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by phlo 3mo ago
The author went with an UG nested in a KG as the legal structure. That's two legal entities. It's a neat workaround to avoid corporate taxes (the KG acts as a pass-through vehicle, for taxes and for liability), and avoid personal
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by phlo 3mo ago
You have to savour the lack of self-awareness in this one. > Founder chooses the most complex legal structure that's readily-available... and is surprised that this complexity comes with laywer and notary fees. > Founder decides
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by phlo 6mo ago
(Published: 05 Sep 2023)
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by phlo 8mo ago
My go-to for situations like these: Assume that the offender _clearly_ didn't mean to behave incorrectly, and help them overcome the mistake. Person in a public space listening to reels at full volume? Get their attention, then loudly
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by phlo 2y ago
> AFAIR they don't do multilingual restreams (automated or otherwise) like some other online events. They do. There's a team of interpreters at CCC who translate most talks between English and German, and to some other language
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by phlo 2y ago
There's an amazing talk about DB's punctuality from the 2019 Chaos Communication Congress: BahnMining, David Kriesel. Available in German, and interpreted to English: https://dkriesel.com/blog/2019/1229_v
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The Impersonator: The Fake Data Were Coming from Inside the Lab(datacolada.org)
6 points by phlo 2y ago|1 comments
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by phlo 2y ago
Adam Neumann begs to differ.
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by phlo 3y ago
> [Piracy:] When I download a movie this way, I truly own it. When you download a pirated copy, it's more likely that you _possess_ it, rather than _owning_ it. You are in control of the bits and bytes, they will not just disappear;
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by phlo 4y ago
SRF (reputable) and Hauptstadt (very local, focused on Bern, I'm not familiar, but doesn't look made-up) report on it as well. As absurd as it is to see (I had my first ski lessons on those very slopes), I think it checks out. ht
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by phlo 4y ago
I see where you're coming from, and looking at the problem from a purely technical perspective, I agree with you. A password is just a string of codepoints. Accept what you get, yeet it into a password hashing function, and be done wit
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by phlo 4y ago
Let's start at the edgest of cases. Some emoji, for example, are combinations of multiple other emoji, and a given combined emoji may not be uniquely represented by a sequence of codepoints. In the pathological case, this could mean th
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by phlo 4y ago
I used the same mod to turn a few older, passive hi-fi speakers into Sonos-enabled wireless speakers. They sound (and look) a lot better than the Symfonisk, and putting the DAC and amp right into the speaker enclosure is more convenient tha
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by phlo 5y ago
That's fair. I can see the benefits in most of the things you listed. Chances are, this boils down to whether you regard your car as sort-of an extension to your home. I don't, so I'm perfectly happy to have _a_ car available
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by phlo 5y ago
The _actual_ sharing economy is great. Your beef is probably with corporations that masquerade as part of the sharing economy in order to exploit regulatory loopholes (e.g. Uber, Airbnb). For an example of the actual sharing economy: I&#x27
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by phlo 5y ago
Not too long ago, process nodes were discussed at μm scale. Extrapolating from the past, I think there's a fairly straightforward way [0] to come up with names for the next few increments. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by phlo 5y ago
Since you mentioned that this piques your interest: There is an body of research and literature about this topic. The Theory of the Firm [0] is a good starting point. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm
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by phlo 5y ago
Ah. I hadn't considered credit card churning. Thanks! (I do have some reservations -- I'm guessing that only a small minority of cardholders attempt to churn their balance from card to card or pay it off before the end of the prom
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by phlo 5y ago
Oh, I have no doubt that there are situations where it may make sense to buy things on credit. Houses and cars can often be financed at good conditions. I've yet to see an example where this applies to small purchases. Klarna offers a
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by phlo 5y ago
> The country runs on cheap debt. Everything from houses, education, cars all the way to TVs and dresses is financed with long-term payments and low single digit interest rates. Can you point to a few examples of TVs or dresses being fin
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by phlo 5y ago
> That's not what the article suggests. The article suggests an ad on a page with an ubiquiti url. It's both. UniFi is product line of network hardware which is managed by a central controller. The controller is available as a
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by phlo 6y ago
There's an important distinction here. Laws (and court decisions) are freely available in many (most?) places. Relevant commentary on how these laws are applied tends to be more costly. I'm not very familiar with the situation in
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by phlo 6y ago
SkyDemon (a flight planning and navigation app) is a delight for subscribers: * Subscriptions are for one year at a time, and have transparently indicated pricing. No "$2.71 per day, charged annually", no hidden tips, taxes or con
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by phlo 6y ago
Cool, I hadn't realized that distinction in terminology. Thanks for pointing it out! :)
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by phlo 6y ago
> If you ask for output in EDT, but the date is in December (which is not part of daylight savings time) then should the date output be UTC-4 or UTC-5? EST is always UTC-4 and EDT is always UTC-5. Both of these exist throughout the year.
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by phlo 6y ago
And to stay with the theme of the article: Chances are, the meeting actually _isn't_ intended to be scheduled for 9am CST, but rather 9am America/Chicago. The key difference being that Chicago only observes CST for half of the yea
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by phlo 6y ago
> How many 4K 5.1 high quality streams can 1g handle? 1 Gbps can handle about 8¹ to 40² 4K streams. ¹ 2160p60 on Blu-Ray goes up to 100 Mbps ² Typical 4K Netflix streams are in the 15-20 Mbps region, with a recommended Internet bandwidt
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by phlo 6y ago
Let's look at the Euro as a better¹ example, and let's take 2002 as the start date². One year into its existence, a Pan-European Clearinghouse provided clearing services for participating countries. Six years into its existence, i
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by phlo 6y ago
Just looking at the numbers here, this could just be a case of a sign getting flipped somewhere along the way. Global Links intends to do a reverse split, replacing 350 old shares (worth 10¢ each) with one new share (worth about $35). For t
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by phlo 6y ago
Vapor expands, by a lot. Assuming that firehose delivers ~100 liters per second, you'd also create a steam bubble about 80 meters across.

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