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Amazing! Turbo Tax Killer!!! :)

I'm not sure I agree with that statement just looking at our own tax bills... Also, my point was I feel that I get nothing for my taxes in California already! I will give Californi…

> CA taxes get you the privilege to say you're progressive, and that you're not like that other guy. For everything else, use your Mastercard. :)

I wasn't expecting CO to come up more expensive, thanks for sharing!

Thanks both - I actually did put a paragraph about this in the blog then took it out as the blog was too long, there are definitely differences between married vs. single in US/UK,…

Thanks for all the info - I would add Prop C to the list and almost added it as an example to the blog, which was meant to solve the homeless problem in San Francisco by essentiall…

Thanks for the info - funnily enough after I posted this I spoke to a tax strategist this morning who also laid out a bunch of things we could do to reduce our tax bill. The proble…

Wow, didn't know that - but I guess it supports my point, that all Western governments are moving in the same direction!

Thanks, interesting point on WWII and the difference in outcomes

I know us Brits like to complain, but when I drove there last year the roads were all brand new and fantastic compared to what we have over here in California! I did think to add s…

Do you live in UK or US? I used to live in the country too - and was able to take regular trains in less than an hour from my house to London. Compare here, we have a Caltrain that…

Thanks, I did actually start work on getting that data but as the blog was already very long, and it would take hours to find and analyse the data, I decided against it. Maybe a fu…

Thanks for the comment. I wasn't aware of that point on the high top marginal tax rate, I can only comment that it's been in place for a long time (since I moved here) and I don't …

If you read the blog I actually explain that. However for middle class tech workers in CA, I can assure you they are

I’m actually a B2B founder with 2 exits. This is a passion project I plan to open source when it’s ready

Probably the last blog I'll write end to end now that ChatGPT is out too.

The pricing looks higher than Plaid. $1.50 is way more than the $0.30 per linked bank Plaid charges. However if your customer/sales support is superior you could win just on that. …

I did a blog on using OpenTelemetry with Python/Google Cloud Run and source code here if anyone is interested: https://davidgildeh.com/2021/03/08/running-python-openteleme... I nee…

Sharing my blog with learnings and full working source code on how to get OpenTelemetry tracing working with Google Cloud Run as it wasn't straight forward and took a few hours of …

As a founder in the monitoring space, and now heading up the core monitoring team at Netflix, I had a chance to work with Zebrium and have to say the technology is impressive. Unli…

Thanks. It was a fun project and was a good test case for Zebrium!

Hi everyone - I've been playing with a new Chaos Engine from Maya Data called Litmus to create incidents in a Kubernetes cluster for an Autonomous monitoring solution to detect. Th…