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by loumf 13y ago
Exactly. And these things can be enforced by style checkers, so you don't even need to have good habits.
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by loumf 13y ago
My recollection of Eiffel (from 10+ years ago) is that it's a more pure OO system where memory allocation isn't usually done raw, but more like Java or C# -- in the context of constructing an object. If you were writing OpenSSL in
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by loumf 13y ago
He's right, but he's disingenuous in saying that random line duplication can't cause catastrophic problems in Eiffel. This very specific bug can't happen in Eiffel, but the class of bug can (bug caused by bad merge or a
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by loumf 13y ago
It's not just the number of apps. It's the cumulative hours spent in them. As Gruber pointed out, Facebook is winning big here, and their apps are webby. As a category, games are used a lot and non webby. That would be the main co
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by loumf 13y ago
He addressed this. It's not just HTTP, it's the inclusion of web views of browser content and linking between apps that makes something webby as opposed to just an internet-enabled app.
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by loumf 13y ago
In the US, a court can also rule that you were de-facto employed. There was a famous case with Microsoft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permatemp#Vizcaino_v._Microsoft This happens all of the time. Large US companies s
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by loumf 13y ago
Did you not owe tax earned by CA companies consulting? It was my understanding that work in the state for an in-state client was income taxable (yes, that understanding came from my accountant). If yours thinks differently, I'd like an
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by loumf 13y ago
Does it leak the fact that you have a coinbase account? That seems private as well.
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by loumf 13y ago
New York (NYC) Thomson Reuters Working on the team that makes Eikon and the underlying platform. You can learn about the group's work, mission, and leadership by jumping to 1:45:00 in this video https://www.media-server.com
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by loumf 13y ago
They don't have findings yet. They are predicting 17% conversion. After a year or so, we'd have to revisit this group to see what happened. At that point, it would be fair to take the "Future Founder" label into accoun
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by loumf 13y ago
This would be a problem if bitcoins were illiquid. They are not, so it's easily solved. The IRS simple rule is to treat all income as incurring tax on the moment it is received. They make allowances for things that are not liquid.
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by loumf 13y ago
Ahh. By the time this information filtered to me in 2001/2, it became -- exercising options is always a taxable event. So that's the rule I live by and always make sure that there is a way to get cash simultaneously. I didn&#x2
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by loumf 13y ago
It would not be prudent to exercise options that are not liquid. There is no benefit to doing that. You don't, for example, usually get meaningful voting rights with those shares.
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by loumf 13y ago
I don't think this has anything to do with basis. The difference is that mining the coin is considered a tax event -- so you pay tax on the mined value -- with the cost being deductible. This makes sense because the coin is liquid an
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by loumf 13y ago
These days this is quite automatible. Large purchases, like houses and cars, are public.
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by loumf 13y ago
The main thing that's a pain (extrapolating from stock) is if you buy and sell a lot. The tax is on the gain, but which one did you sell -- you need to keep track of each price you bought (and how many) and offset the amounts against
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by loumf 13y ago
The IRS requires that you send them a form every year where you voluntarily tell them your income and sign it, swearing that it's true or risk penalties of fines or jail. How is that not enough control?
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by loumf 13y ago
Do you know (remember) the mechanics of how the AMT affected this? Were you given stock that you didn't have a chance to sell? My understanding that only the initial grant of stock and the subsequent selling are taxable -- and didn&#
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by loumf 13y ago
Because you need to commit a felony to not just tell them on your tax forms.
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by loumf 13y ago
Taxes are typically paid on profit. BTC are not the only things with cost to acquire and carry (e.g. Cattle) -- and I believe those costs are taken into account.
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by loumf 13y ago
That's a good question. You never realized the gain. What tax would you owe if you bought a diamond for $1, it went up to $10, and then got stolen. My guess would be nothing -- but I am not an accountant.
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by loumf 13y ago
Miners are taxed at the time they are mined. This is probably consistent with diamonds.
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by loumf 13y ago
Mostly this happened to people that got bad advice (I really hope all of the entrepreneurs reading this site are smarter now). For most, the issue was exercising their options. This is a tax event -- and the tax is owed on the difference i
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by loumf 13y ago
According the article this is not true. The tax event is turning the bitcoins into currency or spending them. So, the issue could be you have $1,000,000 of bitcoin, and you spend it. You now owe capital gains on the difference in price be
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by loumf 13y ago
At large enough amounts, the IRS routinely investigates large accounts no matter how they are held. For example, in cocaine and cash. At some point you spend the money, and the difference in spending and taxes paid gets their attention.
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by loumf 13y ago
Bell Lab's results are widely known. I'll just point to two: C and the Transistor, as being pretty hard to beat (there's much more). In any case, the parent commenters point wasn't the difference in the two research lab
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by loumf 13y ago
Your comment gave me a sudden craving for great sourdough bread. I ran out my door to the local bakery and literally got the last loaf of the day.
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by loumf 13y ago
Twitter is perhaps not the best idea for them, then. I would bet you can do a city level tag just based on who you follow. I certainly follow an order of magnitude more local people than any other place -- no tweets even necessary.
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by loumf 13y ago
The location of my home is in public records and also the white pages. Anybody that wanted to do something bad to me via my address can find out where I live a lot easier than with Twitter. Also, they are only getting the city.
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by loumf 13y ago
My bookshelf has adjustable heights and putting all the tall books together means I make the best use of space.

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