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New comment by jonfromsf in "How to earn a billion dollars"

jonfromsf — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:31:14 +0000

Just don't step-up cost basis at death and you solve the problem. Elon's fine, we can wait until he dies and his heirs sell their shares.

New comment by jonfromsf in "How to earn a billion dollars"

jonfromsf — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:29:00 +0000

100%. I don't understand how anyone defends the "death loophole" for capital gains. If you get rid of it you could actually get rid of estate taxes, which are a kludge to capture some of the capital gains that are given away by resetting the basis at death. It's a nutty system we have right now.

New comment by jonfromsf in "Italy's Bending Spoons, owner of AOL and Vimeo, files for Nasdaq IPO"

jonfromsf — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:01:11 +0000

I left last month. $250 a year or something crazy like that. Obsidian has a free web clipper, I'm planning on using that since I was just bookmarking stuff.

New comment by jonfromsf in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

jonfromsf — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 07:28:06 +0000

Stocks for the Long Run makes the pretty compelling case that over longer holding periods stocks are less risky than bonds.

New comment by jonfromsf in "Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs"

jonfromsf — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:19:21 +0000

Yes, for indie developers and small startups. Large corps won't want their code /email/etc data being looked at by the Chinese government.

New comment by jonfromsf in "Google Declaring War on the Web"

jonfromsf — Thu, 21 May 2026 03:45:34 +0000

I think the Malm has the highest body count of any individual piece of furniture on the planet.

New comment by jonfromsf in "Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs"

jonfromsf — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 01:30:24 +0000

This is an amazing frame /reframe.

New comment by jonfromsf in "Cloudflare's AI Platform: an inference layer designed for agents"

jonfromsf — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:30:07 +0000

Gilfoyle? Is that you?

New comment by jonfromsf in "The Brand Age"

jonfromsf — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 04:31:46 +0000

Defining your identity to other humans is incredibly useful. It's one of the essential tasks a human faces, and it makes all other tasks easier if done effectively.

New comment by jonfromsf in "Scott Adams has died"

jonfromsf — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:07:31 +0000

The expectation that artists be "good people" always baffles me. Anyone who becomes a great artist has: 1)High levels of narcissism required to think the world needs to hear "your vision. 2) High levels of sociopathy to thrive in a snake pit like the art world or Hollywood. It's even stranger than if someone expected CEOs to be good people (which we don't).

New comment by jonfromsf in "Sergey Brin's Unretirement"

jonfromsf — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:12:29 +0000

After a decade, "founder of X that I no longer work at" is considered a lame answer. People want to know what you are doing now, not your highest claim to status of your entire life.

New comment by jonfromsf in "Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?"

jonfromsf — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:34:40 +0000

I wouldn't be surprised if 80% of Stanford students are anxious or depressed. Isn't everybody, especially young kids who have spent the last decade going through the meat grinder of prepping for elite college admissions?

New comment by jonfromsf in "Sex, aggression, and humour: responses to unicycling (2007)"

jonfromsf — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:21:10 +0000

Fascinating. I wonder what drives the male aggression towards unicyclists. Is it a response to perceived competition (another male doing something attention-getting: must put them down to maintain my place in the male hierarchy)? Is it enforcing male norms of being "serious", conformist, etc?

New comment by jonfromsf in "A Remarkable Assertion from A16Z"

jonfromsf — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 16:20:38 +0000

Remade was snappy but Fall went on forever.

New comment by jonfromsf in "[dead]"

jonfromsf — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 21:40:18 +0000

Why does he sweat so much? I prefer my technoligarcs to have a matte finish, not a glossy finish.

New comment by jonfromsf in "OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems"

jonfromsf — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 17:12:36 +0000

Environmentalists are just against progress. A few desert species going extinct is not a big deal. It's an arid wasteland. When we eventually terraform it (with desalinated water from solar / fusion) those species are going to die out anyway.

New comment by jonfromsf in "iPhone dumbphone"

jonfromsf — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 04:12:20 +0000

He needs uber. He needs google maps. Mostly it's not just about looking up information, it's about functionality.

New comment by jonfromsf in "Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble?"

jonfromsf — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 04:00:41 +0000

Most people earn money over time. Putting these savings 100% into the stock market as you earn them is pretty reasonable. It’s only a sudden cash windfall that presents problems. The fix for that is to put money in 1, 2, and 3 year treasuries, and invest that money into equities as the treasuries mature.

New comment by jonfromsf in "Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble?"

jonfromsf — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 01:51:30 +0000

They certainly solve the stated problem of concentration in a few tech companies. But I agree, non-tech companies are overvalued. Bonds are terrifying, they’re a bet against inflation and in favor of the US dollar. MLPs and oil companies are a nice place to stash money because they aren’t correlated with tech. MLPs flow about 7% tax free yield which isn’t bad. Bitcoin and Gold are good hedges against inflation.

New comment by jonfromsf in "Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble?"

jonfromsf — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 19:16:35 +0000

Just buy $RSP or a similar equal-weightage ETF.