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by fogzen 3y ago
It means before you may have had to justify whether software development qualified as R&E, now you don’t. It unambiguously qualifies, if you’re claiming it as R&E. And unlike before, R&E must now be amortized. But AFAIK you don’
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by fogzen 3y ago
Is it? "In the case of a taxpayer’s specified research or experimental expenditures for any taxable year—" is pretty clear. That means what someone wants to claim as research and experimental expenditures. "For the purposes
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by fogzen 3y ago
What about software agencies/consultancies? Their salaries would not be capex right? They don’t own the software, they just develop it to spec and sell the development. Their client would be the one to claim R&E right?
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Bowser Freed From Prison(theverge.com)
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by fogzen 3y ago
Gaia Online! What a blast of nostalgia. I miss my chibi avatar…
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by fogzen 3y ago
Inflation adjusted return would be around $80,000, worse if you scope inflation to real estate and healthcare.
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by fogzen 4y ago
The profit incentive still functions to drive investment under deflation, because you can make more money from investment than letting money sit there. US economy experienced massive growth through periods of deflation 1815 and 1860, and 18
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by fogzen 4y ago
"The biggest success of my entire life was the fact that I managed to stay entirely unemployed." — Emil Cioran “I do not particularly like the word 'work.' Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and I think
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by fogzen 4y ago
The big downside with Nostr is it’s not built on the web. With blogs and webmention the feeds are websites. And there’s already a huge ecosystem for blogs. I’d prefer people build on that instead. Especially if the end result is more or les
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by fogzen 4y ago
They have little incentive since non-financial externalities are not accounted for in commercial agriculture. In other words, we aren’t accounting for the costs of topsoil and ecosystem destruction, or greenhouse gases from fertilizer and p
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by fogzen 4y ago
You’re not missing anything. Dilution is destruction of other shareholder equity . It means shareholders without voting rights have effectively no idea what share of the company they own. And even for shareholders with voting rights, it all
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by fogzen 4y ago
We cannot heal the wasteland within while creating a wasteland without. We cannot fix the problem until we recognize the problem: industrial society and the hubris of technological progress. The more we attempt to improve on nature, the mor
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by fogzen 4y ago
A MacBook Air and the nearest sofa or chair.
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by fogzen 4y ago
Per data provided by the police department. https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/7kTBb/1/
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by fogzen 4y ago
“After reaching a peak of 1,115 per 100,000 residents in 1992, California’s violent crime rate steadily fell, reaching a 50-year low of 392 in 2014.” “While the violent crime rate has fluctuated year-over-year, it has remained relatively st
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by fogzen 4y ago
Violent crime (robberies, rapes, and assaults) was down: https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/7kTBb/1/ You really think 41 versus 49 homicides in a year is the result of which DA is in office? The homicide numbers are no
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by fogzen 4y ago
Boudin's charging rate was not significantly different than other DAs: https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/3QGJv/1/ SF has a significantly lower charging rate than other major cities, but there's many factors
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by fogzen 4y ago
It is not a false claim. Violent crime is more than homicides. Violent crime was down according to SF city police department: https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/7kTBb/1/ You can see more statistics in the discussion he
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by fogzen 4y ago
Violent crime is more than homicides. Violent crime was down according to SF city police department: https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/7kTBb/1/ You can see more statistics in the discussion here: https://ww
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by fogzen 4y ago
Violent crime went down during Boudin’s tenure. Don’t base opinions on media propaganda.
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by fogzen 4y ago
Can you be more specific? You mean portfolio income, like stocks? Did you work in tech and put all the money into stocks, and then retire?
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by fogzen 4y ago
Yes. I work 20 hours a week, as a software consultant. I make low six figures.
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by fogzen 4y ago
Material wealth is status. Money is status. Assets that earn while you sleep is status. Money is arguably the ultimate status game.
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by fogzen 4y ago
Getting rid of cash bail, trying children as children instead of adults, creating a unit to investigate wrongful conviction… these aren’t radical policies. Boudin did enforce laws on drugs. Multiple drug dealers were prosecuted during his s
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by fogzen 4y ago
Soft-wrap! I love Helix Editor (it’s my daily driver), and soft-wrap was the last feature I was waiting for. Thanks to all the people who contributed to this release.
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by fogzen 8y ago
Law is violent coercion. This isn’t libertarian philosophy class, it’s the real world. In many places in the real world, universal government insurance is already in place. This isn’t some hypothetical.
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by fogzen 8y ago
I don’t have a career. I don’t want one anymore. I work for low wage at a sign shop part time, and do consulting part time. I have some software side projects but they don’t make much money. I’m saving all the money from consulting and odd
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by fogzen 8y ago
I have as few bills as possible. Just rent, phone, gas, and health insurance. No Netflix or other entertainment subscriptions, no amazon prime, no mortgage etc. I don’t have the latest phone or clothing, I don’t buy things I don’t absolutel
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by fogzen 8y ago
Best thing I did for my social life was stop working in tech and using tech as much as possible. I visit the same cafe every morning and now know all the regulars. I stopped buying groceries online and go to the store now. I call friends in
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by fogzen 8y ago
Having data on someone doesn’t constitute any kind of damage. So I don’t understand how I benefit from this at all. If my data is hacked, I’m not compensated. If my data is misused, I’m not compensated. Nothing has really changed to protect

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