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codingcodingboyon EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity

Wow thanks for the long reply, unfortunately many if not most of your points are common in all of Europe. I asked you to clarify because I am not only curious about the topic but I strongly believe that these issues should be talked about way more frequently and reach when possible the general population.

Most people are completely unaware of the risks and difficulties of running a company in our countries.

In Italy for example the tax agency operates on a model that is often no different from extortion and innocent people can suffer greatly because of it, I have seen it happen.

I am skeptical that EU Inc will solve all the main problems or even that it will become reality at all but let's see.

codingcodingboyon EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity

Can you explain why?

codingcodingboyon EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity

"In particular nuclear. They heavily pushed against that."

Saw this yesterday related to nuclear deterrence in Italy.

https://x.com/NichoConcu/status/2012882747434426605

codingcodingboyon Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands,Norway,Sweden,UK

Not the case if the US joins the autocracies.

codingcodingboyon Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines

What happens when BunnyCDN finds itself in the same situation?

codingcodingboyon Show HN: I'm building a browser for reverse engineers

Sounds interesting, what can you achieve?

codingcodingboyon Italian Revenue Agency demands 1B from Google for tax evasion

It would be interesting to know more about the whole Netflix ordeal, apparently they got fined because they have servers in the country.

This type of dispute can set up very bad precedent.

codingcodingboyon Apple won't roll out AI tech in EU market over regulatory concerns

Deficits might be unmanageable already.

codingcodingboyon Stop Using Discord

I am already distracted enough and now you are getting me interested into construction!

codingcodingboyon Greece, Argentina and India are the fastest improving business environments

I am in the process of trying to understand how businesses work and I have been comparing the realities of starting and running companies in various european countries. Most of the information that I can find is very surface level so thanks for sharing anything that people should be aware of.

A community/forum/subreddit focused on this does not seem to exist. I guess professionals are too busy.

I was also surprised to not see much discourse over Section 174 recently.

But getting back to the point, europe needs to decide if it wants to be relevant or not in the future. As an italian currently living in my country, I can say that doing business here looks like insanity, it's not hyperbole, the environment is as anti-business and innovation as it can be.

codingcodingboyon Greece, Argentina and India are the fastest improving business environments

Great to see Greece improving, meanwhile Italy is speedrunning its demise.

codingcodingboyon Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS

You are probably right, and now I wonder if this doesn't also apply to the standard Apple developer program.

I have not read the DMA but in the gatekeeper section of the official website the Core platform services listed are AppStore, iOS and Safari. Let's suppose that you single out iOs, why should I sign up something about AppStore to develop apps?

codingcodingboyon Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS

Maybe they should make cars.

codingcodingboyon Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS

Why didn't the EU force the removal of those requirements? Apple will keep playing games to make alternative stores uncompetitive and keep away unwanted developers.

codingcodingboyon Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management

> As an example, all food in Romania is from the Netherlands or other foreign countries.

Why?

codingcodingboyon UK middle classes 'struggling despite incomes of up to £60k a year'

Really? Why working then?

codingcodingboyon Costs of running a macOS app studio business

I don't want to be negative and it's great to see what you've accomplished, the problems you are mentioning and alluding to are unfortunately not exclusive to your country, I could share some horror stories too and I come from the "developed and rich" western europe.

The point is that the net income you get is very high for european standars, let alone Romania. With that level of income it is really weird that you cannot solve the problems you have.

The phrase "I would still need to not spend anything for a year to be able to afford a house" is bonkers.

codingcodingboyon Costs of running a macOS app studio business

No offense but I think you do not understand how privileged you are.

codingcodingboyon Costs of running a macOS app studio business

It's a special scheme. Normal corporate tax is 16%.

codingcodingboyon Costs of running a macOS app studio business

Romania is basically a tax haven in Europe and he complains.

codingcodingboyon The missing middle in game development

Apparently the only marketing this game had is a single reddit post and discord, I expect to find something on twitter for this type of games.

codingcodingboyon The missing middle in game development

To me it seems like there are simply too many low quality and copycat games.

codingcodingboyon Very high number of workplace accidents at Tesla factory in Germany

Ok let's ruin people lives for profit. Go take a look at an emergency room when somebody gets injured.

codingcodingboyon Tracking Austrian grocery prices by scraping store sites

Well if they refuse you can't really force them, they might have legitimate reasons to turn clients away but I agree that this is not efficient and since you cited mindfactory I add that in Italy in the hardware business there have been many popular companies with competitive prices that were shut down by authorities for tax evasion.

codingcodingboyon Unity plan pricing and packaging updates

Money is not free anymore.

codingcodingboyon Sony just spilled confidential Playstation information because of a Sharpie

The marketing cost is not included, the budget for the average AAA game is probably very close to half a billion.

codingcodingboyon Flashing elements alienate users

It still provides value

codingcodingboyon Flashing elements alienate users

Try to substitute "grumpy" with "informed".

codingcodingboyon Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely

I was thinking about this yesterday and in other threads people are writing about similar systems. The key thing for me and the word that keeps getting written is "RSS", I want a powerful client to experience different content in different ways. There are many communities and content creators that I want to follow but it's too complicated with modern platforms. From a usability standpoint it's bad both for creators and for end users, the result of this is that you miss out on some important stuff.

For example I might not have time to watch Twitch streams or Youtube videos from a creator over a couple months but I would still be able to go to a weekend event in my city or buy some some new merch that he announced. In general I would need to use another platform to not miss out (Twitter, Instagram).

If I controlled a client capable of aggregating all types of content I could decide to filter things out according to my immediate needs.

Content creators would own their own platform or choose a generic service provider and have freedom about what to make (video, image or text posts) and how to monetize.

The problems are who pays who, content discovery, and a decently sized userbase.

codingcodingboyon Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?

I agree with you completely, I always found federated platforms confusing to use and they still run into the same problems that billion dollar platforms have without the resources to solve or mitigate them.