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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,…

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 come…

(Published: 05 Sep 2023)

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 …

> 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…

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://dkrie…

Adam Neumann begs to differ.

> [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 …

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…

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, ye…

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 c…

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…

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 …

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, A…

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 inc…

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://e…

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 car…

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 …

> 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. Ca…

> 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 centra…

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 co…

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 da…

Cool, I hadn't realized that distinction in terminology. Thanks for pointing it out! :)

> 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 …