The author is not talking about getting someone with physical access. He’s talking about bribing someone with software access to your disks, who can access the data, regardless of the encryption settings.
The author is talking specifically about AWS. The odds that there is a mistake decommissioning the disk that leaves the data intact, times that somebody salvaged it from a landfill, times that they care about your data is basically zero. Which means a logical person should worry about everything else.
Completely agree, that's why this Lago is interesting to me instead of using Stripe services. I'd rather use Stripe for the bare minimum so I can implement support for a backup provider as well.
I work in tech, despite California being the center of that industry, I've resisted relocating to there every time. I don't much care for it. Tastes vary. If the housing market wasn't so fucked it might be a different story.
When you need a senior/lead level software engineer, contact me (info in profile.) It'd be nice to work on something that could really, actually, literally make the world a better place.
> Oh and whoever wrote and sent out that statement about how the state was pursuing this was why so many businesses are leaving California needs to be fired. It was so utterly tone deaf and irrelevant.
It is tone deaf and irrelevant, but they should not lose their job over that. Let the person who has never held a poor opinion throw the first stone.
I came to this conclusion when I was about 24. I was thinking about what I wanted most from life. Success, a girlfriend, a car, etc. I settled on autonomy, although I phrased it as freedom. Freedom to do or work on what I want.
I work part time now and spend most of my days working on what I want. I guess I partly achieved that, by age 36. Getting there.
Imagine hooking up the public tax returns to an image recognition system and database built from social media. It should be possible to create a dating app for women that lets you see the wealth of people on tinder, in the street, at a party. Men might also use that, but they already have their ideal "rating by physical appearance" app in tinder. Some gender differences are persistent throughout all human history.
I think the problem is these IRAs were not designed to shield the super rich from taxes. It's meant to help the average person. Implemented properly it should have an upper limit, probably under a million dollars. Letting it grow to five billion tax free is a loophole that shouldn't exist and does not benefit society at large.
Some countries have public tax returns (Sweden? Norway? One of those Nordic countries.)
I think probably they should be public data.
That aside, for very rich people, having them be public is in the interest of the public as it reveals the shady stuff they do to dodge taxes (legally.)
Yeah, same here. I started my career as a huge dynamic languages fan, and Python was my favourite language for over a decade.
But now, after 20 years, I appreciate a static language with proper IDE support and code completion. Offload the work to the computer, that's what we do for a living after all.
However, after spending a year working in Rust, I think this can be taken too far. The safety guarantees in Rust are amazing, but the overhead for contorting programs to a form the borrow checker will accept, and the mental overhead related to async/await compared to goroutines is too much.
My favourite language is now Go, and I find it strikes a good balance between static checks and productivity. Rust is still a more elegant language in many ways with things like generics and iterators and their enum types (algebraic types I think is the term?) and zero-overhead abstractions and clean error handling. Go feels a little hacky by comparison. But it's simple and way more productive for me personally, so I prefer it.
Interestingly Evan Wallace (constexpr here on HN) implemented esbuild in Rust initially, and switched to Go and stayed with it for much the same reasons, but also noted that the Go version performed better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336284
> But at a high-level, Go was much more enjoyable to work with. This is a side project and it has to be fun for me to work on it. The Rust version was actively un-fun for me, both because of all of the workarounds that got in the way and because of the extremely slow compile times.
After a year of working with Rust and switching back to Go, I second this. I'm enjoying programming again and finding it easier to put in long hours.
"I won't use anything from smaller or new companies or Google in case it goes away". That's silly, how is this the top comment? Are people that conservative in tech of all places? This is a docker runtime. If it goes away you'll be up and running again without delay on AWS or anywhere else, you just won't have the edge performance characteristics.
It can be tough to have hope in the moment, but things will get better again if you hang in there, and you'll be eternally grateful to yourself for toughing it out. You'll also wonder how you could have been so pessimistic and silly to think there was no hope, you'll want to travel back in time just to slap yourself.
You're young, you made some mistakes, but you learned from them. You are better off than those who still haven't learned. You have plenty of time to build a new, better life for yourself. With a new, younger wife, if that's your thing. Some people will probably take offense at that last part, but I'm not talking Epstein young, I'm just saying his ex was probably 40 something, and his new wife can be a hotter 30 something if that's important to him.
That is part of the solution, but you're dreaming if you think you can tax people at 90% and expect them to continue to produce. I've packed up and relocated for less. I've also turned down work that I otherwise would have accepted, just because I know the government will take half. There would have been no Steve Jobs (at least not in the US) at 90% marginal tax rates.
Right now the only thing that somewhat limits the accumulation of wealth by the wealthiest in our society is that they eventually die. Even if they pass it on to their offspring, those offspring are often ill-equipped to run their parent's business empire. Eventually the dynastic wealth fades away and others can take their place. If people could live forever there would be no limits on how much wealth individuals could concentrate in their hands. It would be like the meths in Altered Carbon. I don't want to live in a world where Jeff Bezos possesses more wealth than the bottom 90% of the planet.
Our laws and economic system currently lead to extreme inequality. That would have to seriously change to allow for immortality.
Did you read the article? He mentioned that right upfront.