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Startup & tax attorney. QSBS (§1202), equity comp & WA tax strategy. Author of the Washington State Tax Planning Guide. Get the book ↓

Seattle
Joined May 2008
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I heard this Microsoft outage will last until next week.
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holy shit they hane no idea what's wrong
Replying to @MSFT365Status
We're testing a configuration change to address a problem that's causing servers to fail automated health checks and become unavailable. In parallel, we've initiated a restart of all affected servers and are monitoring health as they return to service. More info under EX1550543 and MO1550821 in the Microsoft 365 admin center, as well as status.cloud.microsoft if the admin center is not available to you.
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It was explained to me by my parents who defected from Hungary with nothing.
You don’t hate socialism. You hate the version that was explained to you by someone who owns 4 houses and 3 yachts
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Joe Wallin retweeted
o silêncio da microsoft sobre essa queda geral no outlook e serviços deles é ensurdecedor
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the former president of taco bell has decided to replace the greatest semiconductor innovator of the past 30 years with a random CFO modern corporate governance is a disaster, likely co-opted by the state
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Joe Wallin retweeted
🚨 BRITISH COUPLE CONFRONTED OVER REMEMBRANCE DAY POPPIES! Imagine being harassed in your own country for honoring the men and women who sacrificed their lives for it. Absolutely DISGUSTING. A British couple confronted at London's Victoria Station while wearing Remembrance Day poppies, and the woman ends up in tears. These poppies honor those who fought and died for their country. The sheer disrespect is infuriating. Britain, what the hell is happening to your country?!
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Joe Wallin retweeted
This Microsoft Outlook outage is RIDICULOUS. I haven't seen an outage this bad since the early 2000s.
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Build the data centers. Build the robots. Build the reactors. Build the AI scientists. Cure the diseases. Reverse aging. Expand into space.
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Joe Wallin retweeted
Skidmark Carney says Canada wasn't founded on a single faith. Funny — the Charter opens with "Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law." That's not a suggestion. That's the founding document. The clown wants to rewrite history and hopes you never read it.
Carney claims Canada was not founded on Christianity. Speaking in Toronto, Carney says: "Canada was not founded on a single creed, race, language or faith." nitter.cf/BeautifulCana1/status/…
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Something BIG is about to go down. According to a News Nation report, Attorney General Todd Blanche has been moved onto a U.S. military base, joining a growing list of senior administrative officials being relocated. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has reportedly left his home for military housing as have Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller. When the people running the country start seeking refuge behind military security, perhaps the public is also entitled to prepare.
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Joe Wallin retweeted
This Jensen Huang thing is so ugly. Guy takes a company from zero to absolute pinnacle, through blood, sweat, and tears, a pure founder’s founder, great products, makes so many people rich beyond their imaginations, champions open free local AI, and then the incumbent modern managerial safetyist human instrumentality establishment collectively decides they want to rip it all away from him because they think they can “do better”.
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Because government can spend the money more wisely than parents, right?
As a human, I am concerned about the lack of funding for public schools.
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How can anyone argue this isn’t happening at lightening speed in Canada?
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Dark, dark day. Horrible decision for the U.S. and the western world.
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Nvidia replaced an engineer with an accountant. Guess we know what happens next
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This is a big move to communism. Left us led by Mamdani are making a big move to get rid of private property. Landlords should be allowed to sell their property to anyone they please.
🚨 NYC has completely fallen. Mayor Mamdani just signed COPA—blocking landlords from selling their own properties on the free market! Far-left radicals are stripping away private property rights and crushing the middle class. Total communist takeover. Get out of New York while you still can! 🇺🇸
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Joe Wallin retweeted
Fire the board.
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My periodic reminder that Washington State is single handedly offsetting Chinese emissions through the Climate Commitment Act. Just a small price to pay.
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A few hours ago, I wrote: "They're going to pull it off. Jensen Huang is going to be pushed out of Nvidia." It's done. Officially, Jensen Huang resigned. In reality, the board was getting ready to throw him out. Effective immediately. He's also leaving the board. The CFO is stepping in as interim CEO. The board is even considering bringing in an outside CEO. Thirty-three years. A company born in a Denny's, saved from bankruptcy more than once, turned into the most important company of the AI era. Wiped away in a week. Whatever you think of his private life, look at the mechanics. A scandal breaks. Pressure builds in Washington. Columnists demand his head. The board, which never prepared a successor, panics. The founder is out. And the man who fought the restrictions, who defended open models, who stood up to Washington, is gone. The playbook worked. And when a playbook works, it gets used again. The next target is Elon. Why him? Because he's now the last builder of that scale who holds the entire chain. Rockets, satellites, energy, robots, AI, and soon chips with Terafab. He's the only one who can build both the superintelligence and the rocket that carries it into space. And he just said publicly that hiring Jensen would be an honor. For those who want to slow everything down, there's no bigger target. But they have a problem. You don't fire Elon Musk the way you fire Jensen Huang. He holds voting control at SpaceX. No board can throw him out overnight. So they'll come at him another way. Regulators. Courts. Investigative committees. Government contracts. Media campaigns. Every weakness will be exploited, every mistake amplified, every procedure dragged out. They don't need to fire him. They just need to wear him down, slow him down, make every project ten times more expensive. Open your eyes, because this is going to move very fast. What we're living through right now isn't news. It's History. In twenty years, this week will be taught in schools. The day America, in the middle of the race to superintelligence against China, took the man who made the chips for the entire planet out of the race. And people will ask what happened next. The answer depends on what happens to Elon. And on what Jensen decides to do with the rest of his life. I'm standing by my prediction. We are living through History with a capital H.
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In Washington state… Taxpayers work 40 to 60 hours every week… To put money into pockets of greasy corrupt politicians like this! Ironically people that curse capitalism… But love $$$!
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