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No it's not. Severance is extremely common, while this package is quite generous.

What is their cloud offering if it’s just sql templating? Why would anyone pay for that?

Because YC and other VC shops wouldn't shut the fuck up about crypto, web3, and blockchain across 2020-2021 and that sort of behavior doesn't get a free pass. Now they've moved onto Generative AI.

I'm confused, I searched for both "crypto" and "web3" on that page and there are no results?

And it begins. We’re going to see a lot of VC-backed firms with mildly decent products or teams sell for down-round valuations to those who are still flush with cash.

This blogpost [1] explains in detail but the gist is:

* Standard-deduction next year is $27,700 married ($13,850 single)

* Long-term-capital-gains is 0% on first $89,250 ($44,625 single)

Thus if you have the tooling to perfectly control your income, e.g. you take $27,700 in treasury bill payments and then sell off enough stock (or take qualified dividends from your corporation's bank account) in the total of $89,250, you'd end up with:

* Ordinary Income: $27,700 - standard deduction of $27,700 = $0 taxable income

* Long-Term-Capital-Gains of $89,250 = 0% ltcg tax bracket

= $116,950 ($58,427 single) of federally tax-free income

Then if you're in a no-income-tax state (such as WA, like the Adams brothers), you don't owe any taxes at all.

[1] https://www.kitces.com/blog/long-term-capital-gains-bump-zon...

Would be nice if you earned a 401(k) credit/allowance each year so when you do hit it big you can rapidly play catch-up on the past 20 years or whatever.

It would take 20 years to pull it off, and tax legislation may change, but a married couple can earn next year ~$115k/yr federally tax-free ($89k long-term cap gains + $27k earned income). So that source of income would only be subject to the initial 20% corporate tax.

Week1 sales is a decent predictor [1] of Year1 revenue. They'll probably do about 1M unit sales by Christmas 2023.

[1] https://newsletter.gamediscover.co/p/steam-the-state-of-long...

Oh, I didn't realize they had a publisher involved too. Yeah, this is a nice payday but it's just a start before it's life-changing for these two hackers. Let's see another 300k in sales!

Are they? 300,000 units * $30 = $9M - 30% Steam tax = $6.3M in a single year take out federal taxes (just gonna call it 36% and ignore SFJ/MFJ), leaves them about $2M each. I'm sure they're some sort of a legal entity in WA state and will owe the b&o tax too.

They deserve it absolutely but $2M each does not put them in a position of "fuck you" [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdfeXqHFmPI

I don’t understand the bi-partisan dislike of Tik Tok.

It's not hard to understand, it's literally because it's controlled by China.

Redis isn’t just a cache. That’s memcached. Also SQS absolutely sucks for a job queue as soon as you want to do anything like control concurrency or have job priorities, but if your needs are simply “I need a background job queue” then SQS is likely a great choice.

Keep in mind the context of this thread. It's some shitty blog suggesting you do every fuck thing on postgres. Myself and the other guy are simply suggesting that running a single-node instance of redis is an infinitely better and simpler choice than implementing a cache or a job queue on a rdbms.

I don't feel designing for a guaranteed high-availability application was part of the discussion at all.

I’m confused the scenario you have where a) a singular postgres install which does everything is acceptable vs b) as soon as redis comes into the picture, suddenly you need HA and monitoring and apparently running transactions with full ACID integrity?

It’s just a nonsensical and unfair comparison. You can run a single Redis instance with normal rdb disk syncs and don’t ever update it for years on end without issue. Is that guaranteed resilient? Absolutely not, but that’s not the scenario in discussion. We’re talking about the context of a bootstrap/MVP scenario, not an enterprise setup.

I’d take a single-node redis job queue everytime over a HA citus/postgres cluster improperly acting as a queue.

Chiming in to concur. Redis is amazing and simple software. You can use a managed service like Elasticache or install the binary on a VM instance. Folks using a relational database for a job queue or a cache when an infinitely simpler and more appropriate tool is available are just making poor technical decisions.

Technically speaking the portion of the email address before the @ is case-sensitive. However in practice it is ubiquitous that they’re treated as case-insensitive across all mail platforms.

Aside from maybe Company of Heroes 3, what RTS games have came out anytime recently at all? I want some mid-to-late 90s style RTS games (C&C, AoE, TA, War2, SC, SC2) where you collect resources, build and expand bases, and wage war on your enemies.

I am not interested in 4X games.

Wait until you find out nearly every modern package manager installs stuff directly from github repos.

FTX’s Future Fund donated $13.9M to the Center for Effective Altruism. This was apparently most (all?) of their 2022 donations and over 50% of their total donations ever received.

So, yeah, FTX paid for this mansion.

[1] https://donations.vipulnaik.com/donee.php?donee=Centre+for+E...

For all companies, public or private, they need to grow their gross margins if they want to survive. The last 5-10 years was inappropriately focused on revenue and headcount growth and the tide has very abruptly shifted.

And the 9th Circuit Court has determined that publicly accessible data does not require a license and the provider cannot dictate the means in which a user can access it. If a provider wants to do that, they need to place that content behind a walled garden.

[1] https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2022/04/18/1...

The unfortunate truth is that when you give data away… you give it away [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32686455

They do but they don’t get to also bitch about workarounds.

If a news site wants customers to pay for the content, then they should put it behind a walled garden and not paywalls which only apply to certain used-agents and IPs.

ChatGPT access is 100% free and instant approval.

Can I run it on numerous emulated phones like I did with AllAdvantage installs in the 90s?

I treat it the same and when we have an unwieldy number of applications (always), I just skip over those.

regular ole views and mviews work just fine and provide the same composability.

What is an example of a better approach? Methods that throw exceptions?