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I am self-employed and have been since 2007-ish and while paying "both sides" is the downside, there are soooooo many upsides to being self-employed (especially since the Trump tax sh#t has been enacted and especially if you are setup as S-Corp) that I seriously* do not mind paying both sides at all.*

you probably have a high wage profession, and you max out FICA etc. and stop paying payroll taxes around April every year. You don't like the income uptick at that point cuz you're just so darned happy to pay payroll taxes? There's a line on the form, you could throw in some more. But housekeepers are also self-employed and those taxes fall much more heavily on them. While they are in a lower tax bracket and pay less as a percentage of their income tax, payroll taxes don't work that way (till somebody chimes in to say "no, Portland Oregon is absolutely confiscatory on this score, we practice Bolshevism!" which would be missing the point)

I seriously don't mind living in America and paying taxes here but, but when better and more efficient tax regimes are available, or when socialist tax proposals derail local economies, I seriously want to educate people about them.


> Republicans advocate for fiscal responsibility

The “advocate” only during election cycle and then add more debt and spend more than 10 Democratic Parties combined. Democrats are not great either but they try to push through what they preach


airdrop that :) (I do the same all the time and always airdrop from phone to my laptop after taking a pic)

No. Fix the problem.

> I suspect you and I are being fleeced far more by government waste and fraud than by businesses.

lovely how US politicians have been able to successful lie their way into making gullible people like you believe this - quite remarkable… I am always in awe what they can accomplish


the math is not mathing today

shows you also how “smart” they are to “live” in Cali in the first place. you got billions, park yourself wherever the F you don’t have to pay jacksht for being a billionaire prick and get yourselves on of them houses in Cali to actually live instead of whatever shthole houses billionaires for free

Except what’s stupid is thinking the marginal billions of dollars they may save by not paying CA taxes are worth anything.

If you have $5Bn, other than power for power’s sake, it’s very hard to see how the next $100 or $500Bn can actually improve your life and happiness.

OTOH, being able to watch a Broadway show that you may have missed because you didn’t live in the same city, or a drive along the ocean while there was a beautiful sunset, would have significantly greater value to the quality of your life.


when you have this money you can “live” anywhere you want. he can have breakfast in Paris and still make the Broadway show and also get AirBnB for like a year in SF and then also like basically be wherever you want to be regardless of where your “mailing address” is. I have a friend who is 7-digit rich that lives in SF (for the past 8 years) but “lives” in Florida. sounds like our billionaires can’t figure this out so it makes the news (in the middle of about 857 other more important things going on)

7-digit rich in SF is essentially any homeowner

Wealthy people pay the vast majority of taxes in California. Meanwhile, at least 20% of the population are complete freeloaders.

"Wealthy people pay the vast majority of taxes in California."

And well they should.

Anyone who dislikes a progressive tax system apparently wants billionaires to pay less and the poor to pay more.


billionaire adorers remind me of this…

“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires”


They are not moving anywhere. Baron will be President one day, this is about as certainty as that Sun will rise tomorrow morning. As much as people may like or not the Trump family is now part (big part) of the fabric of the United States and he will be remember (for better or worse) as one of the most influential Presidents ever. The fact that he should be in rotting in prison (probably should have spent most of his adult life there for crimes he committed before he ever got into politics) is a moot now. He will live in NYC and Mar-a-Largo, his family is not going anywhere and will be in the White House again in 8 to 12 years.

I, and I'm sure you do too, hope you are wrong. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst!

so your target are users that:

- have an iPhone

- have a Mac

- have never heard of Homebrew to install BLEUnlock

This is a very small market, you may not want to shell out $99 as you probably want make that money back.


Fair point, but that assumes it’s strictly an iPhone-to-Mac bridge. The scope is quite a bit wider:

- Any BT device: The "key" doesn't have to be an iPhone. It can be a Garmin watch, an Ultrahuman ring, or even your Bluetooth headphones.

- Windows support: I'm expanding to Windows next, which has a massive market of non-technical users who just want a simple UI.

- Multi-device relay: This is the main technical differentiator. BLEUnlock is strictly 1:1 and prone to signal drops. Blunlock uses a relay architecture—one machine handles the BT proximity and instantly unlocks/locks all your other machines at your desk.

If I can nail the multi-device roaming and make it dead simple for regular users across platforms, the $99 is a bet I'm willing to make. I appreciate the feedback!


One other thing I forgot to mention regarding the market size: the B2B compliance angle.

SOC 2 requires employees to lock their screens every time they step away from their desks. Automating that without forcing people to type their passwords 50 times a day is a massive pain point for teams. If this can make compliance invisible, it becomes a pretty easy sell for companies.


It would be quite amazing if people in the US realized how much brain went to China in the last 16 months. I am a govie (contractor) and just what I know alone is …

What do you know?

USA will never have UBI, period. So any idea that includes any mention of is an absolute non-starter. Outside of the USA, perhaps, but for us that is never happening.

It's false hope.

Any UBI system will become as corrupted as our present tax system.


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