sugarpile

It's certainly not a "yolo do whatever you want, the IRS won't care" fund but it is still available to the non-wealthy. I know many people who have been making use of it for years without any unfair government characterization or attention. The best I've personally seen is a couple in their early 30s with ~$7 million (real estate related dealings) in their self-directed roth which is a far cry from $5 billion, obviously, but pretty amazing nonetheless.

Comment · 2 years ago

Anyone can create a self-directed Roth and do many creative and lucrative things with it. It’s hardly something only available to billionaires.

Comment · 2 years ago

> Also can't find code which is masked behind interfaces

Is this not the Greeter interface example from the OP? The example finds an unused variant of an interface and all code only invoked by said unused implementations and marks all of it as deadcode.

Comment · 2 years ago

I don't understand how google can just be consistently on the back foot of the "tech world hivemind" for going on 7 (?) years now and have zero shakeup of not just culture but at least PR.

Comment · 2 years ago

Weird for me to see the responses here. It was one of the only episodes I really liked since it seemed a lot more plausible. Also was kind of funny especially since Cameron may well have fucked a pig in his day.

Comment · 3 years ago

Sounds like an issue to take up with your government. Don’t complain that other people spend _their_ money in a way _you_ disagree with.

Comment · 3 years ago

Elsewhere in the thread this article with an embedded video was linked: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64618791

The video, showing a BBC “journalist” attempting to ambush Leif, is one of the most… existentially disgusting? videos I’ve seen in a long, long time.

It’s so utterly performative. Such a transparent attempt by the “journalist” at painting himself as a certain sort of person. Not a single genuine emotion, action, expression, or word. Absolutely soulless and desperate attempt to virtue signal in the even more desperate hope of furthering his career. This “man” is no better than someone selling themselves on onlyfans. Actually, I’d posit he’s worse: the entire schtick requires disingenuous postering.

I don’t know what to do when seeing stuff like this. It’s depressing. I hope one day there’s a return to a much smaller internet and these people deign to just leave us alone. He’s a sad man and the fact his doing this will may well advantage him is even sadder. I guess I’ll go take a walk.

Comment · 3 years ago

My timeline was:

- would have selected wheel if it was an option on order

- ~4 days after delivery I was ambivalent to it

- ~2 weeks after delivery I preferred the yoke. Better visibility is nice.

That said, it would obviously be better if it was drive by wire with variable steering ratio. I’d probably pay some amount of money to switch to that.