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by deong 11y ago
> You do pay taxes in (for example) Hong Kong. It's just not as a high as the US rate. Then you'd pay a proportionately lower rate for your US burden. The overall amount of tax owed should be relatively constant. > I think a
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by deong 11y ago
I actually talked with an accountant in the US my first tax year living year, and her advice was "don't use an accountant". I have no idea if this is true or not, but according to her, the IRS's view is basically, "
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by deong 11y ago
To be clear, you wouldn't actually pay double-taxes (I think -- if you make more than $100k, it depends on if the Germans and Americans have a treaty over it, but most countries do, I think). You'd have to file twice, but the US
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by deong 11y ago
You're right of course, but this is mostly by design. Rightly or wrongly, the US position is that you need to pay taxes to someone . I think the intent of the laws is at least arguably reasonable, but the execution isn't great. A
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by deong 11y ago
If you're "of average means", then you can simply color within the lines, do exactly what the law tells you to do, and almost certainly have no problems at all. You only need the $10k to successfully cheat.
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by deong 11y ago
I think you've hit on the truly annoying part of the whole thing. I'm lucky enough that here in Iceland, it's caused me no problems at all. I'm generally in favor of trying to crack down on tax avoidance, and I'm sy
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by deong 11y ago
I'm an expat, and the quoted statement is nonsense. I'm eligible to vote in the US with an absentee ballot, and I have a congressional district based on my last address in the US. Certainly my representative doesn't particula
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by deong 11y ago
I'm also an American expat (Iceland), and for a lot of people, there will be no difference except for inconvenience. If you make less than about $100,000 per year, you exclude that income from US taxes completely. You still have to fil
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by deong 11y ago
Reddit still allows far more leeway than either of the others, but that's why I said "until recently" anyway. Reddit's PR problem was mostly formed prior to that though. Reddit became a place a lot of people only heard a
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by deong 11y ago
Unfortunately, they do have real impacts on the media. It's why there are 642 different Buzzfeed clones invading every aspect of your life and your local newspaper can't keep the lights on.
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by deong 11y ago
Both Facebook and Google have terms of service that ban large classes of abuse that Reddit explicitly permits (or at least permitted until very recent changes). Facebook doesn't allow a "Coontown" group, and Youtube will take
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by deong 11y ago
I imagine there would be a significant backlash if it came out that reddit was explicitly acting on knowledge of a persistent profile of you that persisted across logging out or logging in on a throwaway account.
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by deong 11y ago
Oh, I know it's a huge problem on multi-user systems. I was just pointing out that homebrew treats it that way so they can have sudo-less access. Technically I guess it's not world writable in a default homebrew install though, ju
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by deong 11y ago
You'd run into exactly the same problem. Apple doesn't provide /brew in the default image, so something would have to create a new inode in /, and that something presumably requires SIP be disabled (assuming / is pr
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by deong 11y ago
Making/assuming /usr/local is 0777 is definitely not though.
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by deong 11y ago
This ( https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta... ) seems clearer to me. Quoting: How can I monetize my content? You can monetize your Apple News Format content with iAd, App
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by deong 11y ago
It's pay-walled in the sense that you need a several-hundred dollar iOS device. Otherwise no.
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by deong 11y ago
My understanding of Apple News is that it has nothing to do with iOS 9 content blocking. Apple News is a dedicated app that functions somewhat like an RSS reader serving up a special Readability-style version of the content. Even if you don
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by deong 11y ago
That doesn't contradict his post saying "iAd allows you to do direct sales through it's own system".
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by deong 11y ago
Well, it's Elsevier. The fact that it only potentially exploited your system and didn't attempt to grab your banking password might actually be taken as a legitimate sign of improvement.
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by deong 11y ago
To each their own, obviously, but this does seem profoundly weird. I can't imagine anyone choosing an Emacs-based mua and not using the editing ability for composing mail.
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by deong 11y ago
I generally agree with you (I use a text-based mua myself), but your specific example isn't great. Gmail -- probably rather predictably -- does search as well as or better than anyone in the world, including your local installation of
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by deong 11y ago
It never reliably functioned as a daemon for me. It would just stop checking for messages randomly after an hour or two. And if you give up on it being a daemon, then it's horrifically slow because it's doing full syncs all the ti
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by deong 11y ago
And the very same article addresses that point as well. From the first one granted in the 15th century to the most recent granted a few months ago, honorary degrees are extremely highly correlated with the important contribution the individ
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by deong 11y ago
But the quote explicitly says "honorary degree". She doesn't have an honorary degree from Cornell.
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by deong 11y ago
I know Jon Rowe a little bit. He's a very well-respected and reputable researcher.
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by deong 11y ago
But if everyone uses the phrase that way, then it's not dishonest for this person to do it too. That's how language works. If I tell my student, "the early bird gets the worm", it's idiotic to call me stupid becau
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by deong 11y ago
> well, "your" data in perhaps some rhetorical sense. In this context, "your data" is 100% of the time used to indicate data you've provided to someone else about you. Have you ever seen an article saying "F
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by deong 11y ago
I think the attitude exemplified by phrasing like "cheating the system" is the sole reason why anyone has a problem with them at all. If we ignore the apparent entitlement, then sure, it's fine.
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by deong 11y ago
Presumably you want to draw an inference of some sort from the data. Otherwise what's the point of even looking at it?

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