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by philiphodgen 9y ago
I run 1Password (the nonsubscription version) and LastPass side by side. LastPass is the company's stuff and 1Password is my personal stuff. Remotely stored data makes me nervous. No one is infallible so sooner or later massive collect
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by philiphodgen 9y ago
I just spent some time in the Owens Valley. This summer it is much greener than previous summers -- a faint echo of what the valley must have been like before the LADWP started sucking water out of the valley. For those of you who have neve
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by philiphodgen 9y ago
That would introduce some gratuitous thrill-seeking into my life. No thanks. What am I going to tell the nice man at the border about what's in my luggage? I think we call people who do this "mules".
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by philiphodgen 9y ago
In fact Germany has an inheritance tax.
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by philiphodgen 9y ago
Spawned a blizzard of popups on my Nexus 5. Flagged.
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by philiphodgen 9y ago
Wow. That's a spectacular claim. Almost unbelievable, and certainly in need of strong empirical support. Anecdotal evidence over six decades of life on Planet Earth suggests otherwise.
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by philiphodgen 9y ago
This is good advice even in conversation. Yesterday I talked so someone who went on and on about being in the alternative energy space. Quote unquote. "So what do you sell exactly?" I had to ask a couple of times. Turns out they b
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by philiphodgen 9y ago
I think the FCC will respect the first amendment but may object to the potty-mouth sentence you quoted. They went after Howard Stern in a similar situation. More to the point, Mr. Colbert should be ashamed of himself. Have some decency, Mr.
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by philiphodgen 9y ago
1. Do marketing or billable work. If an activity does not create revenue, have someone else do it. 2. Your money is cheaper than your time. Spend money. 3. Conclusion: spend money on commercial software. Xero or Quickbooks. I prefer Xero. (
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
I am a tax lawyer. You probably need years and multiple millions of dollars to write competent tax return preparation software. Our office uses an expensive pro package (Lacerte, owned by Intuit) which is frankly a C- product. I don't
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
What are the unintended consequences of screening out "fake news"? It is a bit alarming to have a whitelist of approved authors, as this article suggests. It seems to me that the Problem of Fake News is manufactured. The reason th
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
I am a Southern California resident, and I would like to nominate Jakarta, please, as vastly worse than Los Angeles.
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
This is a run-of-the-mill "union vs management" story. Only the fact that Fujitsu = management makes this vaguely on-point for Hacker News. Flagged.
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
I watched a nephew go -- in one year -- from "I don't think we are going to see him alive again" to a man who you would utterly trust with your child's life. I would expect similar transformations for you. You will not b
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
This is huge. You have no idea yet how huge. Just shoot for tomorrow. Midnight to midnight, no pot. You can do that.
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
I think you can partly answer the question by looking at /r/news or similar subreddits. Why are those subreddits the way they are? Why is HN what it is? A part of the answer is that HN does not attract the Great Bellcurve of Huma
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
Events like this make me think that internet connectivity is a bane, not a boon. This may be one of the unpopular opinions that one believes but is not willing to say out loud. It may be time for me to stock up on multiple 1965 VW bugs to
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
Is this article one day early?
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
1. Find some blogs. Toss them in your RSS feed. These will lead to other people with expertise. 2. Throw a lot of time and attention at what you find.
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
Clickable https://zerobscrm.com/extensions/
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
Sigh. Totally not buying political favors, are they?
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
OP, your question is the tax equivalent of "I have a computer, what software should I use?" Find someone -- lawyer or accountant -- who is local to you. Don't use the internet. (Reason: local knowledge matters). Example: an L
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
Might I suggest Step 0? 0.1 Start marketing. Something as prosaic as a blog, if necessary. Demonstrate your capability. (Capability does not mean technical skill. It means your empathy with another human to understand his/her pain, and
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
This is a commodity service. Do not waste any extra brain cycles searching for The One, or trying to optimize for price. (Hint: I try to optimize for "Don't make me think. I am willing to throw extra money at you if I don't h
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
Clickable: https://artplusmarketing.com/create-so-much-they-cant-ignore...
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
Deceptive headline. This is yet another anti-Trump diatribe disguised as journalism. The word Reddit does not appear in the article. Flagged.
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
"How do you 'solve' fake news?" is a question fraught with peril. What does "solve" mean? What does "fake news" mean? Is it possible that opinions may vary on what these two things mean? On these poin
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
The "don't spend money before you have to" rule is in effect! Good work. Seriously, you don't need to be really good with this tax return. Say you wildly miscategorize expenses. The net profit is the same, so the tax is
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
1. Wildly overpay someone now and save yourself some learning curve and errors. There is a reason we pay for tuition when we go to school. 2. Failing that, make your chart of accounts in Quickbooks be exactly equal to the tax return you are
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13662945

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