Amezarak

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by Amezarak 11mo ago
Mozilla did lose their way. It happened because they abandoned their core users: you. People who loved Firefox so much they practically forced it on everyone around them. Google released Chrome with a massive advertising campaign, reaching
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You do not get brain damage from fever. https://www.seattlechildrens.org/conditions/a-z/fever---myth...
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This is common old wive's tale. Fever itself is not dangerous in adults or children. https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/127/3/e20103... > There is no evidence that children with feve
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by Amezarak 11mo ago
This is often the case. In the absence of clear, overwhelming evidence to the contrary, I find it best to accept what ancient writers say. In this case, Herodotus wrote about cats in Egypt and clearly thought them a fascinating novelty. If
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by Amezarak 11mo ago
It’s pretty demoralizing to see how many people accept at face value a totally anonymous lawsuit backed by Norm Lubow. The plaintiff never made any court appearances and the suit was withdrawn or dismissed each time, in the first case becau
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by Amezarak 1y ago
The IRS has no idea what deductions and credits are applicable to you and has no way of finding out. They could maybe prefill your reported gross income but then they’re at a loss. In other countries there are such things as national citize
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by Amezarak 1y ago
> But why would we care what Nietzsche would think and for whom he wrote? Because we're reading an article titled "Why Nietzsche matters in the age of artificial intelligence": the author ought then to know what he's
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Credits are applied after you take the standard deduction. You subtract the standard deduction, figure out your taxable income, then subtract credits and taxes already paid. > These aren’t wealthy people filing with CPAs. These are lower
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That is correct for most people. 90% of people according to the IRS take the standard deduction. Interest income from your bank account comes on a 1099 and it takes 30 seconds to add onto your 1040. I do it every year.
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Filing a 1040 in the US is also very easy and takes a few minutes and can be done for free. Another factor most people are ignoring is that state taxes are filed at the same time and each state has its own separate system. These third parti
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by Amezarak 1y ago
People want simplified tax codes only in principle. Everyone has a deduction or credit they will fight to defend.
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by Amezarak 1y ago
Free Fillable Forms is free for everyone. It is technically a third party. It’s very simple if you have the average tax filing situation. There are also other services that provide free efiling regardless of income, it’s not just TurboTax.
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The number and type of people living in your household is not an edge case. It applies to almost everyone, has huge tax impacts, and the IRS doesn’t know.
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I’m talking about people with a couple W2s and maybe a 1099. In your situation hiring a CPA is likely a very reasonable choice.
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The average HNer, who is fairly literate and well-informed about tax-prep, tends to misunderstand the situation. Using tax preparation software is the cheap (or free!) alternative to what millions of Americans are doing. It was a change f
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by Amezarak 1y ago
You don't have to pay. https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form... As for "having most of your tax information", they don't. They know your reported income. You see that on your
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by Amezarak 1y ago
Right, and I agree and I don’t. I’d o my best to explain to my kids they should never put anything in their mouth that isn’t made to be eaten. But this should be considered when we make blanket claims about it’s okay because we’re just touc
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Children eat and chew on lots of things you’d never imagine, even up into elementary and middle school years. A smaller number of adults do too.
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During nesting season, the entire back half of my backyard is effectively inaccessible because the Canada geese will attack you if you come within hundreds of feet of their nest. They are also utterly fearless and would also attack cars tha
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by Amezarak 1y ago
Right, I didn’t make any argument that the hexane used in rapeseed processing is dangerous. Just that those factors are obviously indications it’s a highly processed food. > Why would we expect there to be a shared pharmacological cause
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This is not normal. I have a 10 year old budget ICE car and nothing is wrong with it. When I change the oil every 10k miles, the same amount I put in still comes out. It has about 240k.
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Something doesn’t add up here, oil doesn’t add any carbs, just fat. Water weight maybe in the potatoes?
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> And... you are absolutely repeating seed oil panic claims in your comment. Maybe we have different definitions of "seed oils" or "panic claims". Nothing I said is controversial: canola oil as food did not exist befo
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I think if you don’t feel the need to explain, then you’re probably right. Is it better if I drizzled the same amount of olive oil, on a baked potato instead? Is this about the potential problems of heating oils or something else? Are you j
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Canola oil: - is made from a plant historically considered inedible - has a very high input:output ratio - often has extensive processing steps that include industrial solvents like hexane and deodorization steps to make the end product tol
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by Amezarak 1y ago
I’m skeptical that thinly sliced potatoes crisped in olive oil are bad for you. I don’t believe unsweetened yogurt is bad either, although some people would say so because of the saturated fat content. Certainly very few people are going to
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Almost all potato chips are UPF. Even the ones that aren’t so bad would be much more expensive if they had to be fried in olive oil or lard instead of UPF ingredients like canola oil.
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I live within an hours drive of multiple (at least four) factories that aren’t producing defense or car products. I’m sure there’s more I don’t know about. I have a Chapman set sitting on my desk right now. I bought it because someone else
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by Amezarak 1y ago
OK, so how do you propose we reduce consumption of "packaged hyperpalatable low-satiety foods"? I thought making them practically unviable was a good route to take. > but in reality you're also saying all the yogurt needs
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by Amezarak 1y ago
Gallons of soda per capita. I think what you're observing is larger cans and bottles are available now. I haven't seen an increase. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/americans-drinking-way-less-s...

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