Doesn't even have to be a shared system. Cache-dependent optimizations can conflict with other code in your own program that also need cache space. This is a generic problem with extrapolating from microbenchmarks.
It’s fair to assume that on a vm in the cloud the cores you get are dedicated to you - otherwise the CSP is risking exposure to headline making security problems.. (In the unpleasant event that someone exploits an unmitigated cpu bug.)
And of course the headline of getting a cpu you can’t fully use.
This does not match my experience in Germany. If somebody gives you their phone number it is just expected that you can reach them on WhatsApp and i have yet to meet anyone that doesn't use WhatsApp.
That seems true throughout the most of the Western world, excluding the US. I have a big WhatsApp network, but that's by virtue of living in SF and NY. Without big immigrant/expat/world-traveler communities, I think most of the US just uses iMessage or regular text.
First, it is sufficient to only pay 50 % of the stock capital at registration of the GMbH, ie. 12500 EUR. Obviously you also have less operating capital then.
Second, the money is not gone. It is right there in the company's account. You use it to pay company bills.
The only thing annoying about German GmbH is that it can take 6-8 weeks until you get your tax id and registration numbers. You can, of course, already do business with the name postfix "i.G.", ie. instead of "Foobar GmbH" you write "Foobar GmbH i.G." and done.
> Second, the money is not gone. It is right there in the company's account. You use it to pay company bills.
That's fine if you start a restaurant or small workshop and need money for salaries, materials etc, of course.
It's a barrier to entry when you can start something digital only with just a person or three putting in sweat equity and zero to very little actual cash.
The barrier to entry is the idea that you need a limited liability corporation to start something digital by the seats of your pants. You can always start as a GbR (virtually no costs, spend a day at your city's administration to get a tax id). I mean this in the most charitable way, what kinds of liabilities are you afraid of in that scenario?
Once your idea gets traction and money comes in you hopefully will be able to spare the 1 EUR you need for an UG. Anyway, I recommend investing into founding a GmbH as soon as possible, not for liability's sake but marketing's. You will not make inroads into corporate procurement without a "proper" incorporation.
I've got the impression that you knew a little about German corporations, but I have been wrong before, so my apologies.
I guess, one can assume that all countries with working institutions (and some without) have at least a simple personal liability corporation, which is easy and cheap to establish, and a basic limited liability corporation, which is a little bit more involved and expensive to establish. I guess, because I haven't done any research, but I've come across such corporate forms in Germany, Italy, France, UK, Luxembourg, Hungary, Serbia, Congo, UAE, Estonia, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, USA, Canada, the Philippines and probably a few more.
> I've got the impression that you knew a little about German corporations
I did, about the GmBH, from other discussions on HN. As I said, now I know more, thanks.
> have at least a simple personal liability corporation, which is easy and cheap to establish, and a basic limited liability corporation, which is a little bit more involved and expensive to establish
Yes, but in RO where I am the minimum capital for a LLC is like 100 EUR not 25k :)
That's barely enough to pay a cheap accountant for a month ofc.
Why not try Estonia instead? You’ll need to get an e-signature card (“e-Residency”) which might take about a month, then you just submit an online form and get your company number the same day. Mimimum capital is 1 €, and the fees are about 400 € for setup and 100 €/yr for virtual address. https://www.e-resident.gov.ee/eresidency-germans/
The downside, of course, is that you probably won’t get any direct(-ish) subsidies from Germany — although any pan-EU options should be on the table.
If you are talking about an OÜ this is often repeated and technically wrong (the best kind of wrong). One, actually the minimum capital requirement is 0.01 Euro per shareholder, and two, Estonian courts are pretty clear that in an OÜ with less than 2500 EUR capital the shareholders are personally liable to cover the difference between share capital and 2500 EUR to trustees.
Yeah, you’re technically right (the best kind of right!) — on both counts.
However, if I understand everything correctly (IANAL), personal liability is basically the same. If you go for 2500 € capital and your company becomes undercapitalized, you’ll still be personally liable for any claims against your company, no?
(But personally, I just like how this opens opportunities even for people for whom 2500 € is a serious amount of money. Granted, you probably shouldn’t open up a company in this kind of situation, but at least you can!)
Sweet gorilla of Manila! Anyway, I only had to deal with an OÜ once, so take it with a grain of salt. And IANAL, too ;) What I took away is that you are sheltered from claims against the company by economic avtivity, ie. outstanding fullfilment, but you are liable for claims against the company from management misconduct, ie. neglecting tax duties or, worst case, bankruptcy.
Annual admin costs very much depend on how complex the business is, no?
The primary recurring obligation for a UG is the mandatory retention of 25% of annual net profits until the share capital reaches €25k, enabling tax-neutral conversion to a GmbH.
What I could think of for UG with idea on converting to GmbH, you could have:
- UG setup cost (fairly low compared to GmbH)
- UG/GmbH accounting & tax compliance
- Commercial register updates
- Notary fees for structural changes, and eventually the conversion process
When I previously donated blood at the DRK, not only did I always get a Bockwurst&Brötchen along with a selection of beverages (water, cola, coffee, tea, etc.) but also a little gift bag containing a variety of little food and drink items, like a banana, an apple, little bottles/packets of fruit juice, (fruit/chocolate/etc.) joghurt cups, all in all maybe ~5-7€ worth.
Seems incredibly unethical to exploit starving people by feeding them for selling their body. Horrible stuff. But from the nation that brought us our greatest human experimentation regimen, hardly surprising.
> But from the nation that brought us our greatest human experimentation regimen, hardly surprising.
This is not a fair judgement in this situation. I think money is a far more perverse incentive for donating blood than snacks. Also the snacks are more about helping people increase their blood sugar after giving blood than incentivizing them.
> But from the nation that brought us our greatest human experimentation regimen, hardly surprising.
To assume good faith here I'd have to assume wherever you are you've never donated blood?
When you donate blood you've lost a pint of fluids. They give you something to drink to work on rehydrating.
The sugar in the juice and the sugary snacks are to help give you a bit of energy since... you just lost a pint of blood.
Which is to say this is pretty standard everywhere. It's not payment. The ice pack after my vasectomy wasn't "payment for population control". It's healthcare.
I tend to donate at churches and community centers because the food is more often homemade. Chatting with them old ladies is great.
The red cross also has their "rewards" program but it's nonsense stuff like water bottles. I think you can exchange points for Amazon gift cards. Like $15/year.
This is true, but scale comes after production. Once you have the video encoded on a server with a stable connection the hard part is over. What netflix failed to do is spread the files to enough servers around the globe to handle the load. I'm surprised they were unable(?) to use their network of edge servers to handle the live stream. Just run the stream with a 10 second delay and in that time push the stream segments to the edge server
This right here is where I'd expect the failure to occur. This isn't Joey Beercan running OBS using their home internet connectivity.
This is a major broadcast. I'd expect a full on broadcast truck/trailer. If they were attempting to broadcast this with the ($) option directly to a server from onsite, then I would demand my money back. Broadcasting a live IP signal just falls on its face so many times it's only the cheap bastard option. Get the video signal as a video signal away from the live location to a facility with stable redundant networking.
This is the kind of thinking someone only familiar with computers/software/networking would think of rather than someone in broadcasting. It's nice to think about disrupting, but this is the kind of failure that disruptors never think about. Broadcasters have been there done that with ensuring live broadcasts don't go down because an internet connection wasn't able to keep up.
I’ve been using vyvx since it was called global crossing/genesis, it was fairly unique when it started, but point to point ip distributon of programs has been the norm for at least 15 years. Still have backup paths on major events on a different technology, you’d be surprised how common a dual failure on two paths can be. For example output from the euro football this summer my mai paths were on a couple of leased lines with -7, but still had a backup on some local internet into a different city just incase there was a meltdown of the main providers network (it’s happened before with ipath, automation is great until it isn’t)
Yes, depending on thresholds which vary by state. For some you have to figure out taxes from the first transaction, for others from the 100th and then there are some that consider revenue, like $100k. At least at a conceptual level, taxes in the US seem much more complex than the EU, where you have only one tax rate per country.
I wonder if the reason it's perceived as "easy" is because companies are flying under the radar. In my experience, you get a bit of leeway until the country you're selling into starts to notice and demands you start collecting and paying sales tax. Perhaps the fact the US is split across jurisdictions internally means tax authorities don't have a very clear picture until the company gets big enough.
Either that, or more companies are using third parties who mask the complexity for them. Kinda like a duck looking serene on the water but its feet are paddling furiously to keep moving.
When you're inside a jurisdiction, you don't really have the option to ignore the law for long because the tax authorities will come knocking sooner rather than later.
On hetzner it gets you at least 4 cores, 8GB RAM and 80GB local SSD. For $49 you can almost get a dedicated server with 8 cores and 64GB RAM. More than enough to handle that load Edit: this is for $8 but general point still stands
