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by pfarrell 4y ago
I am not a finance person, but maybe you should talk to a tax attorney or tax planner. That kind of person may be able to offer some guidance on what you can do. Good luck and remember at the end of the day, it's just money and you c
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by pfarrell 4y ago
In this case, the company had gone public, so they could have sold. Bolt is a wholly different story. I think the employees back in 2000 had one window where they could sell where the stock was at a high value. Many of them passed it up, e
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Short answer: greed. They didn’t want to give up any shares. To pay for the tax they owed between strike price and current market value, they should done a cashless transfer and sold off a portion to cover the taxes and then held the rema
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by pfarrell 4y ago
"Don't spend real money on fake money." Good advice I got from colleagues at a 2000 era company who took out loans to buy their options and cover the taxes when the stock was at $50/share and then watched it drop to <
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Another contemporary parody I remember is from the comic Bloom County. https://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/2009/07/27/ (Don’t be fooled by the url date, that’s just the date gocomics reran it)
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Not “Cult of Personality” by Living Color?
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by pfarrell 4y ago
1. Downvoted because totally off topic and trolling flamebait 2. “If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice”
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by pfarrell 4y ago
It sank in 1975. There could certainly be children of the sailors alive, and a spouse who was in their 30’s at the time would be around their 80’s now. That doesn’t seem far fetched.
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Last time this happened, dang asked us to log out while browsing and not commenting/voting which greatly eases the server strain.
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Follow up to off-topic. I have also thought the arcologies of Sim City 3000 or the unexplained environment in the Black Mirror episode "15 million merits"[1] are likely in our future. 0: https://simcity.fandom.com&#x2F
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Yes, an individual can protest in this fashion, but that doesn't negate the unchecked influence Twitter has and the GP's concerns over how the rich and powerful are able to acquire this influence without any limit. It's a go
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Agree with all your points and I share your concerns. If this deal goes through, I'll cancel my (almost completely unused) Twitter account. It's not much, but it's more than nothing.
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by pfarrell 4y ago
I’m going to assume you misinterpreted the GP. I read “their current state” as referring to the roads, not to the kids. For example: lack of sidewalks, roads with high speed limits, distracted drivers on phones, lack of other children walk
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by pfarrell 4y ago
How about something like a speed demon sprints while a speed daemon sprintf s
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Ooo. I so wanted to downvote this comment for the “censorship” angle… but, for the rest of it, I think you’re right and I’d just be shooting the messenger.
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by pfarrell 4y ago
Totally agree and exactly the same asterisk I was thinking of with my pronouncement.
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by pfarrell 4y ago
I’ve had a good number of jobs in 20+ years in software. I have had a private office four times. Once when the business unit was failing and my room only had me in it. Once when I worked for a small old school family company. Once when I ma
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by pfarrell 5y ago
First realize that SQL is not a procedural language, you are only describing the result set. The data store will then create an execution plan which is the actual code that gets run. Learn to read the explain in your data store of choice (v
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by pfarrell 5y ago
At least give it a try. I suspect based on join dates that I’m similar or older than the OP. The more senior you get, the more time it can take on a search, but with remote work, you should definitely be trying.
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by pfarrell 5y ago
As someone who actually saw that book back in the ‘80’s. Truly tasteless jokes vol. 3 != bbc.com. You could definitely print those jokes today, but, as in 1983, I wouldn’t expect them in a major worldwide media outlet’s article. I’d expect
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by pfarrell 5y ago
Not the OP and not trans, but do have several trans people in my sphere of relationships. This attitude and threats definitely exist more than 0%, in the USA. Especially outside major metropolitans.
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by pfarrell 5y ago
As a typical HN user, I don’t think your assessment of HN is fair. I don’t see one negative or flagged response to this post. I see someone thankful for a viewpoint out of their experience. I see a reasonably productive argument over echo c
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by pfarrell 5y ago
What if I’m not shadowbanned but the only person who isn’t?!?
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by pfarrell 5y ago
You're right. It doesn't counter your point. I was thinking it colors it. A limit might discourage predators from taking advantage of artists, or it could intensify the situation into more of a zero-sum game that encourages mor
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by pfarrell 5y ago
It's an interesting thought. I'll counter with this point: Just because a song makes $10M, doesn't mean the authors see any of it. I am reminded to the story of "Mbube" aka "Wimoweh" aka "The Lion Sle
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by pfarrell 5y ago
Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
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by pfarrell 5y ago
Pink Floyd’s album, “The Wall” does it too. “- we came in?” “Isn’t this where -“
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by pfarrell 5y ago
Along those lines: John Tyler, 10th President of the USA... Alive when George Washington was president... Has a living grandson. Grandson! Until recently, he had two. This obituary for his second to last living grandson mentions the surv
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by pfarrell 5y ago
Please do.
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by pfarrell 5y ago
It’s what I remember the desk agent telling me. Who knows how much that person knew about the system (and even if my memory is 100% accurate).

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