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by patio11 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13420777
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by patio11 9y ago
A lot of people use them for tracking. For example, you can use one underlying URL but have several shortened ones for various promotional places (email, Twitter, etc) and then use the analytics for the shortener to see which place is actua
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by patio11 9y ago
N = 1, but I used to put it in the second sentence of my emails. The unsubscribe rate was still measured in basis points, although I had an unusually high quality list relative to e.g. most e-commerce shops.
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by patio11 9y ago
Not an accountant and not your accountant but as someone who ran a small business: If you run a small business which grosses $X,000 per month, you will a) find that that is not that rare and b) benefit from keeping appropriate records of yo
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by patio11 9y ago
Short answer: It depends. More useful answer: It is the market expectation that salaried employees devote their work-related efforts to the benefit of their employer. This issue is work-related, even if not related to your job description;
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by patio11 9y ago
Pay ~$300k for a house in Tokyo, which will cost you +/- $10k down [+] and ~$1k a month for a mortgage. Japanese underwriting standards would consider this doable at a household income of approximately $2.8k a month or so. c.f. https:
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by patio11 9y ago
Japan is very much a nation of renters 62% of households in Japan own their own home. This is ~10% above Germany and ~1.5% below the US.
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by patio11 9y ago
To whit, the few retail equity US and Canadian trading platforms I've used (Schwab's, Interactive Brokers, Scottrade before they became TD Ameritrade, Questrade) also do not provide an explicit feature that purports to calculate
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by patio11 9y ago
The Automated Under-Reporter Program is not a "sufficiently advanced compiler" for tax returns. It does simple match: did your brokerage account say you made $30k in dividends on a 1099-DIV to the IRS last year? Cool. Do you show
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by patio11 9y ago
For the limited purpose of helping another entrepreneur sleep easy, and not to offer accounting advice: The IRS has to recover ~$1k per IRSian hour to make it worth their time, for reasons which fall fairly straightforwardly from consulting
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by patio11 9y ago
As HN has a lot of people who have complicated financial situations and will eventually get one, I'd like to point folks in the direction of what the IRS' typical first play is if they think you underpaid taxes. They do not send y
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by patio11 9y ago
Isn't the causational arrow in the other direction? If your polity didn't prefer to have high prices, you wouldn't have high prices. If you have high prices, of course your polity prefers high prices.
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by patio11 9y ago
Suppose, hypothetically, that this product existed in the world, but that it was so poorly distributed that even a person who wanted this product so much they went out and built it hadn't even heard of it. What would that set of fact
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by patio11 9y ago
Startups have a really long lifecycle associated with them. I have answers to the question with respect to startups I was not professionally engaged with. I don't have many data points regarding ones which I was, because the jury won&#
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by patio11 9y ago
It is my impression that I've accurately captured the sentiment of YC on that issue. Previous public expressions include e.g. Sam Altman here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12594615 and here: https://
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by patio11 9y ago
Our desired end state for LLC support is that it feels like you're just making a radio selection between C corp and LLC, and Everything Else Just Works. A core thing Stripe does is abstract away complexity. Unfortunately, this doesn&#x
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by patio11 9y ago
I wrote much of this (in collaboration with YC partners and alumni for the YC-specific bits), and am happy to answer questions if you have them.
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by patio11 9y ago
Sillysaurus is presently downvoted, so as someone who occasionally pays professional gamblers money: Clearly it is the case that there are some sole proprietor firms which provide entertainment services. While this is generally not the worl
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by patio11 9y ago
Cross-posting a comment I made from 7 years ago when NYC's payroll project blew up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2716319 which I last cross-posted to the thread about Phoenix's payroll project blowing up:
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by patio11 9y ago
You're paying $0.01 to give your GB to Amazon and $0.24 to make it impossible for Amazon to give it to anyone else. If you don't care about Amazon giving your data to anyone else, then you don't have to pay the premium for Ta
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by patio11 9y ago
Thanks, that made my day.
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by patio11 9y ago
There is a saying in certain engineering fields that all regulations are written in blood; an accident was once caused due to the lack of a particular line item and now that line item is on the list. This is a relatively short list for due
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by patio11 9y ago
Two separate issues here: Don't continue after the trial period ends. This is a successful transaction by the standards of everyone involved, right? The SaaS company successfully induced a user to try it. The user got free use of a p
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by patio11 9y ago
If you can describe a dividing line for Western society which puts Japan on the outside and all of the Pope, Barack Obama, all members of Congress, Hawaii, Ireland, and France on the inside, you’d get a really good East Asian Studies paper
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by patio11 9y ago
(Also, consider convincing other people who you've had a career impact on to do the same!)
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by patio11 9y ago
We don't support LLCs yet. We ship first and then announce dates because down the other path lies disaster, but LLCs are a great way to incorporate many tech businesses, and Atlas aims to incorporate most tech businesses.
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by patio11 9y ago
I work with Courtland and Channing at Stripe, and am privileged to do so since we share substantial confluence of interests, but I don't believe I deserve any credit for that acquisition.
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by patio11 9y ago
If this interests you: http://dayssinceacryptocurrencyexchangehaslostmorethan100mil...
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by patio11 9y ago
He uses twitter almost like a blog Yep, and I'm more than a little disappointed in myself about that. Something about the form factor of writing there and the perceived "well it doesn't have to be shippable, it's just
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by patio11 9y ago
"Fruits of capitalism available at a 3.5% discount to last month; limited time offer" would sell less ads, sadly.

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