Massachusetts: "See! We taxed the rich and there's no mass exodus" California: hold my beer

KYC Video Verification is officially dead

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At high income levels in California, state and federal taxes take ~50% of each incremental dollar you earn. When I was younger, I used to scoff at people who claimed this impacted behavior. After all, I thought, were entrepreneurial people really going to refrain from earning

I'm increasingly curious how I can setup a local open source LLM like Deepseek R1 and pair it with VS Code or an agent like environment to modify code and documents offline vs submitting things to cloud ai.

Bermuda: we want modern payments Premier: announces Coinbase+Circle partnership for onchain economy Bermuda: no, not like that Meanwhile... companies embracing onchain Visa Mastercard Stripe PayPal Revolut Square Cash app Robinhood Shopify Klarna Etc...

"AI ... can run on milliwatts of power... the human brain" This post has me wondering if Elon Musk's neuralink is experimenting with connecting to artificial biological neural networks to overcome the compute problem. Definately seems like a first principles approach to scaling

GOV: We have a housing crisis. Prices are too high. ME: I agree. Supply is too low. GOV: So we have a plan. We’re going to subsidize demand. ME: …What does that mean? GOV: We’re going to give people money to buy houses. ME: But there aren't enough houses. GOV: Right. So

I've warned about this for years. AI is going to make it easy to fake a great deal of information. Data will become far less reliable. We will eventually shift back to relying upon relationships that cant easily be gamed or faked due to the risks of doing so

KYC processes as we know them are completely cooked Fake face verification, identity docs, etc. Everything relied upon today is becoming easier and easier to fake and harder and harder to authenticate

If you are a software engineer "experiencing some degree of mental health crisis", now hear this, because I've been coding for 50 years since the days of punched cards and I have a salutary kick in your ass to deliver. Get over yourself. Every previous "programming is obsolete"

Almost exactly a decade later and the OBA are still operating as Ivory Tower Politicians. It didn't work then and I doubt it will work now. 21square.com/2016/02/ivory-…

Its crazy how quickly the personal agent space is evolving.

As soon as Bermuda health insurers were allowed to own health provider businesses, the writing was on the wall for independent health providers. The market will consolidate to look like Belco with a couple providers, regulated margins and no incentive to cut costs.

Bermuda health care is headed for consolidation similar to what we see in grocery, electricity, telecoms. Its a matter of time before most healthcare businesses are owned and operated by a couple players. bbc.bm/insurer-narrow…

Its disappointing to see the Premier pledge to match public funds for fintech experiments. I never felt this was necessary. What we need is to create an environment conducive and welcoming to being a test bed. Mind you, while my approach for attracting companies seems to have