Lifestyle business has been a thing since day zero in this space (the tech world)

I have been surprised by how many tech founders, currently funded by VC, have side gigs or are running the company knowing they wont' or can't scale it. I don't think this is a good thing for either the founders or the VC (who probably don't know)

I briefly worked for someone who was funded by Imagine K12, just before Imagine K12 merged into Y Combinator.

He used his funding to rent four apartments in San Francisco, which he then sublet, personally, through Airbnb.

I know exactly who you’re talking about

Name and shame?

I mean... Windows legitimately doesn't work. I work at one of the mag7 and it's a running jokes while using windows that suddenly everyone's microphone quits. We then have to restart. This has been going on years. Our colleagues on Linux don't have such problems.

It's just that we accept windows issues as "that's how computers are". While Linux is expected to work

I haven't used Zoom in years, but Teams in the browser on Linux runs better than Teams natively on Windows. Which is odd, since I understand it is just an electron app on Windows, so it is effectively running in the browser anyway. Still, those of us on Linux have way fewer audio and connectivity issues.

And does our government do that? It seems we have one party that wants to pay for theatrical law enforcement and another party that wants to pay for performative DEI nonsense

Investment interest is deductible like mortgage interest

I'm not sure how people say this so confidently. I have a rather esoteric haskell library that I've written and published for years. ChatGPT and Claude both know about it and frequently help me improve it, and propose completely novel approaches. I'm really not sure how people are so confident that they can't think of anything new. This seems like wishful confirmation bias.

> I'm not sure how people say this so confidently.

Say what, exactly?

A margin loan typically does not require any payments at all other than interest. Many loans are like this. Amortization for principal repayment is usually something you only find in personal or real estate loans

As a business owner, if you provide labor to the business, you have to pay yourself a salary.

This is why many people make minimun wage - they get a salary but they use the business profits to live on. See your accountant for all the fine print before doing this.

Suppose I defer $1 million in taxes until after I'm dead, and my estate conveniently does not have $1 million in assets left. What happens?

In the meantime, I gave all the assets to my children while I was alive

The answer is nothing. The government eats the loss.

The government looks at your transactions as designed to produce that outcome and claws back the money from your children.

Transactions designed to fraudulently hide assets can be reversed. Otherwise you could gift all your assets to your brother then declare bankruptcy.

What loss? It was never the state's money to begin with.

Reference counting is not a strict requirement for python. Certainly not accurate counting.

Of course they have... There have been multiple 'flash crashes' which corrected in seconds.