David Idol

I make computer software

[David Idol @idoldev_]

@AskWorkspace The Google Apps Admin Toolbox console recovery tool appears completely down. It always just shows a 404.

I got put in a weird state when setting up my domain's Google Workspace and now I have no path forward at all.

[David Idol @idoldev_]

@TimSweeneyEpic @BackersGamesF I thought it was common knowledge never to get life insurance through your employer (always buy it separately) for this kind of exact situation? Good of Epic to go above and beyond here though given the circumstances.

[Robert Graham @robertgraham]

This is such hot garbage. The billionaires aren't cheating the system to pay no taxes, ProPublica is cheating at how they show the numbers.

When selling investments, you are only taxed on the gains. If you invested $1 million in a company a decade ago and sell it this year for $1 million (because the company sucked), you have a million in income but owe no taxes because there was no gains.

If you actually lose money, like selling it for $500k this year, you have loses. You might then sell a different investment, also $1 million, that grew to $1.5 million. The losses match the gains, so while you now have $2 million, you own no taxes.

Taxes hurt investment, so they certainly "manage" them. If you want to sell your million dollar investment that's now $1.5 million, you have to pay around 30% tax on that, so that when you roll it over into another investment, you are rolling over $1.35 million. It's thus better simply to leave your money in a poor investment and let it continue to grow rather than roll it over into a new investment.

It may not be even "good" or "bad". You want a balanced portfolio. You don't want to be waited too heavily on high tech like Apple. When one sector is too profitable, you want move some of those gains into other sectors.

So when you have a big loss, then that's an opportunity to sell your Apple shares.

By cherry picking 4 years when 4 billionaires paid no taxes, ProPublica gave the false impression they earned a lot of money and cheated at paying taxes. No, in the long run, you eventually pay all the taxes. All those billionaires have paid billions in taxes in other years, ones deliberately obscured by ProPublica.

For example, in 2021, Elon Musk paid $11 billion in taxes when he sold 16 million Tesla shares in order to fund his other efforts.

It's not Musk cheating the taxman, but ProPublica cheating their readers.

[stepfanie tyler @stepfanie]

https://t.co/yWTpBWmhZG

[LB @beyondreasdoubt]

This is simply perfectly, rationally and clearly stated.

[David Idol @idoldev_]

@VerizonNews Any updates?

[Josh Brooks @F530Josh]

What this actually looks like:

ICE tries to get woman who thinks she's being cute for a video to move her vehicle.

Three agents surround the vehicle, one from the front, two from the driver's side. Likely looking to gain control of the situation. It is not cute to them, as they're being surrounded by a mob.

Woman panics, realizing this is in fact not cute, and attempts to flee thinking she can avoid arrest. Tire loses traction and the car doesn't immediately respond to gas input. Woman panics further and guns the gas causing an erratic vehicle take off.

Agent at the front of the vehicle almost gets hit. Agents respond by opening fire thinking the woman is using the vehicle as a deadly weapon, trying to hit the lead ICE agent at the front of the vehicle.

Woman who shouldn't have even been there, but was there because she got spun out of control on TikTok drama dies.

Agents have to live with it. Will likely have people demanding a mob-style execution by COB today.

What the Right Wants: Psychotic leftist domestic terrorist tries to kill ICE agents! We should use more force.

What the Left Wants: Fascist NAZI psychopaths are murdering women and children! We should use more force.

Who actually wins: Minnesota politicians and bureaucrats who can spin this into a riot and continue to avoid accountability for fraud. Federal politicians who can use the flames to continue to avoid accountability for a billionaire child sex trafficking ring.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

Don't be stupid, stupid.

[David Idol @idoldev_]

@NVIDIAGeForce GeForce Season

[David Idol @idoldev_]

Please bump Electron to fix MacOS 26 performance issue @cursor_ai https://t.co/5cMhetYOjC

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Good post. It’s labor intensive to write something like this, but a good way to move the conversation forward

[David Idol @idoldev_]

@0x7An @dhh “Professional issue maker” in all aspects of the word

[DHH @dhh]

Cookie banners have been a blight on the internet. Worse than the old scourge of pop-up advertisements! They need to die entirely. The idea has failed. Nobody reads any of it. If you want to ban targeted ads, do that. Let's see if the EU can correct, https://t.co/4BDzIqRdVt

[@levelsio @levelsio]

It's kinda sad (but expected) when the right is in power (culturally and politically) now they just do same stuff as the left did 10 years ago with cancelling and limiting free speech

I was hoping they'd be smarter than that and defended everyone's right to speech even if they said dumb shit

Personally I defend anyone to say whatever they want as long as it's not incitement to violence (which is the US consitutional definition of free speech)

It shows maybe we need a real freedom movement, not left or right, kinda like Javier Milei, so I guess I've become libertarian?

[patagucci perf papi @kenwheeler]

maybe a good first step would be making it professionally unacceptable to gleefully cheer on the murder of a father of two small children

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

You can tell a lot about a person by how they react when someone dies.

[Mason @webdevMason]

Yes

Historically, this is how man lost most debates

It took a lot of love, a lot of courage, a lot of radical gentleness, a lot of faith in the human project, and yes, a lot of blood to wrestle from human animals this very brief period of reason we have been enjoying together

[Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic]

We will return Fortnite to the US iOS App Store next week.

Epic puts forth a peace proposal: If Apple extends the court's friction-free, Apple-tax-free framework worldwide, we'll return Fortnite to the App Store worldwide and drop current and future litigation on the topic.

[David Idol @idoldev_]

@nallexn It would be really interesting to see an updated version of this using Observable macro and async/await!

[Discord @discord]

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[David Idol @idoldev_]

@OfferUpSupport My post is immediately deleted with the email saying it was flagged as an ad, but I'm actually just trying to sell my TV locally. Following all guidelines exactly as stated. What gives?