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3. Elon pays banks interest each month for said loan money

4. Interest is cheaper than tax Elon would pay if he sold those shares instead of borrowing against them.
> Now is probably a good time to shift your investments to things people need, not things they want. If you're in tech, I hope you've diversified your assets.

People should be investing in total stock market index funds like VTI anyway, individual companies crashing should not affect one's investing philosophy.
If the downside is walking away with nothing on a bet that you put nothing on, then I think it’s always worth the risk
If I indicated that I value penmanship especially or expressed some disdain for those who don't, that was not my intention. We are on the same page.
I mean being obese affects so much of your body negatively that it's almost certain that fixing that will fix many of your underlying issues even if they don't appear to be because of obesity.
I don't buy this line. Twitter used to be "the free speech wing of the free speech party." So your theory is that this happened:

1. Twitter is totally open free speech
2. This scares people away and user counts drop
3. Twitter censors and users come back

But this didn't happen. Twitter and other, at the time, free speech platforms like Reddit were experiencing rapid user growth throughout their free speech phases. The "this will scare away users" justification for censorship is used entirely as an ex post facto justification.
I can't believe this asshole is spending billions so that Trump can get his Twitter account back.
> Afaik, he views Twitter as the closest thing we have to a genuine public square on the web, and he thinks it’s poorly managed and ideologically captured.

For me, this is the thing that bothers me the most: if he thinks it is the closest we have to a public square, why does he think that the richest private individual in the world should decide how it is run?

It seems he's saying "the oligarchy is not running this well so we should make it a dictatorship, not a democracy," which is in his right to say or believe, I just wonder how much we have lost faith in democracy if we agree.
What’s your definition? Here’s theirs:

> Our FontCode system embeds in a text document any type of in- formation as a bit string. For example, an arbitrary text message can be coded into a bit string using the standard ASCII code or Unicode. We refer to such a bit string as a plain message. In a text document, the basic elements of embedding a plain message are the letters appearing in a particular font

I think you’re talking about the plain message. There’s nothing wrong with their definition of text document.
It puts the burden on me as a user to combat all the nonsense.

I'll pass. And I'm sure many others will too.
Contract =/= gov't.

The way to make money working for the gov't is to get an established company to price gouge them through contracts so you can make a living wage.

The gov't is wasting a huge amount of money paying a 100% premium for engineers because they aren't allowed to pay what the market demands.

A "data entry specialist" and PhD scientist are paid off the same pay scale at different levels, which is great for equality but kind of difficult when you are trying to pay $31k (which is what someone with a BS in CompSci would get, GS-5) for someone who is going for $150k.

If you have experience or a master's, they'll pay you $51k.

It's absurdist. The GS scale caps out at $143k at GS-15 and requires a PhD and probably decades of work.
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The entire US isn't Seattle or SF though.

They can recruit very good software engineers out of the Southeast & Midwest for under 170k just fine. It's still going to cost them 6 figures, but they are going to be able to hire good talent.

I will admit though, they're going to have trouble retaining the tippy top of the seniority ladder at 170k.
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We're right outside Boston, and this spring was the first time we've had an owl hooting pretty much every night since March.
It's almost disgustingly expensive for what it is.
> Let me give you an example. I love ice hockey and play late every Tuesday evening and early most Sunday mornings as part of a Bay Area league. It’s something I’ve done the whole time I’ve been building Okta. Getting on the ice is my way of clearing my head and blowing off steam. For a couple of hours, I get to leave my stress and responsibilities behind.

This paragraph made me go look up a picture of Kerrest, because I've probably said pieces of this verbatim to others. I play hockey on Tuesday and Wednesday nights in (two) Bay Area leagues. Sunday morning is, at least the one I'm thinking of, over 40 so I'm not eligible.

When we were going through YC, my co-founders and I all moved to an Airbnb further down the peninsula. At least once a week, with rare exceptions, I packed my equipment into my car and drove back to SF or Oakland to play. That time on the ice, and even in the locker room with my teammates, was such an incredibly important time for me as a mental break/reset. As the company's grown, and my role has increasingly become people-focused vs programming, that time away (COMPLETELY away) from any sort of communication tools has become so deeply precious to me.

Totally unrelated, he doesn't look immediately familiar to me, I wonder what league he plays in!
Sorry, missed that. Looks like lots of others are having issues, especially with the new Studio.

https://www.macintouch.com/post/23506/m1-mac-port-problems/
How better is it than TradingView app?
Their page downplayed the risks of variable pricing and their process during the ordeal was unprofessional.

It was a 100 year freeze, not a decade one. Never in my life until then did we have longer than 2 days of snow/ice.

Most of us don't insulate our pipes for that reasoning, though flexpiping is common to help against minor freezing.

Same reason as to why a lot of people don't have A/Cs on the West Coast.

Yeah the grid should have been winterized, but the pricing problem for customers was entirely on Griddy.

I have a question, are you from Texas?
Exactly this. I bought something online. The company shipped it, but FedEx screwed up and sent it back to the merchant. The merchant never responded to me after that and then went bankrupt. I called my bank (Square) and they said it wasn't fraud as the package had been "delivered". I pointed out it had been delivered back to the merchant, and they said that still counted as delivered in their support script. They told me the only way to fix it was to call FedEx and somehow scam them into changing the status of the package online. I tried to get them to change their support script but they decided it was easier just to terminate my account instead.
Certainly but I didn't and still don't have the resources to write solving algo on top of the business logic that goes into the algo. I would much rather user my 20+ manufacturing ERP experience to setup the problem specific to our use-case than read research papers and implement generic CS algos.
It's not that weird if you think about it.

I don't have a million dollars, but I can buy a million dollar house. A bank promises to lend me a million dollars contingent on buying the house and then the loan will be collateralized by the house, which I don't own yet.
You dilute the meaning of the word at that point. Weapons are specific tools that are used with intent to cause harm. If something happens to cause harm without intent, and you define it as a weapon, the word becomes useless.
the algo amplifies nasty things. that’s for sure. i guess my point is that those nasty things exist independently and have backing (and we should not normalize them).
It’s a another step toward Human + AI agents. Musk will give users the ability to choose, modify, and control their own algorithms.
As krisoft said. In such an unprecedented and extreme situation, foreign currencies would likely not mean much either. The world is globalized. America defaulting on such a huge thing would likely bring down most of the world’s economies and currencies. Possibly some isolated countries would fare better. They’d still be effected like crazy too, but they’d be something.

Yes assets like land would help. However with banks failing like this, someone with more guns and aggression than you or I could come to our homes and take them from us in areas where LEO are not being paid and thus not doing anything.

With the failing banks and such, tracking down who owns what will be much more difficult when things get better. Changing failing bank documents can’t be the hardest thing in this situation.
I'd be curious to know what you find limited in off-the-shelf solutions?

(disclaimer: I'm from the Mergify team )
The poison pill is blatantly unethical. The fact that it exists as a tactic where a company can target a specific shareholder and dilute them exclusively, while also diluting other shareholders who don't have the money to participate in the poison pill, is yet more proof that the SEC is a garbage organization.
I'm now watching the Rick Beato video about it and I'm so glad it's not just me whose brain recoils at the chord progressions. Thank you.
It would be difficult competing for Twitter's 200 million users if he built a competitor. Much easier to spend the money buying the users themselves.
The past use of a domain can haunt you for a while, depending on what that past use was.

For example, I knew someone who bought a domain (from a 3rd-party domain seller) whose more recent past had included adult content (you would never know from the name itself). After they set the website / email up, they discovered that their domain was on a lot of blacklists, and had mucho mail delivery problems. It took over 2 years to get through it all.

This doesn't sound like it would have that particular problem, but the domain's history can, in fact, haunt you. If the content it previously hosted could ever be considered as something that might be blacklisted by the big "blacklist cartels" (i.e., SpamHaus et al), be forewarned.
Thank you for this. Added to my pi hole. Seems to be working great so far for the occasional AMP links my coworkers send.
Have you ever had an interaction with American police? You don't think the city police department will have a dedicated employee in that municipal ISP office that's checking which residents are connecting to TOR nodes?
That’s a shame, because Lapham’s Quarterly and the New Yorker often host interesting material. Perhaps there’s something wrong with your browser or system?
How would you change it?

I imagine there’s a reason people feel more comfortable lending to Elon than to people with a smaller amount of assets, and that it’s not “lol fuck poor people”.
I don't think Musk has ever claimed to be a free speech "absolutist", he just wants free-er speech for things like political views.
I've used Vim for 20 years. My main issue is that, while I love the text editing part, setting up something aesthetically pleasing with IDE-like features takes a lot of effort -- especially when you're dealing with multiple layers of shell + iTerm2. Some even add tmux on top of that! My setup still doesn't look on par with the amazing setups I see on Youtube. There are too many low-level settings you need to mess around with and it's completely unintuitive.
No it's not. It's on you to persuade the bank it was fraudulent. If the bank doesn't believe it is fraudulent then they won't claw the money back from the merchant. Source: personal experience.
Mind that frequency hopping for anti-jamming purpose is basically WWII-era technology, compare Hedy Lamarr.
Maybe he's run out of ideas to build there.
If he takes the company private, does he have a fiduciary duty to it?
Fighting for liberty and freedom is an idea so divorced from contemporary society that the age of the founding fathers might as well be mythology.

We already have a sizeable portion of the population that wants people that don't agree with them to be silenced. And as long as they can all still buy their cattle feed at Wal-Mart, nothing is going to change for the better.
Haven't printers for a long time embedded uniquely identifying codes into printed pages?

I thought it was standard practice so that FBI would be able to match ransom notes and threatening letters with the printers they originated from.
No taxes. No welfare. Welcome to libertarian paradise island
Banks are chartered by the government, thus should be prohibited from giving loans against publicly traded stocks, at least at rates less than the applicable capital gains tax, otherwise these loans are nothing more than government sanctioned tax loopholes for the rich.
He's not buying the brand, he's buying the giant userbase.
"likely to succeed" if the individual has the money for them to get... they may succeed in getting a judgement otherwise, but if the individual doesn't have the money, they likely won't get it.

But if the individual lied to the insurance company about having deliberately caused the crash, it is still probably insurance fraud, whether or not the individual was the one filing the claim, and can be prosecuted as such.
I thought it was a fair summary, but I can also see how someone would arrive at your conclusion. I read it as minimizing, but you make a fair point.
Intentionally crashing a plane seems a pretty good example of piloting in a careless/reckless manner that endangers life or property. There's not a specific rule "they shall not crash your plane" but this is more of a catch-all rule for these kind of situations.
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My current desktop's motherboard and CPU are from 2009. I have no idea if the MB supports UEFI; it definitely boots to BIOS by default. I've upgraded the storage, memory, and GPU, but there's been little cause to waste money on a new MB/CPU. But I guess I wouldn't install Fedora on this machine anyway, so shrug.
I've been doing non-interactive gpg without an issue since 2014.
> Yes, but the hoi-polloi don't get to write off their mortgage interest as a tax deduction.

What a strange example to pick. That's, like, THE major write-off that most people have. It just gets obfuscated by the fact that most people don't go over the standard deduction.
That's not a drawback, it's basically the whole point. Cash is designed to be a bad store of value in the long run because the government wants you to spend it or invest it. Cash is a good store of value in the short and medium run so that people accept it in return for goods and services but a bad one in the long run so that it doesn't make sense to hoard it.
>what basically amounts to a logo, he could very well just make his own website

Trumps fall in mainstream impact has proved this to not be the case. It used to be we would hear something crazy from him on a daily basis. If the ex president can't make his own website and maintain relevancy, I doubt musk can either
It all depends on what kind of security engineer this person is. The author writes about computer network attacks, tracking, and privacy violations. If their expertise is in preventing web application attacks, detecting fraudulent operations in the inter-bank payment systems or in finding signs of compromise in a corporate network, there's no reason for them to know about the intricacies of SIP and SS7 and the many faults of the international/US phone network when it comes to trust and abuse.

Really, "security engineer" is as vague a term as "programmer". Web programmers are programmers yet they don't necessarily understand the layout of virtual memory or the way the kernel interacts with userland programs, something many other programmers would consider essential for their jobs. A kernel programmer couldn't give two hoots about how Chrome's CSS engine works, but the vast majority of modern programmers probably do.

I've had lectures in university on natural language processing and data structures that were slowed down because the lecturer couldn't get the beamer to work right with his Macbook. You can't expect someone to know everything, even if it's in their apparent area of expertise.

I'd go so far as to say that any security engineer worth their salt will admit that they too are vulnerable to being scammed under the right circumstances and that anyone pretending to be unscammable is severely overestimating their abilities.
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trying to fix something that ain’t broken and more importantly they have 0 clue how it works.
So the discount for existing shareholders is only 50%? That still requires pretty significant investment from their side, what if they can't come up with enough money? Poison pill becomes uneffective, right?
He's buying the brand and the user base, not the website.
Why does this automatic enforcement of law only ever cut one way?

If we're mandating that technology should enforce laws automatically, how about anti-monopoly-power technology? All mergers and acquisitions of companies above some size are automatically blocked, and they have to make a compelling case in a court of law to have the block lifted. It has to be renewed every three years, or the company is automatically broken up again.

Oh, and a simple similarity search versus the entire web, to mark patents as invalid due to prior art or obviousness.

DRM could be presumed to infringe upon fair use and other legal rights of ownership, and be automatically declared illegal (no, I don't mean that breaking it would become legal, though it would. I mean the DRM itself would be illegal, and the manufacturer would be by law forced to remove it), unless the manufacturer convincingly argues it is necessary (and re-argues it every three years).

And naturally, use of copyrighted material would be presumed fair-use, and just like wrongful takedowns don't get punished currently, if some material were proven to be infringing in a very non-automatic legal proceeding, the only consequence would be taking the material down - no other fines or punishment of any kind.
Asset seizure laws give them ample for-profit mechanisms, and you'd better believe that the municipal police department is going to ask the municipal ISP for a list of citizens connecting to TOR nodes for their no-knock probable-cause raids and seizure.
Fil doesn't run on Windows either. Are there any good memory profilers that work on Windows?
Ask, I guess. The people doing the communicating are perhaps committing fraud and endangering their own wealth and freedom if they lie. I'm willing to bet the SEC has regulations that apply to this situation already.
> a slightly larger

I know inflation is high but...
I fear that you are right.

But then we've essentially already set the stage for a re-run.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_mortgage_interest_deducti...
The experts are saying this was intentional, and I'm happy to believe them.

Having watched the video back when it came out, my first thought was that maybe he was panicky or a second (third, fourth) rate pilot. Of course, I don't know much about aviation AND I'm really bad at reading people's intensions.

That being said, even if my (admittedly bad) instincts are correct and this was accidental, I still think the FAA came to the right conclusion. They say you should assume ignorance over malice. However, there comes a point (or there are circumstances) where it doesn't matter what the origin of a thing is.

If you crash a plane into a hill, even if it's just because you're really bad at flying planes, then maybe you shouldn't fly planes anymore. We have plenty of alternate transportation options available.
So its $25.5 billion of debt backed by his Tesla shares and $21 billion from himself, presumably from selling Tesla shares?

I wonder how many will accept the offer - about 30% of ownership have said they're not interested at that price, if he let a few large holders stay on it could be successful - but this would be a kick in the teeth for smaller investors and his retail fans.
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Phone calls are one of the primary means of communication. If you aren't aware of how it can be compromised, you are not capable of adequately assessing security.

It is not like the spoofibility of phone numbers is some security industry specific news. It gets talked about all the time outside of tech given the prevalence of spam calls.
FWIW, I thought the "Easy." you cite was meant sarcastically. The full context is:

> The same as national health insurance. You make a law that everyone must be served by the banks. Easy.

and national health insurance is famously a fiendishly hard public policy issue (albeit one for which several competing models exist and have been put into practice). Working from an existing public policy model (like using France's example of offering bank-of-last-resort services through the postal service) still seems way easier than just deciding to solve it with crypto.
There is a difference between a side project, a company focusing on serving a corner of the market sustainably and a startup focusing on venture capital and growth.

The later will be mentally taxing, more so if you are inexperienced. A side project on the other hand is a breeze as you aren't putting everything on the line.

The entire culture surrounding a16z is a mental health hazard. The soulless obsession with hypergrowth, having to resort to exploitation to make it. The same goes for China and their inhumane hustle culture. Your soul in exchange for opportunities. With a16z the only opportunity though is eventually selling your company to Google or Facebook.
Twitter is like a cancer, it really gets to some people and overtakes them. I wish Musk would just logout and focus on Starship.
> If you are stock-rich and you can buy stuff on the collateral for that: normal people can't really do that

They do it with homes all of the time, what are you talking about?
It's also factually incorrect. The filings are public record.
This gets at a core issue for me: how do our national governments govern online spaces that transcend national boundaries?

From what I understand, a large reason the US switched from the Articles of Confederation to the US Constitution was to help resolve inter-state conflict. I wonder if we can resolve inter-national conflict with our current confederation of nations.
setting aside whether a gif is really necessary, it was surprising to me that your gif is so large, considering it's mostly flat colors, albeit at a fairly high frame rate. running it through gifsicle -O3 takes off 1 MB, and -O3 --lossy takes off another MB. -O3 --colors 4 drops it by another 2 MB, for a total of 69% file size reduction, at the cost of some minor fringing only visible when displayed full-screen.
Tax the proceeds at loan origination (1099-whatever filed by whomever is providing the cash based on pledged assets). How you pay the loan back if the collateral declines in value is your problem (or the bank’s problem, depending on the amount in question).

High level, it closes a financial engineering loophole (buy, borrow, die [1]). The taxable event is when you get liquid, and a loan is liquidity. The tax code requires a patch, that’s all.

[1] https://youtu.be/8pBPZMUcsh0
> Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.
Robinhood is the exception that proves all the rules.

Maybe we'll see a wallstreetbets post "Musk couldn't take TWTR private but I did via robin hood bug"
Elon Musk Details Financing Plan to SEC
The limits of the right of free speech vary significantly by country (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_by_country, https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2017/03/uae-prominent...), so I don’t think there is a “the law” on Twitter (whatever its terms of use say about jurisdiction)
Glad to see as a Linux user, I really wish they didn't push snap so hard though. Definitely steers me away from it.
I don’t think this is correct.