philiphodgen

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by philiphodgen 10y ago
Contact me. My email address is in my profile. My day job is international tax lawyer. I know this stuff and I know accountants who do tax returns.
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
Or, lack of internet access might be a productivity enhancement. :-)
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My first thought when reading this is "What could possibly go wrong?" while audibly rolling my eyes. Scientists with safeguards in place LOL. My second thought was that science fiction is writing itself in real time here, right in
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
Nice little minimum security prison Uncle Sam is building here. Right now it seems so innocuous: you can't leave the country for limited reasons. Expect the reasons to expand in time. Scope creep is routine in Federal law. I am a tax l
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
Yes. The articles on medium.com seem to be lightweight, designed for marketing purposes. All carbs, no protein.
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I wonder whether a hostile government could print enough $100 bills to damage the currency? A single T-Bill auction would affect the money supply more than printing presses running 24/7.
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
1. I assume you are located in the USA. 2. I assume your side projects will probably not generate a lot of money. Most side projects fail. (That's a feature, not a bug). 3. Don't spend money until you absolutely must. Money is ene
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
I follow the format from Manager Tools. That's where I learned about one-on-ones. https://www.manager-tools.com/map-universe/trinity-one-ones Essentially, 10 minutes for them, 10 minutes for me, 10 minutes on the
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
I have tried -- really tried -- to replace a laptop with an iPad Pro. The big one, with a keyboard and pencil. Failure. I am one of three people I have seen this happen to. A MBP is vastly more capable. When I see iPad sales continue to sli
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
Pop up window on my phone blocks my view. No I don't want to chat. I want to see what your product is. Website designers must have a gear loose. Grrrr. Pop ups of any kind are anti-customer.
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
Translation: both sides said "Bite me."
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
http://launchaco.com possibly? Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13126228
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
Thank you for this article. I can tell that you are struggling to articulate a half-formed idea, and I think you did pretty well. It rang plenty of bells in my brain. What I really appreciate is the willingness to explore the idea incompl
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
Hah. I am an international tax lawyer and I advise startups that do business all over the world. I do not have a good answer to your question. There is insufficient data upon which to make a suggestion. However, here are my guidelines: - if
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
On iOS, this website breaks Safari. Also . . . I know it's petty but if you are selling extreme rigor ("unbreakable servers") please demonstrate this trait in all of your affairs. A trivial failure to pay attention to details
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
A book of blank pages. Not a suitable post for HN for multiple reasons.
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https://www.process.st ? Having said that, we have tried many things and the best solution we found so far is an installation of dokuwiki on our internal server. People actually use it. The shiny software doesn't matter if
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
I left Wells Fargo. It's not as hard as you think. FWIW I went to Chase Bank. I'm not happy, I'm not sad. Banking is as exciting as a loaf of bread. The less I interact with a bank and the humans at a bank, the happier I
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
Get the Manager Tools podcasts on how to do one-on-ones. Follow their methods. That is what I did after hearing the Zapier (or was it IFTTT?) founder extol the podcast's virtues. www.manager-tools.com
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
Coinbase will fight vigorously -- for marketing purposes. Ultimately they will lose and be forced to cough up data about their customers. This is not because of bitcoin. That's just a distraction. This is about tax evasion, which is an
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I don't know what to do. But it irks me that I follow the easier, softer way -- knowing that I am causing trouble to myself by doing so.
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Logical self-preservation in action. And it is a telling indictment of the corporate character displayed by Google: - Exploitable for minor personal convenience ("Use Gmail! Use Gcal! Simple and free!") - Not to be trusted under a
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
As an international tax lawyer who has handled many, many cases for clients with money hidden in secret accounts offshore, I have two pieces of advice. 1. For Coinbase, this will not end well. The best Coinbase can hope for is a pretense (f
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
You need a person, not a software selection. I say this as a tax lawyer, finance guy, and small business owner. I have lived (and continue to live) in this problem space. HR. I am sorry, but software will not solve your problems. Government
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
There are plenty of places to hear alarmist talk. HN is not the place for that. Bookmark your sense of alarm. Your sense of impending doom. Remember your feelings today, then get on with life. Come back in a year or two. How will your perc
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Indeed. But this cheaper, faster method might also lead to too many people hearing about the band and liking the music. We wouldn't want that. We would rather sell 100 cassettes for $2 each and have 20 true fans. Seriously though, I wo
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
In theory this risk exists. If you (the owner of the corporation) behave as if it does not exist, then the tax authorities will likely see it that way, too. If this happens (the U.S. corporation is disregarded) then the Canadian corporati
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
Happy to chat about this. I have done this type of structure MANY times, for humans and for payment processing. EDIT: also, I completely missed your reference to State taxation, and when SaaS stuff is taxable/not taxable. Yeah. State
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I hope the accounting firm explained why there might be a problem and how to fix it. That would be the mark of a trusted advisor. "Oh, you might have cancer! Bye!" The reason for your problem is that a human working in the USA is
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by philiphodgen 10y ago
1. Take care of yourself. Morally, physically, spiritually, intellectually. You cannot serve others without this first. 2. Work one-on-one with another person. Someone helped you. Now you help someone else. Then another. The ego says you

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