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by hundt 11y ago
I am not any kind of lawyer, but my understanding is that each state follows its own rules and does not defer to the rules of any other state just because you live, work, or registered your business there. So for the states that follow UDIT
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by hundt 11y ago
> You will pay taxes anywhere your business has an economic nexus. For almost all of you, this will be "where you do the work that earns the money." Importantly, this is not not not not not where your customers are [...] This s
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by hundt 11y ago
Although that appears to be true for software or paintings you create yourself (see discussion below), I don't think it's actually true for software or paintings that you bought. In those cases you would deduct the fair market val
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by hundt 11y ago
From Publication 551, "Basis of Assets" "The basis of an intangible asset is usually the cost to buy or create it." They don't mention software specifically, but they say that for patents and copyrights you can only
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by hundt 11y ago
I'm not sure there was a prior "31" but here's the code with the "32": https://rpw.sh/blog/2015/12/21/the-backdoored-backdoor/
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by hundt 11y ago
Security researchers out there: on what side of "the line" do you view this kind of exploitation to be? It was not done for nefarious purposes, but it did involve intentionally accessing resources that were clearly not intended to
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by hundt 11y ago
Do the police officers actually get punished in Germany?
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by hundt 11y ago
The author's points about advertising and hidden fees are well-taken. Regarding "Stop charging proportional fees": if Vanguard, who charges proportional fees, is operating "at cost" as the author claims, then what i
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by hundt 11y ago
One reason could be so that you could verify that your information was sent to the IRS with the correct SSN.
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Git time travel(github.com)
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by hundt 12y ago
I volunteer through the IRS-funded program to help low-income people file their taxes.[1] I see a few dozen returns per year, and I don't know how representative they are of the "typical" return. I would say maybe 30% of them
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by hundt 12y ago
From the blog post it sounds like you primarily plan to be used as a "funnel" for employers that engage you, where you are like a super-recruiter bringing candidates that you have qualified yourself. Do you plan for there to be an
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by hundt 12y ago
As I read it, that's a promise to users, not a statement about their balance sheet. It does not preclude the situation 'Animats is talking about, where they currently have less BTC than they credit their customers with, but they p
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by hundt 12y ago
If you're curious what was "deemed sufficient" you can read the court opinions from when Viacom sued YouTube/Google (and lost). [1] As I read it, the only additional "protection" that Google was required to imp
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by hundt 12y ago
Your first program does as you expect, but then the instruction pointer gets incremented by 3, so it goes on. If you modify the last line to "11111101" then when the instruction pointer is increased by 3 it will overflow back to 0
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by hundt 12y ago
Well, one of the complaints of the article was that the app store does not support paid upgrades, so by "a lump sum single payment" grandparent probably meant that the lump sum would entitle the user to all future upgrades, which
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by hundt 12y ago
You seem to believe the point of the email was to convince Joseph that Acme was better than FooCorp. I suspect that Joseph already knew that, and the Acme CEO knew that Joseph knew that, and the point of the CEO's email was to put th
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by hundt 12y ago
I interpreted him as agreeing with you--he is saying that the "digit-heads" and "computer geeks" don't understand that the problem is political, not technological.
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by hundt 12y ago
Try microcorruption.com--it's pretty accessible to anyone who understands basic C programming concepts (like stacks and null-terminated strings) and the challenges have a nice progression in difficulty and complexity.
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by hundt 12y ago
This is not an example of a unilateral agreement because: - Dropbox allows you to opt out of the commitment to arbitration. - If you agree to always arbitrate then the exception for intellectual property disputes applies to both parties, no
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by hundt 12y ago
no edit: source: http://www.irs.gov/publications/p526/ar02.html#en_US_2013_pu...
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by hundt 13y ago
* It's extra hassle/paperwork. * Employees have less incentive to stay because they won't run into the AMT "handcuff" situation (where if they leave they have to exercise their options or lose them, and they can&#x2
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by hundt 13y ago
"One way I've heard it done is you sign a letter authorizing the company to buy back the unvested shares if you leave" That is the only way I have heard of early exercise working. "Under this rubrick, you owe no taxes at
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by hundt 13y ago
You can early exercise non-ISO options if your stock agreement allows it (also ISO but it's a little more complicated). If you also file an 83(b) election then you are indeed treated for tax purposes as if all the shares vested immedia
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by hundt 13y ago
This is indeed what happens if the option itself (and not just the underlying security) is actively traded. [1] However in that case, when you receive the option, you have taxable income equal to the current FMV of the option (determined by
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by hundt 13y ago
Do you deny the article's claim that the predatory trading is part of what enables them to keep the spread low? Or do you think it would be worth the bigger spread (and the associated costs to retail investors) to better reward the big
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by hundt 13y ago
"If you had acquired them through a dividend reinvestment plan (DRIP) average market price over time is exactly what you'd use." I think that is allowed for mutual funds, but not stocks. http://www.irs.gov/Hel
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by hundt 13y ago
My understanding is that "offering an HSA option" without employer contributions is unattractive to the employee because it requires a high-deductible plan, and the savings from the associated lower premiums are realized mostly (o
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by hundt 13y ago
"Stock options that are subject to an early exercise provision would no longer qualify for ISO treatment." Not sure exactly what you mean by this, but I believe the same ISO rules apply if you exercise early: you don't owe ta
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by hundt 13y ago
If your stock option plan allows you to "early exercise" (exercise before the options vest--this gives you restricted shares that vest on the same schedule as the options you exercised) then you can file an 83(b) for those restric

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