BrandonM

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by BrandonM 9y ago
I take away something different from both of you. To me, the question is about whether it's better to be the most impressive person in a shithole town or a nobody in an amazing place. I'm not even sure I know the answer for myself
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by BrandonM 9y ago
REAMDE was his first book that I read. I was totally captivated by the book, but I hated the ending. That's one of his good endings?
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by BrandonM 9y ago
Do you still plan to write that article?
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by BrandonM 9y ago
That's sensible, but I think accountants defeat it pretty easily. For example, suppose Acme EU, Inc. has $50MM in revenue from the EU, and $25MM in on-the-ground costs to deliver that revenue. Lo and behold, they also have a bill fro
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by BrandonM 9y ago
How would you translate this? > Why can a man never starve in the Great Desert? Because he can eat the sand which is there. But what brought the sandwiches there? Why, Noah sent Ham, and his descendants mustered and bred.
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by BrandonM 9y ago
That's just not how language works. Gödel, Escher, Bach really hammered this home for me. Many ideas are easier to express in one language or another, to the point that they are practically inexpressible in another language. This is
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by BrandonM 9y ago
I think that's the point.
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by BrandonM 9y ago
I first used Google Maps for cycling over 7 years ago.
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by BrandonM 9y ago
Cab driving is one of the most dangerous jobs in the US.
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by BrandonM 9y ago
The brief/article seems to argue that @realdonaldtrump represents a public forum only because he uses it as such, and they’ve explicitly stated that his posts represent official views of POTUS. To me, that implies that public officials
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by BrandonM 9y ago
Both of these points were covered in the article. It’s not about public/private fora. They argue (with case law) that when the government uses a private venue in a public way, it becomes public. Additionally they only argue that @realD
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by BrandonM 9y ago
I know plenty of family members in the US who have waited months for health care procedures. Being poor or rural brings rationing, waiting lists, supply shortages and all the kinds of things you don't want when dealing with people&#x
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by BrandonM 10y ago
> You have a strange definition of "not that hard". That's fair, but by-far the hardest thing about filing taxes for us has been prorating our income based on how long we lived in each part-year municipality. Adding to tha
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by BrandonM 10y ago
For anyone who can program (including spreadsheets!), it's not all that hard to file your own taxes the old-fashioned way. To do it digitally, just use https://www.freefilefillableforms.com/ and start with a 1040. Read
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by BrandonM 10y ago
Clickable: Best Chrome 57 resource I found: https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/2605051 https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:WoSign_Issues enumerates the issues https://security.googleblog.com&#x
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Remind HN: Chrome 57 Doesn't Trust StartCom or WoSign
9 points by BrandonM 10y ago|2 comments
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by BrandonM 10y ago
Additionally, Zendesk is apparently failing to process new tickets, so our users can't report the errors they're encountering.
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by BrandonM 10y ago
Section 4.03 of IRS bulletin 2012-28 ( https://www.irs.gov/irb/2012-28_IRB/ar12.html ) states, "If property for which a § 83(b) election was filed is forfeited while substantially nonvested, § 83(b)(1) provide
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by BrandonM 10y ago
But wait, there's more... Let's say that you decide it's too risky to early exercise in year 1, but by year 3 things are looking pretty good and you early exercise all your options. Let's say your strike price is $0.20,
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I understand how AMT works; these numbers are from actually calculating my 2016 taxes. With the exercise, I'm paying over $7,000 more than I otherwise would have.
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by BrandonM 10y ago
This is correct. To put some concrete numbers on it, I'm in my 6th year at a startup. In 2016, I spent $6,400 to exercise ~50,000 options that had a total FMV of ~$60,000. This is going to add over $7,000 to my 2016 taxes due to AMT. I
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by BrandonM 10y ago
Some companies allow you to "early exercise" your options before they vest. If you do that, you'll certainly want to file an 83(b) election for that exercise, when the spread between strike price and fair market value (FMV) i
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by BrandonM 10y ago
Apparently, 6 people (including you) agree with me.
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On my iPhone, I use DuckDuckGo mainly to avoid AMP. I use Google on my laptop.
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If I personally prefer the second Promise chain: myPromise.then(() => { // ... }).then(() => { // ... }).catch(() => { // .. }); and if I also prefer the Lisp-lik
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by BrandonM 10y ago
I got 6 stitches in Cambodia for a major cut on my arm. No wait, seen by 3 medical professionals (including a doctor), in and out in 15 minutes. Total cost: $15. For me, that was a far better outcome than I would have received in the US for
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by BrandonM 10y ago
FYI: This reply is exactly one of the "smug styles" that the original article highlights: > Christianity, as many hastened to point out, is about love. Christ commands us to render unto Caesar what is Caesar's. If the Bib
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by BrandonM 10y ago
Are you suggesting that there were no reasons to dislike Hillary? Or that misogyny and racism live on a plane above all other issues? Because in the end, the people only had two choices in this election.
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...and you can't vote for Hillary without being OK with obstructing democracy, corporate bailouts, and welfare handouts. At least that's how a lot of people felt who didn't want to vote for Hillary. (I preferred her to Trump,
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by BrandonM 10y ago
> The ACA is working great for people that make so little they get subsidies. Not everyone. In NC alone, there are 377,000 people who make too little to qualify for ACA subsidies yet are not covered by Medicaid. That's a lot of

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