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You should track money in/out now, don't wait until the company it setup. You can claim expenses on the company even if those expenses were incurred before the company was formed.
You need to know the person. In my experience most of them are very nice guys. It's just that when they think something is not that great they will just say "it's shit".
I was told many times my code was shit by these guys at the time and I didn't take it as a personal insult but as constructive feedback. They liked that I took it that way and we ended up good friends.
People should see through the words before being offended.
At least you are a shareholder of a company that has just made a good deal in cash. But from what you wrote it seems that that company is privately held, so your shares are not so liquid, i.e. may not be so easy to sell. As a shareholder you should have access to company info.
This is tackling climate change.
Ask Chinese, ask Koreans. Also ask Germans or Vietnamese.
You could also ask Foxcomm's founder.
But both sides agree that it is China.
Like Korea includes both North and South even if there are two states.
Atheism is significantly driven by the rejection of religion.
The existence of a god can be discussed and indeed we do not know. However religions are backward ideologies that should really be relegated to the history books.
These quirks of history are mostly gone now and thus HK's relative importance is bound to decrease.
It'll end up just one city in the Pearl Delta megalopolis.
To quote Wikipedia:
"While other knowledge could be a figment of imagination, deception, or mistake, Descartes asserted that the very act of doubting one's own existence served—at minimum—as proof of the reality of one's own mind; there must be a thinking entity—in this case the self—for there to be a thought."
I'll try not to express individual thoughts in the future to fit into the collective.
A baby, like everything else in the world, is something you perceive through your senses and that you can thus never be sure really exists. Let's say that Descartes laid the premise for the Matrix.
Descartes is about proving existence through doubt.
If you start doubting everything around you, what is left is your own mind that must exist since it is thinking and doubting.
It has nothing to do with being a 'person' as a social construct, or about who I am.
Now please leave me alone and find someone else to troll.
And you guys are the ones taking things in unproductive directions by refusing to address or discuss the point of my initial comment (and you even go as far as pretending not to understand the point or to misrepresent it), which is American influence over its allies.
But must guess is that Germany will be very careful and still let Huawei have a footprint in the country because Germany is a heavy investor in China for decades, and Huawei actually moved their EU HQ from the UK to Germany. They will want to stay on good enough terms with China.
You could already have pure vending machines serve what baristas serve you at Starbucks, Costa, whatever, you would get exactly the same product and it's close to what happens in reality. But people want a coffee shop experience, not a vending machine experience so I think moving robots will be a thing (unless people really insist on interacting with humans)
Humans in Costa don't add any value to your cup.
They might make you feel better, though, so we'll see if people are fine with being served by a robot (as I already wrote).
But, please keep focusing on the literal.
When pointing at the Moon...
Even when they use en espresso machine (because perhaps you ordered an espresso), it makes no difference to the final product if that is automated entirely. A standard espresso machine requires a human only because it cannot automatically reload coffee.
The simple fact is that at this point humans are really only there for the 'experience', not to create the final product.
Employees do no more than employees at say, McDonald's. In fact probably less. Push a button, right amount of coffee pours into cup. Move cup. Push button, right amount of milk pours into cup. Move cup.
Replacing people by robots will make no difference to the final product.
What we need to wait and see is whether consumers want to be served by a human or whether they don't care. We'll have an answer very soon because for fast food and coffee shops there's just a couple of years before humans become operationally optional.
Personally, in a high end place where staff adds value I will care, but I couldn't care less in a Costa Coffee or McDonald's.
My point is that UG create another layer instead of simplifying GmbH, which they refuse to do. From what you said UG still force you into GmbH: "25% of net income have to be added to the company investment, until the 25k€ threshold is reached". That's still quite onerous.
I think this is cultural. In the Anglo-sphere, the culture is much more one of laisser-faire. Other culture are much more fearful of any financial risk.
At the end of the day, though, on this I think the UK has it right: Make it as easy as possible for people to start a business. There is no downside.
> went for british Ltds despite them having a bad reputation
Cheap shot there. They don't have a bad reputation, assuming that claiming that companies from one of the main economies in the world have "bad reputation" makes any sense at all.
The reason people go for them is that most other European countries make it onerous to setup a company, while the UK does not see any reason to make it difficult.
Requiring €25k shuts the door to many people who would like to setup their own small business, for example.