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> AAPL is up 0.67% over yesterday. Let's pretend it's January 1st, and my net worth is tied up entirely in Apple stock. Should I pay taxes on that unrealized gain?

This isn’t actually an argument against the idea that you’re wealthier, you’re just arguing that society shouldn’t tax you yet. These arguments are orthogonal, one can admit that paper gains are real wealth while also maintaining that we should only tax realized gains for policy reasons.

Similarly, if my house doubles in value, then I’m richer. It might not be liquid yet, but the bank, the local property tax authority, and my account would absolutely treat me as significantly richer than before.

The issue in the above article isn’t that gains aren’t taxed until after the sale. The issue is that for the ultra wealthy they basically never sell. Instead their stock holdings are used as collateral for low interest debt that finances the lifestyle of these executives. In this case it sure seems like the gains are realized in every way other than for the IRS.

Personally, I’d tax the bejeesus out of this scheme, preferably by counting it as straight up income subject to normal tax rates. Take a salary or sell the stock and pay the gains tax, no other choices.
Statically typed languages always have escape hatches, so in that way there really is nothing that can’t be done in such a language vs a dynamic one (at least in theory)
My 7-year-old came home recently with several maps with a continent on them marked, variously, either as "Australia" or "Oceania". My wife and I were both confused since we had been taught that this was called "Australasia". Apparently people don't call it that nowadays!
this and the BBC bots that upvote every BBC news
Transover is a good tool for surgical translation:

- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/transover-ff/

- https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/transover/aggiicla...
Because we haven't solved the main problem yet, which is to create robust software that does exactly what's supposed to do, no more no less. We have opinions, we have some indications of what may improve software development, but we are far away from comparing software engineering with other engineering domains. And it's only logical, because compared to other disciplines, software engineering is in its first baby steps.

Imagine if construction/aviation/etc engineers wanted their building/bridge/airplane to be whimsical and have its own personality. Are you scared yet?

Imagine if your out-of-band(not in the initial requirements/spec) and whimsical software contribution was responsible for a bug that brought down an airplane, or killed a patient. How whimsical would you be then? Well at least you wouldn't feel bored at your day job right? Anyway, I think you get my point.
This may be true with some, but it is not true of Fastly. Each of their edge nodes is a varnish cache. Because they are multi-tenant, when varnish crashes it crashes hard and takes everyone with it.

The question in various threads is why not have redundancy -- but the point of a CDN is to have extra servers and capacity and lots of locations to make individual crashes just flow elsewhere.

But if the single customer with a valid-yet-crashable config had lots of traffic all over the world... it'll take everything out at once.

Redundancy of CDN is more expensive, and still requires DNS failover. People do the calculation and usually decide that 30 min of downtime every couple years is worth the saving on vendors and code and hassle. They don't like it, but every site that was down made that decision.
There are only five growth strategies that exist, and your product only fits one. Press isn't a growth strategy, and neither is word of mouth

The five growth strategies are high-touch sales, paid advertising, intrinsic virality, intrinsic influencer incentives (Twitch!), and platform hacks.

Emmett forgot to include hot tubs ;)

I think that last one "platform hacks" may be the most crucial now. Even more so than influencer monetization. If you study TikTok user growth it wasn't just mobile video content creation tools and algortihmic ML assisted curation. It represents a foundational change in the way we transmit ideas via memes. A visual language that crosses cultural boundaries easily. There is no analogue to the TikTok video "remix" found on any other platform.
SSR (at least with Gatsby) extracts the styles at build-time.
There is an incentive to see what everyone else is using, so that you can use it too. Choose boring technologies applies to infra as well. Go with a big stable well known can or cloud provider instead of trusting your service to some fly by night startup etc.
Organic search. It might seem counter-intuitive, but think about how you reach customers and then tailor a product to them.

Creating a product or service and then wondering how to market it is a problem.

Ask yourself why you created the product? If it is because you thought it was personally interesting, that's fine. However thinking about the consumer, the problems he faces and how he searches for solutions avoids this problem.
Agreed! To clear it up: I meant the expressivity of the type system, not the language as a whole.
Our whole field is both constantly changing and (AFAIK) has no formal trade organization like electricians/plumbers. We also aren't licensed like electricians and plumbers. It's just a bunch of academics, and a bunch of haggard people who've been in the trenches, and a lot of random books with great lessons that nobody reads.
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So the government started leaking blurry UFO videos that look like webcam footage of Sasquatch at exactly the same time that China passed through U.S. in military supremacy. Seems like U.S. is just trying to trick China into wasting their money.
> But it's not really a technical term, it's a marketing term from Delphi.

Like 'optimising compiler' - are there really any non-niche compilers that do not optimise? Maybe some first-tier JITs.
That's interesting to me as a Kiwi, because to me the Southern Ocean is a rather rough piece of water south of the subantarctic islands.

Although I've never stared south from the Great Australian Bight.
Well, technically we just talking the new terminal. The runways were always there ad part of Berlin Schönefeld.
"But a customer quite legitimately changing their settings had exposed a bug in a software update issued to customers in mid-May, causing "85% of our network to return errors"

They are careful to make clear that the customer did nothing wrong and that the problem was a bug in their software.
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Maybe his boss had already oversold it to the board, and was setting Suresh up as the scapegoat for its failure.

Maybe Suresh knew this and was trying to limit the failure so that he has some kind of plausible justification when the shit hits the fan.

The interesting bit is what Suresh does if his Customer Discovery process discovers that there's no way this will work in the USA. Does he go back to the boss and tell him that (and what does he do then if the boss insists on going ahead)? Does he re-invent the product for the USA without telling his boss? Does he just resign because he's been put in an impossible position?

There's more to this story than this blog post...
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ProtonMail relies on a subscription model, which means that users upgrade to get additional storage, more custom domains, priority support, etc. Because our users pay us to protect their privacy, our financial interests are perfectly aligned with theirs, and unlike adtech companies, we have no incentive to collect data on our users.
But he also talks about using this as a mechanism for distinguishing YC candidates. So this is coming from a place of "how do capitalists choose laborers".
I'm probably wrong, but isn't real time not about how fast you can react but if you can react on a defined time constraint? Or is there a time threshold you can't consider real time any more like 1 day?
Edit: just like you said, 10ms, 1s, etc.
If you're making a purchasing recommendation for your company, do you want to tell your boss that you're recommending not going with your best option, or even 2nd, but that your company should use the 4th or 5th best CDN as a way to diversify the Internet? Seems pretty altruistic, but not a great way to keep your job.
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Herd immunity is impossible via vaccination for SAR-CoV-2. gasp “why would you say that, heretic?” Well that’s because the vaccine doesn’t prevent transmission. I found this in a medical textbook the other day. See bolded:

https://ibb.co/WcNk4Wc

They may decrease transmission but get out of here with this “herd immunity” talk for these vaccines. Natural infection is another story.

Source: Medical Microbiology and Immunology Thirteeth Edition by Warren Levinston
Oceans lie in-between continents.

Another Aussie here letting you all know we've been calling in the southern ocean since before I can remember :)
Looks like you are using Highcharts and chart.js ... and Leaflet for the maps? Since you are using React, Airbnb's Visx [0] might be a very good charting solution so you have a unified chart library with flexibility to meet customer demands in the future. Also, you will find customers demanding mobile access to their data and dashboards soon enough and having a system that is built on low level d3.js api's it will be easy to implement the charts using the same strategy visx does in React Native.

That's my two cents.

[0] https://airbnb.io/visx/
On the other hand, priors are only a matter of the subject. If there are aliens operating UFOs they want or not want to contact us. If they want to, what are they waiting for? If they don't want to, how come our technology can routinely spot their spacefaring machines? Are they that clumsy?
> Nooses used to represent suicide or maybe western movie culture. The race thing seems to have been kind of resurrected by social media.

I'm sorry, but this is just ignorant of American history. Lynchings were part of a reign of terror that whites, mostly in the South, inflicted on Blacks for over a hundred years.

Between 1882 and 1968 over 3000 black men were lynched by mobs. Families would go and have picnics, bringing their kids so they could watch the lynchings. They would sometimes then carve up the bodies for people to take home a souvenirs, and many of the hanging bodies of the lynched men were photographed and turned into postcards that were sold all over the South. The postcards were usually inscribed with racist text or poems, and people used to send them just as regular postcards -- photos of men hanging on the back of a casual letter. So many were being sent that the postmaster eventually had to ban them being sent through the mail, though they were still produced and sold.

Lynchings of Black men were absolutely a huge part of the American consciousness. They were one of the main ways that the South kept African Americans living in terror, and a major cause of Martin Luther King Jr's movement and the ensuing civil rights era. Songs like "Strange Fruit" were sung in protest of them.

The last black man lynched in Texas was in 1942. The last black man lynched in the US was in 1981. And the noose itself continued to be used as a symbol of terror, just like the burning cross.
Colocation is cheap. But your correct with DDoS; that is the only thing I am not prepared for. I will forever go with colocation.

1Gbit is nothing nowadays and can be saturated in seconds; my purposes do not justify the cost of 10g transit. Even owning 4U when I only need a VPS is overkill. But I like owning a small dusty cube of internet. So there's that.
I think this realization is one of the most helpful parts of Anki. Remembering stuff is always harder than we think it is, SRS forces you to face that fact head-on. It doesn’t mean “don’t use SRS”, I think SRS is still worthwhile, it just means you have to be more intentional about what you decide to commit to memory.

Personally, after 10+ years of consistent SRS, I focus only on vocabulary/terminology and fundamentals. Trivia is never worth it.
While weather.gov does serve that purpose, someone else could provide a much better UI -- sort of like what Simple did with banking (I know they shutdown...haha, but they did create a better experience over traditional banking). Why give one website a monopoly?
Similar, but less modern: Elements of Mechanism by Peter Schwamb, 1921.

https://archive.org/details/elementsofmechan00schwrich
Applying fancy methodology to numbers you make up helps you think about the numbers you make up. You go from "I don't believe UFOs are aliens" to a more refined opinion of "I don't believe UFOs are aliens because I don't believe X, Y, Z is very likely".
It is getting increasing tricky to have enough redundancy at a basic level to avoid a major player outage from affecting you. For example, you would probably want at least one authoritative DNS server that isn't either of your CDN providers. And knowing some details about how these players sometimes use each other, like that Google's Firebase uses Fastly.
You already can mark down and carry losses forward into future tax years. Extremely wealthy people do this to get their taxes down to $0 regularly, including Trump.

Also, if I’m underwater on my house, I don’t get a break on my property insurance. I still have to pay the assessed rate.

This “no taxes if I take a loss” is an extremely selectively applied principle in the US legal code.
I still use Opera 12, by the way. Works fine for about 75% of the web. For the remaining, I use Vivaldi!
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My uneducated hypothesis is that Fastly runs varnish. Presumably they have some process that collects data from their config system generates the VCL (varnishes psuedo-C configuration language which compiles directly to C). Somehow a customer configured something in such a way that it generated a bad VCL file which then caused it to lose all configuration, or caused one domain to incorrectly garble up traffic for all domains.

I can poke plenty of holes in this hypothesis, like fastly likely not deploying configuration to all nodes but only subsets. Looking forward to the deeper post.
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As an Australian, I've always understood the "Great Southern Ocean" to lie south of Australia, and never realised that it wasn't called this outside Australia. I guess that's where the Australian government's objection comes from: wanting the official definition to match up with the long standing popular definition.

A bit of searching shows that this name (in French) was recorded in Freycinet's Map of 1811.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freycinet_Map_of_1811

Personally, I prefer "Great Southern Ocean" over "Southern Ocean", as it captures some of the power and majesty of a wild part of the world. Maybe that should be the compromise: Southern Ocean is below 60 degrees and Great Southern Ocean is the whole thing, right up to the Australian coastline, though it would miss the point that it is great due to its power, not its size?
>Who is "we"? Many countries have wealth taxes.

Many meaning 7, right? 7 countries have net wealth taxes.

It used to be many - dozens of countries did it. They stopped doing it.
Which part exactly is being slowed down by these filters? Could you post a link to the bug report if it's public?
> As a Fastly customer whose site went down, I'm entitled to know exactly what happened. If they don't tell me, I'm switching CDNs as a matter of priority.|

If you are a hardcore user of their vcl on the edge I'm very curious where you would go to. The last time I looked ( a year ago ) there was no one that came even close to giving customers that level of control in request processing. Most of them fail do complicated stuff with CORSs without doing arabesque while balancing on a medicine ball ( Looking at you Lambda@Edge ) not to mention ability to massage the response.
"Edge cases" and "conditions" are some of my trigger phrases. Given enough time or users, they are inevitable and passing them off as rare to avoid dealing with them, especially when you're aware of their existence, drives me up the wall.

Unless it's an edge use case you're not supporting, don't sell me your cost avoidance on any production systems.
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Your problem is not with SMS as a second factor though. (Unless you think the attacker had your password as well). It is with the use of SMS as a single recovery factor.

The very things that make SMS a uniquely good second factor make it an awful only factor. Use of SMS for account recovery should in general (or at least for important accounts) have a delay (order of days) that allows the real user to intervene.
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I’m still failing to see the hand wavy logic that results in them being more picky if there are more stores. garbage apps (apps providing no real value but are otherwise safe) are not the problem. malware is. so they’re somehow being less picky about malware being on the store yet increasing the quantity of stores will allow them to remove more malware?

also you do understand businesses need to make profit, and keeping their customers happy is definitely the right way to do it in my book. so given your logic here, how do you explain all of the other privacy features apple gives away for free?
If they have a bug that can crash their servers, they likely won't want to publicize the details until it is fully patched. I wouldn't expect that detail for a while.
Just wait for math. It blew my mind.

FWIW, I don't hate or love the new way, it's just pretty radically different from what I was taught.
Growing up in Warrnambool we were taught that the only thing separating us from Antarctica was the Southern Ocean. Bass Strait and the Tasman Sea began a bit further east and the Great Australian Bight wrapped the coast from WA to SA: The Southern Ocean was considered to be all the water beyond that to the south with the Indian Ocean west of the WA coast. It was never thought to be touching the Tasmanian coast ~4000km further east.
It is the edge control. You would be amazed how easy it is to do seemingly complicated things at scale if you can do them per request at the edge.
I know, I've just been thinking of some corporation similar in scale and areas of expertise/business to Lockheed Martin.

Which couldn't be said of Rigetti, D-Wave, IBM, ...
Are you bigger than a major player is the question I'd be asking. Maybe risking it is fine.
My very eager mother just served us? Nein!
And in a HN thread a couple weeks ago someone posted about how “everyone” switched to Chrome because it invented tabs, if you want to know what today’s web developers think.
There are other browsers that allow custom extensions, and Firefox Nightly does with a bit of finagling.
> in my experience any halfway decent general-purpose programming language can be used in every domain if you actually try

That's going to be an extremely limited experience. Most of the world's general-purpose languages have a heavy runtime. The runtime is expected to provide the running program with all manner of conveniences, but one very common item that you've probably imagined is just "universal" is an allocator so that you can... allocate memory. Nope. What programming language do you think the allocator is written in? Languages like C and Rust are designed with such a runtime as only an optional extra, so that you can in fact write the allocator in those languages.
The Mac version is actually a package. (folder pretending to be a file; OS-level feature) The text files are RTF. It uses xml for some metadata. But the structure is a byzantine nest of folders with uuid (or hash, can’t remember) names.

It’s effectively proprietary but if you’re desperate, you can retrieve all of the individual files as they are standard formats.
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I made a point about this previously and unfortunately, your situation is exactly the reason why SMS authentication should be avoided, since these sort of attacks are now becoming common. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27311641
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Not open source, it's based on code I built for https://polypane.app

But I am planning on making an extension for every (modern) browser that can have one.
> If there are aliens operating UFOs they want or not want to contact us.

They also just couldn't care.

> how come our technology can routinely spot their spacefaring machines?

Does it?
I know — as I've said, the main blame lies with the bbc. However, as it's reported, it comes across very much as Fastly trying to save face. Maybe the blame is entirely on the bbc, maybe Fastly were naive in thinking that giving them this information wouldn't result in irresponsible headlines.
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> So don't give it up for cargo cult reasons. You're not Google Search until proven otherwise.

Agreed, and in a lot of cases the planned downtime is a matter of seconds which will only be noticeable if someone happens to be loading your page at the exact point in time where your web server is offline.

In most cases it doesn't really take that long to change a column in a table with 15,000 rows on it. For most apps I'd much rather go the route of making this a dead simple operation with 5 seconds of downtime vs a multi-migration 8 step approach.
And why we allow stock options to be used as a vehicle for tax avoidance.
That isn't 2FA. That is a single factor recovery process. SIM-swapping only defeats SMS-based 2FA if the attacker also has your password, which is difficult to accomplish if you are using good passwords that are unique.
Will definitely tackle iOS when I get started on the Safari version, but I'm not too familiar with what's possible on Android.
They'll need a cleric when a blight hits their hydroponics or the virologist decides that a good way to make money is to poison the group and sell a cure. You could make good money fleecing them!
Web mail can replace IMAP/POP, but you're still going to need an SMTP server to receive email. Or is there some sort of widely supported SMTP over HTTP protocol that I'm unaware of?
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