grimlck

The US taxes citizens on world wide income, no matter where they are resident, so they are probably the worst choice among the first world nations for the super rich. There are people, like Eduardo Saverin, who give up their US citizenship to avoid US taxes.

The UK is a haven for a lot of these people, as it has a very attractive non-domiciled rule (live in the UK, only get taxed on UK income or income which you bring into the UK - income which stays out of country is effectively untaxed).

Or, perhaps a jurisdiction like Hong Kong with no capital gains tax might make sense.

coin pouches ruin the leather of wallet and make them really bulge out. Just store coins directly in your pocket.

You need to ask for more than just outstanding shares, but about also liquidation preferences and convertable notes as well. Otherwise, you won't get a true understanding of the value of the options.

How does [0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF], interpreted as a UInt32 turn into 16777215?

I would have guessed 4294967295

Except what do you do if you have venture backed competitors who are willing to spend and lose huge amounts of money in the land grab for marketshare, and thus have far larger sales teams and development teams?

More 2am nights?

C++ (Using something like emscripten for the web)

Although, i'd pick java over C++ unless i'm doing some very performance critical

"Google worked out a deal with “full service” broker to give us free accounts"

That is actually really interesting. How much did this broker have to pay to get this box full of highly lucrative leads - access to a large set of newly wealthy individuals, many of which don't have experience with managing large amounts of money. A bunch of people who may be experts of technology, but probably are not experts on finance.

It seems like inviting the fox into the hen house, and telling the hens what it deal it was

This is really the death of the mid-market mall, which are being replaced with 2 extremes - the outlet mall and the high end mall.

In warm climates, malls become outdoor is the trend, but that certainly isn't the case for cities with harsher winters.

You can already get a visa-for-money from most major first world countries, and after a few years, it is easy enough to make the jump towards citizenship. Is it really that big of a jump to get rid of the time component?

For example:

USA

EB5 investor visa: $1,000,000 or $500,000 depending on the area you 'invest' in. One of the easiest ways to get a green card, and from there, citizenship

UK

Tier 1 investor visa: £1,000,000 in 'investment', which can just be the purchase of government bonds. Apply for indefinate leave to remain (green card equivilant) after 4 years. If you invested £5 million, you only need 3 years. If you invested £10 million, it is down to 2 years. The UK non-domicile tax status can also be very very generous to wealthy expats (unless they are American and thus are taxed on world wide income regardless).

Canada

Canada used to have such a program (Immigrant Investor visa for $800,000 CAD for people with net worths of at least $!.6 million), but that was terminated recently. I believe the Quebec version is still open though

I'm really impressed, I was set on getting an apple watch until now, but this may change my mind - great form factor and style, has the sensors I'm looking for, and cross platform. I'm eagerly waiting a review.

Will having servers physically located in Germany really satisfy the privacy concern of German clients given that Amazon is still an American company subject to american laws?

I wonder how many people are foolish enough to store their bitcoin wallets on dropbox, and if the hacker has already preemptively removed the funds from those wallets.

Actions speak louder than words, and I don't see how requiring logins to view answers results in a better user experience and community.

I would guess that since it is socially uncouth to say their motivation for the site is to try to make a lot of money, they instead state a more noble sounding mission whenever asked about motivations.

I'm pretty curious as to your statement 'Register jobs in Postgres, use RabbitMQ as the trigger mechanism. But this puts a burden on the processor, which now has to use two APIs.'

Does that mean you know of a way to do it with just a DB and without a MQ?

If you store the jobs in the database and dont have a parallel MQ system, exactly what triggers the job to be run?

For example, a job might be to process a batch of pictures. To create the job, you would insert a row into the database. But when you insert the row, how would another machine know to wake up and start processing it? Is that other machine just polling? If so, how do you ensure two machines on the cluster dont pick up the same job?