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I live in Vietnam and was annoyed I can't access the website. You still allow Mullvad VPN users though

My equities are highly concentrated in tech (which tends to either not pay dividends or prefers stock buy backs). The rest of my equities is VTI (~1% dividend) and VXUS (~2.3% divi…

Governments offer tax incentives for AI investments.

exactly, which is why your 401k/IRA include your bond allocations and your taxable account house your equities. Assuming a portfolio with $100k in 401k and $100k in taxable and tar…

target date funds always confused me, b/c they don't account for the rest of my portfolio. My IRA/401(k) actually has close to 100% cash/bonds to minimize annual taxable impact and…

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No need to tell. Just look at who can afford detached single family homes in tier1 cities: white-collar Dual-income and generational wealth families. Governments have only managed …

The problem that workflow engines solve (configurable code) is just better solve with agents just maintaining the code. 2 years ago (during the agentic workflow boom) prompting was…

I am launching projects at about the same rate, but the projects are much more polished and feature full than before AI tools. Historically, the mindset was to get happy path worki…

Who are you quoting? I've voted democrat in every election since I was 18.

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I hear you, but I really don't want the government flip flopping every 4-8 years on policy. "stuck in the past" vibes vs making progress

edit: if you're going to down vote, at least explain why my news articles are incorrect. Are down voters saying Trump/Biden should let the provisions expire? --- On JCPOA, many of …

Compensation works only when the error is consistent. It does not solve macro tracking. This doesn't know if the overage is from fat, carbs or protein. Adjustments are very delayed…

I used to body build and I just don't understand how these AI calorie tracking tools are actually useful. For example, 1 tablespoon of oil is 120 calories and 14g of fat. Miscalcul…

Put more simply, I certainly wasn't the smartest person the in the room, but I felt close to it... Most people were younger than me. Over time, the company laid off or pushed out m…

I worked remotely with only seeing my team a few times per year. During our last offsite, I looked around the 80+ person room and realized that I just don't enjoy working with any …

> decryption key backupable that seems like a security nightmare... Passing through immigration with a fully reset phone does the same. The full encrypted backup is on a HD at home…

Schengen (and Nordic countries) logs your biometrics and can search your electronics [0] when you enter the region. Canada searches electronics [1]. Japan Article 105 (Inspection, …

Its just how the world works. Countries protect their own citizens, even from each other.

WhatsApp was especially sketchy considering they used to automatically auto-save images to your photo album.

Just out of curiosity, like what country would you not have to worry about this in? The US is quite transparent about these rules, and certainly other countries are not necessarily…

My understanding is the duress pin deletes encryption keys, but leaves the property untouched.

leaving the actual evidence files untouched...

can you share the link? This? https://www.eff.org/document/eff-border-search-pocket-guide ---- Seems the better strategy (for iOS) is come in with a plan to say yes to agents witho…