fwiw - our network folks _should_ have fixed this a few weeks ago. Some of the outbound IPs were incorrectly tagged in some of the geoip databases as being in the US when they were not.
I remember asking about this about half a year ago. Back then I was told since Fly can route these IPs to wherever they want in their infrastructure by making simple configuration changes, the line is blurred anyway but GeoIP providers just take the shortcut and resolve to where the company is registered.
Inbound IPs use anycast - the IP we give you routes to the nearest fly region and then hits a wireguard tunnel to get to the correct region.
Outbound IPs are tied to the individual host your machine is running on (which is located in a single region). These are tied to a single region, and in some cases, these were resolving to the wrong region in a few of the GeoIP databases. We hopefully fixed this part.
To clarify, Jody Allen took over Paul Allen’s fortune when he passed. I’m unsure what all has been closed since then, I know at least Stratolaunch (a space firm), Vulcan Productions (a small-ish media company), and now Vulcan Entertainment (LCM, Cinerama, and the flying heritage and combat museum) have all closed.
The Museum of Pop Culture (preciously Experience Music Project + Science Fiction Museum) was spared - they’re technically self funded now.
It feels like she’s cleaning house. COVID definitely didn’t help but Cinerama closed for a “remodel” sometime last year and laid off all their staff.
One correction: Stratolaunch hasn't closed. Vulcan sold it last year to Cerberus Capital Management [1], the private-equity firm that controlled Chrysler before it merged with Fiat. But it continues to operate with the same management.
I decided to stay in Seattle. Sure, we have our issues (homelessness, high rents) but we also have some perks (close to nature, beautiful weather 8 months of the year, fast internet, cheap power, roughly sane state government).
Let’s say I have 1000 outstanding shares all worth $10. I need to pay someone a $5000 bonus. I’ll just issue 500 shares of stock to them instead because, well, that’s about $5000.
Hypothetically the per share price goes down by 1/3 here and is now worth $6.67 (but the company’s still worth $10,000 total it’s just 1500 * $6.67 instead of $1000 * $10).
Generally though bonuses like this come out of a pool that’s already been allocated years ago and there’s no change to stock price
Even if the pool is allocated years ago, it's still effectively dilution (as before shareholders effectively owned a fraction of the unallocated sharepool).
I’ve looked at a lot of budgeting apps. In order of priority, I want:
1. Don’t be evil (aka don’t be intuit)
2. Web based with some sane security (2fa, encryption at rest, etc)
3. The ability to sync transactions from my bank.
4. Budgeting/reporting.
5. Some sort of sane forecasting. You’ve got N months of data from a customer, why can’t you tell them in 6 months this account is expected to have $x in it?
6. Sane APIs.
No one I’ve been able to find has been able to do all 6 of these.
> 5. Some sort of sane forecasting. You’ve got N months of data from a customer, why can’t you tell them in 6 months this account is expected to have $x in it?
I work on a methodology engine and have implemented both of these, at least on the data side, and they are essentially aspects of the same thing.
Fundamentally, what's hard is user trust. If they see numbers that don't make sense, explaining that "technically you told us this and this which all adds up to that" sounds like "we can't do arithemtic" to users.
The budget needs to agree with the forecasts. And the forecast doesn't quite semantically "fit" the budget; your forecast shouldn't "know" about the future or it can't give faithful metrics whereas your budget is supposed to plan ahead.
It also gets tricky when people use the damned thing, because your system needs to be resilient to users not doing the things they promised to do. For example, if they promise to deposit $500 in projected account A, but instead deposit it in tracked account B, you would project that the money lands in A, and also report that there's $500 more in B. So now those totals are off.
And budgeting itself is a surprisingly tricky problem. There are so many techniques to make a budget work that selecting good ones is hard. And users will say, "oh, I always want to spend $500 on this," and when that results in something stupid, "well, obviously not then." Even without that, it's hard to make the budget not do weird stuff that gives a user a WTF moment. The most counter-intuitive stuff tends to happen when the person is running low on funds, but that's also the raison d'etre of a budget.
> 3. The ability to sync transactions from my bank.
> 6. Sane APIs.
Between not making money off the APIs, having the user get frustrated being bounced between my support and the competitor, and that the APIs become another component that must be secured and administered, I'm not surprised APIs are uncommon.
Forecasting is one of the strongest aspects of our product. We also provide alerts ahead of time if we can predict your account balance will fall below zero (or whatever threshold you configure). Forecasting can also be used to preview your expenses/income/cashflow for the upcoming months / years.
We do have an API, but I admit it's not the best around. Other than that, our product does all the 6 things you point out.
Happy to hear more feedback at shashank@buxfer.com
I like your privacy policy. It's reasonably easy to read, has a nice chart, and makes nice sounding promises.
Why don't you link to it from your home page? I had to do a Google site search to find it. (And maybe even put the 'what we share' chart somewhere more prominent)
Founder of Lunch Money (https://lunchmoney.app) here– I encourage you to check us out! We've got everything you're looking for except for #5 (forecasting) and our developer API is nearing completion and we'll be beta-testing that soon!
Or they did what I did - spent it. At the peak I would have had $8 million before taxes had I not turned it into cash to pay for the electricity my CPU was burning to mine it.
Oh well. Good thing I actually enjoy my current job.
I have one qualm with /e/: they use LineageOS as their base, add a few apps, and avoid mentioning this to anyone. Most of their repos aren’t special, they’re a 1:1 copy of upstream.
I realize the license allows this but attribution would still be appreciated.
I'd argue that a "buy this domain! offers start at $1500" parking page and no e-mail or other DNS records set up, over years, is a pretty good indicator you're not actually using a domain.
Also the fact that you exceed some personal limit (or limit per legally registered company), let's say 25. For example, the general case we're all talking about, a company with 10,000 domains on sale for minimum bid of $2,500 would exceed 25 and would have to pay the penalty on all but the first 25.
