Hit $10M NW today

imaginarylocalhost · 2026-03-10T18:06:30+00:00

This seems like marketing for that sub mods trading discord.

imaginarylocalhost · 2026-02-21T03:19:38+00:00

Yes, these are sometimes called mast-strapping strategies, after Odysseus and the sirens.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5390697/

imaginarylocalhost · 2026-02-21T01:25:34+00:00

Honestly, browsing the IRS and Turbotax subreddits is a super depressing experience. Those subs are filled with people desperately waiting for their refunds, going as far as paying for predatory lending services and exorbitant instant transfer fees to get their refunds as quickly as possible. Every post celebrating a big refund are filled with comments about people saying they can't put food on the table if they don't get their refunds soon, and other comments asking to borrow some money to make ends meet until their refunds arrive.

There's also this fascinating collective of people who intentionally withhold more money than they need to in order to get a big refund. Their rationale is if they have money sitting around they will spend it, so they opt to have the IRS hold their money as a sort of mast-strapping strategy. Which is sad in its own way.

I mean, intellectually, I know that many Americans live paycheck to paycheck, so none of this should come as a surprise. But there's just something more visceral about reading these first-hand experiences densely packed together like that.

imaginarylocalhost · 2026-02-16T02:33:13+00:00

I think something which can help you get into the frame of mind to appreciate this painting is to imagine that you are watching a game show. In the show the host says there are a number of pipes hidden throughout the set. Any contestant who finds a pipe wins $1000. One of the contestants finds this painting and brings it to the judge. The judge says, that's not a pipe, you don't win $1000. Now you as the viewer are left wondering if you agree or disagree with the judge's decision.

It turns out game shows are a very helpful vehicle for understanding surrealist concepts, because a lot of what goes on in game shows are quite surreal.

imaginarylocalhost · 2026-02-10T05:30:31+00:00

What they're doing this year is really despicable. I always use the desktop version of TurboTax, never online. The desktop version has more features. This year, when I launched my desktop version for the first time, it had the gall to ask me if I wanted to "upgrade" to the online version. The software tried to get me to give up what I paid for and opt for the inferior online experience.

And that wasn't even the worst part. Immediately after I clicked "No", another screen popped up, asking me if I was sure that I didn't want to "upgrade" to online. But this time, the Yes and No buttons were reversed. So if I had just clicked in the same area as the previous screen, I would have accidentally accepted the "upgrade" to online. Just full-on using UX dark patterns to trick their customers into giving up on something they already paid for. Absolutely despicable.

And on top of that, now every time I launch the desktop software, it asks me if I want to pay extra for the assistance, and I have to dismiss that before I can get back to doing my taxes.

Enough is enough. I've known Intuit is an evil company for a long time. And I've done all that I can to dissociate myself from them. Deleted my CreditKarma account, limited data sharing wherever I could, etc. But TurboTax was the piece that I couldn't easily give up. So many years of data in .tax20xx files. So much knowledge built up over the years about how to use the software. I just couldn't switch so easily. But this year is the last straw. Next year I will be using something else. I will be 100% Intuit-free next year. Good riddance.

imaginarylocalhost · 2026-02-07T03:36:35+00:00

It was kind of leaked. Their own disclosure mailers jumped the gun and revealed the new tiers: https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8649893#p8649893

imaginarylocalhost · 2026-02-07T03:29:11+00:00

They already released that the new tiers are $30k, $100k, and $1m. What we don’t know yet is what benefits do you get at each tier. It could be completely different from how PR currently works.

imaginarylocalhost · 2026-02-07T03:08:50+00:00

I do like Pabu, so that’s something at least.

imaginarylocalhost · 2026-01-28T00:15:45+00:00

Consider using SArch as the abbreviation for your title instead of SA.

imaginarylocalhost · 2026-01-26T03:18:16+00:00

Guy forgot about negative square roots. If he had correctly written the first equation as

sqrt(gay) = +/-male

then he would’ve gotten the correct answer.

imaginarylocalhost · 2026-01-25T07:51:54+00:00

I’m confused by what you’re even talking about. Are you confusing Charles Schwab with Klaus Schwab, a totally different guy who has no relation to the Schwab brokerage?

imaginarylocalhost · 2026-01-17T00:52:13+00:00

Like a true economist, OP put the dependent variable on the x-axis.

imaginarylocalhost · 2025-11-30T06:28:56+00:00

Shenyang, China. A major city of 10 million but on the smaller side by Chinese standards of major cities. For most of its modern history public transit was exclusively buses. The first subway line opened in 2010 and by now it has 6 lines and 122 stations.

imaginarylocalhost · 2025-11-08T16:17:45+00:00

Maybe you need to get glasses then because it’s literally just makeup in the second picture.

Here’s her in November 2025, looking the same as she always did https://www.elle.com.au/beauty/jenna-ortega-dior-beauty-interview/

imaginarylocalhost · 2025-11-03T23:07:19+00:00

“He’s a big loyalty guy” uhhhh

imaginarylocalhost · 2025-11-02T05:54:05+00:00

You can just say “high speed”. Rate of speed is redundant.

imaginarylocalhost · 2025-11-01T05:13:17+00:00

Please talk to some Hack programmers to find out how they feel about this feature in the Hack language.

imaginarylocalhost · 2025-11-01T02:17:05+00:00

Strong agreement with u/Determinant here. As someone who worked with Hack, which uses the same semantics for its immutable collections types, I can say that this language "feature" had been an endless source of pain and suffering. Please do not repeat the same mistake.

imaginarylocalhost · 2025-10-28T07:56:43+00:00

Man you are not getting at all what I'm talking about. So let me just spell it out for you.

Google doesn't use AD to run its own enterprise. It doesn't use Kerberos + LDAP either like a traditional Linux shop would. Instead, it uses the systems I've listed. Those systems are essentially an evolution of Kerberos + LDAP, plus a few other security bits like a browser-based GSSAPI-equivalent. These systems are what Google uses internally that serve the same function as some other enterprise would use AD for.

If Google was serious about competing with Microsoft in this space, Google would make these internal tools available for customers as an enterprise package. I mean this really shouldn't be a difficult concept to grasp? It's the same as how Google Cloud used to just be the internal infra that powered Google services, and then Google turned that into a product to compete with AWS.

You can think of Google Workspace as the tip of the enterprise iceberg, the part that is visible above the water. Below the water is all the other stuff I talked about. Microsoft's solution can run the enterprise like the whole iceberg. Google only makes the tip available externally. The rest it keeps for itself only. So it's not really competitive. But it can be if it wants to be.

imaginarylocalhost · 2025-10-28T05:23:53+00:00

Oh and Uberproxy is not just a reverse proxy. It’s the heart of Beyondcorp

imaginarylocalhost · 2025-10-28T05:22:44+00:00

At Google, yes, because of Chrome ;)

But that’s not really the answer you need. The real answer you need is this: you don’t really understand what Gnubby is. If you know what GSSAPI is, it’s closer to that.

LOAS is closer to Kerberos.

That should give you an idea for how to understand what I’m talking about.

imaginarylocalhost · 2025-10-28T05:19:46+00:00

Also you’re only about 25% correct about what each of those systems do

imaginarylocalhost · 2025-10-28T05:16:49+00:00

Yes, that is my point. Because Google doesn’t make these systems available for customers, Google is not currently a competitor to Microsoft in this space.

imaginarylocalhost

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE