeover due to the bad outlook for online gaming in general (market segmentation via government re
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Buddhist books whichs content cannot be fully understood as a concept and require subsequent meditation experience. Most programming books are challenging to me as I'm more of a learning by doing guy and the content is usually either t
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