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by yunesj 6y ago
I use IBKR margin, but didn't realize it was tax deductible!? Thanks for the tip!
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by yunesj 6y ago
Sure, it's a fair argument that gold + paypal may be superior to bitcoin.
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by yunesj 6y ago
Yes, the US can still raise funds other ways. It would still be preferable if they were more transparent about it. > Even if you convince the US government to switch to BTC There's no need for that. It would be enough for some peopl
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by yunesj 6y ago
> The small value cryptocurrencies provide over other digital transaction methods I’m not aware of any other digital transaction methods that can send un-printable money besides cryptos. I think devaluing currency to inflate stocks and f
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by yunesj 6y ago
People from the US are sending crypto abroad to feed their families.
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by yunesj 6y ago
Maybe he trusts FB, but has some friends that use Signal.
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by yunesj 6y ago
Some contractors refuse to drive someone with a dog in their own car, even when refusing is illegal and against Uber policy. The person can sue the driver and Uber can take action against reported drivers. Is this only Uber’s fault because
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by yunesj 6y ago
> I don’t think crypto should be illegal but the institutions enabling it should. I feel the same about PoN[1]-based currencies! Get rid of the Fed and the military! [1] Proof of nukes.
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by yunesj 6y ago
> Under-valuing of data work is common to all of AI development. I don’t think that’s true in bioinformatics. For example, people highly respect the laboratory work done to collect data on protein function.
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by yunesj 6y ago
When writing my dissertation, latex decided that aesthetics require it to omit one of my paragraphs. It’s one of those things that is not so funny near a deadline :-) Of course, it was some sort of user error.
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by yunesj 6y ago
> the tax code was only 2,600 pages - Vox > “a tax practitioner who relies just on the tax statutes will go to jail” - Tax Foundation https://taxfoundation.org/how-many-words-are-tax-code/ > nightmare scenario
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by yunesj 6y ago
> I thought we were against for-profit education? Jeeze, not everyone on HN has the same viewpoint! These categories of schools just have different funding mechanisms and thus different incentive structures. Compared to private nonprofit
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by yunesj 6y ago
> the excess can be siphoned off to stock owners instead of being reinvested in the school Yes, but the excess isn’t siphoned away to random people. It’s paid to the investors in exchange for creating the school.
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by yunesj 6y ago
> Many countries have deeply complex tax codes. Can you give an example of any country whose tax code is more than 70k pages long? Or a country where it requires, by default, taxes paid on money earned while living oversees, depending on
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by yunesj 6y ago
> and then you look over the return, make any modifications you believe are correct, and send it to them Or more likely, they send you their estimate, based on a tiny fraction of the tax code, you recalculate it from scratch, send it to
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by yunesj 6y ago
I didn’t see evidence in the linked article and the cited article therein that Intuit tried to prevent a simplification of the tax code. They just tried to stop the government from trying to build competitor software (partially paid for by
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by yunesj 6y ago
Or use one of the many alternative DNS that the market already created to solve this problem? Continuously fixing ICANN’s decisions keeps alternatives from catching on.
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by yunesj 6y ago
We were never against private banks giving loans or private exchanges facilitating exchange. We wanted bitcoin because govt control of money results in: (1) new $ is unfairly distributed, (2) manipulation of $ to force consumer spending, (3
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by yunesj 6y ago
No, but their budgets are on the order of the annual btc mining rewards.
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by yunesj 6y ago
If you compare the money (resources) spent bitcoin mining and the money (resources) spent operating the world’s central banks, then the costs are similar.
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by yunesj 6y ago
The USPS carved out a few exceptions, like delivering urgent mail. Gaming the system will get you raided by armed agents of the enforcement arm of the USPS.
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by yunesj 6y ago
> you can always create your own courier It is illegal to compete with USPS to deliver letters.
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by yunesj 6y ago
That’s not really relevant. Zuckerberg didn’t outperform his peers at an expensive high school because he was white. But, “for families with incomes under $75,000, Exeter is free. We pick up the cost of tuition, books and academic supplies,
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by yunesj 6y ago
> But if the tech scene is really a meritocracy, why are so many of its key players, from Mark Zuckerberg to Steve Jobs, white men? I disagree with the author that Jobs and Zuckerberg are evidence that meritocracy is a myth. According to
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by yunesj 6y ago
One use case might be for the routines prescribed by physical therapists. IIRC, my PT from Kaiser Permanente gave me access to a workout app, but none of the sets, reps, or durations matched with what my PT wanted me to do. It would have be
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by yunesj 6y ago
Are you sure he’s not referring to how journalists are continuously calling for censorship? For example, a headline from the outlet he just left: > Facebook and Twitter Finally Do Slightly More Than Literally Nothing About Trump The temp
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by yunesj 6y ago
But the market pays unskilled laborers $15 in the US (Amazon, Target, Walmart), which puts it ahead of all EU government minimums, right? Also, those jobs do pay a lot more in the expensive cities. Remember the story of the San Francisco tr
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by yunesj 6y ago
> The biggest difference is the expansive train systems Railways are allowed to grow organically in Tokyo and Japan: > Outlying and suburban areas are served by seven private railway companies, whose lines intersect at major stations
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by yunesj 6y ago
That’s incorrect. When you buy something with bitcoin, even if it is priced in bitcoin, the IRS considers it a sale or exchange of a capital asset and you have to report the transaction on your return.
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by yunesj 6y ago
Yes, you're right! That was my mistake.

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