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by mark212 10y ago
Always subject to taxation by the US. There's a fairly high initial exemption for money earned abroad while living abroad. The only exception is Puerto Rico
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by mark212 10y ago
Agreed. Tough to follow this news report, though I came to the same conclusion as you.
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by mark212 10y ago
the vast majority of defendants plead guilty before trial because (1) there's a shit-ton of evidence of guilt and (2) they'll get a much better deal than going to trial. If you know you're going down, why not plead to three y
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by mark212 10y ago
I am a lawyer, and a former prosecutor and former defense attorney (I do civil law now). And invocation of your right to counsel is supposed to terminate all questioning. Very clear that it cannot be presented as evidence if the matter goes
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by mark212 10y ago
I had no idea this even existed and I'm excited to try it. Streisand Effect in action -- thanks RIAA for the tip!
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by mark212 10y ago
Number two is why I use it. My site has about 2300 pages and regenerating the whole thing when I tweak one part or another of the basic template or change themes is less than two seconds. Extraordinarily fast and encourages experimentation
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by mark212 10y ago
I know I speak for everyone in saying how delighted we are that the spam email we never signed up for and can't unsubscribe from (and never open) will be better looking on our phones. Thanks Google!
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by mark212 10y ago
He works his entire life and lives simply -- and the university uses his bequest to buy a new video scoreboard for the football stadium. Sad!
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by mark212 10y ago
I think the commenter meant that the usb Bluetooth dongles are so cheap it's barely worth even filing the return. I got mine two weeks ago for $7.50 and it's worked perfectly since. Not exactly a do-or-die investment.
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by mark212 10y ago
I just built one, my first, last month. Works just fine, including sleep / wake and upgrading a minor OS release and installing apps from the App Store. I used the TonyMac recommended set up, of which there are a ton of permutations, p
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by mark212 10y ago
My biggest criticism of this analysis is his wild overstatement of the benchmark return. Where in the world do you get 8% safely in equities and/or real estate? It's more like 3-5% because the world is awash in capital with precio
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by mark212 10y ago
I agree with your point, but you are vastly overstating the return on government bonds. Current yield on the 30 year is 2.31% and everything with a shorter maturity is way less than that.
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by mark212 10y ago
just curious -- but if one of your team said, Hey my spouse has a great opportunity in another city/state/country, and I love the job. Would you let her/him work remotely?
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by mark212 10y ago
Snobby or not, there's something really great about being able to make an app that has an icon on your phone. Easy to show friends, and it feels somewhat tangible. And practical experience. As a total noob programmer myself, stuff that
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by mark212 10y ago
exactly why I moved off of Digital Ocean a couple of years ago, after a similar incident.
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by mark212 10y ago
no, unpaid internships are very much alive and well. The federal judiciary uses them extensively, calling them "externs" instead of "interns" and it's up to the law school to give credits for the work. The entertain
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by mark212 10y ago
this was a lovely piece of writing, and quite touching.
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by mark212 11y ago
read more closely. The company is suing, not the other way around. The outsider is refusing to settle, so the company and founder took the logical and necessary step of bring a lawsuit for declaratory relief. On the facts as presented, the
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by mark212 11y ago
read the article before flaming. The author lays out a very well supported case for concluding that PLR wrote the E4M code then was hired by SecurStar to turn it into a commercial product. Also claims PLR was one of the TrueCrypt programmer
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by mark212 11y ago
not really a "bunch of patents." Four or five. There's an entirely separate lawsuit that was tried to a jury in federal court in San Jose that Apple won and has been upheld on appeal. Samsung has asked the Supreme Court [1] t
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by mark212 11y ago
the video compression patent is part of a standards package (if I remember right) and those have only minimal value. They have to be licensed to anyone on a "fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory" basis which means it's not
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by mark212 11y ago
well, that's exactly what the farmer in Texas (and her grandfather, and grandfather's grandfather) have been doing since Texas became a state. That's called property taxes and have been around for more than a century in the U
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by mark212 11y ago
no, in the US at any rate property taxes are scaled exactly by land value. Usual scheme is 1% or so of assessed value, which is typically recalculated yearly. Some states have "homestead" exemptions where the first, say, $150,000
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by mark212 11y ago
property taxes are virtually never the cause of foreclosure because every state law I've looked at (about 10) have long lead times before the government can sell the property at a tax sale to collect. What happened in the last crash (2
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by mark212 11y ago
read the article. He did talk to people "in management" at a couple of places and only one took the suspect ATM offline. demanding that he "work with at least one authority figure" is a bit naive in Mexico.
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by mark212 11y ago
As far as I can tell the argument goes like this: people are only likely to click on the number one or number two search result for a given search. Pushing favorable news stories about a candidate to the number one or number two spots (ins
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by mark212 11y ago
Not to be overly picky, but the three stars visible thing is when Shabbat ends on Saturday night, not when it begins. The start of Shabbat strictly speaking is when the sun dips below the horizon and is commemorated by the lighting of two s
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by mark212 11y ago
great response, Patrick. And count me in with the folks who love the longer emails. Your writing is invariably thoughtful and thorough. I think the long email is a great example of how it's better to have 1,000 people who love you rath
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by mark212 11y ago
tell that to Aldrich Ames. His coworkers reported him in 1989 for living a life of affluence (if I recall right, he bought a brand new Jaguar and actually drove it to CIA headquarters, even though he wasn't making more than $65k a year
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by mark212 11y ago
really? so Steve Cohen isn't part of the Wall Street establishment? How about Raj Rajaratnam and Rajat Gupta -- the last a board member at Goldman. Just started his two year stretch in the federal pen.

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