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by hundt 9y ago
Did you take notes on these conversations? I'm very curious :)
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by hundt 9y ago
Here is a quote from my insurance policy (Erie Insurance): > “We” do not pay for loss resulting directly or indirectly from...the discharge, dispersal, release or escape of any solid, liquid, gaseous or thermal irritant, pollutant or con
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by hundt 9y ago
Thanks for the response! My thinking was that you might sign requests so that a request that was intercepted or inadvertently logged would not contain sufficient credentials to authorize arbitrary other requests for the indefinite future. I
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by hundt 9y ago
Do you recommend signing requests?
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by hundt 9y ago
> When the city runs things, prices become a social justice issue, which forces prices too low. [...] If 50 Mbps is seen as “good enough” by voters, there will be a huge incentive to do the minimum required to hit that speed in order to
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by hundt 10y ago
I mean it might be, right? Just like when anyone else lobbies the government, Inuit might be asking for something that is good or something that is bad. In this case I think they are right.
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by hundt 10y ago
It sounds like the 99% satisfaction rate was "of the people who filed their taxes using ReadyReturn" so it presumably excludes those who observed, or suspected, that the result was not correct and made alternative arrangements. Th
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by hundt 10y ago
It's not a stupid question at all. In practice the U.S. tax code is not quite as simple as "Here is the tax burden for your income level; tell us if you have any deductions." Right off the bat, you need to determine your &quo
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by hundt 10y ago
FWIW, here's an email I sent to Prof. Bankman last April: --- I read with interest your letter about the Tax Filing Simplification Act of 2016, and your article "Simple Filing for Average Citizens: The California ReadyReturn.&quot
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by hundt 10y ago
I can't reply to your comment, so I guess I have to do it here. I feel like you are just listing reasons why having health insurance is good. I know all those reasons. That's not the question I was asking. But I think I probably a
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by hundt 10y ago
Yes, I understand those points, and I tried to make that clear in my comment, but I guess I failed. More people are insured now, against more risks. I get it. My question is, now that we as a society are paying for these extra services (exp
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by hundt 10y ago
One thing I wonder about ACA: it seems like the young/healthy who bought their own insurance have had their premiums go way up compared to before (and also they are penalized if they don't buy insurance, so presumably more of them
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by hundt 10y ago
> I don't know why there is this need to believe that ordinary voters aren't the ones ultimately culpable for the state of the justice system in the U.S. I wonder the same thing. It seems to me to be a major obstacle, perhaps
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by hundt 10y ago
Ah, good point about the Roth contributions! I'd forgotten about that difference.
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by hundt 10y ago
> You should open a SEP-IRA, which is a special account type that is similar to a 401k in mechanics but has very, very generous funding limits. Actually, both account types have the same yearly limit; it's just that the employer can
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by hundt 10y ago
I think I'm missing something. Why does the fact that the price is inflated by subsidies mean they can't advertise what it is?
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by hundt 10y ago
Not when you compute actual tax rate as opposed to marginal. For example a single person in SF making $250,000 a year will pay 35-40% of her income to taxes, depending on how much sales tax she pays. [1] That's assuming she does not co
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by hundt 10y ago
No, that rule is only for donations to certain private foundations. If you give the "complex assets" directly to the charity you are entitled to a deduction of the fair market value[1]. However, donating such assets directly can b
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by hundt 10y ago
Yes, once you give something to a DAF the only other place it can go is to a charity (modulo weird things like the DAF going bankrupt); the DAF offers no new opportunities to dodge taxes.
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by hundt 10y ago
Think about how you will get back to the box you got assigned to. Like what do you have to see in order to return to box 89, where you started?
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by hundt 10y ago
1000 is a pretty small number of trials. Also note the docs on random.shuffle: Note that for even rather small len(x), the total number of permutations of x is larger than the period of most random number generators; this implies that most
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by hundt 10y ago
No, because in your example both boxes A and C have name B in them. That's against the rules.
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by hundt 10y ago
It's because you start with the box labeled (via the initial random labeling) with your name. If you cycle back to it then it means that you found your name on a piece of paper, since the next box you open is always the one matching th
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by hundt 10y ago
"If you lost the auction, you could also pay the difference between the value of your bids and the retail price and buy the item that way."
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by hundt 10y ago
Yes, although people claim (speculate?) that the stacking may result in a jury thinking they can "split the difference" and convict on one count but not the other, not realizing that the end result is the same as convicting on all
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by hundt 10y ago
One issue could be that the crimes foreign terrorists are accused of tend to be particularly heinous, so courts would be more likely than usual to make one-sided rulings to make sure they got convicted. A potential example can be seen in th
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by hundt 10y ago
FWIW, although I am not a lawyer, I do not read that the same way you do, to say that the waiver is unenforceable. Rather, it says that the corporation cannot unilaterally take away the right of inspection. That does not mean you cannot giv
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by hundt 10y ago
Thanks, that was a very interesting read!
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by hundt 10y ago
The article presents the issue as a partisan one, but on the Democrats' side Elizabeth Warren is currently championing a bill [0] directing the IRS to reduce their cooperation with third-party tax preparation services and develop their
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I.R.S. Fights Back Against House Republicans’ Attacks(nytimes.com)
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