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by brewdad 3y ago
I worked for a company that offered ESPP decades ago. The stock had an odd habit of dipping in the middle 3 months of the period with price peaks at either end. While continuing to steadily decline YoY. The company went bankrupt about three
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by brewdad 3y ago
Is this for grants that were initially made prior to 2022? Otherwise, I can't possibly see how California has any claim to that money.
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by brewdad 3y ago
Yes. Etrade reports the cost basis of RSUs as $0 on the 1099. You then must manually adjust the cost basis using a second schedule that shows the value of the RSU already taxed as income at the time of vesting. If you don't make this a
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by brewdad 3y ago
If you are at all at risk of earning $25 million in a given year, throw a few bucks at a tax advisor to ensure you avoid this pitfall. Everyone else, carry on. Nothing to see here.
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by brewdad 3y ago
Again, that’s the point of insurance. Most of us will pay more in premiums than we ever get paid in claims. A few of us will avoid bankruptcy because insurance will pay out a claim we can’t otherwise afford either through cash or any line o
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by brewdad 3y ago
The only speeding ticket I’ve gotten in the past 20 years was for speeding on the on-ramp to get up to the speed of the highway traffic. Holiday weekend, so it was stop, ticket, and release. Repeat. No warnings given.
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by brewdad 3y ago
The insurance company would argue that you drive in an area with wildlife crossings. That makes you a higher risk even if you managed to avoid this deer. You are more likely than average to encounter another one in the future and may not be
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by brewdad 3y ago
One of the automakers in the article claims that voids your warranty. It may or may not but enjoy the legal battle should you ever need to make a claim.
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by brewdad 3y ago
Eh, that's still better than my days at Uni where my student ID was my Social Security Number and grades were posted outside the classroom as a sheet with everyone's SSN and their scores.
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by brewdad 3y ago
It was a tool that was either very accurate or inaccurate depending on your perspective. If DS said rain would be starting in 8 minutes, it almost always rained at my house very soon thereafter. Very accurate. However, sometimes that rain c
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by brewdad 3y ago
Short-term forecasts (1-2 days) seem more accurate than ever. However, weather as a business has meant a race at both ends of the forecast spectrum. Apps now offer minute by minute forecasts on the one hand or 10 and 15 and even 90 day fore
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by brewdad 3y ago
You can’t expect a lawyer to know the difference between copyright and patents.
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by brewdad 3y ago
Those foreign workers are already here in the US getting their educations. We can either incorporate their knowledge and skills into growing our industry here or we can send them back to their home countries to do it there. Seems an obvious
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by brewdad 3y ago
In my state the real benefit of taking the course it that scheduling a road test with the DMV often has a multi-month waitlist. Then, if you fail, you have to wait another 2-3 months to retest. A better lesson than the state approved course
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by brewdad 3y ago
You aren't lying. I recently visited London and did a day-trip by train to Oxford. I booked my ticket way ahead for 12 Pounds each way. If I had waited and bought a ticket at the station on the day of travel, it would have been closer
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by brewdad 3y ago
I'm old enough to have visited a library and pulled old rolls of microfiche off the shelf to hunt for an archived news article. Being able to pull most of those same records while sitting in my backyard is pretty amazing. I do fear tha
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by brewdad 3y ago
Not true. Probably 10 years ago my kid and two friends played in each other’s yards mostly unsupervised. Only led to one ER visit with a scratched cornea (my kid). But yeah, mostly there are always parent(s) around. 40 years ago I’d disappe
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by brewdad 3y ago
There is a brief window in time where one can possibly play professional football or baseball. If you haven't made it by 30, the dream is over. Social media has no such limitations. Certain segments favor the young but there are plenty
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by brewdad 3y ago
I kick in $5 a month because that's about what I figure self-hosting a messaging service would cost me. I don't want the hassle of self-hosting and I trust Signal more than the other remote hosted options.
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by brewdad 3y ago
FYI, if you cancel Prime but want to keep that card, they will downgrade you to a blue Amazon branded card that still gets 3% back at Amazon. I don't know if you still get any discount at Whole Foods since I might only go there about o
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by brewdad 3y ago
The ads have always been Freevee's business model. So they might offer an ad-free option at some point but that seems highly unlikely.
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by brewdad 3y ago
I have a warehouse serving our entire metro area five miles from my house. Shipping takes two days after Amazon sits on my order for 2-3 days. Their drivers are also the worst. The driver that covers my area tends to throw packages a good
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by brewdad 3y ago
I will go to a gas station with those loud screens exactly once. After that, I have written them off. There is a station in my in-law's town with those. I had to fill up there once about 10 years ago as my fuel light was on. I'm 9
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by brewdad 3y ago
They don't care about the difference between a 3.5 and a 4.0 but they absolutely have a minimum grade standard for new college grads. Five years into your career, yeah, they just want to know whether you have a degree and your work exp
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by brewdad 3y ago
Sure, but how successful have you been getting a job requiring knowledge of Rust if you learned C++ in university? What about a more established language like Java if you happen to have little experience with it. The fact is modern companie
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by brewdad 3y ago
To be fair, that is the point of lane-keep assist. To keep an inattentive driver from drifting out of their lane. Without any input to the contrary, it should assume a car leaving its lane is unintentional and try to correct it. That what i
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by brewdad 3y ago
Of course they developed a proprietary steel and then shipped it for customers to test in production.
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by brewdad 3y ago
Except GP literally said they don't care about society after they are dead. That is a problem for society.
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by brewdad 3y ago
Taxes are not punishment. With such a childish view of society it is probably for the best that you aren't a parent.
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by brewdad 3y ago
Sure they can but I don't see much of that.

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