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by peter422 7y ago
This makes you anonymous (if you want) to the charities but not anonymous to Fidelity or whoever runs your DAF. Also way more complicated from the donor’s perspective.
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by peter422 7y ago
From a tax perspective donating an asset is much better than liquidating it and donating the cash. Charities don’t have to pay capital gains, you do, even if the money is eventually going to a charity.
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by peter422 7y ago
I’m sure a lot of children are directly and indirectly affected by gang violence. Are you saying that if all mass shootings were only caused by gang violence than people not in gangs shouldn’t be concerned about potentially helping reduce t
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by peter422 7y ago
Chess is a particularly poor example for your point because piece odds (the better player starting without a piece... escalating from pawn to queen) is a really good handicap system that not only makes the games more interesting but also gi
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by peter422 7y ago
The real question is how many of those random people could conclusively clear themselves with an alibi. If 20% of those people don't remember or can't conclusively prove where they were... You now have a ton of suspects that each
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by peter422 7y ago
In the free market what is the incentive for any doctor to take on a patient that has a condition so expensive the patient can't afford the treatment? You are completely ignoring the insurance part of health insurance.
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by peter422 9y ago
The top long term capital gains rate is the same in both the AMT and the "regular" tax: 20%
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by peter422 9y ago
Don't worry, he has been meticulously collecting evidence and can prove everything! Unfortunately he can't post it just yet, but he'll definitely post it soon! Maybe next week! Or next month! But it's gonna be huge!!
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by peter422 10y ago
That is one case. I've specifically hired somebody before who was so/so in the interviews but was the main contributor to a wonderfully written open source project. And was and is a great developer and great hire. So there is a
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by peter422 10y ago
I'm not saying you have to write open source code on your own time. I'm saying that you can't complain that an interview doesn't show you are good coder if there is no other way for somebody to look at a project you&#x27
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by peter422 10y ago
People lie, people embellish. If you are a good developer who sucks at whiteboard interviews, write open source code that everybody can see. Otherwise there is no reason an interviewer can or should trust whatever story you tell of past suc
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by peter422 10y ago
Companies routinely lie about when funding round happen to maximize news impact. They'll generally sit on the news until they can announce it with some other big feature or release or something (because they know without fail all the
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by peter422 10y ago
Every engineer says they delivered projects on time with great maintainable code. Unless the project is open source, they often have no way of giving any evidence. I'm not saying whiteboard interviews are the right way to interview, b
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by peter422 10y ago
A service like this could never work long term. HN admins could just spend $10 to upvote something, see what the behavior is like and then fix it.
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by peter422 10y ago
The vast majority of products that people don't understand and believe to be useless are in fact useless. The first time I used Google I knew it was amazing and never used altavista again. When Facebook came to my campus it spread lik
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by peter422 10y ago
In their pitch they said WhatsApp
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by peter422 11y ago
As somebody who has been rejected a few times (and been on the other side), I completely disagree. All I care about is speed. A boilerplate rejection in 1 day (or even that night) is 10x better than a more specific email. Also the reasons
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by peter422 12y ago
You can start a failed company in a lot of cities. Congrats on living in sf on the cheap but it really isn't useful information to help aspiring startup founders.
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Service Marketplace Thumbtack Raises $100M Round Led By Google Capital(techcrunch.com)
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by peter422 13y ago
I'd really like to see the follow-up to this in about 6 months. As somebody lucky enough to have lived the "enough" lifestyle, my main feedback is this: It seems a lot more amazing to other people than it actually is. Now as