It's a huge hassle in Boston as well. Pretty boy hustle brokers deserve easy work that doesn't require real education so I can pay more to find a domicile - said no one ever...
Realtors are truly the scum of the earth, hustle culture, gate keeping, maligned incentives for clients, lazy industry in general. Only second to tech recruiters.
I'm looking for a co-founder with elixir and strong front-end experience or product and sales experience. Technical preference for now. If you like mycology and working with Neo4J feel free to drop a line!
The product I've been working on is intended for the pharma space and somewhat similar to Benchling but targeting a very specific agricultural niche. I've yet to start looking for institutional investment, but now that covid is over I have the bandwidth and drive to take this product full-time!
I've been trying to get into mycology as a hobby. I think it's awesome that you're working in this space. I did want to say, however, that covid is not over. I'm not sure who told you that but they're wrong.
> but now that covid is over I have the bandwidth and drive to take this product full-time!
Saying that Covid is over is such a slap in the face to all those people still dying from it in countries that don't have the resources or access to vaccines like some countries do.
It’s a phrase/idiom that has become widely used IRL. I hate how everything is taken literally online, it’s clearly an figure of speech about large scale economic re-openings
Deductions are the real "lever" that the ultra rich use, since you can lobby the feds to implement whatever you want. This is why when tax rates post WWII were "over 90%" in top brackets nobody actually paid those taxes. Ironically, in that period most people who would be subject to that tax just took sabbaticals (of sorts) and reduced their income. Contrary to popular belief, most rich people have a far higher IQ than Hollywood actors.
>...most rich people have a far higher IQ than Hollywood actors.
Not surprisingly, back when marginal rates were so high, rich Hollywood actors also hired CPAs to avoid giving 90+ percent of their income to those in power. The previous discussion on this was here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19031135
> Deductions are the real "lever" that the ultra rich use, since you can lobby the feds to implement whatever you want. This is why when tax rates post WWII were "over 90%" in top brackets nobody actually paid those taxes. Ironically, in that period most people who would be subject to that tax just took sabbaticals (of sorts) and reduced their income.
Did they not pay because they had magic deductions or did they not pay because of sabbaticals and reduced income? Because the former means it was no better than today (and income differential stats around CEO vs line-level employer suggest this is not true), but the latter is by its very nature better than today. It's literally creating more opportunity for more people to earn money? If person A isn't doing the work and making the income, person B is. So inequality will be less!
That high tax rate disincentives a small set of super-high-earners from running ever-more parts of the world? Good!
> It's literally creating more opportunity for more people to earn money? If person A isn't doing the work and making the income, person B is. So inequality will be less!
That's not how things work in reality. Whatever work Jeff Bezos decides to not do as a salaried employee doesn't get distributed elsewhere, because he derives almost no income from his salary.
I still can't get over how people fail to realize that arbitrary thresholds for financial reporting (initially set in 1970 at $10k[0]) haven't been adjusted for inflation. To the point where in a not so distant future, settling up funds with friends at a large dinner could in certain cases be considered "structuring"[1]. You have access to all of my credit card records, basically everything I do online, figure it out.
The fed boys have more than enough info, but of course we should trust them with it to tax the rich... Full disclosure, we should definitely tax a-holes with billions in their Roth IRA.
> To the point where in a not so distant future, settling up funds with friends at a large dinner could in certain cases be considered "structuring"[1].
That's a bonkers thing to fear, bordering on conspiracy theory. The feds aren't chomping at the bit so they can bust you and your friends for everyday behavior.
Now, that's not to say they might exploit it in a three-felonies-a-day sense to get someone they have their eye on for other reasons (a-la Al Capone and tax evasion), but if the law too often leads to unjust results, it will be changed. Especially if the unjust result is experienced by people with power and influence (and not just the poor and marginalized).
Not for hyperscalers like BackBlaze. They have contracts with specific purchase quotas and guaranteed price deltas. Chia has certainly affected prices on the secondary markets, there hasn't been a better time in the past decade to be a secondary server "junk" seller on eBay! NetApp 4246 JBOD's are going for $1000! Absolutely insane!
