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Best Legal Structure for Non-US Founders of a SaaS with Global Revenue
In LatAm startups usually set up in this way:

Cayman holding company > Delaware LLC holding company > Local country operating company

This is costly to maintain, but it allows for some efficiencies. Corporate tax is only paid on the country that has operations. All remaining income goes tax free up to its distribution to shareholders at which point the shareholder is taxed as per their country of tax residency. This is usually recommended when a company operates payroll, IP, and sales in a country that is not the US.

Having said that, I am thinking about a SaaS company with Non-US founders that receives revenue from multiple countries and has globally distributed contractors instead of employees. It would be a hassle to incorporate in every country where there is revenue or contractors. Also, a Delaware C-Corp would cause double taxation in the form of corporate tax and withholding to dividends paid to foreign shareholders (hence the non-US founder point). Assuming there is no tax treaty to account for this withholding, the founder would then have to pay income tax in their home country.

Would any of the below structures work?

a) Cayman company only. This company will be a holding and operating company. It will receive income solely from a merchant of record such as Paddle which manages VAT compliance worldwide. It would hire contractors via Deel which handles compliance worldwide. It has no corporate tax and shareholders would only be subject to tax when paying dividends. Concern about why this might not work: 1) Controlled Foreign Corporation laws of the founder's home country. 2) Accessing services such as Mercury / Brex / Google Ads with a Cayman company. 3) Can a holding company also be an operating company and have no corporate tax in Cayman, as long as there are no operations there?

b) A Delaware LLC owned by a Cayman holding company. The Delaware LLC would be pass-through to the Cayman holding company so it would not generate corporate income tax. It is easy to open accounts anywhere with the Delaware LLC. Paddle would pay the LLC. There are some maintenance issues for compliance. FBAR, Be-12, PFICs, etc. Would it create the same issues in terms of CFC for the Cayman shareholders?

This seems like a dark hole to waste time on, but it is crazy to me that there isn't an obvious solution for a Legal Structure for Non-US Founders of a SaaS with Global Revenue. Maybe there is... can you share it?
I hate to get all meta (no I don’t sorry not sorry), but there is 100% a thing where every word that means (a) some important thing and (b) some less important thing ends up being a word that, for the vast majority of people, carries something like the emotional impact of definition (a) and the actual meaning of definition (b). For example, “literally” now means “figuratively”, “scan” now means “skim”, “authentic” means “expensive”, and so on. It’s basically Gresham’s Law [0] where less-consequential definitions of words drive more-consequential definitions of the same out of the marketplace.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law
$3k is way too much but I feel like it didn’t look that bad
This book took me from having nothing -- literally being a political science major grocery store employee -- to making 2xx,xxx YOY.

It was challenging and made me question whether or not I had it in me to code. Turns out, I could, and, vis-a-vis my peers, exceptionally well.

Well, I took me, but this book was my first real introduction to computer science.

Funnily enough, I didn't then and don't now personally care for the author (he seems untalented as a teacher), but I feel he accidentally made a good resource in his hubris.
The grievances have been simmering, but anecdotally at least I haven't known a single developer who is unhappy about it enough to actually switch. Also programming languages/frameworks/platforms are highly sticky. Apple was very smart to make their language/framework non-cross platform (generally speaking. By that I mean, try finding jobs doing Android or even web development in Objective C or Swift. I know it's possible but it's not very practical) and unique to their system.

At the end of the day, developers are users first and foremost, and as users they are thrilled with Apple. Things would have to get pretty damn bad before Apple would need to worry about losing developers.
I'm guessing your tent is slightly under 3K?
For the sake of completeness: find the differences between bytepointer.com link above, and this earlier copy:

http://web.archive.org/web/20061112210203/http://blogs.msdn....
I agree, but this is missing the point. It was never about Sweeney’s response. Apple was never going to accept any response given, in the same way that an Alabama cop who pulls over a driver for being black is not going to leave without finding some “reason” for an arrest.
That's pretty much it. They did act in the best interests which should have been obvious. OpenAI started giving various people, including the engineers a share in the company. A share in the company is only worth something if the company behaves as a company and sam represented the capitalist side of the company while Ilya was focused on the benevolence side. Of course Sam won.
The controversial vote that decided not to change the planet's geological epoch
A Cybertruck also makes a Trabant look downright stylish in comparison (And if you're into dystopian vibes, the GDR offered that as well).
URL Parts
Paper tools for broken hearts: fortune-telling with cards in France
I manage that maybe 20% of the time. It's definitely possible.

I could get that much higher if I had a good way to index resources: as-is, I have to resort to exhaustive search when I can't remember an exact phrase, and that can take upwards of half an hour. I'm definitely not on @ringwiss's level.
It's a bit of a nonsense statement given the degree of nuances.

Even with something like nukes, while yes dangerous and terrible weapons, it's arguably quite likely that without them existing we'd have had WWIII by now but for the threat of mutually assured destruction.

How 'bad' and 'good' things in narrow scopes actually play out across exponentially larger scopes is almost impossible to predict or qualify.

(Also, a lot of the classic threat modeling for AI was extrapolating obsolete anthropological models of past intelligence emergence on precursor species. We just sort of continue carrying forward a number of assumptions we should arguably be much more critical of.)
> It's not so much that he knows procedures well, it appears that he has some sort of didactic memory that he has focused on this topic.

It's both. Source: I follow him on Twitter, and I'm a professor of American politics.
What if the level of precision is posed as "within X months"?

5.5 years is just 66 months...

The claim that an estimate of 5.5 years is "a level of precision that is entirely unrealistic for non physical processes" is absurd. In this context, how can you possibly believe that businesses and organizations worldwide are not capable of estimating non-physical procesess to within a month?
US not hiding aliens or UFO technology from the public, Pentagon says
Those are a thing but probably not as bad. You may gain seniority. The second is unavoidable. The last can be dealt with and there are levels of ethics around that.
For units that are commonly used, I'd like to add:

Nm vs nm, which are (N)ewton-meter (Newton times meter, a measure of torque) or (n)anometer (10^-9 meter)
All publicity is good publicity
Tarot continues as a game mechanic in some traditional tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs).
Here's what was done to make the world's longest baguette. [1] I'm sure the same method could be used for a breadstick.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLDrPWdOEic&ab_channel=FRANC...
Ok Dias is an a**hole (especially for manipulating students), but Nature is at fault here. They chose to publish those papers, ignoring referee/data concerns.
TransLink, the local transit operator, do have a service not unlike that you describe called HandyDART.

https://www.translink.ca/rider-guide/transit-accessibility/h...
interesting. standard advice i hear is do a bunch of Shows first, to get users and social proof, and then to show off the social proof + put fuel on a launch with a Launch since you only get one. anyway, all the best!
You've listed the single previous role but they all have a long long list of achievements in tech? Nothing random about it.
I think it's pretty stupid that basic appointments are billed on complexity and not time. Well, and lots of other things too. Getting a radiologist to do a definitive diagnosis using imaging doesn't actually make the ER doctors job harder (rather, it de-risks the interaction for them).

It's also ridiculous that I have to promise to pay any bills that my insurance won't cover. If some care can't be justified as medically necessary, there should be a specific contract for that when it comes up, not a blanket rider prior to accessing treatment.

Forcing the two sophisticated entities to have a workable agreement where they can't dump costs off on the individual patient would at least improve perceptions of care.
Looks like no effort was spent on responsiveness, which feels kind of ironic.
My takeaway is that neither side comes out of this looking very good.
This would fit well over at https://www.halfbakery.com/

It would be funny to track distance and have a photo wall for all the people who've had a piece of the breadstick indexed by which piece they got. Sanitation would be quite a trick.
Previously:

The pianist who learnt to play on a paper piano https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21823936 (December 18, 2019 — 1 points, 0 comments)

It is a video of a guy in 2019 who couldn't afford a piano, so he drew it out on paper and learned that way and became an award winning musician.
Akash Network is your next stop ;)
When reason fails to explain people's actions, it gives you a measure of the strength of their ideology on something. In this case, you can see how deeply they believe in the concept of complete authoritarian control of their ecosystem. Enough that logic and practical outcomes barely matter in comparison.
The original ARC design had 950 tonnes of FLiBe, which contains 115 tonnes of Li-6. This is a substantial fraction of the Li-6 produced for the entire US hydrogen bomb program, all for a single 190 MW(e) (net) reactor.
> Is there a good reason we aren't seeing REBCO magnets in all new MRI machines?

REBCO tapes are still very brittle, and MRI machines are notorious for the amount of banging they produce when active.
Ah bummers, but nonetheless thanks for implementing this feature!

EDIT: I just took a look at GitHub's source code, and they mentioned a setting to turn off these shortcuts, and it really exists!! Under https://github.com/settings/accessibility one can turn off, all "Character keys" which means shortcuts without a modifier. I've never used them, so I just disabled it, and now forward slash always opens the Firefox search :0

https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/accessibility/keyboar...
Motorola's legal terms claim to strip owners of their right to sell their device
> And now a word from our lawyers. Finally, in order to unlock your device, you need to agree to important legal terms[1], which can be found on the next page. Agreeing creates a binding legal agreement, so be sure to read them carefully.

From linked terms:

> Devices that have been unlocked are for your personal use only. Once you unlock the device, you can only use it for our personal use, and may not sell or otherwise transfer the device.

[1] https://en-us.support.motorola.com/ci/fattach/get/741421/138...

edit: Thank you to Louis Rossmann for bringing this to our attention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2k9D81fbpA
Why are they artificially restricting housing while at the same time welcome population grow e.g. immigration?
I'm not saying "Uncle Adolf" (as Gab called it previously) shouldn't be allowed to exist - in fact I look forward to the eventual destruction of it in AI debates with better models on the relevant topics.

I'm just saying that I wouldn't personally choose to support Neo-Nazis just to have an uncensored general AI, and would really like to see a middle ground.

Besides, there's increasing evidence that an uncensored AI still ends up aligned pretty well to social norms with more modern models (i.e. Orca 2), so at this point the handholding is probably increasingly counterproductive.
No, but it is creative!

A few problems I see:

* Demand - how many/much breadsticks do people really want? Olive Garden is (in)famous for unlimited breadsticks but it is really just a gimmick to get people in the door to spend money on drinks and entrees.

* Quality - fresh warm buttery breadsticks are great but do you want to be near the end of the line getting lukewarm soggy breadsticks?

* Technology - is it even possible to bake bread in a continuous process. No commercial bakeries I know of do, so you'd likely have to develop and maintain that type of oven and baking techniques from whole cloth. There are probably some food safety and insurance issues around letting customers touch and cut your breadsticks.

* Margins - restaurants are notoriously low margin businesses. You'll need to invent and create the equipment that makes the endless breadstick possible and pay for rent and employees in a high enough traffic area that makes this even practical.

It's a fun idea, but I think something like a conveyor belt of plates[0] is a better, more practical idea. Nothing special on the food side of things, but go crazy on the technology side. Gamify the food selection options, add some games like pub trivia so only the winners can unlock the plates as they go by. Add alcohol items to the belt.

[0] https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/culture-co-nashville
That's weird. For what it's worth, I own 47 books on Downpour and have never had problems with any of them.

Libro.fm is great too. I own 14 books there (the number is lower because they haven't been around as long).
I think they're getting downvoted because the joke is getting really worn out and endlessly dismissive cynicism is just annoying.
Never tried LSD, but a couple of weeks ago I consummed canabis oil from a small spray bottle I bought from our province's official canabis store. Not knowing much about canabis and proper dosage, I decided to try it, but it's clear I took too much...

The trip was like a mental battle between moments of lucidity and negative thought loops and light paranoia. It forced me to see my own automatic thinking process and this "inner voice" I have with more clarity.

I realized we can orient our thinking and it's polarity at any moment and it would influence our perception of reality. Sounds obvious on the surface, but it became clear when I realized negative thoughts were appearing and I would reorient my thinking elsewhere, the vibe changed and it felt like I was becoming more lucid.
I still don’t understand the safety concerns. I see a 0% chance that we can control a superhuman AI. What could ants invent to keep humans aligned with them? Alignment meaning that people would think of ants first instead of whatever their current ranking is. Maybe they’re in the top 10000 priorities
"You don't work at SpaceX - the largest project we're working on right now is a big spreadsheet that is nonetheless six months behind schedule. Sleeping is higher energy than that."

https://dontbuildsaas.com/
Ask HN: Are You Investing in Crypto
We all know bitcoin and other crypto currencies prices have surged.

Are you investing in crypto at the moment
Ask HN: Apple Store advised (my mom) M3 MacBook Air over the M2. Ideas/Advice?
An Apple Store salesperson today recommended the new M3 MacBook Airs to my mother, because "The M3 MacBook Air will last longer than the M2".

So how true is that? This salesperson has brilliantly/unwittingly struck at my mother's pet peeve, since her previous 2011 MacBook with outdated Safari and Chrome can no longer display online banking webpages properly.

I'd think that the M2 and M3 being the same family would still have roughly the same long-term lifespans, for the sort of light home-office work of the sort my mom needs at least 5+ years. Is the M3 really more future-proof as the Apple Store salesperson claims?

The other issue I have is the small nonupgradable 8 GB memories in both base models. Curiously, the base models are $100 different, but the M2 + 16 GB upgrade costs even more than the base M3. Maybe the pricing will change again in a few months, but my mom needs a replacement computer this month!
Todd is in shambles that he can't use the name.
Why not use slight hinting then? FreeType explains it as only using the vertical hint but not the horizontal one and they recommend this as working well with cleartype fonts and pretty well with non-cleartype fonts.
> there can be are reentrancy issues even in regions only performing sync calls (due to invoking callbacks or recursively reentering the even loop)

You would hope if this was done properly you wouldn’t be using callbacks at all, because that’s kinda throwing away any benefits async/await provides, and reentrancy to the event loop should require explicit markings.

> if we value explicit markers for reentrancy, we should be instead explicitly marking reentrancy-unsafe regions with atomic blocks instead of relying on the implicit indirect protection of within-async regions.

In principle yeah kinda agree, but a lot of code isn’t reentrancy-safe, I would argue that most code isn’t reentrancy-safe, unless carefully designed to be reentrancy-safe. So a programming model that implicitly makes most code protected against reentrancy does provide value, and make it harder for difficult to debug concurrency bugs to slip in.

I don’t necessarily think it’s the “best” approach, I much prefer people actually think about their code carefully, and be explicit with their intentions. But that requires quite a lot a of experience, and understanding the detailed nuances that come with parallelism, something many engineers simply don’t have. So I think there’s a lot of value in programming paradigms that provide additional protection against those types of errors, but without forcing the type of rigour that Rust does, due to the learning barrier it creates.

I suspect that async/await is here to stay for now, but I very much see it as part of a continuum of concurrency paradigms that we’ll eventually move past, once we find better ways of writing safe concurrent code. But I suspect we’ll only really discover those better ways once we fully explored what async/await offers, and completely understand the tradeoffs it forces.
And the Supreme Court even struck down California's law banning forced arbitration.
its reasonable note.

In the studies there were 170k participants with 13k disease cases during observed period, so looks like hazard rate was significant enough.
I disagree. I don't care how the money flows, their actions are adversarial, and if it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it means I don't have to put much effort into replying to obnoxious contrarian comments masquerading as a respectable point on Hackernews.
Nintendo is a litigation company pretending to be a game developer.
Study finds that we could lose science if publishers go bankrupt
I installed a binary but wont register to use it "for free"... I'm going to stick with Blender.
The second one where they just prompt it to agree with the user about everything is somewhat defensible.

But yeah, this is just a polarity inversion of openai/google/etc, not exactly an improvement.
Not much real reason for this to be less regulated. Still probably will be in practice, as fission is massively overregulated.
I'm not the GP, but one can believe that it's cheap pandering, and simultaneously that the three of them have merit outside of that pandering. It's not required to be all one or all the other.
The vehicle I'm sleeping in instead of a tent camping might be under 3K!
From experience, it is the people who are confident they won't be tricked that are most vulnerable to being tricked.
> Because there's one "right-leaning" major AI (Grok), and as far as I can tell that's the only differentiating feature.

Did you actually look into that or did you just make assumptions?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/23/grok-ai...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2023/12/10/elon-musks...
>>Nearly 20 percent of TSA employees are veterans or still proudly serving

That trailing qualification tells us that % of TSA employees still serve - but in a way that is other than proudly.
This is pretty cool work, love the concept. I am curious if there are fast, easy to use and efficient ways to also detect the full hand. Maybe by placing the camera from above would make it easier to process but at the cost of complicating the setup.
I love my Apple products. I think the walled garden improves my experience on the device. I do want Apple to exert control over the platform. But I also believe they are fallible and the app store is anti-competitive. I think some competition in the browser and app store space on iOS would be good for everyone, including Apple. They need to be humbled occasionally. I definitely think less of Apple based on their actions here. It shows they care more about exerting control than their users, regardless of how they have justified their actions to themselves.
No matter if you believe that the US government is in possession of alien technology and proof of advanced extraterrestrial life or not, this statement is completely true. Because in government speak when something is classified it's not being hidden it's just classified and therefore only the people with the need to know, need to know. Therefore it is correct to say they are not hiding it because it either does not exist or it is classified.
United B38M at Houston on Mar 8th 2024, runway excursion and main gear collapse
Nope. And this is fine.

ITER is not a prototype of a commercial fusion reactor, it's a burning plasma laboratory. Its main goal is to study the plasma confinement technology.
Hypergraphia and Mental Health and Creativity
TimeLapze: Open-source screen recorder
Not the author, but I believe the idea they want to illustrate is that you can't get into accidental render loops caused by the component itself
I really enjoyed the article! Generators have been around for maybe half a decade already but I never see them used. I am able to follow the article but have never seen an example at even small scale. All of the complexity for my software is still there in some form or other. I can have 100 classes it seems or 1000 functions and I really really struggle with breaking away from the imperative viewpoint. Especially when you have a small team consisting of seniors to juniors. I do love the pattern but no one else does. Why does it feel this way?
> Lukewarm isn't a good candidate for an antonym, because it describes a specific temperature. Not an exact specific temperature, one can't mark "lukewarm" on a thermometer, but consider being presented with two bowls of soup and asked which is "more lukewarm". Either neither is, one is and the other isn't, or both are, lukewarm. In the last case, how do you decide which is more so? Is it the slightly warmer one, or the slightly cooler one?

Wait, but if one is hot, and one is medium, I'm obviously picking the medium one. Seems easy enough to do a comparison to me.

I think perhaps a stronger reframing of your argument is that if you want an antonym, you want to take what you have and flip around some middle point, e.g. happy gets flipped to sad because it's "flipped" around neutral, etc. But lukewarm pretty much is the middle point, so flipping it has no effect.