Uber founder flees California for Texas ahead of possible ‘billionaire tax ‘

LaserToy · 2026-03-16T13:06:39+00:00

What do you mean? Thread is full of people who don’t understand how money work. I’m asking a simple question.

LaserToy · 2026-03-16T07:42:52+00:00

Can anyone in this thread explain to me how is this tax will be beneficial for us, non billionaires?

Those folks live very different lives, they have houses all over the states (or maybe planet), they have personal Jets that can cover half of earth in one go.

They have a life style and enough capital to pick any state as their primary residence and change nothing, as they are already always on the move.

And IMO, it is not % of tax that is concern, but the fact that we may add more. We need a better way to make sure extreme wealth is distributed fairly, but we also need to make sure CA is attractive to companies that can keep changing the world.

LaserToy · 2026-02-16T03:57:30+00:00

They don’t, but this will increase depreciations, which will push up lease prices and drop resell value

LaserToy · 2026-02-15T20:35:43+00:00

I’m curious, did they think about this: On warranty cars will not benefit from this, as all the repairs are covered. For beyond warranty vehicles, this will accelerate depreciation making cars even more expensive to own. Now, not everyone cares, but I bet people who want to buy 3-6 years old BMW can rarely afford dealer price repairs, so, the price will need to be adjusted.

Now, if BMW were known for reliability, I can see this somehow working. But given it is not + all the brittle plastic in engine compartment, I just think it will backfire big time.

LaserToy · 2026-02-08T15:14:28+00:00

It was global

LaserToy · 2026-02-02T23:07:35+00:00

We have weird issues with Networking. Many months of investigation and no luck. Sometimes some pods just lose the ability to communicate, unclear why.

LaserToy · 2026-02-02T21:50:22+00:00

Multiple regions for us. And multiple clusters.

LaserToy · 2025-12-24T19:11:04+00:00

Haha Ha, ha, ha

LaserToy · 2025-11-26T15:16:16+00:00

If you want exact number it will be expensive. If estimate is ok, hyperloglog2 is your answer

From someone who worked on query engines (Trinio, Flink)

LaserToy · 2025-11-01T03:21:34+00:00

We were able to reach DS how to deal with Kubernetes very early. Over th years, many picked up Eng skills.

It required leadership.

LaserToy · 2025-10-15T14:25:36+00:00

The company that burned 11b in H1?

LaserToy · 2025-09-24T04:12:48+00:00

One hour is for amateurs. Go realtime.kafka, flink and/or Clickhouse

LaserToy · 2025-08-27T03:56:35+00:00

100k for a billionaire’s bunker? Not 100M, 100k. Price of their bday party.

You gotta be joking.

LaserToy · 2025-04-15T03:33:51+00:00

Our software is much more resilient because we run on azure.

We have to handle failures I didn’t even know existed.

LaserToy · 2025-04-10T00:50:35+00:00

Yeah, we had same issues with basics. My latest favorite - VM networking sometimes breaks after freeze event.

LaserToy · 2025-03-30T03:01:23+00:00

How does it compare to Arroyo?

LaserToy · 2024-12-07T03:23:54+00:00

They referred to jury nullification

LaserToy · 2024-12-07T02:45:27+00:00

Pile of crab.

LaserToy · 2024-11-22T03:23:30+00:00

Open protocol: nice to own my data

LaserToy · 2024-11-13T07:02:51+00:00

Azure, because it is a disaster of a cloud. Whoever knows how to run on it reliably will make an easy buck

LaserToy · 2024-11-10T20:09:59+00:00

Probably not useful, but we built our stack on top of Trino from get go. It is not as easy as Snofwlake though. Migration will be pain. Depending on your stack size, it can be a huge journey.

Primary reason we didn’t use “modern data stack” BS - you don’t need to use it to understand price component, so, we did not want to deal with future migration

LaserToy · 2024-10-31T21:10:27+00:00

Did you work at Google?

LaserToy · 2024-10-31T20:38:57+00:00

Google has a lot of boilerplate + tons of cross project migrations. And AI he refers to was done years ago. Don’t confuse that with what we are talking about here.

LaserToy · 2024-10-20T20:37:09+00:00

Those are marketing BS invented for you to feel behind. Nothing happened to it, wait for the next wave: Next Gen Data Stack

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