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AaronM commented on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month theverge.com/tech/875309/... · Posted by u/x01

fud3748 · a month ago

Sure, it’s easy to tax “wealth”. Except most wealth today is of the type where Alice owns 10 million Y and Bob decided to pay $1000 for one Y. Alice cannot possibly sell her Y for near that price, but now she will be taxed on “wealth” of $10 billion.

AaronM · a month ago

If someone takes a loan out against an unrealized gain, that should immediately trigger a tax event.

The real solution though is for the legislative branch to not be beholden to those same people and be able to quickly and effectively close tax loopholes as they are discovered.

AaronM commented on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux himthe.dev/blog/microsoft... · Posted by u/bobsterlobster

AdamN · 2 months ago

Anything in particular? I get that it takes some tweaking but so does Linux. The biggest thing that you'll probably never get the way you want is window tiling - it's my personal bugaboo with MacOS. Maybe there's a way to get what I want ...

AaronM · 2 months ago

For me, the biggest pain point is the way it decides which window to bring to the front. If I minimize a window, and then click on the application in the bar, it won't show the window just minimized, instead it always seems to show the older window. Really annoying when using an app with many windows

AaronM commented on SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades cbsnews.com/texas/news/se... · Posted by u/pseudolus

robocat · 5 months ago

> I would assume TXSE would want quick access to that order flow

Perhaps Texas could use a different trading model that doesn't require ultra high speed trading.

Matt Levine often mulls the idea of a system with a trading window that doesn't let the fastest connection to the order book win. Perhaps an order book that works at human speeds so humans can trade too (I can think of a few ways to do it - but would need modelling to try and figure what actually works). He points out that most trades are done in the last hour, so really trading only needs to occur once a day.

The issue is whether a market trading system can be designed with suitable restrictions that beats the current market design (for listed companies and for traders).

Designing markets is hard because you have to assume every player is selfish and only cooperates where it is to their benefit and will defect or cheat if the incentives of the market encourage that (Enron in the California energy markets).

Unlikely since SEC would need to approve of a different system of market trade incentives.

Edit: Personally I would like to see an exchange that was more international. I'm from New Zealand and our good businesses often list on the Australian exchange rather than the NZSX. The system of ADRs for other countries feels like a massive hack.

AaronM · 5 months ago

If trades were batch processed say every 5 seconds, and randomized in the case of ties would that solve the fastest connection issue?

AaronM commented on Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more than 240 onboard theguardian.com/world/liv... · Posted by u/Gud

defrost · 9 months ago

A multiple engine aircraft maintaining flight on a single engine is vastly different to the same craft being able to complete a take off when an engine fails mid process.

Aircraft can land (in right circumstances) by gliding in sans power .. the same cannot be said for take offs.

AaronM · 9 months ago

Modern commercial aircraft is designed to operate on a single engine through all modes of flight.

One a plane reaches v1 during takeoff, it can lose an engine and still takeoff.

It an engine was lost before v1, the takeoff would be aborted.

Here is an Airbus doing just that.

https://youtu.be/5QMJ3_NiWbs?si=5nZ4yU7T7hsGSUu2

AaronM commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025) · Posted by u/whoishiring

AaronM · 9 months ago

Lumin Digital | Senior Site Reliability Engineer | REMOTE (US based) | Full Time | 170k - 200k

Lumin Digital sells software to credit unions and banks. We are looking for a senior SRE that also has experience building and maintaining cloud based data analytics pipelines. We are also always looking for Staff level SRE's for more general positions.

We have a great culture, unlimited PTO (4 weeks a year minimums), and a pretty awesome team.

When you apply please mention this post!

https://jobs.lever.co/LuminDigital/005572eb-117a-4fdf-a9bb-c...

AaronM commented on Right to Repair laws have now been proposed in all U.S. states ifixit.com/News/108371/ri... · Posted by u/LorenDB

seanw444 · a year ago

Even the "active and passed" states (particularly New York) passed a neutered version of right-to-repair that barely does anything. I only understand vaguely, but Louis Rossman has been outspoken about the progress of NY right-to-repair in particular, and how it flopped hard. As much as right-to-repair seems like a party line issue, even many of the Democrats have thus far been all talk and no substance.

AaronM · a year ago

Because the large corporations have virtually unlimited power to water down bills with campaign contributions. It takes very little to money to sway a representative federally. How much less do you think it takes to sway a state level candidate?

Spending cash on candidates to prevent bills like this is likely a rounding error on their yearly budget.

AaronM commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025) · Posted by u/whoishiring

AaronM · a year ago

Lumin Digital | Full-Time | Remote (USA Only) | Senior Site Reliability Engineer | 170k+ https://jobs.lever.co/LuminDigital/005572eb-117a-4fdf-a9bb-c...

We sell an unlabeled front-end application to credit unions and banks that allow millions to bank digitally

Our stack runs on EKS in AWS. If you want to know more reach out. If you apply, mention this post please!

AaronM commented on Ask HN: Where to Work After 40? · Posted by u/asim

scrumper · a year ago

I have a couple ideas for you from my own experience.

There's about a bajillion C/D+ stage 100-500 person software companies in any B2B vertical you could mention who would fight hard for your type of experience. Not necessarily SaaS click-and-drool tools for corporate drones, but unique and opinionated products that have some significant engineering innovation inside. Those companies have essentially no ability to attract talent organically, anyone interested in FANG would turn up their noses, and their number one problem is quality people. In many cases the CEO/CTO leadership is incredibly strong and smart; the colleagues are happy, motivated, intelligent, and disciplined; and the work/life balance is good for the middle aged. They're vital to their customers but under continuous competitive pressure so it is far from a snoozy place to serve out time - it's a mission and a struggle every day, things change often, the pace is fast. It can be very rewarding and compensation is decent. The tradeoff is the big exit is vanishingly unlikely.

Second idea is go into consulting/professional services. Not Accenture or anything horrible like that, but dozens of boutique/smaller firms with decently inspiring leadership and a very high standard of colleague. Work is variable in interest and environment, pressures are somewhat unfairly around whether you are billable or not which is not really in your control as an engineer.

AaronM · a year ago

I work for a place very similar to what you described. Its a really good gig

AaronM commented on Ask HN: How long do you think this AI wave will last? · Posted by u/cannibalXxx

AaronM · a year ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle

I think we are probably somewhere near the peak of inflated expectations.