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by defen 7y ago
Not a tax professional, and you should get professional advice if you're in this situation; but the way I handled it was by treating it as regular income (since the IRS defines "gross income" as "all income from whatever
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by defen 7y ago
I agree with most of your comment, but Youtube also had copyright problems at that time. Viacom sued them for $1 billion in 2007 (settled out of court for an undisclosed sum in 2014).
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by defen 7y ago
Hey, if you want to compete with Standard Oil just build your own railroad line.
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by defen 7y ago
4K screens with instant, unlimited access to almost all video content humanity has ever created are a relatively new thing. Instead of accepting "lack of evidence of harm", I'd prefer to wait for proof that it's not ha
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by defen 7y ago
This is why Thiel's backing Trump was such a smart move, purely in a realpolitik sense. If Trump had lost, Thiel would have taken a minor reputational hit based on Trump's pre-election behavior, but since no one thought he would w
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by defen 7y ago
Poorly-aged tweet - in Who We Are and How We Got Here Robert Reich talks about the strong evidence for the existence of a "ghost population" that interbred only with the ancestors of modern sub-Saharan Africans. It's a ghos
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by defen 7y ago
Didn't he also "disappear" (from the public eye) during a crucial point in the campaign? My memory of this is hazy as I was only 12 at the time, but I recall my father being interested in his candidacy, but then around July o
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by defen 7y ago
That’s incredible...what is your food budget?
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by defen 7y ago
There's an allegation that his wife's attorney (who had, unknown to the wife, served as Rubin's attorney in his previous divorce) conspired with Rubin to fraudulently induce his wife to sign a ridiculously unfair ("uncon
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by defen 7y ago
This serves as a pretty good example of why "smart" kids (or adults) can be annoying. Useless pedantry is not an enjoyable thing for most people. Yes, the Chinese had printing, but it was done by hand. Movable type (which, yes the
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by defen 7y ago
Assuming you want to invest in equities (which can be a whole other discussion), the biggest mistake newbs make is waiting too long. Don't try to devote months to learning things, because even after doing that you won't know anyth
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by defen 7y ago
They're complying with the letter of the law. They don't have the resources to do it right, and if they don't, they get sued. I don't see how you can be pro-ADA and not ok with this outcome.
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by defen 7y ago
Interesting, I love Fernet. Now I just have to figure out how to get a coin...
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by defen 7y ago
> You don't make a building accessible by putting a sign on the front saying "wheelchairs not welcome" That's a bad analogy. The linked website is equally usable for everyone.
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by defen 7y ago
How long are challenge coins "valid"? If someone had a challenge coin from Eisenhower (not sure those exist, let's pretend they do) would that person essentially always win, forever?
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by defen 7y ago
I'm not saying it's a good system, but we've effectively ended up in a situation where some of the kids least in need of a leg up end up getting a huge boost, and the ones who need more help get nothing.
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by defen 7y ago
> This is for basic tuition at a no-name university, obviously the numbers are far worse for ivy league. It's worse, but opposite of the way you're thinking. Harvard/Yale/Princeton are basically free if your parents m
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by defen 7y ago
Dude is a legend. One of my favorite parts in Wild Wild Country is when they're interviewing "local rancher" Jon Bowerman. Paraphrasing, but there's a part where he's talking about his father and it goes something
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by defen 7y ago
C'mon, you can't tell that story without sharing how you got your shoulder injury and whether it actually ended up being a good match.
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by defen 7y ago
The implicit message is that there are 5 about companies in the world who need Kubernetes' (and friends) inherent complexity. If your company is not named "Amazon", "Google", "Facebook", or "Netflix&q
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by defen 7y ago
This isn't really a conspiracy, this is the "cognitive infiltration" technique advocated by Cass Sunstein. Basically, even if the government doesn't like conspiracy theories (especially ones around purported government a
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by defen 7y ago
I have no opinion on the nature of the meeting but the White House Advisor is named directly in the article and they include screen shots of the emails. This is the advisor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._David_Edelma
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by defen 7y ago
Great comment. Reminds me of "The Organization Kid" but much pithier https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/04/the-org...
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by defen 7y ago
Torvalds or Pauling?
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by defen 7y ago
Yeah, you have to verify the number through an independent system.
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by defen 7y ago
My in-laws got hit by an absolutely ridiculous phone scam. Basically some guy called and said "Hey this is Apple, this is an emergency, your iCloud got hacked, you need to install this remote desktop software and give me your credit ca
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by defen 7y ago
It was Minnesota, not Maryland. Employers in Minnesota do have to give a truthful reason for termination, if requested in writing [1]. I don't know if she requested that, but I would be interested how that would play out if the reaso
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by defen 7y ago
Interestingly enough, throwing is the human trait / behavior with the biggest known measured disparity between the genders on average (this includes physical, mental, and emotional abilities). See Table 1 https://www.apa.org
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by defen 7y ago
> Why, in principle, would it not be possible for us to design an AGI, that would have care for our (all sentient beings') welfare or care for the investors' profit as (one of) its core goal(s)? Because we don't know how t
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by defen 7y ago
> Their competitors (FB, AMZN) dont have the edge compute (Android) to do this It's not Android scale but Amazon has sold 100 million Alexas.

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