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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • A bundler, a transpiler, a runtime (designed to be a drop-in replacement for Node.js), test runner, and a package manager - all in one.

    Bun’s single-file executables turned out to be perfect for distributing CLI tools. You can compile any JavaScript project into a self-contained binary—runs anywhere, even if the user doesn’t have Bun or Node installed. Works with native addons. Fast startup. Easy to distribute.



  • It will definitely affect incentives, which is worth considering imo. With property taxes, there is some controversy, since someone can be forced to sell if their home value balloons past their income level, although it also has arguably positive effects like disincentivizing holding on to hoards of vancant properties and doing nothing with them.

    I don’t really know exactly how it would go, but my first thought is people would sell stocks more readily and often, both because they need to in order to cover taxes, and because selling triggering capital gains wouldn’t be a thing to worry about anymore.


  • Part of the headache here is that this situation inherently props up a few monopolistic platforms, rather than allowing people to use whatever payment system is available in their own countries. Some of this can be worked around using cryptocurrencies – famously, the Mitra project leverages Monero for this very purpose, although I’m told it now can accept other forms of payment as well.

    Hell yeah, I didn’t know about Mitra. It sounds like it’s a Patreon esque kind of deal with what the payments part is for.