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The IRS has fairly specific requirements for recipients of funds from DAFs. The gist is that they need to be charities: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/charitable-organiz..., https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/charitable-organiz...

Obviously some charities can have missions that not everyone agrees with, but that constraint is still, well, constraining.
The problem is not that charities are efficient or not, it's that your spending public money on a tax deduction without vetting what projects are being worked on. Effectively, you collect money from people and then deny those same people a say in what it's spent on.

As you say, even the ones you support are not worth giving much of your money to. But, you are also directly supporting charities with your tax money that you actively disagree with.

EX: Direct Food Aid is generally (though not always) considered a bad idea, but if even a small portion of people disagree then everyone chips in.
What is the daily use case? Sounds useful, but daily?
Very excited about this Nobel - it recognizes a practical but extremely useful set of tools that are the backbone of modern therapeutic development, on one hand (phage display) and have proven immensely useful to improving protein design and engineering, on the other.

It's also great to see improved representation from the Nobels this year: female winners in both chemistry and physics (where there have been respectively, 5 and 4 previous winners, TOTAL, since the prize began) and for both cases, (some) winners without "glamorous" science careers at rich private universities with massive labs, high profiles, TED talks, etc.. Just great scientists, doing their jobs. Hopefully more to come like these in the coming years.
Same. I’ve never worked anywhere where I had to work more than 8 hours. Startups, mid-size, and FANG alike. I have occassionally done stretches of 60-ish hour weeks for 1-2 weeks at a time, but mostly by choice, and this is the exception. 40 hours is typically ample time to get things done. 60 hours is a lot of time to be spending at work.

It boggles my mind that some of my friends (mostly in other industries) toil away for what they claim is 80+ hours per week. I can’t fathom being able to do that and actually be productive for that amount of time for more than 1-2 weeks.

There are definitely tech companies with the crazy-hours workaholic culture but in my experience it’s easy to spot this from a mile away and I simply refuse to work for them. There’s tons of great companies where you can do cool stuff and still have a sane & balanced life.
You're right about people being the problem but, as you said, technology is easy and in my work, I see how automation manages clients and workers.
Guess so, can't say I've ever seen the word "totalitarian" used in the way you are suggesting.
I think it's better to talk about the actual amount of money that is ending up in my bank account rather than mythical pre-tax rates that receive a 30-50% haircut, especially for 1099s.

If the business wants to deduct the expense, then I charge higher.

If the business somehow comes up with $2,200 a month in physical cash, then I won't question it.

Yes it's illegal, but that's actually for the IRS to prove and not me.
His own hedge fund, for example.
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For me, highlighting all occurrences and ctrl/cmd+g (next) is enough. Jetbrains idea does the highlight in scrollbar but I don't find it useful.
>Less snarky, I find that attaching your identity to what you do is a profoundly American thing. "I'm a Rubyist", "I'm a runner", "I'm a Republican". The moment you are what you do, everything becomes so.. important.

For the better part of a millennium people in Europe changed professions so little from generation to generation that it became baked into their last names in some places.
It means calculate what you spend annually, and save until you have 25x that amount.
Interestingly this is apparently how some corrupt russian government officials like to hide/park their dirty cash/bribes etc. funnel money/bribes/transfer assets into "charities", then have charities buy/own the assets you are interested in owning... houses, yachts etc. Then they have interesting situations where on paper a charity owns a villa ... but in reality a high profile politician lives in it.

This is charity abuse taken to the extreme, but i have a feeling russians have copied the approach from their western counterparts.

https://themoscowtimes.com/news/prime-minister-medvedevs-sup...
You are right in the large.

That said, once you learn all of these k8s concepts and mechanisms, and probably script nearly all of them, they all become like breathing and don't really take much time.

I frankly now am at the point where it is faster to spin up a small project on k8s than it would be to do so with the cloud providers PaaS platform.
I think probably not for many or most of us, although there are some extreme cultures and every office seems to have someone who works day and night. But BaseCamp is selling to a much wider audience than just software developers, right?
Neither has gravity, I suggest you exit your office from the window
That's a very good insight. To make matters worse, once you're on a global level (or internet level) you find that practically everybody so driven to be that top performer is a monster… or at the very least, has a bunch of toxicity relating to the pressure they impose upon themselves to attain that top performance.

Those who aren't prepared to have the toxicity… drop out, before becoming the very top performer.

The larger the pool of competitors, the more obvious this effect. By now, with globalized commerce and global internet, it's pretty obvious.
Good reason is strict quality assurance procedures at any level, which seems bureaucratic but it’s mandatory for b2b and big b2c. Bad reason is bureaucracy as a mean used internally to stand still against any change by slowing quality assurance to death.
> It boggles my mind that some of my friends (mostly in other industries) toil away for what they claim is 80+ hours per week. I can’t fathom being able to do that and actually be productive for that amount of time for more than 1-2 weeks.

They're not actually productive for that much time.
If you look at safe withdrawal rates that do not result in portfolio depletion, 4% is about the most you could hope for from a fairly stock-heavy portfolio, and this is a rate really intended for funding a 30-year retirement, not indefinite. 3% is more realistic for a permanent withdrawal.

10% is absurd.
Exactly. VCs' self-interest will always be to extract maximum work out of engineers, hoping to make themselves from 100-millionaires into billionaires.

If you're going to work at such a place then acknowledge you may be getting paid to put up with tantrums of the ultra-rich when their money likely goes away (as most startups fail). Don't internalize it.
It is the same with most 'NGOS' in India
I am finding that Amazon Workmail is pretty awesome, even for personal use cases. It was really convenient for me to configure as well because the domain I wanted to use was already in Route53.
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Learn sales, marketing, design, basic accounting. Basically learn everything tangential so you know why you are writing code not just how to write code. It’s a means to an end. It could be as simple as reading books or as intense as taking online courses.
Like the saying goes "better lucky than good." Being born a white man in America at the time he was to a politically connected, financially stable family were all things that benefited him greatly and which he had 0 control over.

The older I get, the more of a fatalist I become. The whole universe is just luck and entropy, and anyone telling you otherwise is probably just trying to sell you something.
Seems like a good thing in general. I don't want a 1850s charity whose purpose is to stop women from voting to still have money. (I doubt such a thing ever existed)

Maybe a charity with the sole purpose to preserve some specific artifact (a piano) or the like, but somehow I want it to not get more money than is required for that purpose.
Are they aware of their security talent advantage?
That first one is a bad example because as the article notes, they are under investigation for suspicion of not being a legally valid charity. That doesn't undermine the concept of legally calid charity.

The rest of your argument is spot-on, but one rebuttal is that charitable giving exemption is a way to provide a truly democratic way for citizens to give votes of partial non-confidence in how their tax dollars are spent.
This link concerns the overall idea of a charitable deduction, it's not really about the funds.

My question was, "Why do DAFs need to be reformed?"

Even if you got rid of the charitable deduction, you would still have things like DAFs and Foundations.

Think of it this way, WRA came into being in 1917. But if you take, say, the Carnegie Foundation, that's been around since 1905 at minimum. So even without a charitable deduction, these foundations and DAFs would exist. So the question is, why do they need to be reformed? (Or, more precisely, why do DAFs need to be reformed?)

You linked to an article explaining why you believe WRA to have been a bad idea. (Or maybe why you believe that WRA has become a bad idea? But either way, it's about the reforms introduced by WRA, not specifically about DAFs.)
Doesn't spark scan your email box like GMail used to? I haven't found anything recent stating they have stopped that practice.
Your own logic is shaky. If it dries up charity organisations, but increases the well being of more people, where does it land?
Without looking into the Privacy Policy for details on tracking, it seems like this would be a lesser of two evils situation. Either experience censorship in your country or see everything, with the caveat that Google logs it.
Is that a waiver so you could agree to live in a moldy house? Do you have an option of not living there?

Fixing your health issues could cost more than the savings you get from living in that shack.
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I do a lot of mountain bike trail building and maintenance. Here in SE Michigan we were heavily impacted by Emerald Ash Borer, and many of our trails are in wooded areas that contained a lot of ash. Because of how the Ash Borer kills trees what results is a tree that rots at the base and falls over, with the core of the trunk a nicely aged hardwood. This makes cutting out the dead trees as they fall across the trail particularly difficult.
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Are the majority of developers in start-ups? I'd think for most of us there is "no real stake" in the sense of lottery-ticket equity.
> Huge data centers like OVH? Pioneers like Nokia, Ericsson and Siemens used to be? (in some ways still are)

The US makes appa that suck down 5MB to display a status update; Scandanavia builds the equipment that makes it possible.
You should be able to call politicians or organizations which criticise authorities, and they should set up anonymous means of doing so (perhaps required by law). You shouldn't be able to call someone's Grandma, impersonate her son, and scam her out of her retirement.
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On the other hand when there are more good causes than money (this will always be true) it lets people with a passion for something make the individual choice as to what is worth supporting.
As you start to gain some experience it can be tempting to think your particular philosophy, framework, solution to a particular problem is the right one. Over time, you'll find lots of you assumptions and beliefs that you thought were beyond doubt change. Keep an open mind and don't assume you're right.
I think if you'd led with the UB thing, the notion of C targeting an abstraction rather than being an abstraction would have been more compelling to me (the perf argument gets back to a place where basically everything in every language is artifacts and leaky abstractions; it's worth visiting but doesn't persuade me in either direction).

I guess my issue, even with the whole outline laid out (thanks!), is that while C "isn't how the computer works" in sort of the same sense as a SPICE model isn't really how a circuit design works and ns isn't really how a network works, it's close enough to be illuminating in ways most other languages aren't (and has the virtue of most mainstream hardware being explicitly designed to make it, and particularly it, faster).

I think more developers should know C (though I think almost nobody should write in it anymore).
Update: I am mistaken. The classic GR black hole behaves this way. MECOs supposedly never fully collapse into a singularity, even for infalling observers. That's the difference.

I rather think we'd have noticed the difference from LIGO gravitational wave measurements of BH mergers, but maybe not?
> Reforms have to be taken into the context of their overall impact towards greater good. If overall charity drops, then the reform is bad.

Only if the benefits are smaller than the impact of the drop to overall charity.

If we taxed a bunch of money that is, say, 95% billionaire tax-avoidance and 5% effective charity, and spent that tax money on the things we democratically spend money on (and say that's, say, 80% lobbying and pork and what have you and 20% effective stuff like infrastructure and well-targeted welfare programs) then that would be a net win.
The biggest are mentioned in the article:

1. No required distribution per year. A DAF has no obligation to actually give its money away in any timely manner. The Bloomberg article actually undersells how close this was to being regulated. Everybody likes this rule though because it allows people to siphon fees off money which should be in a charity.

2. Upfront tax benefit for later charitable benefit. Charitable tax deductions should be linked to actual charitable giving, not promises to do so. DAFs should only give a tax benefit on the disbursements they make to charities, not on a donors disbursement to the DAF. I think this is the least likely fix to happen but also the one that would most directly fix the problem.

3. Capital gains dodging. The article mentions this but this discrepancy with private foundations should be fixed and donations should be deductible at the cost basis level. Think of this as double-dipping.
I don't disagree with your statement but I would have expected an article with "bare metal" in the title to cover some of the unique issues associated with bare metal. Like measuring, planning, and managing capacity.
Which is fine, as far as it goes, but consider the very high likelihood your equity in a start-up isn't worth much.
I think that's naive. The parent comment phrases it a bit more cynically than I would have, but it's in everyone's best interests to casually document plans and intentions. People forget, people misremember, people promise things without fully thinking through the implications in the moment. A friendly email restating the key points of a discussion is conscientious, professional, and keeps everyone on the same page.

I'd personally be very suspicious of anyone who tells you not to do that. There is literally no downside unless you're trying to hide something.
Rather than money grossly gathered, they propose a life well lived.

Agreed, but I find such advice feels weird from people who are extremely wealthy.

It's a bit like if a top chef did a book on cooking healthy meals - it might be packed with great practices, but the advice would come from a place of advantage that could cause blind spots in giving advice to someone with limited access to fresh groceries, a tight budget, and perhaps several dependents with varying tastes.

when, in reality, overwork most often yields a miserable, dissatisfying life without extravagant wealth.

I can't really disagree as such, but while I'm only one data point (who comes from a non-rich, working class background) I can't think of anyone I know personally who worked really hard and that made their life functionally worse, although I guess dissatisfaction is hard to measure from the outside.

I certainly know people who've reached a certain point and then improved their lives by working less thereafter, but I still think any advice to work less or chill out early in your career is pretty dangerous ground for younger people to consider.
Maybe there should be a minimum distribution of 5% of revenue from the previous year. So if you are adding money to the pot, or the investments are up last year, the organization has to either distribute or pay taxes.

If in the prior year it doesn't take in any money (no donations, market down turn, etc), the organization can still operate in perpetuity.
Know your tools. Be a good teammate - this is a team sport. If you're going to do something more than once, automate it. Get paid for the lines of code you don't write, rather than the ones you do.
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So choose another DNS server. It's configurable.
A country that censors content will be very interested in obtaining these logs from Google. Since they seem to be willing to cooperate with state actors, users might set themselves up for reprecussions later on.
Polish your communication skills. Writing in particular. It will help you, and help others, when you explain yourself or create documentation.
Yep, Google will likely use ANY and ALL information here as well, is it possible that user info could be sold back to oppressive Gov't's under the table for big bucks ? . Isn't it possible to achieve all this solely with Cloudflare ?
Then you were lucky.

I would definitely not recommend people ride across the country on a BSO (bike shaped object, often found in department stores).
That's basically what I've concluded. I think it pretty much boils down to status signaling (creating the appearance of "putting in longs hours"). There was another article posted here last week that touched on that phenomenon.

It's just sad to see people I care about get caught up in that culture when I know they are talented enough to work somewhere else and still make really good money and not have to live like that. But I think workaholism can definitely be addictive and a lot of times it is purely self-inflicted by choice whether conscious or unconscious.
If the money goes to taxes instead of charity, you still have the same need for lawyers and accountants and inspectors to check that the funds are used properly and not diverted
I meant funds collected from taxes when I wrote "our resources".
Yes, but it lets Jeff Bezos make a lot more choices than Joe Six-Pack.
> Also, if you're looking for a DoH server that block adverts, here is mine:

> https://dns.aaflalo.me/dns-query

Great! I've been looking for something like this for a long time. Is the source code open? Not that I don't trust you with my DNS queries but...
Tangential: I noticed a similar issue with the pricing of SSD drives offered on Dell's Precision Mobile Workstation laptops.

Perhaps Dell's SSDs are extra-awesome in some manner that I'm failing to recognize. But otherwise it makes way more sense to just buy your own SSD drives for those laptops, AFAICT.
>I want to be a contract mobile app developer!
>So I want to see the whole picture.

Wake up, son, this bubble burst in 2012! Serious answer is the market is too tough nowadays to make a living without an exceptional alignment of talent, networking and big luck.
The average return has been 8.8% since 1926, including 20 years with loses[1].

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Hands off the keyboard.

There's a lot of learning to be had in taking the time to read and understand others code, in taking the time to really grok any brownfield system that you're working on, and in spending some time with the documentation.

There's a lot of work you can save yourself by taking the time to assemble a clear plan of attack before you start hacking.

(And if you're doing BDD, writing Gherkin files counts as hacking.)

There's a whole lot of rework, wasted effort, and end-user aggravation that you can save by really getting to know the business domain you're operating in.
That's not what those words mean all. Socialism and Democracy are orthogont concepts. Socialism is an economic concept; democracy is a political concept.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the math. Are you suggesting that you spend only 1/26 of your after tax income, and save the hypothetical remaining 25/26?
'America' is only used in the English name of one country: USA. When talking about countries, using English, America is shorthand for the USA. Americas on the other hand, would mean all of the N/S American continents.
It depends on what your operational needs are.

Do you need to do rolling deployments? Boom. Kubernetes pays for itself right there. And that's just tip of the iceberg. Do you need someone else to join you on ops duties? Boom. If they know Kubernetes, they can easily find their way around your system. Your bespoke system? They're trying to grok your lack of documentation.

It's a latency/bandwidth thing. The learning curve is the latency. The advantages it brings to the table is the bandwidth. As such, I think it's a great investment even for small businesses/teams, but it's not a good investment for a solo developer who doesn't know it, unless they want to be learning Kubernetes rather than building their project.
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No kidding. That was my next thought among other issues with the plan, but I'm trying not to be too cynical about what will happen to the data. I won't be using this any time soon, personally.
What about something like the Internet Archive?
I'm not saying they're not worth giving money to however. In the case of Belgium there is proper vetting, and not every project can get an accreditation.

But the deduction incentivises giving. I tend to gift double the money I would without the deduction, because the cost is exactly the same to me. The US system is probably too generous when comparing both.

I personally don't oppose the deduction. Most are not investment vehicles but actual charities, doing something good in the world. I wish more people would do something good in the world.

I'm sure more money goes lost every year due to political corruption and graft, than through the charity tax deduction.
But the programming process in python feels like cheating sometimes :)
I tend to agree with you. Are mathematical singularities physical? We just don't know. I think probably not on philosophical grounds. But we can't peek inside an event horizon to find out, and these event horizons seem to exist, so whatever the structure of the insides of them are, they're still black holes.
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While tha 36x24 frame dates to the original Leica, I believe the 3:2 aspect predates that significantly as the some of the early Kodak box cameras shot 6x9cm on 120 film.
That's one way the government can open an avenue for corruption without quantifying real costs (since it's all estimates from various "experts"). Since you can fudge the numbers all you want, it's a popular way to do things.

The better way in the long term would be to pay for the activity one wants to incentivize, just like we do everything else. Obviously, that would expose all the implicit costs and it's more difficult to win elections.