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The problem is that if you try to do this with only a small amount of wealth, the government will end up characterizing all of your nicely laid out corporate structures and duly filed paperwork as a self dealing tax dodge. These type of schemes only work when you're playing with an outsized amount of resources to involve enough other people and make it a group project. This even applies to the basic dynamic of an LLC itself - if you yourself are performing any role for the company, you can still be held personally liable based on those actions. The limited liability mechanic only works when everything is being done by judgement-proof patsies.
It's not insurmountable. Do you need to be mindful of self-dealing regulations? Of course. However, there are many investment opportunities available to non-wealthy people which can be pursued via self-directed ROTHs and LLCs owned by them. Real estate (financing, bridge financing, rental ownership, distressed property flipping, etc...) is probably the most commonly used one I've seen IRL but I've still seen it used for investing in friends and family rounds of startups, etc...
It's certainly not a "yolo do whatever you want, the IRS won't care" fund but it is still available to the non-wealthy. I know many people who have been making use of it for years without any unfair government characterization or attention. The best I've personally seen is a couple in their early 30s with ~$7 million (real estate related dealings) in their self-directed roth which is a far cry from $5 billion, obviously, but pretty amazing nonetheless.
The article is scant on details, but based on the few data points it throws out and the historic contribution limits, Thiel achieved an average annual return of at least 79% over 22 years. I'm guessing the way he did that is investing tiny amounts of Roth money into very early pre-seed rounds at vanishingly small valuations due to uncertain future prospects, and then making those prospects much more certain by following on with larger taxable investments. Heck if the earlier investment was a senior convertible note, he could probably get his Roth investment back even if the startup ultimately failed down the line.
So no, you're not going to get those kind of gains with real estate. It relies on early stage startups being notoriously hard to value, plus the wealth/connections to make for surefire exits. And if you tried to replicate it at an individual or even familial level, especially repeatedly, those early valuations are going to end up getting challenged. So sure, the same laws apply to everybody and anybody can set up a self-directed IRA. But not everybody can predictably and sustainably achieve such outsized gains with them.
> Do you need to be mindful of self-dealing regulations? Of course. However, there are many investment opportunities available to non-wealthy people which can be pursued via self-directed ROTHs and LLCs owned by them.
The very fact that you're having to be "mindful" of self-dealing shows that people like Thiel are self-dealing, just with more layers of indirection.
If it wasn't self-dealing, you'd not need to be mindful of such regulation.
> Also can't find code which is masked behind interfaces
Is this not the Greeter interface example from the OP? The example finds an unused variant of an interface and all code only invoked by said unused implementations and marks all of it as deadcode.
I don't understand how google can just be consistently on the back foot of the "tech world hivemind" for going on 7 (?) years now and have zero shakeup of not just culture but at least PR.
Noone gave a crap about this format on this site until Google decided to not add it to Chrome. Noone used it, no posts were upvoted. It just became a thing when it was yet another reason to rant at Google.
Note how noone is asking Mozilla why Firefox won't support it or actually building websites using it.
Actually, lots of people were talking about it, and lots of people at big companies like Facebook were excited when Google added it behind a flag. Shopify even rolled out JXL to their storefronts not long after JXL was added to Chrome.
> Note how noone is asking Mozilla why Firefox won't support it or actually building websites using it.
People do ask why Firefox isn't supporting it, but the answer is obvious: because Chrome dropped it, and Firefox has what, 5% market share?
And people do use it on websites, you just didn't notice because companies like Nike don't tend to write up blog articles about how they're using a cool new image format.
Weird for me to see the responses here. It was one of the only episodes I really liked since it seemed a lot more plausible. Also was kind of funny especially since Cameron may well have fucked a pig in his day.
The video, showing a BBC “journalist” attempting to ambush Leif, is one of the most… existentially disgusting? videos I’ve seen in a long, long time.
It’s so utterly performative. Such a transparent attempt by the “journalist” at painting himself as a certain sort of person. Not a single genuine emotion, action, expression, or word. Absolutely soulless and desperate attempt to virtue signal in the even more desperate hope of furthering his career. This “man” is no better than someone selling themselves on onlyfans. Actually, I’d posit he’s worse: the entire schtick requires disingenuous postering.
I don’t know what to do when seeing stuff like this. It’s depressing. I hope one day there’s a return to a much smaller internet and these people deign to just leave us alone. He’s a sad man and the fact his doing this will may well advantage him is even sadder. I guess I’ll go take a walk.
"He was definitely home, all the blinds were drawn"
5 minutes later, Leif is seen going from his car to his house
You can't make this stuff up.
Every time I see a BBC clip it's something ridiculous. There's probably a good business opportunity doing a mystery science theater 3000 version of BBC news at this point.
I was wondering about that. If someone is sitting at my doorstep for hours, no matter their intention or field of work, I'm calling the cops to have them removed
In that video he asserts through the closed door that Omegle hasn't done anything "for the children" and then in the article they have one measly line about how Omegle actually has been productive on that front. The text now on the Omegle site seems to support that they did what they could as well. Of course they're not going to get a good conversation with him when that's how they're going to frame it compared to reality. Whether Omegle was doing enough or should exist to begin with are different arguments but the premise of "Omegle is doing nothing" appears very wrong and I imagine offensive to creator/employees.
The reporter, Joe Tidy, isn't virtue signaling. He is an honest zealot full of righteous fury. He is 100% confident he's right, just like those who killed heretics during crusades a couple thousand years ago, burned witches a few hundred years ago, or exterminated capitalists as part of Cambodian Khmer Rouge a few decades ago.
