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by josho 10y ago
The moment the money is spent on something seen as personal benefit then tax is owed. During an audit, if you did something funny like repeatedly pay for dinners between you and your wife claiming it was a business meeting between corp x &a
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by josho 10y ago
Your example of the yacht is already handled by the tax code (at least in Canada, likely everywhere else too). That is, if you take the yacht for weekend excursions that is a personal benefit and you should be paying tax on that. A tax acco
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by josho 10y ago
I'm surprised to hear that argument here. As technologists we typically see scale as a positive. So spreading a social safety net across a large and diverse population strikes me as utterly obvious. How do you see diversity and scale a
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by josho 10y ago
Europe is anything but homogeneous. There are places in Germany, France, etc that have been under rule by numerous nations. My grandparents considered themselves German and spoke German despite living in Russia. Regardless I've been sc
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by josho 10y ago
I suppose this is the natural consequence when you repeatedly release game sequels--your audience potentially grows tired of the same thing. Further, I'd argue that we are in the dark ages of gaming. Yes, game engines, broadband, and h
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by josho 10y ago
> limiting frequency or duration. Yes, that still seems arbitrary. The abuse seems to be related to people committing crimes or breaking noise bylaws, not how long they stay. So, legislation for the length of stay strikes me as addressin
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by josho 10y ago
I've only used the service for vacation homes (think cottages/cabins away from urban centres that would otherwise be vacant by the owner). Never really thought about the consequence for adding to house pricing pressures and rental
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by josho 10y ago
Seems like I wasn't clear. By commercial I meant something more than an individual with a business license, something more along the lines of a hostel experience where there is a lobby and staff like a security guard.
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by josho 10y ago
> What if there was a centralized way of accessing HTML + CSS + JS applications There is. The major OSs provide APIs to access the platform browser. The downside is you need a platform specific shim to set this up using native code. So,
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by josho 10y ago
> Great news! Why is this great news? Am I missing something or are you simply against short term rentals in general?
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by josho 10y ago
> Under an old North York bylaw, ... short-term home rentals must be seven days or more. Seems like an arbitrary law. There's got to be a better way to structure laws for short term rentals in a sharing economy. Or is the sharing ec
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by josho 10y ago
ask friends / family, often you are connected to a lawyer closer than you thought. If you still don't have a free/cheap resource then start CCing your lawyer on emails. Eg. 'I am writing to provide notice that you are no
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by josho 10y ago
Not really my area of expertise, but it strikes me as completely clear. The canary hasn't been updated and the tweet implicitly acknowledges that they are aware of the concerns that people have about the overdue update. I can only thin
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by josho 10y ago
> AppleScript never was a programming language for developers But, who is it for then? For general users they still made it too difficult to discover how to do things. Perhaps, the failing was simply with the documentation and discovery
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by josho 10y ago
Maybe this is all the natural progression towards the final marketing scheme. Eg. The automotive industry. Did you want the DLX, GS, or GX trim package? Obvious extreme sarcasm here. But it seems to be the trend.
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by josho 10y ago
Except I'm busy and don't have time to decipher what you do, so I'll bounce and find someone that can clearly articulate their service and how it helps me.
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by josho 10y ago
Nothing listed is a backdoor. US law means that Apple must turn over data when demanded by authorities. These are access logs or files stored on Apple servers. A backdoor would be granting access into your device so that authorities could a
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by josho 10y ago
I didn't realize extended attributes were such an obscure feature. I haven't been on windows for years, yet knew about this feature. I'm on OSX and every now and then see how apps are making interesting use of file attributes
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by josho 10y ago
One could also argue that an editor that loses extended file attributes when editing a file is broken. I would have preferred msft to have posted an article explaining that files have attributes and editors must not loose those attributes w
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by josho 10y ago
Yes, I confess that I am prejudiced and believe that black hat hackers per capita is greater in Russia than US. I believe that because of their looser laws around hacking than the US. Though, if you have evidence otherwise I'm open to
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by josho 10y ago
Isn't it trivial to guard against once you've setup 2FA? After the US conducted its own cyberattacks, they've been beating the drum on cyber security (I've personally seen one presentation from a high level official on b
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by josho 10y ago
Everyone should note that they intend the following change: > HSTS preloading required for A+ So, if this vanity metric is important for you, you may want to start thinking about getting yourself added, https://hstspreload.app
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by josho 10y ago
I'm paying as well for my personal account. But, I am having a hard time justifying switching my entire family over. A family of 4 is $20/mth, that's 25% of the cost of my internet connection and seems rather steep.
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by josho 10y ago
Perhaps its evidence that the NSA needs to shift resources from its data collections apparatus to securing our nation's own resources. But, no instead its used as evidence to beat the war drum.
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by josho 10y ago
The articles establish that the attacks came from Russia. But, I'm also under the impression that Russia is a hot bed for hacks in general, so the assertion that the attacks originated from Russia isn't saying much. I found the Se
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by josho 10y ago
I agree with all points. But, when the mistakes of Iraq (remember Powell's evidence for WMD?) are so recent, I have to ask haven't we learned anything? The solution is for the NSA to share their evidence to a third party and the t
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by josho 10y ago
For those that downvoted the parent, the NSA denied doing many of the activities that Snowden exposed. The US misled the public building their case to invade Iraq. Just two recent examples of where the government lied for their own interest
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by josho 10y ago
Has the NSA ever offered evidence for these allegations? The WSJ article linked says "this action originated from servers operated by a Russian company". That's rather weak evidence to offer up. Further, why is there no backl
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by josho 10y ago
The lesson that everyone should take here is that corporations change in ways that we could never imagine. (For those that are younger they may not remember Microsoft calling Linux a virus and setting its entire salesforce in motion to spre
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by josho 10y ago
As someone about to write a cron job, what ways do you see Cron fail? My assumption is that cron is robust and reliable, it's the job script itself that may fail silently and need monitoring, yes?

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