- ENGNRLol thank you. Original as far as I know, most welcome to steal!
- The trick is that the USA steps up the buy price of an asset when you pass away. So if you use cheap loans your whole life, you can defer capital tax until it goes away.
Instead of two certainties in life being death and taxes, it's now death or taxes.
- How does that work in practice?
If you're bootstrapped, borrow a bunch of money to pay tax because your company got to $10M val. But then the market shifts and it goes back down to $0 in later years, do you get the money back?
Even if you do, it sounds weird taxing someone for the right to create something, especially when they're still in the middle of creating it.
- Yes! I rewound the video to double check
But honestly at this point I’m destined to buy a Steam Machine despite having a hefty Mac that could do gaming if only it were possible. Valve have been amazing about open computing and Apple are basically the enemy at this point.
It makes me wonder about what using steam machine for all computing might look like, as the new home of open computing and gaming.
- Had some very weird behaviour from cloudfront used purely to serve images from s3. Mostly huge slowdowns and outright failures on endpoints. Was about 15 hours ago that I noticed it by chance.
Was nothing on the aws status pages and no alerts/errors in my console. Eventually it sped up again.
- Omfg you're right. I was half joking before, but yeah that's... quite a coincidence
- Nakamoto = central origin
Origin = CIA?
- Vision Pro is an excellent example
What Apple really needs to do is mimic their old policy of no fees except for games. Let everyone develop for it, and then rug pull by making the fees apply to everything
But they can’t do it twice. So the Vision Pro ends up with no ecosystem
- Ewwwwwww
- There’s too many hackers on hacker news!
- Pretty scary for Apple shareholders. They're basically saying that the extremely expensive hardware alone isn't enough to make a profit anymore? They're that reliant on the app store monopoly now?
- There are all sorts of protections around who can be a custodian of someone’s money (for good reason)
However there are use cases like running a marketplace, where the platform would like to be able to direct the flow, maybe hold things temporarily in case there are multiple transactions or to split a transaction up between different clients, before paying it out daily or weekly as a lump sum. Often it’s just to avoid fees, because the marketplace operator charges their fees in a different way (like a flat monthly invoice) and they want to assist with money logic as a service, but not be the custodian of the money.
Even just knowing that money has moved at all can be useful, without any ability to touch it, and it’s difficult to get permissions from conservative financial institutions, whereas permissionless ledgers make it easy.
Crypto can help add that nuance. It’s still your money, but you can give a third party the ability to do some things to assist you, without giving the ability to transfer it all to themself and run away with it.
- Anecdotally I saw a post on reddit about a senior SWE in the USA who was laid off and couldn't get any interviews, with their old job outsourced to eastern Europe. And then this month the people he hadn't even got a response back from started requesting he apply for their jobs. Only one data point but the market might be coming back.
- Depends how many liberties it takes in imagining the world
Lidar is direct measurement
- I want to say that part of empathy is a selfish, self preservation mechanism.
If that person over there is gleefully torturing a puppy… will they do it to me next?
If that person over there is gleefully torturing an LLM… will they do it to me next?
- Blocked. By Order the Queen.
I'm sure someone could whip up some merch super quickly as souvenirs/protest