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kinkora commented on Mary Hubbard New Executive Director of Wordpress.org wordpress.org/news/2024/1... · Posted by u/program

photomatt · a year ago

Sorry for that error, the post has been updated now.

kinkora · a year ago

Thanks for clarifying on that error.

I am not involved in the wordpress community in any shape or form but am fairly privy to what it is along with the open source world yet.. even I am finding it hard with confusing and/or conflating statements on what falls under the non-profit, foundation, commercial entity, etc.

But even if you ignore random stranger me from the internet, wouldn't it flag something in you that your own legal representative got it wrong on an official company post clarifying the structure? Even if I apply the most charitable interpretation, it seems Neil is also equally confused or at least not on the same page as you since he is unable to respond consistently in the other threads?

I am sure you will at least see why that everyone is just perplexed by how obtused the whole structure between the WordPress.org, WordPress The Foundation and Automattic.

kinkora commented on MacBook owners have two months to claim up to $395 over butterfly keyboard woes theverge.com/2023/1/4/235... · Posted by u/FinnKuhn

md8 · 3 years ago

Google/Fitbit refunded entire price of Ionic watch when they found out that there were issues with battery.

Apple under Tim Cook has gone into a state where it doesnt care about the customer.

The whole no adapter thing moved the entire industry into suck a Scam-Customer state that even Trimmer companies are not offering adapters.

Apple is spoiling entire electronics industry.

I will keep typing 'i' in my keyboard, and it will instead type 'ii'

Apple - You need to send a full refund for manufacturing such as pathetic laptop.

kinkora · 3 years ago

I have an M1 now and it is glorious but back when I had the MBA with the butterfly keys, someone pointed me to https://github.com/aahung/Unshaky and it helped eliminate 99% of the double-typing or ghost keys. You will have to tweak the ms until you find the right number that fits your typing speed but once you get it all setup, the butterfly keyboard will become much more tolerable.

Or.. you could just swap it for an M1. :)

kinkora commented on Revisiting “The 4-Hour Workweek” newyorker.com/culture/off... · Posted by u/fortran77

kinkora · 4 years ago

The 4HWW book changed my life when i picked it up randomly while waiting for my flight at the airport nearly 13 years ago and it's not just because of the remote working bits (i've been working fully remote for the past 7 years) or the parts on creating an income autopilot muse (i have a handful of content sites) but because of the journey it took me on to eventually discover the financial independence crowd, which strangely, intersects very prominently with the people that are into 4HWW. I've met loads of people in the FIRE community where the 4HWW concepts being always the common ground that brings us all together.

Not sure if Tim reads comments on HN but he really should acknowledge the FIRE bit more and the impact his book has brought to that community. Most critics of the book focus too much on the outsourcing endeavours, the remote work shift, the digital nomadism culture, the income muse pursuits, etc but it is the FIRE component where most readers ultimately end up at and i, will vehemently argue, has the most impact to his readers.

IMHO of course. :)

kinkora commented on Costa Rica signs law to attract digital nomads ticotimes.net/2021/08/11/... · Posted by u/tomduncalf

SturgeonsLaw · 4 years ago

Got any links with more info on this? Preferably from the ATO?

As an Aussie this sounds really damn tempting but I'm seeing information that implies you can still be considered an Australian tax resident if you have certain assets or interests in AU:

https://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/coming-to-australia-or-go...

http://www6.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/cth/aat/...

I would be interested in working overseas for a couple of years, but would not be interested in cutting all ties with Australia to do so.

kinkora · 4 years ago

yea, not sure what the OP is referring to or what their personal circumstances are but that is definitely not as simple as that from personal experience (i left Australia for 10 months) along with first hand accounts of people I know.

Besides the obvious wife/kids being in Australia = personal ties, ATO also considers the following to be reasonable points to be constituted as a tax resident:

- Australian Bank accounts, even with $0.01 in it.

- Superannuation

- Properties owned, regardless if it is as an investments or owner-occupied (not rented out)

- Any Australian Account e.g. commsec, vanguard australia, telstra/optus mobile, etc

- Postal address/P.O. box

And so forth. ATO is purposefully applying broad strokes to "ties" to Australia so that they can claim their share of taxes accordingly.

I have a mate whom is a miner, working offshore for BHP, and was audited by the ATO since he lives in Indonesia (wife/family) thus claimed he is a non-tax resident. He is originally from WA so got dinged for a house he owns in WA (which he intended to come back to) + his (Telstra) mobile plan that he never used but paid the smallest plan to keep so that he didn't lose his aussie number + his NAB bank account that had $1000 in it so that he has some cash to spend when he visits family. ATO told him that if he wanted to be considered a non-tax resident, he had to liquidate _and_ close everything he has in Australia to be considered a non-tax resident. Since he didn't do so, they considered he has every intention to return to Australia thus place undue burden on medicare & pension system, if applicable, thus had to pay the difference in tax he paid in Indonesia vs. working in Australia.

kinkora commented on G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals bbc.co.uk/news/world-5736... · Posted by u/ddek

rufus_foreman · 5 years ago

>> The G7 group of advanced economies has reached a "historic" deal to make multinational companies pay more tax

No, it hasn't. Some finance ministers met and talked:

"Finance ministers meeting in London agreed to battle tax avoidance by making companies pay more in the countries where they do business. They also agreed in principle to a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15% to avoid countries undercutting each other."

I have no idea how it works in other countries, but in the US, finance ministers don't have the power to agree to treaties. Treaties in the US require a super-majority (two thirds) vote in the Senate. Unless Mitch McConnell has signed off on this, the G7 group of advanced economies did not reach a deal on anything. I don't even see the word "Senate" in the entire article.

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen can tell reporters whatever she wants. Without buy-in from Republicans in the Senate, finance ministers agreeing "in principle" amounts to finance ministers agreeing that if they had ham, they could make ham and eggs, if they had eggs.

kinkora · 5 years ago

"Every journey of a 1000 miles begins with 1 step"

Maybe we should laude and celebrate that at least loads of effort was put into getting all the G7 finance ministers in one place and actually have a discussion + agree to a next step?

Feels unnecessary negative and very arm chair criticism to just hand wave the whole endeavour and say "oh nothing was done and all they did was talk".

I sometimes think people in the last decade are to quick to find faults for every little thing that falls short of a 100% effort (and even that gets criticism) without even considering that they are not the men-in-the-arena [1] doing the hard work.

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[1] Whenever I think of criticizing something/someone, I always consider Theodore Roosevelt comment on this sort of behaviour where he once said:

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

kinkora commented on Ransomware gang threatens to expose police informants if ransom is not paid therecord.media/ransomwar... · Posted by u/blinding-streak

thenoblesunfish · 5 years ago

These stories often have a part in them that makes me think about how it's somehow surreal that there's some person who goes to work in the morning and does something that looks and feels almost exactly like what most of us here do all day, except that the whole thing is part of an (explicitly) parasitic criminal enterprise.

kinkora · 5 years ago

Funny, I had the same thought when I was in my teens and couldn't ever imagined it until Simpsons did an episode [1] on this where Homer got his dream job at Globex and the CEO/Company is the dream boss - provided a fully paid for house, flexible hours, great pay, beautiful company town, easy going colleagues, CEO that trusts you, etc.

It was only halfway through the episode you realise that Hank Scorpio is the stereotypical james bond villian and everyone working for him (including homer) was helping him in his diabolical schemes! But you wouldn't know it if Homer didn't re-sign from his job while Hank was battling Bond. :)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ew78KThLOY

kinkora commented on Ask HN: What Happened to Larry Page? · Posted by u/mrkn1

dddbbb · 5 years ago

He's still relatively young, and likely realises the near absolute power he holds over one of the largest companies in the world is not something he can get back once he gives it up. Also Gates, to put it in very uncharitable terms, has shown that it doesn't matter if you're seen as a hated, greedy CEO as long as you do enough philanthropy later in life.

kinkora · 5 years ago

my "insider" knowledge from the FB upper management is that Zuck is considering a future presidential candidacy so all of this congress stuff, dealing with political correctness, etc is great training wheels when he eventually gets into it. If you look at it from that lens, it makes sense right?

Disclaimer: note bunny ear quotes and like any 2nd hand information, there might be some stretched out truths attached to it.

kinkora commented on SQLite Turns 20 sqlite.org/src/thisdayinh... · Posted by u/marcobambini

ardit33 · 6 years ago

Has anybody used Sqlite in a server side, production level capacity....

I know it works great on embeded cases, but how about server side with a decent user load?

kinkora · 6 years ago

Pieter Levels (levelsio) of Nomadlist famously gets mocked for using a single index.php and sqlite but does 5 figure MRR. https://nomadlist.com/open

He used to get a lot of flack for it and i never understood why since you use whatever gets the job done. Too many people doing the "gatekeeper" thing.