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The state legislature in TX and FL (GOP controlled) will not pass a wealth tax. So they don’t have to care if the cities are liberal leaning.
January 1, 2026 at 9:17 PM
The state legislature in TX and FL (GOP controlled) will not pass a wealth tax. So they don’t have to care if the cities are liberal leaning.
I’m pretty sure most of these billionaires own homes in Miami already. Even if they didn’t, it is easy to sign a rental lease with short notice. I’m guessing the purpose of the Miami office announcement is to establish a paper trail so you can prove to CA FTB you’re no longer a CA resident.
January 1, 2026 at 2:38 AM
I’m pretty sure most of these billionaires own homes in Miami already. Even if they didn’t, it is easy to sign a rental lease with short notice. I’m guessing the purpose of the Miami office announcement is to establish a paper trail so you can prove to CA FTB you’re no longer a CA resident.
It doesn’t even need to be all the states - just the ones where billionaires are most likely to move to. No billionaire is going to move to OK or SD just to save money 😂
December 27, 2025 at 10:29 PM
It doesn’t even need to be all the states - just the ones where billionaires are most likely to move to. No billionaire is going to move to OK or SD just to save money 😂
I think this concern of all jobs will be done by AI and humans will be destitute might be overblown. Who are all these companies going to sell products/services to make any money if no one has jobs and money to spend?
December 22, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I think this concern of all jobs will be done by AI and humans will be destitute might be overblown. Who are all these companies going to sell products/services to make any money if no one has jobs and money to spend?
It seems like an arbitrary point in time to stop progress? Why do we use calculators and computers at all? We could also have used an army of humans to just sit in a room and crunch numbers all day long.
December 22, 2025 at 1:19 AM
It seems like an arbitrary point in time to stop progress? Why do we use calculators and computers at all? We could also have used an army of humans to just sit in a room and crunch numbers all day long.
You do realize that many cities which have amazing public transit like Singapore also use fully automated subway trains right (no human drivers for the trains). Anything that can be automated to be safe and reliable should be done so.
December 22, 2025 at 1:06 AM
You do realize that many cities which have amazing public transit like Singapore also use fully automated subway trains right (no human drivers for the trains). Anything that can be automated to be safe and reliable should be done so.
My first truly well-paid job happened thanks to someone I met on the 'birdsite' referring me to a role in the company they worked for. I successfully made it through the interviews. It would have been nearly impossible to get an interview without that referral.
October 9, 2025 at 1:39 AM
My first truly well-paid job happened thanks to someone I met on the 'birdsite' referring me to a role in the company they worked for. I successfully made it through the interviews. It would have been nearly impossible to get an interview without that referral.
I can't find a lot of laptop SSD (m.2 NVMe) benchmark results online showing numbers for 4KB random write IOPS. Everyone seems to focus on seq read/write throughput values. Have they always been like this and I never noticed?
September 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I can't find a lot of laptop SSD (m.2 NVMe) benchmark results online showing numbers for 4KB random write IOPS. Everyone seems to focus on seq read/write throughput values. Have they always been like this and I never noticed?
Finally I repeated the same test on a M1 MBP with 512GB Apple SSD. This one was surprisingly the worst of the three -- it only managed 20k 4KB write IOPS. This was running macOS Sequoia 15.7 with APFS FileVault turned on.
September 28, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Finally I repeated the same test on a M1 MBP with 512GB Apple SSD. This one was surprisingly the worst of the three -- it only managed 20k 4KB write IOPS. This was running macOS Sequoia 15.7 with APFS FileVault turned on.
Next up is a 2018 Intel MBP with 512GB Apple SSD. This was also similar to the Win11 laptop. I was only able to do 60-70k 4KB write IOPS. This is macOS Sequoia 15.7 with APFS FileVault encryption turned on. Similar results with fio as well.
September 28, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Next up is a 2018 Intel MBP with 512GB Apple SSD. This was also similar to the Win11 laptop. I was only able to do 60-70k 4KB write IOPS. This is macOS Sequoia 15.7 with APFS FileVault encryption turned on. Similar results with fio as well.