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Those features are really only viable at the scale of large commercial tax software, not the efforts described in the submitted post. PDFs aren't exactly used in a standardized way, so trying to make this work for even a fraction of th
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Author seems to mention that Amazon did give him the chance to take FMLA, and he decided against it. > I had a long talk with HR. The response from them was, okay, you have two options here: You go on family leave, or you can perform. Th
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I think the relationship between the forms is a good thing to point out, but I also feel that simply calling them "verbs" and "nouns" goes a bit too far and is potentially confusing. For example, nouns can be the subject
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FYI, Dell no longer uses the Inspiron brand for gaming laptops. The successor line is called "G Series".
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In my experience, the Chinese results tend to happen when the entire query is in kanji. Queries that have at least some kana generally aren't an issue. If it doesn't make sense to use kana, then I'll sometimes add "site:
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My impression is that the investors were simply rich and powerful, not necessarily the most skilled. > All of the money Theranos raised came from private placements, fundraising that’s restricted to wealthy investors and disclosed to the
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If you know of better sources, I'd love to take a look. I can read Japanese, but I'm way better at searching stuff up in English.
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The 83(b) is not for the option per se, but the shares you own after you exercise the option. > ... if the stock purchased pursuant to the exercise of an option is subject to a substantial risk of forfeiture, the service provider may mak
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It's base pay, more or less. > How are "wages" defined by the OEWS survey? > The following are excluded from the collection of OEWS wage data: > Non-production bonuses > Stock bonuses > Year-end bonuses https:
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I don't see that. I believe parent comment is also talking about "cross-industry inside Japan". > Salaries and prestige are relatively low for *developers in Japan*, so it's relatively easy for other jobs to compete f
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You sure about that? I came across two different surveys of Japanese workers that suggest women in tech are paid relatively well compared to women in other industries. [1] https://kimi.wiki/work/income ("IT, Commu
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Okay, so let me present you with my view of the game. It's going to be very different from yours, and it's fine if you disagree. In fact, in the first few years I played, I would have had a hard time agreeing as well. But I'd
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It looks like for CPU/firmware TPMs, not all motherboard manufacturers supported it on their 100/200-series models. https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/motherboards-that-su...
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My reading is that "successful" means "makes a lot of money for the developer". It sounds like your concern is about the effect on the consumer, which is covered in a separate footnote. https://www.kalzumeus.c
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That's not how the foreign earned income exclusion works. For example, if you meet the 330-day physical presence test using the 12 months between April 1, 2020 and March 31, 2021, you can qualify for a prorated amount of the FEIE. htt
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The answer is in FTB Pub 1004. It depends on whether you sell NSOs, ISOs in a qualifying disposition, or ISOs in a disqualifying disposition. https://www.ftb.ca.gov/forms/misc/1004.html
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FTB Pub 1004, Section D goes into ISOs in greater detail. https://www.ftb.ca.gov/forms/misc/1004.html#D-Incentive-Stoc...
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Not zero for self-employed folks. Self-employment tax (Social Security and Medicare) is unaffected by the Foreign Tax Credit or the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion. Unless you're paying into a foreign social security plan in a treaty c
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The reason I ask is because for the forms I mentioned, it's very easy to either make an error or fail to file a form you were required to. The fact that you mentioned "paper file" is a bit worrisome. You were required to file
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Did you file Form 2555 or Form 1116? Were you also required to file FBAR or Form 8938? About how much time did you spend on tax preparation yourself? If you used a paid preparer, how much did that cost you?
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That's not true; they are in fact citizens under US law. They may not have an SSN or a passport, but neither is a condition for citizenship. Also, at least from a tax perspective, if you plan on remaining a US citizen, you might benefi
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To be honest, it depends on how much time you plan to spend on this. If this is only dozens or low hundreds of person-hours, then just do things at your own pace. Don't worry about releasing a viable product. I'd guess that you fi
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Sadly, this is a long way from being production-ready. It really does take a lot of work to create a reasonably feature-complete tax preparation software. Purely judging by 2020 standards, since that's what's nominally supported:
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The post I cited is from 2015, which still describes a 3-section SAT. As far as I know, the SAT format remained the same from 2005 until March 2016.
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Seconding this. The former Writing section was not just the essay: it also had multiple-choice questions. Effectively, the essay itself was worth between 100 and 200 points, and the multiple-choice made up the rest. https://blog.
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The temperature of your hands is cooler than your core temperature: about 33 degrees Celsius (91 degrees Fahrenheit). Obviously comfort is subjective, but I think the difference is large enough for some to feel uncomfortable. Especially whe
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> You grant us and our legal successors the right to store, archive, parse, and display Your Content, and make incidental copies, as necessary to provide the Service, including improving the Service over time > The “Service” refers
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Well, parent comment mentioned Mac, so the correct answer is Option, Shift, and - (hyphen). There are many other characters that Macs can type with the Option key.
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San Juan is the capital of Puerto Rico. San José is the capital of Costa Rica, but there are also many other cities around the world with that name.
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As reported in the article, Thiel's income was below the income limit in the year of contribution, and he only needed one year's contribution to execute the strategy. Also, income doesn't matter nowadays. Because Congress rem
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