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by benmanns 9y ago
Inflation does that. Cash in your mattress loses 2% a year. A wealth tax would presumably tax productive wealth as much as unproductive wealth.
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by benmanns 9y ago
Capital gains tax + inflation is a wealth tax. Each year you have to grow your money by inflation for it to maintain buying power. 2% inflation * 20% top rate LTCG tax means the wealthy pay a deferred 0.4% wealth tax yearly.
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by benmanns 9y ago
I don't think this is good advice. Password algorithms are security by obscurity, and only work as long as people don't figure out your "trick" to generating passwords that look random. You should be able to publish your
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by benmanns 9y ago
I'm one of those software engineers happily approaching my 4th year anniversary at Doximity. It's a great place for career growth, with an emphasis on mentorship and promoting from within. Feel free to email bmanns at doximity.com
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by benmanns 9y ago
It looks like that can affect `SELECT DISTINCT` queries. From https://github.com/ankane/strong_migrations#adding-a-json-co...
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by benmanns 9y ago
Not even close :( With my bank (known for its great service) you can call to place an ACH freeze but you have to know the vendor's identification or rough amount but you may end up with collateral damage (stopping a payment you do want
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by benmanns 9y ago
Check out https://github.com/adieuadieu/serverless-chrome#printtopdf-p...
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by benmanns 9y ago
Heads up - you want to post in the "Who is hiring" thread over this way --> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14688684 This thread is for candidates looking for jobs.
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by benmanns 9y ago
Why would a reverse split affect employees? Is it only in the case that an employee thinks: • I have 10,000 shares • GOOG is $1,000 • We're going to be the next GOOG • 10,000 * $1,000 • I'm worth $10m I don't see how anything
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by benmanns 10y ago
We recently started an engineering blog at Doximity [1] that I think is good (though it has less heavy technical content than others). I'd be really interested in what you all think is effective for both blogs-as-recruiting-tools and f
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by benmanns 10y ago
I don't think so. His shares likely have a basis of essentially $0, so he'll pay less taxes on the sale, but only because he's making less money. There's almost never a reason to turn down real income/growth to save
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by benmanns 10y ago
I don't have experience with the Amazon AMIs for deep learning, but I'll give the tip that you can use spot instances with limited lifespans (x instance at $y price for at most z hours) to reduce cost and the risk you forget to sh
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by benmanns 10y ago
I was curious about this also. It tracks the global public events endpoint https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/events/#list-public... which has a limit of 30 items, requesting every 2 seconds https:&#x2
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by benmanns 10y ago
The code is open source, so you (or any reader) could do that. Either replace https://github.com/debugger22/github-audio/blob/e1170daa3a64... with https://developer.github.com/v3/activity
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by benmanns 10y ago
Addons page: https://elements.heroku.com/addons/heroku-kafka Starting at $1,500/mo for 3 brokers, 150GB capacity, max 2 week retention. Plans up to 8 brokers, 2.4TB capacity, 6 week retention. I'm torn becaus
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by benmanns 10y ago
Thanks for the reminder. You could encode with a "base255" algorithm that just excludes the null byte to retain more entropy within 72 bytes.
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by benmanns 10y ago
You can contribute to a non-deductible IRA and then after a (short) period convert it to a Roth IRA. If you don't have other traditional IRA funds (the basis is pro-rated across all traditional IRA accounts).
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by benmanns 10y ago
I applied to the Stripe Atlas beta but haven't heard any communication after doing so. Does anyone have insight as to how long the beta queue is?
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by benmanns 10y ago
It's still fairly expensive though, with Atlas costing $500/corporation. I think that's out of reach for most simple side projects.
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by benmanns 10y ago
You can use it to do actions on the Keybase site by typing in your decryption password. Attack vectors: Keybase site code gets replaced with something malicious, now they have your key password and decrypted private key. You can also do eve
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by benmanns 10y ago
I worried about the same thing. Modern versions of Charles use a per-user root CA that is generated in the client.
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by benmanns 10y ago
I think it's closer to "I boosted conversion rates on our sign up page by 33%." Sure, not every visitor signs up still, but some group of people found the new copy compelling enough to sign up - with no new, very expensive fe
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by benmanns 10y ago
See 2FA proxying in LostPass https://github.com/cxxr/lostpass
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by benmanns 10y ago
What would you consider the web of a couple years ago/solid simple guaranteed tech?
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by benmanns 10y ago
But once you do check them, I recommend trying it. Raising chickens can be rewarding.
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by benmanns 10y ago
I think it's something like the user holds private key A, publicizes public key A, and requests private key B such that public key A+B has the desired characteristics and private key A+B is only known if you have private key A.
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by benmanns 10y ago
Only if the price stays the same.
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by benmanns 11y ago
Or the possibility of being profitable and paying dividends to owners like companies have done for centuries before now.
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by benmanns 11y ago
Fee-only advisors still charge fees for assets under management. It's just that they don't get paid commissions for selling you products. What it seems you're looking for is to pay hourly fees only.
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by benmanns 11y ago
Often this means the market is expecting ~13-14% inflation against the USD.

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