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by habosa 6y ago
The lawyers who work at all of these firms who make large-scale international corporate tax avoidance possible should be ashamed of themselves. They are stealing from their fellow citizens. When big fraud scandals occur (Enron, Wirecard) th
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by habosa 6y ago
There's a great club in Berlin called "://about blank" So if you're gonna Google it, don't use the URL bar.
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by habosa 6y ago
I agree but also want to point out how sad this is. In the past 50 years or so the world changed. You can no longer win by just working for a salary and putting your extra money in a savings account and collecting a pension if you were luc
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by habosa 6y ago
Huh I did not know that and I guess most news outlets don’t either! One more reason why voters can’t really be expected to make the right decision on 40 ballot measures.
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by habosa 6y ago
Regardless of how you feel about AB5, you should vote No on Prop 22 for one reason: > Amending Proposition 22 would require a seven-eights (87.5%) vote in each chamber of the California State Legislature and the governor's signature
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by habosa 6y ago
Been using HN Replies for years, not sure why anyone comments on HN without it! Thanks for making a great free product.
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by habosa 6y ago
One of my co-workers made a fun sort of HTML quine: https://firebase.tools It's a script you execute using curl | bash but it uses bash comments to contain HTML and CSS to prettyprint itself in the browser. As far as I know
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by habosa 6y ago
We're working on Firestore backups. Haven't heard many people ask for Storage backups though ... so I don't think that's on the roadmap at the moment.
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by habosa 6y ago
It definitely doesn’t have to be that way. I work on Firebase and I’ve spent most of the last year specifically working on our local development experience for our serverless backend products: https://firebase.google.com/do
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by habosa 6y ago
[Firebaser here] that’s not quite accurate. For cloud functions they’re literally the same. Your Firebase function is actually a GCP function that you can manage behind the scenes. With Cloud Firestore (our serverless DB) that’s the case
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by habosa 6y ago
In Deaths of Despair [0] the authors explain how the economy in the US basically bifurcated. Nearly all gains go to those with post-secondary education. The large population of Americans without a college degree is not experiencing the boom
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by habosa 6y ago
Treating people as your adversary is the surest way to get them to act like it. That's true of employees, customers, and strangers. If my boss tracked me like this I'd put a good amount of effort into getting around the tracking.
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by habosa 6y ago
At Google a large set of people seem generally upset that you have try hard to get promoted. There seems to be an idealism that the system should somehow drag the best people upward while they keep their focus on doing the best work. Well y
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by habosa 6y ago
This would make violators "willful": https://www.thetaxlawyer.com/tax-fraud-tax-crimes/informatio...
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by habosa 6y ago
In 2017 I played with a bunch of cryptocurrencies and made a small amount of money, which I decided to report. Oh my god was that a pain. No help from the exchanges whatsoever. Had to compile a huge spreadsheet myself to make a big custom
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by habosa 6y ago
Scrimba is basically magic. It's a video of code but when you click on it ... suddenly you're in an editor. It's such a fantastic format. Imagine if every coding tutorial video on YouTube could let you do that! Oh and the t
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by habosa 6y ago
I truly can't imagine someone donating a large sum in the US and not reporting it on their taxes. The tax preference for donations in America is the primary driver of large individual donations.
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by habosa 6y ago
This should be considered tax fraud for the donors. The donations they made are charitable contributions, which they surely deducted from their income taxes. When you donate to charity you can only deduct the amount in excess of the benefi
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by habosa 6y ago
So I think we can all agree that Mozilla's path to success is not obvious and running it is strategically harder than running most companies. You have to find a way to make your free product compete with Google / Microsoft without
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by habosa 6y ago
I believe that article calls me out in point #6: > Bad Reason #6: I care about multiple issues! I want to end disease so I give to an anti-disease charity, I want to end crime so I give to an anti-crime charity, and I want to end poverty
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by habosa 6y ago
I probably won't use this (I'm fine with my current editors) but I want to give the creators credit for what looks like a very complete and feature-packed first release. So many things on day one! Nice to see software that look
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by habosa 6y ago
Agree whole-heartedly that everyone should give more. If you find a way to give automatically (ideally from your paycheck, not your credit card) you never even feel it. It's important to recognize that some causes are not as cost-effe
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by habosa 6y ago
If I were Facebook I'd offer to pay for Oracle to buy it. What better way to kill off an upstart social media app popular with young people than to have Oracle run it! Zuck must be thrilled.
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by habosa 6y ago
Really great overview, there are so many pieces of gear that are very hard for a layman to understand. Their descriptons can be self-referential. I've been getting into audio / synthesizers a bit and it is such a hard world to
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by habosa 6y ago
At work we were asked to upgrade to Catalina for security/maintainability reasons. There was a list of "Known Issues" with Catalina linked in the email asking us to upgrade. The list was comical. Had at least 5 things on it
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by habosa 6y ago
There is a fantastic book that covers this topic called "The End of Alchemy" by Mervyn King who was Governor of the Bank of England during the 2007 crisis: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30231791-the
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by habosa 6y ago
This is all so true. Updates are a crutch for the software developer (us). If you want to ship on a certain date you can punt your feature/bug backlog to v2. As a user if you download a Day 0 release of something you pretty much don&
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by habosa 6y ago
Since many people here are not discussing the actual article, let me copy-paste the author's conclusion: > It's not so much the volume of interactions Black Americans have with the police that troubles them or differentiates th
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Semantic Reactor: Explore NLP in Google Sheets(blog.tensorflow.org)
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by habosa 6y ago
Is there a way I can see Hacker News comments alongside the article with a chrome extension or something? I normally click to the comments here first for tab management purposes (comments contain a link to the article but reverse is not tr

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