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The step up basis makes sense in a world where you still have to pay substantial inheritance taxes. But with minimal to no inheritance taxes, the step up is a giveaway.

The bigger difference between an income tax and a wealth tax isn't the numbers. A wealth tax, for better or worse requires some realization of paper gains that very wealthy folks n…

Business PBX folks really like being able to forward calls off to a cell phone while preserving the original caller's caller ID. And making that work requires allowing arbitrary sp…

The problem with people invoking and using the castle doctrine is that while they might be right to engage in self-defense in that situation, they also would very likely be dead at…

It will be interesting to see how they handle packages from the various f-droid repos. F-droid builds and signs all their apps themselves, so will all of f-droid be covered by a si…

It doesn't need a lot of speculative value in order to be useful. It just needs enough value to make the transactions meaningful. And that means people are a lot less likely to dri…

The '25 ioniq 5's bring a lot of the buttons back. The climate ones are capacative, but are dedicated buttons.

Reversibility is a trade-off. It's great if you are on the sending end of a transaction. It can be a nightmare on the receiving end. Irreversibility is the other way around. And bo…

> As much as people bandy the term around, copyright has never applied to input, and the output of a tool is the responsibility of the end user. Where this breaks down though is th…

Relevant XKCD - https://xkcd.com/243/

The solution here is for Spacex to tighten up their planned reentry corridors. At this point they should have more than enough experience in their ops to narrow down the likely deb…

The dilemma here is that the incentive to capture value for yourself comes from the legitimate fear that someone else will try to capture all that residual value you leave on the t…

There's a lot of good cryptography and game theory and economic incentive alignment that can be done to constrain and limit the trust assumptions people have to make. But ultimatel…

One of the people behind SSB was Paul Frazee. He's now the CTO of BlueSky.

Reversibility is great for consumers who are sending money in exchange for products and services. It can be a nightmare for people who receive the money and are providing the produ…

Eh... There's pretty good odds Coinbase will still give customers that either deposit to TC or have funds that came out of TC trouble because the broader AML compliance rules very …

If they can get ~100k subs to a $10/mo premium service similar to discord nitro, they are probably close to breaking even at the current scale and ops methodology. Which seems feas…

If you don't like the Discover feed, you are more then free to remove it from your account and add other feeds which are open source. Or don't add any feeds and just use the defaul…

The networking for Linux "containers" uses virtual veth devices combined with network namespaces that have their own routing table and packet filtering. Now, you are still dependen…

T.38 can help - but the codec reinvite process to switch to it when you detect fax tones can trip up a lot of machines .. And you still have to transcode the t38 back to 711 or tdm…

> A fax machine can be plopped down and hooked up to a POTS. Well, in many places, traditional copper pots is dying faster then the fax machines people still want to use. Fax over …

They've had multiple private VC rounds. They also have had several milestone based development contracts from the government to develop capabilities (iss cargo and crew mainly) whi…

> As far as I’m aware, there’s no way of validating something without observing it. That's where zero knowledge proofs come in. If you know the root hash at state a, and the new ro…

I've used systemd-sysext's to add system level software to my Steam Deck withough having to unseal the root partition. It's slightly annoying in that that I have to rebuild the ext…

He's got 11B in restitution to pay. Any inheritance he gets will be forfeited to that.