In top of high taxes, there is a very adversarial administration and a philosophy of “I’ve told you, you should never have started this project”.

In the baltics it is easy for example, but your experience can vary a lot depending on the country as the EU business environment is not uniform.

He stopped me and explained to me that is his business model, and… it was to sell apps / subscriptions. He has no interest into anything else and strongly explained that the user pays and that’s it.

Eventually I didn’t work with him but I have a very positive opinion of him, so at least, based on my experience as a potential employee strongly trusts

If you want to use the Tesla supercharger network (one of, if not, the largest in Europe, so rather useful), you need the app. https://www.reddit.com/r/Polestar/comments/1hrzidy/do_i_need...

In Northern Europe it's very common not to have cash at all or to have it rejected. In Estonia, you can choose to login to services using... your mobile phone OR (if you are lucky and this is supported) a physical ID card reader, so realistically you want to have a mobile phone. Some services don't even have alternative. It's more like a German / Swiss thing to have cash everywhere.

But from a lawmaker perspective, the topic is not technical.

The question, at the end, is about the enforcement of the punishments that go with circumvention; and in some places there is punishment even when you are "just" trying to circumvent these restrictions.

It's easy to break-in into someone's place. What prevents you from doing it, is the punishment (and potentially ethics), not the physical barrier.

If you push the idea further you could make it a business like https://shipfa.st/ did.

It seems you tried with SupaSaaS ?

Even the name was good, perhaps you can call this template SupaSaaS lite to bring prospects to you ?

Seems cool overall.

For example, before the GDPR you would receive the full IP address of the user and the visited webpage URL.

123.456.123.456 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNvlZg_zh1s

Now you receive only:

123.456.123.0 and more limited information about the context

Though this better privacy has a cost, because it means less revenue for Google, but also less revenue for the publishers, and less relevant advertising.

Eventually had to give up: "sorry no I'm living in China, too complicated", which is sad because some of the people seemed really nice and smart.

From the public information, you can only guess based on the names:

One example: https://web.archive.org/web/20200920040602/https://mentors.d...

or https://space.bilibili.com/439205819 (seems also smart and nice).

I'm sure there are many counter-examples as well.

It's not good or bad, just very logical that people who don't want Google are the ones who get a HTTP timeout or a lockup every time they try to send a request to Google.

They are actually controlled by "robot operators" in Estonia, though officially it's "AI".

That being said, every day it's getting a little bit better.

This way, the internal safety drivers will do everything they can to have the company act responsibly, and refuse the work if the system is not reasonably safe.

It can also solve other problems:

In Estonia we have delivery "robots". On the paper it is "AI", but in reality they are actually remotely controlled by students aka "Robot operators".

The law makes the other drivers guilty if you hit one of these "AI-robots", which really sucks, because the law was changed due to intense lobbying.

I'd rather have people designated as drivers to be responsible.

Storage was expensive, and data wasn't seen as a goldmine as now, so most long-term logs went to /dev/null.

That the normality now is to ask users to create an account, have data-scientists (whose goal is precisely to find needles in haystacks), etc.

I remember EV's penetration is super high there.

Very cool link to see the imports!

I was questioning availability of the cars, because I think this is the key issue for BYD.

I wouldn't want to buy a car where you cannot get support.

In Estonia for example, Tesla's are not very popular for that reason, because for a long time, you couldn't even buy them from the official website (so you had to go through gray imports and drive to Finland for the routine maintenance), it's somewhat better now.

But BYD is simply unreasonably difficult to purchase, and if you do, then just doing a routine maintenance (or if you have an accident) sounds much more difficult than Tesla.

Once they solve that distribution problem (and don't get under political sanctions), I think they can be really great cars.

No mountains here + no garden for me, Yosemite is thousands of kilometers away. The sea has no waves. It's -5 degrees.

Which is "fine", but it means that indoor activities are more prevalent, including computers.

And I'm sure for some other people their options are way more restricted.

This European country simply doesn't exist in many of the Google forms, despite being on the "good side" and being no different than Finland or Germany.

To Westerner, they never saw communism in action, only propaganda.

Which means that kids can proudly wear their capitalistic-made Che Guevara t-shirt at school.

However, in Eastern Europe it's an absolute no, wearing such shirts is worse than the nazi symbols

because it shows support to extreme atrocities in front of people who were victim of them.