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by superqd 9y ago
I am fairly certain that is not correct. When you buy a virtual currency with another virtual currency, that is a taxable event, and you have to estimate the basis for tax using the currency gain in dollars. Or that is what I have underst
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Ask HN: How have you dealt with taxes (U.S.) and algo crypto trading?
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by superqd 9y ago
> I found it way easier to goof around and not actually do work Why do you need someone to watch you in order to actually do your job? I work at a company where remote work is exceedingly common, almost half the company is remote, and t
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by superqd 9y ago
I live in Houston, well, just outside of it, and it's very not fun. Some friends of mine have reported flooding in their homes, and lost power. I live in a new area and the neighborhood is built up several feet higher than the surrou
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by superqd 10y ago
This. This article touches on a number of the points I've made to friends in the last couple of years. I've had a growing sense of dread about what the world will look like when such tools become easy to obtain and produce power
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by superqd 10y ago
Yeah, it wasn't the case that I couldn't have come up with the $34k at all, it's that it was asked of me in the first place given that I'd already put in far more than $34k of extra hours and had no shares to show for it
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by superqd 10y ago
Well, yeah, the only person I was angry with was myself. The rest of my emotions at the time were mostly of frustration and sadness with a system that undervalues an asset I had invested (my time above and beyond).
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by superqd 10y ago
True words.
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by superqd 10y ago
Exactly that. Your additional time is money invested in the company.
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by superqd 10y ago
Interestingly, one person's time can be worth more than another person's money. For founders, this is sometimes factored in, but usually not for employees, even when they take a reduced salary. At best, if you are taking a 100k j
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by superqd 10y ago
Yeah, the golden handcuffs really did shackle me emotionally. I couldn't part with the extra money to pay for the shares, even though I really wanted to leave the company much sooner. So I stayed since that was the only way I'd
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by superqd 10y ago
Very much this. There is a bit of a lie we all participate in at many companies of nearly every size, though sometimes much more so at small startups. The lie is that we are all on the same team and all in this together. In reality, the
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by superqd 10y ago
The story I related was at my previous company from about 4 years ago. I had never heard of ESO Fund until this moment. Thanks for the info, I will definitely look into that (I currently have a lot of options at my current startup).
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by superqd 10y ago
Yeah, I get that and realized I could have easily lost money too. It's not that it was painful to me when the company sold, though it did bug me then too, but at the moment of my exit interview and I was given the reminder that I coul
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by superqd 10y ago
No problem!
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by superqd 10y ago
I think an important point would be to ensure a meaningful work-life balance is maintained. Many folks may contribute "too much" time believing that extra time is going to somehow count in someway other than in simply getting pro
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by superqd 10y ago
Yeah, it's the fact that time isn't regarded as an asset being contributed is what burns my mind. For the salary I received, I think there is a reasonable expectation from the company's point of view that they get 40-50 hour
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by superqd 10y ago
Yeah, that's the calculation that bums me out too. It's one of the reasons I am somewhat loathe to ever put in too much "extra" time anymore. I enjoy being a part of a startup for more than just the lottery ticket aspe
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by superqd 10y ago
I realize I could have attempted to exercise sooner, but that isn't quite the point. The part that really bugs me is the fact that time is undervalued (or non-valued). If I have a high value asset, my time, that I contribute towards
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by superqd 10y ago
This has caused me some level of sadness in the past. I worked for a startup (started 6mo after founding with only 20 people and stayed for 8 years to 200+ people and 50million in revenue). During a number of phases, I worked for months a
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by superqd 10y ago
No, 4200 isn't mid-size to me, it's mid-size for the neighborhood. It's a freaktastic mansion to me. I grew up with 6 people in a 1000 sq ft space (we moved a lot, so sometimes more, sometimes less). But, you are right, thi
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by superqd 10y ago
Personally, we wanted the neighborhood, and also both my wife and I grew up very poor (i.e., we'd never lived in a really nice house). So we bought a mid-size house in a really nice neighborhood (over bought a little). That's wh
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by superqd 10y ago
I interviewed over phone and skype with a Bay area company not too long ago. In between interviews, since things were going well, I started looking for places to live. I have 2 kids, and currently live in a 4200 sq ft house in Texas. I w
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by superqd 10y ago
When I saw the title, I thought it said "a curated collection of idiotic design patterns". That actually sounded interesting.
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by superqd 10y ago
There will definitely exist biases that exist in algorithms of this sort that are, at least in part, a result of the biases, intentional or not, that exist in the minds of those building the code and gathering the data to train it on. It&#
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by superqd 10y ago
Exactly this. I think the article misunderstands, and/or misinterprets, the Learn To Code "movement". It's not a call to enlist more people as software engineers, it's a desire to teach powerful problem solving te
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by superqd 11y ago
I would like to know this myself. I've tried Finasteride, and it did work, but it did affect me in other ways (very low energy, low libido). So I stopped using it. I do recall seeing some actual research on the laser combs, and that
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by superqd 11y ago
Yeah, when I saw the video on the VoxelQuest site it immediately reminded me of this demo of raymarching/signed-distance-fields: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27844576/raymarch/raymar...
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by superqd 11y ago
Actually, that was my biggest problem with the entire article. It's a false dichotomy to assume that consciousness and intelligence aren't the same thing, if one cannot meaningfully articulate how they differ. If the inner machi
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by superqd 12y ago
"The sad part about this article is not that Science Fairs are not fair, its that parents don't know what science is and so cannot help there children develop a sense of wonder and discovery." Very spot on.

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