TomatoTomato

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by TomatoTomato 14y ago
The best example of this is the FairTax. The prebate is currently based on making sure those at the poverty line pay 0% federal taxes. But, if you change this to be 2x the poverty line or something, you effectively achieve a floor "basic in
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by TomatoTomato 14y ago
I just attempted to add two-step, and Apple told me I needed a stronger password before continuing. How do they know my password strength if it is salted+hashed properly?
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by TomatoTomato 14y ago
Do you really understand all the inner workings of the current monetary system?
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by TomatoTomato 14y ago
I put no hardware cost because I'm looking at the instantaneous profit function (or close using a 24 hour window) for hardware owned prior to the reward reduction. The comment was referencing whether or not it is still profitable to mine g
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by TomatoTomato 14y ago
http://bitcoinx.com/profit/ Settings: Profitability decline = 1, Hardware Cost = 0, Time Frame (months) = .033333 (1 day), Electricity Cost = $0.15 Profit: -0.56 USD/day For this example (1200MH @ 750W) you need electricity to be &#60
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by TomatoTomato 14y ago
If you consider unfunded liabilities (which obviously can be adjusted and is hard to calculate) you can add anywhere from 50-200 Trillion. http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011-06-06-us... http://www.usdebtclock.org/
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by TomatoTomato 14y ago
Quote from article: "Fitch, meanwhile, said even a deal to avert the cliff might not be enough to save the country's AAA rating."
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by TomatoTomato 14y ago
The standard deduction is the minimum deduction. A simple calculator indeed should take this into account since it will affect everyone's tax liability. A recent study showed only about 1/3 of tax returns used itemized deductions [1]. [1]
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by TomatoTomato 14y ago
Not taking into account the standard deduction. This is especially evident in the lowest income totals.
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by TomatoTomato 14y ago
The Congressional Budget Office reported an increased risk of recession during 2013 if the deficit is reduced suddenly. The Budget Control Act of 2011 was passed under the political environment of a partisan stalemate, in which Democrats an
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by TomatoTomato 14y ago
Not necessarily, if this is a Roth-401(k), then there are certainly penalty free distribution options for your personal contributions. If not, there are legal, but backdoor, ways of "investing" your traditional-401(k) into the newly found
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by TomatoTomato 14y ago
And you can add/subtract hours and minutes to days so that the sun rises and sets and the same time all year!
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by TomatoTomato 14y ago
What about just checking if a MX record exists?
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by TomatoTomato 14y ago
If they don't do it, I'm sure someone will hack multiple batteries together and post a how to.
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by TomatoTomato 14y ago
Are batteries quickly replaceable? i.e. If I had a spare battery in my pack, I could change it out and continue on?
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by TomatoTomato 14y ago
The very first trade of a stock in the open market is by most accounts considered the IPO price or opening bid which for FB was 42.05. The IPO offer price was $38. http://seekingalpha.com/article/217235-ipo-offering-vs-openi... http://i
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by TomatoTomato 14y ago
Does anyone have a link explaining how to adding swipe or click to a side navigation bar to a webapp rather than these native examples?
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by TomatoTomato 14y ago
Or at least purchase carbon offsets...
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by TomatoTomato 14y ago
I agree, theres a level of trust when you use hosting providers like Amazon and heroku. With this, there's no way i'd do anything remotely sensitive with one of these boxes.
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by TomatoTomato 14y ago
What about the node-owner being able to look inside your box and see what you are doing?
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by TomatoTomato 14y ago
Can the macbook pro retina handle 4 thunderbolt displays (2 on each port as with the Air) + HDMI?
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by TomatoTomato 14y ago
Stock splits are an interesting discussion. Other than psychological differences, a split really only increase liquidity and encourage more small investors but it also encourages more short term speculation. Berkshire is happy to continue
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by TomatoTomato 14y ago
Total Valuation / Total Earnings. Increasing the shares will not change the math... Think about it in your head with an imaginary company with 1, 2 or 4 shares.
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by TomatoTomato 14y ago
One of the most common and simplistic valuation methods is using the Expected Value of the Net Present Value of Future Earnings. Past information can be an indicator, but is in a sense "Sunk."
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by TomatoTomato 14y ago
Pretty decent view. http://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/usa/los-angeles
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by TomatoTomato 14y ago
"[Some users] store multiple terabytes." They are certainly not a replacement for S3, but could be a substitute for some use cases. Also, they can certainly change their stance at any point, but they are certainly committed to truly unlimi
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by TomatoTomato 14y ago
Is this still the case? Mine only shows 5GB. edit: My Drive updated! You are currently using 17 MB (0%) of your 87040 MB. Should have bought more...
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by TomatoTomato 14y ago
https://www.google.com/settings/storage/?hl=en
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by TomatoTomato 14y ago
That is incorrect, you are looking at the old Google account storage costs. These are different and may supersede the old pricing. You can get started with 5GB of storage for free—that’s enough to store the high-res photos of your trip to
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by TomatoTomato 14y ago
I use the current tax system, because that's what I have to compare it to. The only other significant alternative is the Flat Tax, which is more regressive than the current system. Also, you say it is unattractive, but offer no alternativ

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