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I'm within the 1st year of e-residency + incorporation.

Here're a few of my experiences.

1. Setup is not as straightforward as they claim, but it's still quite easy. It compares well to what I've seen in France (LegalStart, CCIs, etc.) and the USA (Clerky/C-corp, Delaware, etc.). Actually there's no (printed) paper work because all is digitally signed with your e-residency card—only that is a big plus.

2. Running the company is similar to a C-corp but it's 10x easier than an SAS in France—where you've to register for, know about, and manage nearly 10 different tax agenda. It's also 2x to 5x cheaper to run than in USA and France.

3. However, it's true that banks are lagging a little behind but to their defence they face AML/KYC requirements, and e-residency is a lot of randomness for them—needless to say (?) that banks are risk averse.

For comparison, note that Clerky was launched in 2013 to streamline the legal paperwork for C-corps when e-residency started in 2014. And see how long it took before Stripe partners with Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) for its Alpha program.

- So I feel like banks do a good job although there's room for improvement.

4. Internationalisation of some institution's websites has bugs—basically your preference for english is reset to Estonian once in a while, but most of it is translated in English (and Russian and Finish?).

5. Some institution's websites are old looking but it's not worst than in Delaware or in France. So far, institution's websites are quite clear. For comparison: when paperwork in e-Estonia is done with digital signing, in 2017 I still had to (surface) mail or fax documents to France's and Delaware's institutions, sometimes with credit card number written in clear, or with a check enclosed—this is prehistory.

6. For the legal setup and accounting, I use LeapIN. So far they're very professional, their website has an extensive Q&A and knowledge-based section—that I read. Their pricing segments are clear. And they seem to have a growth mindset—reach out for more advice on how to onboard and their price.

7. Money-wise I was unaware of the 50% social capital requirement left on your account at the end of the fiscal year (note that it also exists in France and, by inference, probably in some other European countries)—maybe they could communicate more on that, it's not nice to figure that out later.

- Still, so far I feel I've got value for my money and I can pull out if needed—no commitment which isn't the case of many B2B SaaS solutions with long term contracts (if we compare).
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I think your interlocutor is just trying to show why some Muslim women support polygamy. And there certainly are such women. We can't just dismiss an insight into why that is the case because you dislike the situation, no?
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I went to research....you're right, it's actually pretty unclear. Base is 3.7 but it doesn't say the specs on the 4.7 turbo.
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Creatures? Why the plural, would not one be enough? I mean, what makes you think that this piece of text is written by a sentient human being instead of some buggy and crappy text generator script written by a school kid somewhere in the vastness of multiverse?
I really don't understand the need for the infix exponentiation operator. Maybe it's because I just don't do calculation heavy JS code but it seems like nothing but a clever little trick you can impress colleagues with. I would hate for JS to evolve towards needing something like https://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/periodic/
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"It looked like he had something to hide, not like Google had made the mistake of highlighting false information."

That quote explains a lot of the misunderstanding. Google's service should to be help a user find what they are looking for within the constraints of Google's legal obligations. Google's job should not be to police the accuracy of information.
facebook only brings delayed text, photo and video, while real time matters more.

You mean, except for FB Messenger (and Whatsapp, which should be included if one it talking about the company practices).

The second side is that as I've discussed already, there are no discovery feature on facebook.

I'm not a user, but AFAIK it does suggest friends to you. Plus, you often interact with friends-of-friends (e.g. through comments on posts of your friends), which does allow you to discover new people.
What if you feel that society is morally bankrupt and that violence is the only way to fix it?
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I mean cloud providers are different. First, there's that level of indirection. You're a customer, not necessarily falling under the GDPR, but your customers might. So the mechanisms are in place to handle that worldwide, which you could choose to extend to everybody. Then there's the data from you being a customer directly, which is largely exempt from many GDPR things like opt-in anyway, since they actually need it to e.g. bill you, provide customer support, etc.

So far, I don't think any cloud providers show you ads based on your usage, but it's only a matter of time :) / :(
No, it doesn't have to be cash in your bank account, as martkaru explained in the other comment.

I can start a company and declare a really expensive couch as it's assets in the balance and it would be ok.
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I can say the same about Dota 2 and Path of Exile :)
Whats with the downvotes? That guys username is and my comment are both references to a TV show.
> Old gaming consoles had cartridges (with memory); I can imagine a future in which complex software is transported in the same manner, except cartridges contain specialized asics.

I think if that scenario happens, the user won't notice because those ASICs will be deployed in "the cloud".
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Only thing Siri is good at is replying with annoying jokes on how it can't answer questions.
Maybe you don't need an appointment, just go there to get it?
Is it possible that the decision to demonetise or age-restrict was algorithmic, then she was too small-fry to get any interest/reconsideration from support?

We've heard loads of stories of people getting AdSense accounts shut unfairly and without recourse, for example. If that was your entire income, you already felt hard done by, and were so inclined, I could see how you might go off the rails.
yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statelessness
I think anyone who argues it’s not useful or at least compelling is being disingenuous. None of this would even be an issue if Facebook wasn’t important to the infrastructure of modern life for billions of people.
I think the confusion here might be "starting capital" vs "registered share capital". You should set the registered share capital to the minimum allowed 2500 eur. Even companies making hundreds of millions of euros in revenue set usually set it to 25000 eur. You can then invest any amount over that as your actual starting funds without increasing the registered share value.

That way the company is only required to own at least 2500 eur in assets, which should not be a problem for any serious business.
You haven't served in many retail/customer-facing roles have you?
The implication being that private companies (Google, Facebook, etc.) now fill the role that common carriers did a few decades ago, and that, curiously, they enjoy many of the privileges usually allotted to common carriers (eg. can't be prosecuted for content passing through their networks) without the responsibilities.
The only relevant figures I know of are from mining bitcoin. [0].

>A related approach is programmable asics. I've heard this was researched decades ago

What do you mean, if not fpgas?

[0] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Non-specialized_hardware_comparis...
I should've clarified: I meant portability of code so that is can be compiled by multiple compilers, VS, clang, gcc. The feature set for C++ is so vast that it's almost certain that you'll write code on for one compiler that doesn't compile on another.
You are talking about people with mental illness. I think the platforms produce mental illness. If you influence and produce a certain kind of behaviour through appropriate reward mechanisms and then after a few years of conditioning reduce/remove the reward what do you think happens? Mental illness.
YouTube has conditioned a generation of people to chant "subscribe like and share" like a robots. The day the "subscribe like and share" model stops being viable the robots will break down.

For those who care about doing something here is a starting point - humanetech.com
It's worth noting that Article 33(1)[1] states that a breach must be reported to the local supervisory authority unless said breach is 'unlikely to result in a risk to the rights and freedoms of natural persons'. This call is made by the organisation which suffered from the breach, by the way (certainly in the absence of any case law).

It will be interesting to see the interpretation of that clause in action, specifically when looking at information such as IP address which is still considered a grey area.

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-33-gdpr/
Having a welding robot run for 6 months straight will hardly reduce fabrication costs. Given the price of MIG welding wire it's also dubious if you could reduce material costs.
Yes, trialed and proven.
The point of nihilism is that there is no "should." There are no logical conclusions from nihilism except all of them. If you feel a connection to fellow sentient beings, act in accordance with that. If you see them as your tools, then act so.

This frees up your moralistic framework to be solely realized by your own ethics. It takes some time to clarify and arrive at them, sure, but it necessitates an active engagement with the world and your influences upon it.

Or not. You could just use it as an excuse to live in hedonism or to off yourself. But that choice is entirely yours and you take ownership of it whether you want to or not.
Yep. One of the game devs I worked with on the PS3 was charged with the task of optimizing our physics and game code on the XBox 360 and PS3 platforms. The Cell architecture was bad enough, but the real icing on the cake was the XB 360 profiling/debugging tooling was a lot better too. Needless to say, he wasn't a fan of the PS3.
If I understood it correctly, the range could be doubled if there's the land/launch station at the destination.

It's hard to maintain 100 km/h average speed on the ground. Plus if you need to deliver a small but valuable package, you can save the cost of a full car and a driver.
Which is not true, since ARM processors - the faster ones anyway - use micro-ops as well. Arguably µops are not RISC, either, unless you consider "very wide instruction word whose bits map to control lines" RISC.
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>A sovereign who is completely selfless would not be a human.

All human beings have survival instincts. But we manages to build soldiers that are willing to risk their lives for random stuff. Right?

In such way, it might be possible to build, or grow, generations of such people, completely selfless..
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Arguably the only reason Poppy got popular was because people weren't sure if she was an act. For a long time she was just "OMG who is this freaky youtube girl!!!"

Obviously in hindsight we know she was an act and correspondingly interest in her has declined.

Blurring the line between act and reality is one of the foundations of entertainment. It's the reason people admire good method actors so much. It's the reason people like Andy Kaufman are considered artistic gods.
Nope, not always. Try putting a newline in HTML, it is ignored.
I watched one video. It's possible that something was "not right with her" but then I think that's true in some small way with almost all of us (personality foibles, etc).

But it's also possible she was on-edge because she was angry and frustrated by a situation that was important to her (earnings, passions, etc). Lots of people act like that when they feel upset, then you add in the pressure of a camera...
I just read something that makes me rather angry. For ejabberd, message reliability is a premium feature that is not supported in the free version. The fuck?

https://www.process-one.net/en/ejabberd/protocols/
Because there's a difference between how I read an ad versus an article.

The point of submarines is to get the reader to drop parts of the defense one has against ads and be more open to the content.
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True. It's a nice demonstration of why capitalistic markets and sovereign countries are good things.

If a company I do business with is subverting my rights (in this case the ability to even remember something), I'll gleefully stop using them.

Astroturf corps are salivating at the possibilities.
Ignoring symptoms won't just magically fix the underlying problem
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> networked together

The manufacturer bears responsibility for misuse given the current state of the market; this is why markets exist, to trade information. If there is a genuine inability to communicate, then the market ceases to exist.

Open societies favor markets for a reason: communication, open lines of communication, and stable ones at that. There are all kinds of ways a computer virus can infect a system that is automatic; consider the possibility that a virus has infected an "autonomous" control system for a moving vehicle. A mechanical coupling usually makes this impossible, a steering wheel.
Oh hey! I know you!

I feel the same, although I took it a step further (and, too far honestly) and directly reached out to help people on Reddit, explained some misgivings regarding the product we made and generally help those who seemed to be having issues.

It's an eye-opening experience.. it's very easy especially when you're very hidden from it (as I was initially) and it's easy to dismiss people as being vitriolic, but the quiet ones aren't spewing venom and they don't have hate.. they just have sadness and that's jarring.
1/ Spotify is not Netflix. There won’t be a Netfix for music.

2/ Netflix, with almost 118 million subscribers worldwide, has allayed concerns about its slowing growth by reminding analysts there are more than 700 million broadband households. Spotify, with 71 million paying users, touts an even larger number in its filing: 1.6 billion payment-enabled smartphone owners expected by 2021. #Growth

3/ Spotify delivers more than 70 percent of its sales to music rights holders, despite efforts to improve profit margins.

4/ Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, Merlin (the representative for many independent labels), which own 87% of the music on Spotify as measured by streams.

5/ It seems highly unlikely Spotify’s Cost of Revenue will improve much in the short-term: those record deals are locked in until at least next year.

6/ It means once the growth of Spotify starts to slow even a bit, it will has very serious trouble.

7/ Netflix is building its own studio to produce shows on its own. Spotify says it has no interest in signing artists, or paying for artists to record. (They don’t have the capital)

8/ However, it has another plan to reduce its reliance on its main suppliers: by making them less relevant. “The old model favoured certain gatekeepers. Artists had to be signed to a label,” chief executive Daniel Ek wrote in a letter included in the filing.

“They needed access to a recording studio, and they had to be played on terrestrial radio to achieve success. Today, artists can produce and release their own music. Labels, studios, and radio still matter, but in a cluttered landscape, artists’ biggest challenge is navigating this complexity to get heard. We believe Spotify empowers them to break through.”

(Ref 4/: Those labels own 85% of the music on Spotify as measured by streams. Progress of empowering: 15%.)

9/ This goal sounds like “the Podcast model” started in 2005, unfortunately, by their biggest competitor: Apple.

Spotify's Dilemma: https://allenleein.github.io/brains/2018/03/spotifys-dilemma
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The "O" part can ("in my Opinion") cannot be proved or disproved.

If it's indeed so in your opinion, it is so (in your opinion).
Be still my beating heart. Seriously? I would drop my Hetzner storage boxes in a heartbeat if I could connect to you instead on a fast link. I have, through the years, have used their auctions to snatch quite a few SSD only boxes and so I need external mass storage their network storage offer is ... ahem ... not the fastest! I would welcome something better :)
Same. Applied, no response. Industry standard :)
I really enjoy interviews (on both sides) so thought it'd be fun topping to my day.
There's another, non-MUD text-based game inspired by Discworld (specifically, inspired by Small Gods) called Godville. Running since 2010 on the web and with apps available on major devices, it's essentially entirely player-built and full of Pratchettesque humour.

It's a ZPG — Zero Player Game. You aren't the player. You're a marginally potent God, with a single devoted follower, your hero. Your hero actually plays the game, you just follow along and encourage (or discourage) your hero. It's a mechanic that's surprisingly fun as a super casual, check in a couple times a day kind of interactive fiction.

https://godvillegame.com
> Spotify doesn't pay shit to artists

I thought that Spotify didn't pay ANYTHING to artists. They pay to labels, who then pay to artists depending on their recording contract.
While the decision to do/not-do is up to the company; They still have to document it (in any case, even non-personal), mention the reason for not reporting (e.g. "it's only an IP address") and make that document available upon request.

So if the breach turns out to be a bit more major than then want every one to think it is and it turns out that it was major in the end, there either is a paper trail or worst case for them no paper trail and probably a worse fine.
Think of it as a subscription to a larger library than you'll ever be able to amass yourself.

Sure, you'll collect all of your favorite music, but what if you want to branch out a little? What if you want recommendations that are tailored for you, based on your music taste?

For me, one of the main services Spotify provides is access to occasional music, stuff that I wouldn't bother to collect, but is nice to have on hand, either for parties or just curiosity. The other main service is their recommendation engine, which reliably presents me with interesting bands and albums that I didn't know about, but fit very well with my tastes.

I consider $10/month a bargain for those services.

(I still keep an offline collection of my absolute very favorite albums, of course)
Fun fact, in Lithuania people are allocated personal number (similar to NINo?) on birth. ID and/or passport is mandatory regardless.

However, personal number is not guaranteed to be unique because of how it's issued. We have funny stories once in a while when people with similar (or even identical) names happen to have same personal number. A photocopy of ID in important governmental or banking actions.
> But I also still think theres also a lot of similar content for certain broad categories. Like say exercise videos.

Yeah but just because a niche is crowded doesn't mean that all creators produce equally good content.

You will notice that many of the top channels, say those that have more than 100K subscribers, very often have very good production standards, and are the creator's full time job.

Sometimes the reason why a specific channel is more popular than another is not obvious, but very often it's because they spent more time carefully crafting their videos, even if in the end they appear like candid shots.
Ok

And back to LHV, I've seen the PayPal account verification deposit (two payments of a few cents made to one's account) appear extremely fast on the account—I think it was less than one hour.
I'm sure it didn't help that his attacker lived in Turkey.
The labels are receiving huge payouts, their profits are on an upward curve now, thanks to streaming.

But as always, they exploit their artists and pay them a pittance. Blame the labels.
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True, but you don't have to get the full firehose.
Anyone could, few care to. They really are the wrong practices for a whole lot of things. The level of care, design, and verification just isn't necessary for applications with few or fixable consequences.

It is a bit sad that nearly nothing these days strives for that kind of excellence.
Really? How?
I believe previous legislation regarding cookies was a mess like you said, and a big learning process for the EU.

I’ve worked with people who are experts on the new regulations. They don’t seem to be at all confused about what it means or implies. The only unknowns they’re talking about is the practicalities of someone like Facebook conforming eg requesting many different permissions. But that’s because businesses like Facebook are doing unethical stuff, ie they’ve been doing things you really won’t want to explicitly give them permission to do.
The "aperture size" in semiconductor manufacturing is a the practical limiting factor in chip size, and some chips (GPUs in particular) are already at the limit. It's basically the maximum size of the photolithography process (my understanding of semiconductor manufacturing is a bit weak).

Aperture size can be increased to some degree for future manufacturing nodes, but there's a limit to how practical it is.

Other factors also come into play. The distance light travels in a clock cycle has already been mentioned as a hard limit.

Cost is another matter: chips are rectangular but wafers are round. The larger the chips, the more there is wasted area the lower the yield per wafer. Intel has an advantage here, because they use 12" wafers when the rest of the industry uses 10" (this was a few years ago, things may have changed). Historically speaking, these wafers are huge compared to the 4" and 6" wafers of the past. Making the silicon ingots to cut the wafers from is another form of art, modern ingots are HUGE blobs of pure silicon.

I recommend paying a visit to Intel museum if you're around Silicon Valley. It's not a huge museum but has lots of interesting information, nice guides and a great photo-op to take a selfie with a big honkin' chunk of silicon (they've got full ingots and wafers on display).
Reminds me of James Carse's idea of Finite and Infinite Games - where the objective of a finite game is to win and the objective of an infinite game is to continue to play.
Apple News actually follows the model that you describe as the ethical way to do this.

In my experience, it produces better and more pleasing recommended content in it's feed due to this control.

Inference models such as YouTubes always feels like you are being pushed into certain content and actually makes me personally hesitate from sampling / clicking on certain videos.

In the YouTube model, simply sampling a single video starts up the recommendation engine to keep pushing similar videos and as a user you feel railroaded into being profiled.
Spotify Connect is one of their real killer features. It just works so damn well, and independent of Airplay, Chromecast, Sonos and other locked-down methods.