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Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation

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Re: Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation

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Post by mixmastamyk »

johnwheeler wrote: post #119
Lerc wrote: post #34

It's great to be in a position to do this, however I'm beginning to think that their greater contribution is ghostty I don't really know how to value things any more when I see someone develop a tool that is kind-of useful that then gets acquired for half a billion dollars. As someone with a decent number of decades of terminal hopping, the improvement that ghostty has brought a breath of fresh air. To me it has repr…

I use Ghost TTY coming from iTerm for no other reason than I saw everybody else using and praising it. Is there some special feature I'm missing? I would only call it a marginal improvement. If that. I fail to see what the big deal is.

It’s not quite finished, give it time to mature. But pretty good already.

Re: Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation

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Post by sevenzero »

alchemist1e9 wrote: post #127
sevenzero wrote: post #114

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If we cant grow past money as a species we are pretty much doomed. I'd rather have allegiance or community based incentives over monetary gain, given that most people on earth can't really afford life anymore and rack up debt so rich people can get richer.

Capitalism is the single greatest force for improvement in the human condition. Money is the foundation of capitalism. If you went to school and believe what you write then you went to terrible schools.

Capitalism also marked the end of humanity and is the single greatest force driving human extinction. But yall money driven brains cant comprehend that :)

Re: Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation

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Post by yoyohello13 »

Tade0 wrote: post #87
sph wrote: post #38

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You can 'throw' what you can afford and it will feel as satisfying. Just try it.

The type of money I can throw at stuff wouldn't pay a salary of a full-time dev for 2.5 years (if not more).

Pledge what you can. If everyone does this, it adds up. I have a $100/month slush fund I have set aside for Patreon/OS projects I like and use. It's a drop in the bucket, but something. Even $5/month can go to VPS hosting or something.

Re: Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation

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Post by bionsystem »

__turbobrew__ wrote: post #125
sph wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can 'throw' what you can afford and it will feel as satisfying. Just try it.

If you assume Hashimotos net worth is one billion dollars, a $400k donation is equivalent to a $400 donation if your net worth is one million dollars. I don’t believe donating $400 really feels that satisfying, the impact is fairly negligible in most contexts whereas donating $400k can very visibly improve a lot of lives. I think this illustrates just how much a billion dollars is and maybe why a very small wealth ta…

A few things to note. 1 billion isn't a thousand times a million. If you make a conservative 5% let's say out of your net worth, you still need to work with a million, whereas you don't with a billion. So, technically, $400 with a million is some amount of work hours, whereas $400k with a billion is just pocket change taken out of more than most people lifetime's of earnings that is just 1 year of your interest.

Also, a lot more people (more than 1000x) have $400 to give than $400k so in a sense if people with $400 to give were all being very generous, they could amount to a lot more than what billionnaires could give.

Re: Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation

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Post by jjtheblunt »

__turbobrew__ wrote: post #125
sph wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can 'throw' what you can afford and it will feel as satisfying. Just try it.

If you assume Hashimotos net worth is one billion dollars, a $400k donation is equivalent to a $400 donation if your net worth is one million dollars. I don’t believe donating $400 really feels that satisfying, the impact is fairly negligible in most contexts whereas donating $400k can very visibly improve a lot of lives. I think this illustrates just how much a billion dollars is and maybe why a very small wealth ta…

> I think this illustrates ... why a very small wealth tax can be used for a lot of good in society.

isn't the accrued billion dollars what remains after a much larger amount was taxed at roughly 50%?

(of course could be spread across multiple years, but the essence remains)

How would the "very small wealth tax" be calculated, that you propose?

Re: Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation

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Post by __turbobrew__ »

grim_io wrote: post #128
__turbobrew__ wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you assume Hashimotos net worth is one billion dollars, a $400k donation is equivalent to a $400 donation if your net worth is one million dollars. I don’t believe donating $400 really feels that satisfying, the impact is fairly negligible in most contexts whereas donating $400k can very visibly improve a lot of lives. I think this illustrates just how much a billion dollars is and maybe why a very small wealth ta…

That is a very privileged out of touch comment to make, no offense. In many(most?) parts of the world, $400 is the equivalent of months of good salary.

How is it out of touch? I donated much more than Hashimoto did relative to our net worths, but I cannot deny that I would have felt much more satisfied making a 1000x impact if I was a billionaire.

I donated $6000 to a halfway house last year and that doesn’t even come close to covering a single bed for a year. If I was a billionaire I could have built an entire halfway house.

Re: Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation

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Post by ar_lan »

bionsystem wrote: post #134
__turbobrew__ wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you assume Hashimotos net worth is one billion dollars, a $400k donation is equivalent to a $400 donation if your net worth is one million dollars. I don’t believe donating $400 really feels that satisfying, the impact is fairly negligible in most contexts whereas donating $400k can very visibly improve a lot of lives. I think this illustrates just how much a billion dollars is and maybe why a very small wealth ta…

A few things to note. 1 billion isn't a thousand times a million. If you make a conservative 5% let's say out of your net worth, you still need to work with a million, whereas you don't with a billion. So, technically, $400 with a million is some amount of work hours, whereas $400k with a billion is just pocket change taken out of more than most people lifetime's of earnings that is just 1 year of your interest. Also…

> 1 billion isn't a thousand times a million.

What?

Re: Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation

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Post by __turbobrew__ »

jjtheblunt wrote: post #135
__turbobrew__ wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you assume Hashimotos net worth is one billion dollars, a $400k donation is equivalent to a $400 donation if your net worth is one million dollars. I don’t believe donating $400 really feels that satisfying, the impact is fairly negligible in most contexts whereas donating $400k can very visibly improve a lot of lives. I think this illustrates just how much a billion dollars is and maybe why a very small wealth ta…

> I think this illustrates ... why a very small wealth tax can be used for a lot of good in society. isn't the accrued billion dollars what remains after a much larger amount was taxed at roughly 50%? (of course could be spread across multiple years, but the essence remains) How would the "very small wealth tax" be calculated, that you propose?

> wasn't the accrued billion dollars the remainder after being taxed at a much higher rate (around 50% federal and state, if California) as it was being accrued?

Most capital owned by billionaires is not taxed until it is sold, so in the case of Hashimoto and others they most likely have not paid tax on the majority of their wealth.

> How would the "very small wealth tax" be calculated, that you propose?

In the same way we calculate income tax, we make it up. Most numbers I see are between 1-3%. We could just start at 1% as that is the most conservative number.

Re: Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation

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Post by johnwheeler »

mixmastamyk wrote: post #131
johnwheeler wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use Ghost TTY coming from iTerm for no other reason than I saw everybody else using and praising it. Is there some special feature I'm missing? I would only call it a marginal improvement. If that. I fail to see what the big deal is.

It’s not quite finished, give it time to mature. But pretty good already.

Yeah, it's a good polished piece of software no doubt. I'm not denying that, but the hype it gets is just... I don't know.

Re: Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation

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Post by jasonjayr »

paufernandez wrote: post #120
trizoza wrote: post #19

What a word of wisdom right there, the bit about internet is beautiful because it's ok to be weird - this is often the opposite on twitter, fb, reddit and many discords where if you have a different opinion you get mobbed by angry comments making one feel worse about their own weirdness.

It is increasingly important to be able to see that many things are true. There is no single "truth". Many things are true at the same time , and in all aspects of life. Each brain is like a band pass filter, and the effort we should make is to try to imagine the points of view of others, which are just different slices of the same world. Then embrace the slices we like, and just ignore the ones we don't, but don't a…

The problem arises when there are contradictory truths, and defenders of one or both sides refuse to dig deeper to both self-reflect on what they believe to be true, and perhaps come to a deeper more correct understanding.
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