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I used Quickbooks desktop and found it antiquated; create an export and email it to your accountant? No thank you. I then tried Quickbooks Online and it was hands-down the worst piece of software I've ever used. I ultimately landed on Xero, which is "good enough". To echo a number of other comments on this page, my accountants were generally slaves to the software. I actually had to change firms going from QBO to Xero as my existing accountant said they only worked with Quickbooks.

This is all a reminder the current tax system in the US is an unnecessary game made unnecessarily difficult.

Articles like this that read more like hit piece are hard to finish. The language used seems gleeful at the investigation and possible sanctions.

I'm a big fan of http://chartd.co/ (and stathat in general) for charts specifically. This won't help other visualizations though .

An Ethernet cable inside a pressurized tube. If pressure changes you know someone may be trying to tamper with your line.

I regularly saw Fortune 100 firms having domain controllers with MS08-067 unpatched in 2013. I also saw other places with pressurized Ethernet runs. I'm guessing it's still spotty depending on where you're at.

I still use Keybase heavily for work and personal contacts, and the Linux client just got updated. It's not really a platform with high visibility usage (which is a benefit IMHO).

Readable link: https://archive.is/rb6U8

Build your project on the side and until it has enough revenue for you to live from; don't quit your day job. Startup life is overly romanticized. Dip your toes in by working your day job 40 hours and an extra 20 hours for your side hustle. Do this for a few months, and if you think you can keep the schedule up without a salary and it's worth it to feed your dream then hop in and good luck!

My greater suspicion is that Amazon will soon come out with similar "basics" products that cover 95% of banned products.

I agree it's annoying the onus for opt-out is put onto the generally unaware public. I've been contemplating a project that would "poison the well" as it were. Users could submit a MAC address and SSID to a service allowing other users to broadcast this information to make SSID collection much less useful. The downside to this idea is that it would be easy-ish to filter out the noise if individuals had a constant SSID for their own use.

Perhaps the better way to handle it would have devices rotate SSID's and/or passwords and/or router MAC's on a regular basis. Like algorithmically have all devices compute the SSID on a daily basis (with a few hours dual-broadcasting SSID's to account for clock issues) based on a seed.

What did the Google Street view car say in the middle of the lake? _nomap.

I had a 2011 Macbook Air and the iPhone 5S and really enjoyed the combo, however as the years passed OSX and iOS felt like they were being intentionally hobbled for planned obsolescence. I moved over to Fedora Workstation and the Pixel 2 and haven't looked back. I'm still a little uneasy putting all my eggs in the Google basket, but I try to keep local backups and could move my email to Fastmail in a jiffy if I needed to. I'm keeping my eye on the Pinephone, but currently I'm in too deep with Gmail/Youtube/Keep/Drive to justify moving to a low-spec phone.

As an aside, I want Google's killer new app to be customer service. It feels like their current goal is to have ML/DL handle all their support, but if they made it so paying customers could reach a domestic person within 5-10 minutes my confidence in them would go up 80% .... also it would be nice to have a 1-month grace period for full account download for suspended accounts, no matter the reason. There are too many stories of people losing permanent access to documents/photos/emails without any ability to get them back.

Actually yes! I found it surprising and thought it deserved a conversation. Thanks for posting the link in the other discussion. I've actually changed my SSID because of this ... though it may have the opposite effect of drawing more attention to my SSID because prettyflyforawifi_nomap doesn't have the same ring as the original.

I'd still be using my iPhone 5s if I could freeze the software (or load my own OS) and replace the battery every 2 years. My most recent update to a One Plus 9 Pro from a Pixel 2 was driven by screen clarity, wireless charging, upgraded camera, and waterproof rating.

The iPhone 5s with wired headphones is still my peak phone.

It looks like it's missing the user side of the equation. As in a user can validate they-are-who-they-say-they-are *once*, but Stripe is missing an opportunity to allow users to: validate themselves to a website regularly (OTP tied to identity), allow individuals to update their information (address change), allow individuals to revoke authentication, etc. It is a great foundation and there's huge opportunity for growth in this product.

I've been waiting for a service like this. I suspect we're on the precipice of a new Internet split, where one can be accessed with identity and the other is anonymous as we know it now. In some arenas, like comment sections, I welcome removing anonymity [1]. In other arenas I wonder if it will be used to divide populations online in some futuristic dystopian manner. For instance, only citizens of the United States with Good Credit and Good Social Score are allowed to read the Financial Times.

[1] https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19

Hot take: the US is going to use these highly publicized hacks as impetus for implementing our own "Great Firewall"...for our safety, of course.

It's a bit tangential, but I enjoy Moxie's (of Signal) stories relating to sailing. https://moxie.org/stories/together-two/

I'm curious what would have been if Archegos Capital hadn't been margin called. I suspect this merger would have seen things swing the other way.

I'd argue it's reasonable for core concepts to be taught online, but things like etiquette, social interaction, etc. slbe taught in person. For instance this allows kids sitting next to each other to learn different levels of math according to their ability, and then go tag with their buddies.

I don't really care who I get my internet from. If you don't spy on me, are cost competitive, and have good enough speeds I'm in (and relatively low downtime).

Non-paywall link: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/andreessen-horowitz-plans-1-b...

T-mobile does the same thing.

I'm glad you mentioned this! I'll keep your github bookmarked as I've been looking for something like this with SQLite support.

I highly value articles like this one -- open and honest; it peels back the beautiful veneer to show great work has obstacles and perfection is always a struggle.

Hah Geico's internal claim system is a giant (internal) FTP dump of scans connected to a web front end. The FTP has endless scanns of claims checks, etc, including DL numbers.

Maybe they should change their dev environment SQL passwords from SA.

I can't wait until people are required to move back to cities for in office work. Small towns are becoming faceless neighborhoods of urban areas with a SouthWest or JetBlue commute. New residents want to ignore their neighbors and put up gates to their home. Small towns have heart because people interact with each other and work to make the community better.

Montana and resort towns are suffering the same influx of remote workers / people buying vacation homes to work out of half the year while pricing out locals.

I'd still add Keybase to the mix even though they were bought by Zoom.

Tangential to the article, I despise the tactic of hijacking the back button.