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by eric_h 9y ago
https://www.efile.com/taxable-gambling-winnings-income-taxes... suggests that winnings are taxed at a flat 25% up to $5000 and beyond that it's treated as income.
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by eric_h 9y ago
yes. Any gambling win > $600 or a win over some multiple of your initial wager is taxed by the feds (and many states have additional taxes). Professional gamblers can write some portion of their losses off against that tax (I'm not
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by eric_h 9y ago
you put a sticker on the front camera of your phone?
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by eric_h 9y ago
> A research paper? Even those can be nonsense. An absense of research papers is far more frequently evidence of nonsense
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by eric_h 9y ago
> Both Solenodon species are listed as critically endangered and are facing multiple threats from deforestation, increased human activity and predation by dogs, cats and mongooses. They survived the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction, but c
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by eric_h 9y ago
Yes. I haven't actually read any of the articles with that 7% headline as it seemed to me that they likely got something completely wrong - I've seen plenty of videos/photos of Scott Kelly since he got back to Earth and he wa
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by eric_h 9y ago
My brain autocorrected it right back to what was intended on both the first and second readings :P
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by eric_h 9y ago
> sure to get worse thanks to Trump's tariffs on steel, aluminum and canadian timber. this[1] suggests that most New York City construction uses US steel and will be minimally affected by Trump's policy. Admittedly, basically a
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by eric_h 9y ago
As far as I'm aware, people occupying rent controlled apartments (in NYC) can opt to be bought out by their landlord. I've heard a number of stories of people using that windfall (generally buyouts are on the order of $10^4-10^5)
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by eric_h 9y ago
> If you have conveyance (a canoe or kayak, an atv, etc) then you can afford to bring much less dense (and usually better tasting) food. Can confirm, many years ago went on a canoe trip on the Shenandoah for a week and we brought about 4
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by eric_h 9y ago
It just occurred to me that I'm not sure how they can even be sure that you were telling them the truth. Not that I'm suggesting otherwise, but within the scope of the tools they have available to them while doing the review, what
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by eric_h 9y ago
I'd argue that it's a scale and every piece of art falls somewhere on that scale. Further, I'd argue that because we don't fully understand the political climate for many ancient works of art that we cannot, in fact, ful
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by eric_h 9y ago
That sucks - I was on a team that released a fully legal (in the USA) gambling app a few years back and while we had to have a few back and forths, it definitely didn't take a month to get approved. At least you finally got it out!
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by eric_h 9y ago
The political statement a piece of art is trying to make is a part of its intrinsic beauty or quality. Art does not exist in a vacuum, it always exists in a human context. Politics are inescapable, in art and in all other forms of human end
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by eric_h 9y ago
> Ours was in review by Apple for over a month. ?! That's crazy talk - I've not seen a review process for a new app take more than a few days in recent memory. I guess using the Face ID API marked your app for more thorough rev
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by eric_h 9y ago
This may have been a byproduct of their acquisition of Maple.
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by eric_h 9y ago
Random aside - I took a few classes many years ago with Prof. Bellovin - he's still my favorite CS prof.
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by eric_h 9y ago
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16418056
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by eric_h 9y ago
That works when you speak the local language. When you do not, using a local taxi can be a much more difficult experience, and in many places you are likely to be over charged. In Kiev, for example, very few of the taxi drivers speak Englis
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by eric_h 9y ago
Are window a/c units not a thing in Germany? If you can buy one of those, you can take it with you when you leave.
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by eric_h 9y ago
I have literally never heard the term 'tabular figures' to refer to a fixed width font. The font they're using is "Varela Round" which isn't fixed width to begin with; so whether it's missing or not is lar
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by eric_h 9y ago
It's roughly the same price they paid for 111 8th Ave.
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by eric_h 9y ago
The building they purchased in 2010 (111 8th Ave) is a full city block that they picked up for $1.9 billion - seems to be the going rate for a block in Chelsea.
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by eric_h 9y ago
They're filling it with rocket fuel, so I think there's a pretty good chance of a launch. https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/960956373994438656
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by eric_h 9y ago
I went free diving with a former Navy Seal - he said two slow breaths trying to fully empty your lungs each time, then take a deep breath and hold. Actively hyperventilating, especially if you're going deeper than 2 ATM (~10m/30ft
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by eric_h 9y ago
It's a bacterial infection, so I believe immunity just doesn't last as long as it does for e.g. chicken pox. The vaccine, when it was available, recommended rather short intervals between boosters.
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by eric_h 9y ago
I received a shot of the vaccine when it was available. Unfortunately the projected longevity of the immunity conferred was only 3-5 years. By the time that period had passed for me the vaccine was no longer available.
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by eric_h 9y ago
Excellent idea. Too bad it's so much harder to get a standard transmission car in the US these days.
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by eric_h 9y ago
There are ~20 ATMs within a 5 block radius of my apartment (NYC), all in small shops that have no place for an in-wall ATM, and this is in a relatively low ATM density area of the city; there are thousands more like this across the 5 boroug
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by eric_h 9y ago
Space twitter suggests that there was no malfunction with the rocket, there was some process (read: human) failure that caused the rocket to be given the wrong instructions. Further the satellite is going to have to burn years worth of fu

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