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by overdrivetg 10y ago
I can't upvote this enough. If the IRS is ascribing value X to stock options I can't liquidate, I should be able to pay my tax in the form of those options at whatever value I am being taxed on them. Of course, the devil's i
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by overdrivetg 10y ago
Not saying anything about this particular breakdown, but I do have a personal story about how not all typology breakdowns are useless: Years ago I was working with two guys - one had become a close friend and one was a guy that I didn&#x2
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by overdrivetg 10y ago
Vesting. You can't exercise unvested options - the company needs to have set up an early exercise option as a part of it's stock plan for this to work. But whether they offer an early exercise program is a very good question to a
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by overdrivetg 10y ago
Well... Otherwise we are basically shipping them more water from drought-stricken California, which isn't the greatest thing either: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26124989
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by overdrivetg 11y ago
Here's a simple chart, with what look like credible sources: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-de...
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by overdrivetg 11y ago
There's something there, although I've thought a lot about this too and here's my free idea for @vs2370 or LinkedIn: let me control how many job opportunities I receive (unlimited, 1/day, 1/week, 1/mo, etc
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by overdrivetg 11y ago
The way I've found to reframe that conversation: For some reason I chose for that person to cut me off in traffic. What message am I trying to send to myself? Or maybe by being cut off now, I prevented myself from being in a fatal ac
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by overdrivetg 11y ago
Wow, you guys are lucky (or maybe I'm just unlucky?). I guess it's hard to avoid generalizing from our own experiences though, glad to hear some of us made it through unscathed ;-)
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by overdrivetg 11y ago
Yeah, I can believe things are different since the 80's. Nerds seem to be much higher on the social totem pole now IMO. Also can I now say that I feel the the old guy going 'WELLLLL, back in MY day..." :-/
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by overdrivetg 11y ago
I was that nerd, although admittedly I was only in one real fight (in grade school) and I didn't have too many problems beyond that. [edit] I guess I didn't see too much actual violent fighting otherwise beyond (I guess) normal ma
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by overdrivetg 11y ago
Wow, I moved around the US every 3 or 4 years growing up and saw this as a very predictable, common pattern. Although I guess I was mainly in larger cities/schools...
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by overdrivetg 11y ago
In the USA, if you were a nerd that was not the victim of bullies and physical violence growing up in grade school, you would be in the slim, slim minority. I'd actually be quite surprised if anyone escaped some kind of violent alte
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by overdrivetg 11y ago
So the logical extension where I can't see the link is that cavemen way way back must have either have been slaves, or had better lives than everyone on today's slavery spectrum. Is that right?
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by overdrivetg 11y ago
You are trolling [1] here [2], right? [1] http://racerelations.about.com/od/historyofracerelations/a/T... [2] http://stanford.edu/group/womenscourage/cgi-bin/blogs/family..
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by overdrivetg 11y ago
I used to have to leave a winter coat at my desk (in Austin) at work in the summer. Figure that one out!
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by overdrivetg 11y ago
Just for clarity, someone told me that 5-MEO-DMT is sometimes mistakenly called "DMT", but it is totally different from the "machine elves" N,N-DMT version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-MeO-DMT
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by overdrivetg 11y ago
These guys are interesting, but may only be in Los Angeles: http://www.getfunship.com/ They deliver & pick up activity-specific gear. As others have said, not sure if there is enough of a market for it, but access cod
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by overdrivetg 11y ago
Not sure if trolling, but if supply (housing) increases faster than demand (immigrants) prices go down (assuming you believe in Economics 101). You could argue that it's impossible to build fast enough to surpass immigration rates, b
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by overdrivetg 11y ago
I think the parent comment is saying it could incentivize owner-occupied properties over rentals by untethering the taxable values for long-time landlords who are benefiting from Prop 13. Of course, you'd probably also have to drop ren
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by overdrivetg 11y ago
If you're thinking along these lines, you'll enjoy reading this post[1] by Venkatesh Rao. Stephen Fry leaving is the exact scenario of "evaporative cooling" expressed there, and you are exactly describing the process of
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by overdrivetg 11y ago
For the life of me I don't understand why Google+ didn't just target professional use cases and kill these guys. The bar is just soooo low and makes such strategically obvious sense. Actually, they could still probably do it - i
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by overdrivetg 11y ago
As he explained it, they will only dismiss the ticket against you (the registered owner receiving the ticket in the mail) if you identify the actual driver - so you have to go in and roll over on the driver if you want to get out of the t
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by overdrivetg 11y ago
I'm curious how is it legal to pull over a vehicle based on the license plate without knowing who is actually driving the car? On a related note, my driving school teacher told us if we're married register your spouse's car i
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by overdrivetg 11y ago
Yes, totally agreed (/probably poorly described) - start revenue neutral as you have, then the following year just use the % of GDP from this year as the initial "set point". Then you get both: revenue-neutral cold start pl
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by overdrivetg 11y ago
Good overview. I think one thing that gets left out is how do you handle systemic sustainability: ie "if everyone quit their jobs and went on BI, there would be no one working to pay taxes to pay for the BI expenses". This could
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by overdrivetg 11y ago
LMGTFY: http://www.cnbc.com/2015/06/11/pay-up-slowpokes-or-get-out-o... Here is a specific law in Utah, for example: http://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title41/Chapter6A/41-6a-S704.html
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by overdrivetg 11y ago
One year if I read it right - see "What is perpetual fallback license?" https://jbssales.zendesk.com/hc/en-gb
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by overdrivetg 11y ago
Twin Peaks probably counts, but the other two are wayyy outside of what IMO people would consider "SF".
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by overdrivetg 11y ago
This should really be solved by letting you transfer (or somehow attach) the shares to the IRS at the value they "believe" they are worth in lieu of the tax on those shares. Or better yet get rid of the whole AMT mess entirely.
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by overdrivetg 11y ago
Also been there, done that. The other company ask if you have the relationship would be to extend your option period out for a bunch of years - see Pinterest as a precedent (7 years) [1] Start with whatever executive you have the best relat

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