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by qzw 5y ago
But Tahiti is not in Europe.
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by qzw 5y ago
Seconded. One of my favorite movies, period. The story was great and the cast was not only star-studded but stellar across the board. The hacking was not overdone and served the story rather than just inserted for fan service. It's one
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by qzw 5y ago
Yes, but for anyone considering this, keep in mind that any funds converted to Roth are subject to taxation now, less the Roth contribution limit (varying by your income). So you're picking between tax deferral now versus tax-free dist
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by qzw 5y ago
You have to know at least some things yourself when talking to an accountant or tax adviser. When I was looking for a CPA, I met with several with good reputations before deciding on one. What I found was that all but one was deficient in s
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by qzw 5y ago
But then the customer might get MAD... Sorry, couldn't resist.
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by qzw 5y ago
If the customer has nuclear weapons, then the customer has magnitudes more money in their couch cushions than would be required to pay to have this functionality implemented. For that matter, they’re probably paying Bill Long’s employer som
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by qzw 5y ago
I think everyone is trying to replicate the Tesla formula where the first Roadster was a toy for the rich, then followed by real products and now $Trillion in market cap. But there are a few steps in there that are probably hard to copy, li
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by qzw 5y ago
Boromir meme: One does not simply set a trumpy FIL straight. Source: have a trumpy FIL.
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by qzw 5y ago
Sama’s next cryptocurrency.
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by qzw 5y ago
> But if you wake me up early in the morning with loud music I will end you. Easy there, John Wick. Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in
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by qzw 5y ago
It's all in how it's done isn't it? One way can bring greater understanding, empathy, and a sense of common purpose. Another way can stoke mistrust, resentment, and alienation. Look around you and guess which way most of Amer
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by qzw 5y ago
Facebook: Hey, did you know that anger creates more engagement?! I'm so brilliantly evil! AT&T: Oh please. Wait until you read my book "Destroying Democracy for Profit".
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by qzw 5y ago
I guess on your scale Fox News is Center-Left?
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by qzw 5y ago
They don’t need it. The danger was always Credit Karma’s users + the tax business. The tax business by itself means little. Spinning it off even makes the deal look better to regulators.
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by qzw 5y ago
Yes, I have also gotten those. Pretty nice to get a check that you weren’t expecting, from the IRS no less. In my experience a lot of CPAs are very dependent on tax prep software anyway. It might be more advanced “professional”tax software,
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by qzw 5y ago
Absolutely, but wait times have been increasing due to budget cuts. There’s an unhealthy fear/contempt of the IRS in the US. It’s one of the most important government agencies, and it should be treated as such and given the resources t
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by qzw 5y ago
It’s not just fixing problems though. The tax code has changes every year, so the software must be updated accordingly, which is a lot of drudgery. Open source can handle drudgery if there’s a big, passionate community. So you’d need a lot
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by qzw 5y ago
Works in the US for both phone and chat. I’m surprised it’s like that in Japan, given how the culture values courtesy so highly.
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by qzw 5y ago
> I think the only thing that can really disrupt this dynamic are “free” commercial software (like credit karma now cash app), or government provided. That’s why it was worth $7B for Intuit to acquire Credit Karma. They’re pretty aggress
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by qzw 5y ago
This perception is what keeps a lot of tax preparation companies in business. I know people who could fill out their taxes in 10 minutes, who would instead pay hundreds of dollars every year to have it done by one of those “tax stores.” If
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by qzw 5y ago
Tax laws are hundreds to thousands of pages each. The complexity is intentional and not accidental. Many carve outs are specifically created for special interest or to target certain constituencies. Edit: referring to the US
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by qzw 5y ago
He should invoice Amazon for establishing the perverse norm where googling-for-support-contact is the only way to find such info.
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by qzw 5y ago
I think what’s different now is that way more “mission critical” software is now web/Electron based. The lock-in just isn’t as strong as it used to be.
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by qzw 5y ago
PC OEM sales people have already started shopping for bigger houses and boats.
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by qzw 5y ago
My bold prediction: they’re making it worse so that they can fix it in a future update. Why? There are only so many ways to actually improve things all the time, and it gets harder the more mature the product is. But a sinusoidal pattern
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by qzw 5y ago
My wife and I are not particularly outdoorsy, having both grown up in cities/suburbs in the US. So actually both of us probably should be at least somewhat wary of being alone in semi-wilderness. But maybe it's an example of male
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by qzw 5y ago
I think there are a lot of things that men take for granted that are not equally available to women. To me, the thought of going into the woods for a weekend with no connection to the outside world sounds peaceful and rather wonderful. But
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The term “undying” also exists, just saying.
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by qzw 5y ago
Of all the writings on solitude that I’ve come across, almost all are from the male perspective. Anybody know of some good female/other writings on the subject? I have daughters, and I’d like to be able to better relate to them on this
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> "The free movement of labour is part of the European Union, and we tried very hard to convince the British not to leave the Union," said Olaf Scholz, the Social Democrat candidate to succeed Angela Merkel as German chancello

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