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waht if I don't pay? are they gonna come after me?
edit: just went to the delaware website, it says to wire them 80,000 USD or else. sent them an email to get clarification.
sorry if I seemed angry, but censoring my threads will do that. It's hard to blame this on due dilligence, in this case I was sold on the expectation that they would take care of the paperwork for me, and be proactive in their communication about important dates like this.
https://flagtheory.com/stripe-atlas/ didn't exist when I signed up.
well to anyone who is thinking of using Stripe Atlas and is not American:
DO NOT FUCKING DO IT.I definitely won't be doing this again as a non-American.
Really wish they would've been more explicit about the true costs of establishing a business in USA
How in the fuck is it remotely fair to tax corporations with no employees, no revenue, no investments, no capital, nada, zil, zip!
I don't understand why I owe taxes on a company with zero revenue, zero expenditure. I literally just registered with Stripe Atlas thinking it would be cool to own a US corp for future fund raising.
Big fucking mistake.
2018 is almost over and I still don't know if I should go fully serverless, more importantly, which cloud vendor has fixed the "cold startup time" for serverless functions. Google seems quite promising but still no recent study has been done on this. Would somebody like to see a test on this done? I've been wanting a straight up answer for a long time but hard to find a consensus, seems to be all over the place.
Say you took out a mortgage on an open ledger (a PoW based blockchain ledger), BYOB. What happens when you get scammed? How do you reverse the transaction? What legal enforcement is there? Remember, you've said it yourself, the blockchain's supposed value comes from that nobody has full control of the database, but this is flawed thinking-the absence of authority does not make a ledger more trustable just because it's not in the control of anyone, which is false, bitcoin being a clear example of centralized ownership, or a perfect model of "rich miners getting richer".
Trust is not a simple matter of storing information, it's much more than that. It's based on human to human level trust, which blockchain industry has pretty much failed spectacularly with the vast majority of ICO pump-dump schemes.
can I record really edgy, film fps, at night? usually in downtown alleys.
I choose America. At least they don't harvest organs out of dissidents for liking Winnie the Pooh.
You judge a culture by how they treat the bottom rung.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QAHK1Uy9ao (this 2005 model is 20k vs a 2005 Ferrari F430 would fetch at least 100k)
It's like the C-class. Everywhere in Vancouver, BC. Especially downtown, where debt to income ratio is ridiculously higher than other areas.
People will pay for the brand, true supercar enthusiasts pay on future value. In fact, people who collect rare supercars, do not lose money on what is otherwise a known depreciating asset.
ex. F430 Manual transmission started appreciating in value past handful years because of demand for the last manual gated Ferrari, its approaching high-mileage 430 Scuderia prices, which is ridiculous. Everybody knows the Ferrari 430 Scuderia is the rawest Ferrari you can experience of last generation, even more expensive than a brand new 458.
I also think the F430 front and rear is the best looking. I died inside when they revealed those ugly sharp edges in the 458. Then the sacrilege of putting a turbo.
whew! I kinda went off on a tangent there. but yeah, tldr, parent comment is right and not deserving of downvotes.
jesus christ. does this man have no taste? Maserati is the car poor people buy when they can't afford Ferrari in Vancouver, BC. Doug Demuro agrees.
The book 'Confessions of Economic Hitman' perfectly illustrates a sort of "active measures" that take place with increasing lethal consequences for those that oppose them.
1. identify elites in a country (ex. bankers, biz ppl)
2. lucrative contracts and monopoly handed out to elites via government.
3. profit???
4. If no profit, use bribe to corrupt key players.
5. If still no profit, send in the jackals (what EH calls professional assassins), put poison in cigars, drone strike.
6. If tradecraft fails, then they put boots on the ground.
next time I will marry Google Home
It's convenient that while I'm driving I can interact with different apps like maps and switch to music or play it at the same time without touching the phone. Youtube Music lets me play any song I can think of in the car via mobile data.
I'm not clear on what exactly Apple services are, but it's not enticing to Android users to sacrifice access to the biggest video music media entertainment content on the web.
To me the Google products have become a tether to the Android platform, and Google Search combined with Google Voice is something you just can't do well if you are not Google and don't have near monopoly of those service sectors. Search, Streaming Music, Youtube (theres nothing of this sort from Apple). I just don't see how Apple can catch up now since Google has been winning this game forever.
Google reads the answer in a natural human like way. It works well.
Countless dinner arguments arbitrated by Google via Google Voice by a simple ask. Shit saves marriages I bet.
"wtf you mean the Mongol Empire didn't last long? hold up, lets ask Google about the Crimean Khnate that still kicked ass up till the 17th century"
"i dont fucking believe you, i want a divorce"
"...ey google what year did Crimean Khanate close"
During the 16th and 17th centuries, the Crimean Khanate was an important center of the slave trade. In 1774, it was released as a nationally independent state, following the Russo-Turkish Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca, and formally annexed by the Russian Empire in 1783, becoming the Taurida Governorate
"thank you Google for saving our marriage"
Your welcome.
--goes to work the next morning, sees divorce lawyer ads--
easy to sell to a demographic that pursues perceived luxury over dollar to value ratio but you are right that Google has built an economic moat around their monopolies that unfortunately Apple or Microsoft can ever overthrow.
Google realized the value of services which Apple is way too late to the party. Kudos to them for trying. But I doubt the same number of people would still buy iPhones if Google one day decided to block Youtube.
5 years ago, I might have had to seriously consider the iPhone but Android tbh has gotten so good that Apple no longer feels all that special. Samsung Galaxy S8 and up are all luxurious beasts. Apple will also probably copy Samsung's DeX, I see this to be the next battleground-mobile desktop phones.
Use your phone and plug it into a monitor to use as desktop. Samsung is not graceful with UI and this is where I think Apple can expand.
I feel that it's no longer a merit based but short term pump and dump in which private equity is traded but not without surrendering your control as the founder and that you are now on the dole on a community of investors that trade shares for pennies and have every legitimate reason to dump it to unsuspecting public market to reap profits.
Advices like #1, In 2018, honestly irrelevant, and increasingly sounding like the new telemarketer. For instance, I repeatedly get calls or emails from a variety of SaaS founders or other developers who started their product that I've grown to detune and avoid them.
The big marketing fields are prohibitively expensive so those with the pocket can bid up and essentially deny competitors access to the same consumers.
Trying to sell something that doesn't exist can be done, but not without compromises with unclear results. Why? The power dynamic is asymmetric due to the sheer capital and a hound of top tier lawyers ready to sink their teeth into your startup.
Meaning, they can even sign a memo or an agreement to express interest and then pull out. What the fuck are you gonna do, sue a Fortune 1000 company?