Who is this competing against? Qatar? Saudi Arabia? Or Singapore?
Most of Dubai air traffic is transit for South Asian passengers. So mostly Air India and IndiGo.
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jayp commented on Oracle's Jump to Nashville Surprises Austin wsj.com/business/oracles-... · Posted by u/dcgudeman
Actually Nashville’s real estate market is very expensive. Belle Meade a Nashville suburb has the honor of being the richest town in America
Honestly this is hard to believe. Many uber wealthy suburbs attached to NYC, LA, and SF. Probably many other large cities too.
By what metric is this city the richest?
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jayp commented on Crypto.com Halts Solana USDC and USDT Withdrawals coindesk.com/business/202... · Posted by u/Lionga
understanding stablecoins is really simple.
"how do i convert crypto assets into USD without triggering a taxable event?"
the answer was create a stablecoin where you for sure have $1 for each coin so you can always exchange your crypto for dollars.
the problem is all these shady crypto finance people are busy making money off of stablecoins and hoping nobody catches them without enough cash on hand since they invested the USD into assets instead of just holding cash, or when the value went up they minted more stablecoin to sell off and now that the price of the stablecoin is down they don't have the ability to cover their liabilities.
The basic idea to protect against taxes, the extended idea is to enrich every grifter around.
When you sell stock A and buy stock B, if you had capital gains on stock A, it is a taxable event.
Crypto is the same.
Why do you think converting from BTC to USDT is not a taxable event?
I'm also curious about the reverse direction -- can I generate an openAPI spec from my typescript Api? I'd rather write code than schemas.
This is the best project I’ve found to that for that - https://github.com/lukeautry/tsoa. Uses decorators mainly.
If there are other such projects, please share.
jayp commented on Show HN: A social network like Myspace, built on top of Notion mynotion.space... · Posted by u/Jonovono
haha i used to have a Geocities page, does that make me old? :(
Maybe but angelfire page makes you even older.
I disagree, any post about Heroku or any of the startups aiming to replace it (Fly or Railway for example) always mention it. From the perspective of someone looking to move to one of them from Heroku:
- Render is closest to what Heroku do, however being on their own hardware they can undercut Heroku who, by running on top of AWS, are both limited but apparently also don’t want to compete on price.
- Fly is both aiming to be a Heroku alternative but also have a really compelling use case of placing many smaller VMs closer to your customers. I believe they are heading towards a target of scale to zero on distributed VM regions for your app. They have some super clever ideas around distributed DB read replicas.
- Railway I think is somewhere in the middle, but I can’t understand their pricing… they say “you only pay for what you use” and the pricing page imply a that you can use fractional resources. It seems confusing as to if they have some sort of auto scale to zero or not. The docs are lacking on in the regard.
For me Fly I think are winning. Probably with Supabase or or Crunchy Data for the DB.
If you are going to use a centralize database coupled with edge compute, you may end up with far worse end-to-end latencies if your compute<->db does multiple roundtrips per request (which is fairly common in practice). In most cases, you need compute and db to be colocated.
I am skeptical of edge compute being generalizable. I do forsee a bright future for it for embarrassingly parallel problem space, where data sharding can be done cleanly based on an end user.
jayp commented on Shopify lets staff decide cash-stock pay mix as shares dive bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/jbredeche
Stock Grants are not an "expense" under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. So by paying in stock, instead of salary, it increases profits on paper. It does help with cash flow and other tangible benefits.
Most employees would be wise to divest much of their company stock as soon as they are allowed. Don't have all your eggs in one basket.
Is this really true?
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They and Vercel both seem to be going thru a lot of growing pains. Quite a few outages over the past year.
PS: we use both (for different sites). Probably should consolidate to one.