Maybe, but, more importantly, stablecoins are the only part of the crypto world that isn't a giant tulipmania bubble. Imagine you develop a payment card with an ARM chip in it, or a phone app or whatever, that lets you transfer bitcoins to a merchant at a cash register. Cool tech, but useless, because what merchant in their right mind wants to take payment in fake money?

Now imagine the same thing, but it's a stablecoin backed by $1 deposited in an escrow fund for every $1 token issued, and imagine the transaction fee is 0.1%, versus the 3%+ merchants currently have to pay in card processing fees.

Now your tech has just put Visa and Mastercard out of business.

Yeah, Roth or traditional IRA funds work. That's what I did :)

No, see, the money doesn't have to be in their bank; it can also be in their brokerage arm. So, if you have $100k, just move some stocks or mutual funds over from another brokerage to U.S. Bancorp Investments, and you get the 4% with no opportunity cost.

It really is a spectacular card for people who have that level of assets.

That doesn't sound like a healthy relationship. I would suggest you consider either finding a way to either make it healthy or ending it. Counseling can help.

It's not that different in the US from what you say Europe is like. If you're not doing anything "interesting", like making weird investments or running your own business, you basically just plug your W-2 and any 1099s you have into tax software you purchase and it fills in everything for you.

And, I expect that if you ever do "interesting" things in Europe, like running a business, being a landlord, or fronting money for someone's restaurant in exchange for equity, you will find that calculating your taxes has suddenly become much more involved.

Btw I am developing open-source tax software because it's dominated by proprietary products made by somewhat evil companies right now. Unfortunately, I only have bandwidth to make a completely non-user-friendly command-line version of it right now, and I also only have bandwidth to add support for the forms I currently personally need.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Flinuxrocks1...

The fact that you found a 1-page form asking you where you live and what country's citizenship you hold to be completely incomprehensible probably says more about your country's education system than about the IRS.

Why do that? Presidential alerts have literally never been used. If they ever are, it will probably be because of something very serious. It's probably a very bad idea to mess with them.

How many people take it has nothing to do with whether it is "viable" for you to take it. SAG-AFTRA fair share fee payers were allowed to work non-union productions during the strike and thus had a much better time of things than union members who could not do that.

My best research indicates you do get strike pay if you're a fair share fee payer, although I'd like better than a district court decision from 1982:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com...

The union has an obligation to negotiate contracts which cover all fee payers.

The vast majority of strikes are entirely nonviolent, even in the US.

"Can't work?" I imagine your employer will be very happy to have you continue working while many of your coworkers are standing outside with picket signs like petulant children.

Citations:
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In the minority of states which are not right to work states, you have to pay "fair share" or agency fees, but those fees are never more than union dues, and they are sometimes less if the union is using part of its dues for anything other than supporting its collective bargaining ability.

It is inaccurate to paint fair share fee obligations and closed shops as equivalent. A fair share fee payer has no obligations to the union whatsoever. If you are a union member and refuse to strike when the union does, you can be fined by your union. As a fair share fee payer, you have no obligation to strike. As a member of the Screen Actors Guild, you are not allowed to work nonunion productions. As a fair share fee payer, you can work both union and nonunion productions.

Closed shops have been illegal in the US since 1947: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Unless you switched away very recently, I strongly suggest giving it another try. Version 32.2.0, released May 16, 2023, is the release that fixed almost all the previously broken websites, and subsequent releases have improved web compatibility even further.

There's GNOME Web on Linux, which is WebKit-based and therefore very similar to Safari. Some web devs use it on Linux specifically to reproduce rendering bugs reported on Safari. So, you do have all three major rendering engines on Linux.

First: Pale Moon is awesome. I'm using it right now. It had some serious web compatibility problems for about a year, but those problems were fixed a few months ago.

Like Firefox, Pale Moon is a cross-platform but Windows-first browser. However, unlike the article's author, I don't think that's a problem, for Firefox or Pale Moon. The Linux version of Firefox is very usable, and the larger Windows user base means more dev effort goes into the browser as a whole. Linux is not hurt because a piece of software is cross-platform rather than Linux-exclusive.

Regarding the video acceleration issue the article author is whining about, you can enable hardware video acceleration on any GPU in Firefox if you want to by going into about:config and have been able to do that for a long time. The reason Firefox is taking so long to enable it by default is because Linux GPU drivers were and still are buggy in ways that Firefox was triggering. Contrary to the author's assertion, the hardware video acceleration thing wasn't and isn't a Firefox problem.