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Call it "Jay Ess". Everyone does already.


I think in the chrome extension store you can't even change the email account attached to the extension. The only correct way to transfer an extension seems to be deleting it and having the new party create a new one.


Is this related to mercurial, other than using python, or is the name just a coincidence?


coincidence


Is that a thing in the US? You start a company and there's no need to register it with the government? Or it gets registered but there's no public records of it?


All companies are registered. They have to be registered to be legal entities, have bank accounts, and comply with tax laws.

Private companies don’t need to publicly divulge a lot, though. It’s between the company and their investors. It’s only once a company wants to trade publicly that they have to provide a lot of public details and financials.


You don’t have to register a general partnership as long as it has one of the partners’ last name in the partnership name, although I guess you have to get an EIN to file partnership taxes.

A sole proprietorship doesn’t have to register anything ever at all.


Although in most cases it’s sensible to register a single member LLC instead of operating as a sole proprietor. That way the LLC can be separate from the owner’s personal assets.


Great point. I suppose I should have said all companies like this (the corporation Bezos is involved with) are registered entities.

There are ways to do business activities yourself without registering an official business, though it’s generally discouraged because forming an LLC is so cheap and easy and provides some protections and benefits.


A company can be a sole proprietership or partnership without registering with anyone, but in this case in most states they must either conduct business in the owners/partners names or register a DBA with the state(s) they are doing business in. (the rules are state specific, and I think there are some states that don't do kr require DBA registration). In most cases, a company with billions invested in it will be formed as a formal entity such as an LLC or Corporation in a state. Again, the specifics vary from state to state. If you knew the legal name of this entity, and what syate it was registered in, you could probably look up when it was registered in that state.

However, details like owners and organizers aren't always Available.

It gets further complicated with Series LLCs.

Congress passed a law that would have required "beneficial ownership" registration with law enforcement (FinCen), however, this registration would not have been public.

Further, it was found unconstitutional and enforcement of the registration requirement indefinitely suspended.

In general, if you are doing business in a state under a name or entiry other than your own legal name, you will be required to file something with the state, and that filing will include a registered agent where legal process can be served on the business, and this information will be public.

But if they aren't doing business publicly yet, no one will know the name of the business, so they can't look it up! It sounds like the name mentioned in the article may just be a code name.


Interesting. If one were to legally change their name to their desired DBA name, I wonder how that would go over.


Legal name changes are handled in state courts, so there may be different rules depending on your state, but generally I think you could get away with it if you really wanted to... but doing business as a sole proprietor means you are personally liable for everything the business does. Way simpler and better to just form an LLC in most cases.


You can basically form a corporate entity with a nominal Delaware office, but it doesn't need to give any details about where the actual work takes place, yeah.


You can even LegalZoom one for $200.


There are thousands of companies registered every day across the US. This one is probably a subdivision of a subdivision of some holding company owned by Bezos. Pretty much impossible to track using just public data.


In my state, zero information is given to the state about who the owners are.


Let me guess: Texas?


Nope. TX actually has quite a bit more transparency.

One of the more absurd things I can do is have two LLCs own each other, and then have outside management.


Wyoming?


They need to make 2 variants of Windows:

* One with Windows 7 level of features (with Windows 11 level security fixes).

* One with all the bells an whistles that gives product managers the feeling of having done something and justifies their raises and career advancement.


They mostly exist with IoT LTSC being the first one. (well, to some extent, it still has the "two control panels, two context menus, non-deterministic start menu search, hiding scrollbars by default" issues).

But they only sell the second one to regular customers. IoT LTSC is for companies only. Other customers don't deserve respect apparently.


I'd suggest getting a SteamDeck and use it as the lower limit on performance. If it runs there, it will run everywhere else.


Even a Steam Deck is overkill for a game like this. This is NES-levels of graphics.


GPU code performance != CPU code performance. You can have a visually trivial game (Dwarf Fortress pre-makeover) that will grind your CPU to a halt because of all the simulations it has to process. You can also have a visually complex game that will run fine because the rendering will be properly optimized to reduce drawcalls etc but as the number of units grows, it will push your CPU to the limit.


I tell people Dwarf Fortress is a cpu stress test tool, not a game.


The NES isn’t spinning up objects for every bullet on the screen or a million other ways a novice developer can blow up a GC.


No this doesn't look like NES graphics at all. This is more like the SNES era.


You... could have given the job to Brenda instead, unless the irony was the point?


The global economy isn't going to crash if I make a mistake with the transcript.


That's how it starts.



I guess that only works if you are logged in?


Not a live stream, but another nice channel from Namibia is Ocean Conservation Namibia: https://www.youtube.com/@OceanConservationNamibia/videos

I can spend hours watching them rescue seals.


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