crystoloxy

I’m similar age to you, but I keep up with the dozen or so close friends I made during highschool and college. We make time, several times a year, to get together. What’s more I’ve found it hard to develop comparable friendships later in life —- not enough time, hard to prioritize, whatever.

So maybe just a different person than you wrote this.

Anti-California sentiment in the context of small businesses generally, the FTB generally, and particularly in the intersection of these two, is eminently reasonable. The system is garbage, it’s designed to extract as much revenue as possible from large orgs and it absolutely fucks independents.

OT: So many folks find themselves moving “home” when kids arrive, for a variety of reasons. As someone considering doing the same I’d be curious to hear yours.

I spent last summer in the Midwest (on a lake) and I found it first comforting (no fire season!) and then distressing as the rains failed to come and smoke eventually arrived instead. One of the driest summers I can recall. P

> When the world stops being racist this renaming will stop.

As well say “renaming will not stop.” Something will always be wrong to someone. Change will always be right to someone.

It’s honestly a fucking nightmare to live here, especially with kids. I’m a crazy “leftist” where I grew up but SF/CA is bonkers (e.g. re: [1] — are you fucking kidding me? Have you not met a single real fucking living human being? My family has a “curse” we ascribe to all the clumsy folks of our blood and I assure you there are more than can be reasonably blamed on chance).

I don’t think that is “open source” then, more like you have a source-available freemium model? People can see the source code, and use it for free, but that’s all?

If someone makes their own changes can they distribute them? Can they charge money for them? Or is the idea that people can contribute code, but only back to you, which you can sell?

I’ll be curious to hear what you settle on.

You do yourself a disservice whenever you imagine that folks that don’t agree with you are idiots.

Yes, you can get a pledged asset line, a secured line of credit collateralized by your portfolio. A PAL is not for a particular purpose, so you can use it for pretty much whatever you want — other than buying securities.

Random example: https://www.schwab.com/pledged-asset-line