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.
As I noted above, we are preparing a blog post with further detail about Matt's role in the community. Of course, if that doesn't provide sufficient clarity, let us know.
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.
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.
I think in a world so focused on working hard, or at least sitting at a desk for long enough to make it look like hard work; The 4 hour work week resonates with so many people because it is possibly their first exposure to the idea that there might be another way to live (even if very little in the book is actionable as a means of achieving that).
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.
"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."
> 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"
They don't have the authority to negotiate the agreements that were described in the headlines as already being made.
That's called bullshit. Doesn't matter which side politically you are on, it's bullshit. Why is the BBC printing bullshit?
They don't have that authority, the BBC is lying to you, why are they doing that?
No, as has been pointed out to you - multiple times - reaching a deal is not equivalent to a deal being legal.
> The BBC is not lying
No, just the status quo BBC propaganda. Let's review some quotes.
> the arrival of the Biden administration in the US, created a moment of opportunity.
> A minimum corporation tax rate of 15% is rather low
> European finance ministers succeeded in including the phrase "at least 15%", which offers a path to get that number higher.
> Tech firms say they welcomed the move.
> A process has begun, a precedent has been set. It may or may not end up being transformative, but this moment is historic.
This last quote is the BBC admitting to painting this as if it was a contract being signed.
Let's continue.
> more tax revenue would be raised from large multinationals and would help pay for public services.
Only public services? Not military? Salaries? Government contracts? etc., etc.? Well, this IS historic!
> Ms Yellen said there was an understanding that national digital services taxes such as those levied by the UK and EU countries would be scrapped and replaced by the new agreement. Such taxes are regarded by the US as unfairly targeting American technology giants.
So, the tech giants get a new tax standard that benefits them over the existing standard?? Funny, this really does go along with the previous quote:
> Tech firms say they welcomed the move.
And here is another interesting quote to focus on:
> Paolo Gentiloni, the EU commissioner for the economy, described Saturday's agreement as a "big step... towards an unprecedented global agreement on tax reform"
It sets a precedence that nothing about what is being done could even be remotely criticized except for it possibly not being enough.
It's laughable. How anyone does not see this as North Korean Kim Dynasty style propaganda is beyond redemption and likely has a double digit IQ.
Then the article ends with three quotes from Amazon, FB, and Google.
Gee, I wonder who sponsored this article (and possibly helped coordinate this meeting).
It couldn't be techopolies trying to cozy up with existing government officials in the hopes of securing an agreement that is mutually beneficial for everyone.
But, paying more money is never beneficial for a company. So, game-theoretically, and thus purely mathematically-speaking: what benefit could these tech companies be receiving from this new arrangement?
Hmm ... surely, in our modern crony capitalist system, it wouldn't be anything corrupt in nature?
Classic HN, two downvotes and no one is capable of providing a counter-argument. The unintelligent flourish far too easily here. They should have more demanded of them. There are no clear incentives to not just throw a punch and run away like a coward on this site.
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. :)
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.
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.
You probably hear all the usual productivity hacks like promodoro, start with small things, constantly do it, switch off distractions, etc (which i do too in some form) but let me tell you an unorthodox technique I came up with that was inspired by this tweet - https://twitter.com/tkiramadden/status/1255516715502522370
For me, I don't always have an issue being productive when I am in the zone but I have a problem of sometimes being unable to "jump-start" into that mode. Its like the engineers/developers version of a writers block and I get the occasional mental block when I need to create something.
So what do I do to overcome this?
I gave $1,000 to a really trusted friend and told him, if I dont show him the thing I want to create by the end of the week, he can give that money to an organisation that I absolutely against with on principle (think brainwashing) and hate with my guts.
Boy, it was sure a motivator to my brain on day 5 or 6. :)
Ha, I once considered using a variant of that one (don't remember where I read it) to stop smoking.
I was planning to tell everyone I know that if they could show me a picture of me smoking after I'd officially quit, I'd give a 1.000€ to the political party I hated the most.
I quit on my own, but it's nice to see the method works :)
preface - I am directing my displeasure at Apple, not the fantastic team at wine for creating this as an open source project.
I love wine and it runs fantastically well on both my personal mac and on my fedora workstation. I run a lot of old school engineering apps (think like MIPS simulators) that doesn't run on any other platform so wine makes it easy for me to both be productive at work since I am much more efficient on a command line and allows me to WFH occasionally so that I can spend time with my family.
Now my rant - since upgrading to Catalina last week, I've been completely unable to run wine at any way shape and form due to Apple's mandate that all 32bit programs be barred from running on Catalina. Guess what runs exclusively on 32 bit?
I tried everything including compiling my own wine64 wrapper but it doesn't work at all since the underlying app is still win32. I know there is a crossover product that works but unfortunately that's not on the cards due to budget issues.
Honest question: why is it so hard to get wine32 working on Catalina and why doesn't Catalina have an option to run 32bit apps? Its been out since October 2019 so one will have thought a solution will have surfaced.
Crossover 19, released in December 2019, supports running 32-bit applications under Catalina. There was a lot of emphasis on how they would not release version 19 until this difficult problem was solved. For a discussion of why this was so hard, see, e.g., https://www.codeweavers.com/about/blogs/jwhite/2019/12/10/ce....
I'm not sure what process is followed in migrating this capability back to the open source code base, but (as a professional software developer) I would suggest maybe this would be the time to throw $40 their way to support them?
The last released Macs that were not 64-bit use Intel Core Solo or Intel Core Duo processors, and those haven't been able to upgrade past Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, released over a decade ago in 2009. According to Apple's definitions of "vintage" and "obsolete", this puts these Macs well into the "obsolete" category.
The upside to removing 32-bit is shrinking the size of the system, removing complexity, shrinking the testing matrix when modifying system frameworks, etc.
The writing has been on the wall for 32-bit apps for a long time, including warning users when launching a 32-bit app that it would cease working, and showing users a list of incompatible software when upgrading to Catalina. App developers were incentivized to release updates to their apps (using 64-bit toolchains that have been available since 2007 and before), and users were given warnings about upgrading if they need 32-bit compatibility.
Meanwhile, over the past decade there has been significant improvement in virtualization technologies, which allow you to run 32-bit operating systems with great performance. You can run Windows XP in a VM or WINE in a Docker container (which runs inside a Linux VM on macOS).
If only we could have had this conversation for all the software we use over a lifetime and get used to or very productive with...
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Hello, Mr/Ms Shoestring Budget software developer in 2003... Could you write your (MIPS simulator, CAD app, VLSI Design System) in 64 bit code so when Goobuntu, Crapple and Microslop remove support for 32 bit apps I'll still be able to use your software? Pretty please?
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A conversation requires not just a request but also a response. Here it is:
<< No thanks, we’re not interested in investing effort in making sure you can use our software on operating systems newly released 17 years from now. Please fund our efforts by purchasing a new version once every 10 years. >>
What does it matter? Companies don’t build software to last forever and they especially do not care about what happens after they go out of business.
Things don’t last forever. Software vendors won’t support everything forever. Middleware and operating system vendors won’t keep the albatross of supporting old things around forever.
If you want, you can keep running an old version of Mac OS X as long as you want. Just don’t expect Apple to support it.
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.