Dan Coffman

My last day at Coinbase was March 1st. 6 years. When I joined, CB was ~100 people. Amazing company.

@SwipeWright They don’t need an excuse.

Why did Republicans add transgender issues to the SAVE America Act? This seems counterproductive and gives Democrats an easy excuse to not vote for it. Should be a clean bill.

One of the best sci-fi novels of all time, Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time, is kind of about this.

@eigenrobot better raise taxes about it

nobody rides bart anymore, it's too beloved

@TheWapplehouse I was at a coffee shop in LA once and there was like a table available with no chairs and this guy pulled a chair over to the table for me. Good guy.

@smandal718 @Bowtiedplayer I think about that guy all the time. I mean, what a huge mistake.

@Bowtiedplayer Remember the guy who burned himself alive for Palestine? Absolutely nobody remembers him also.

Renee Pretti and Alex Good have been completely forgotten lol Imagine dying for Somali scammers and nobody even remembers when the news cycle changes

@ThisVictory @unhingedfeed No way those kids weigh that much. It's like 130, 50, 45, 30. Obviously made much harder due to the awkward shape, softness, and shiftiness of the load.

@unhingedfeed ~340 zurcher? -150mom -70 daughter -70 son -50 son2?

Dude just casually lifting his world

@PatrickHeizer @_benjaminparry Good to know I guess.

@PatrickHeizer @_benjaminparry Wait so even people who can easily afford to be cured of cancer have to die of cancer for liability and regulatory reasons?

Sorry to be the downer because this is an impressive story in some senses. But it is ~trivially easy to make a single mRNA vaccine. It's not hard. I cure mice of various cancers with various therapeutics all the time. I've made mice lose more weight in a month than tirzepatide does in a year. What is hard and expensive is proving its BOTH safe AND effective **in a randomized and controlled study in humans** while ALSO manufacturing it at clinical scale and grade. I am happy for this man and his dog. It is impressive. But y'all are overhyping it.

@marcbarros Agreed except the people aren't great.

After 40 years (born and raised) I left WA. Moment is leaving this month as well. I'm not even a millionaire affected by this tax. But when you add up all the costs to run a business in WA we can't afford it. You can build a remote team and re-open in Wyoming, removing all of these costs. WA is incredibly beautiful (especially the summers) and the people are great. Unfortunately the numbers don't lie and unless you run a super high margin software business, WA is just too expensive. Personally...you'd never pick WA to start a company. - Gas taxes (now some of the highest in the state) - Sales tax (up to 10.5% in Seattle) - Property tax (1% of your home value with a path they can take this to 3%. In total $ this tax they have increased nearly 100% over the last decade) - Capital gains tax (new in the last three years went form 0 -> 9%. it targets business owners and not real-estate). - Estate tax (they recently changed it to a progressive system that is up to 35% just to the state of WA) - Housing prices are some of the highest in the country. - Food costs are unreal, just visit a Seattle restaurant or grocery store. Business... - Very little capital. Great angels but almost no VC or larger funding sources. - Super high salaries for tech talent (this has changed but amazon, microsoft, etc paid very high rates for a very long time). - B&O Tax: paid as a % of your sales. - Sales & Use Tax (this is the real killer) What pushed us out was the recent change to Sales & Use Tax. It used to be you paid this tax on physical things you bought for your business, similar to sales tax. Now you pay it on 100% of the items you buy, think shopify, aws, google, etc. Even if your team is remote you pay 10% sales tax on 100% of these purchases no matter where peole are located. But the real kicker, was they expanced this law to be a tax that applies to all digital advertising. Run FB ads in Germany? You pay WA state a 10% tax. Overnight that is a+$200K a year tax that did not exist last year. Again not even based in where your ads run or where your team is. Incorporated in WA state? You will pay this tax. What makes this sad is all political diversity disappeared years ago. It's that debate that keeps government from taking everything. One political team has run the state for +30 years and Seattle for more than 50 years. This train has been coming for years and is now accelerating. WA government can never have enough $. I hope there is a new generation of company builders who see this is an opportunity and can run into the burning building.

Honestly chiropractors should be imprisoned.

People who buy Standard Process products should be placed under conservatorship.

Abolishing capitalism works fine. In post-capitalist economies, the heavy labor is just done by slaves.

@frankiemuniz You’re one of the good ones

God I hate hearing actors talk. Do I sound like such a tool when I talk?

I'm just doing the cutting boards forever man

@danielgothits Do Seattle next

I have openclaw sending lowball offers on Zillow all day just to make boomers start panicking lol

@ArtemisConsort They are stupid both ways.

Re: the water bottle question. Do you think people who get it wrong A. are interpreting the instructions incorrectly and think they’re just supposed to rotate the image B. genuinely can’t simulate how water works in their heads

@AnthonyMixerWA They will pass it anyway.

The people are WIDELY OPPOSED to an income tax! Final numbers for sign ins to SB 6346: 116,779 CON! (90.2%) 12,691 pro (9.8%) Thank you Washington! #waleg

@HuffPost Go fuck yourself