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by jppope 5y ago
As a tangental point, I would like to point out that the United States has ~5 trillion in tax revenue annually. From which we spend the most per capita in categories such as education, and healthcare. We are continually rated worst in the d
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by jppope 5y ago
- The Charisma Myth. It focuses more on meta skills like projecting presence, but is useful to start seeing non-verbal communication as effective as well - The Presentation Skills of Steve Jobs. The books is really about presentation
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My question is: How is this benefitting Amazon? Which I would love to hear everyone's thoughts on why. Is it a competitive/recruiting move to have unskilled workers prefer working for Amazon over Walmart/Target? Do they belie
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by jppope 5y ago
I think we would all be happier if hacker news rejected sites that had a paywall... unfortunately, those companies keep posting articles on HN ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. And so it goes
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I still haven't figured out why solutions like MagLev trains aren't used for this problem...
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correct. We will definitely not love it
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1) Don't watch TV, streaming, youtube, etc 2) Be healthy. Make sure to eat well, exercise, etc (to keep your energy levels up) 3) Don't burn small amounts of time (you can get a lot done in 15 min) 4) Avoid unintentiona
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by jppope 6y ago
Capital gains is levied on assets other than Stocks - such as bonds, real estate, royalties.
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by jppope 6y ago
The US tax policy is beneficial towards real estate in general- you can debate the reasons why but some things that are commonly brought up: 1) real estate is relatively illiquid, which encourages long term investment 2) real estate
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100% but those debts are unsustainable as a society.
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Yes, BUT... that money is reinvested... you are allowed a 1 time deduction for your primary residence to downsize... otherwise you are always going to pay the tax when you eventually try to realize gains.
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by jppope 6y ago
My biggest issue with all the "Tax the Wealthy" stuff... we have 5 Trillion to work with... how much more do they need? What will they possibly spend it on given we already spend more than other countries on pretty much everything
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When I read stories like this I am always curious how "real" they are... surely San Francisco would fall into the ocean if everything was like this story. But... when I talk to people in San Francisco it sounds like this sort of t
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Just go where you want to work and try to get the comp that you want.
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+2x - The logs are funny. they'll duplicate, show up late, etc
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Couple of notes I'd like to throw out there... - The Serverless Framework does help ease quite a few of your concerns, local development is made much easier (they have a node server for js development). The company working on it is
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by jppope 6y ago
Deno is meant to be an improvement on the nodejs ecosystem. Ryan Dahl took everything that he learned from node and improved upon it with Deno. There are a series of features like native typescript support, having single executable, url imp
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by jppope 6y ago
I left. So it's at least a little correct
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A Small Change That Could Make Y Combinator (and You?) More Successful(jonpauluritis.com)
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- Go through your linkedin/twitter/instagram account. Find people who would be interested. Send them an email/message. - Search online for thought leaders, industry people that work in that specific field. Could be as
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if you're in California you should be able to use CCPA to remove the account
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by jppope 6y ago
Lambda uses containers vs. cloudflare workers use v8 isolates. v8 Isolates are much much faster and more secure for serverless functions. Deno seems to be targeting cloudflare as a competitor for their service... But it's probable that
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by jppope 6y ago
My Favs: - Cloudflare - AWS s3 - Github pages - Google
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I read articles/blog posts 30 min a day and Books 30-45 min a day. The articles are 98% Non-fiction, the books are whatever I'm into at the time. This has been more Non-fiction over the last 10 years because I binged the classics
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Happy to see the IPO and the general success of the company. Digital Ocean does a great job and I'm looking forward to them competing with AWS, GCP, Azure, etc
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I've always been curious about why wealthy(ish) individuals in free societies don't want to have (more) children. Theoretically one would expect the opposite. Subjectively, I see individuals that would prefer to go on vacation the
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hmm... I've been to WebMD and the answer to any question is that I have cancer.
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by jppope 6y ago
First, This question is a lot deeper than probably can be answered in a HN comment... but in theory the only thing that changed for you by working from home is the amount of time that you "see" other humans... I would offer that t
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Most of the US is W2'd with a house, limited investments, with some dependents sprinkled in utilizing the standard deduction... it wouldn't be that hard. For everyone else there is a justification for tax professionals.
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Ask HN: Who's Working on Killer Robots?
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