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I would be fucked on my first expense report. "Why did you fly out of Charlotte, NC if you live in Seattle, WA?"

That is true, but ending sentences with prepositions still makes you sound like you don't know how to English. "Where are you at?" Just no. Why add the extra word that doesn't clar…

When I was in academia, it was considered acceptable for one to alternate between his and her when the gender of the subject is unknown. Using his or her every time does sound stil…

A couple of years ago I was walking around downtown SF, and I noticed someone had drawn a chalk outline on the sidewalk and labeled it "techie fuck". I had a good chuckle. We are n…

And yet it still grates on my ears every time someone uses it in the singular. But the same things happens when someone ends a sentence with a preposition or splits an infinitive, …

More power to you! Everyone should find his own preferences and strengths and lean into them, imo.

I am a very extroverted person and require social interaction to not become depressed. My job is a little different in that I'm customer-facing and have to travel to customer sites…

I would never go back to commuting to the same place every day. It's cool that he does the coworking thing, but I've been working remotely for 6+ years fulltime (and I have other p…

We chatted last week and I was sorry to hear you went with another contractor for frontend dev. The bait and switch wasn't my intention, UpWork doesn't really let you present yours…

That's not how option valuation works. They're worth the difference of their strike price to the price of the underlying intrinsically. So if his strike is $110 (which it's not for…

So go work from a coffee shop or take a walk. I'm not sure if anyone has told you, but it's not been normal for humans to go to an office five days a week for 8 hours a day for mos…

If you were individual 1099, then no there is no advantage really. And you have to pay self-employment tax. If you were B2B 1099, there are ENORMOUS advantages. My average effectiv…

Yes, if he's married filing jointly the standard deduction is $24k. Meaning he pays zero taxes. If he's unmarried his standard deduction is still most of his salary (~$12k), and th…

So you don't apply VAT to inelastic commodities. We have in fact figured this shit out. Austrian or Keynesian are not the only two choices available to us, despite what some would …

Most people would hold that offering a bribe is not the unethical action, accepting the bribe is the unethical side. So if you're implying that the companies acted unethically by b…

Exactly. There is such a thing as fiduciary duty. As a board member, if I find out my CEO is overpaying on taxes because he feels like it's the "right thing to do", his ass is gett…

Amazon paid no income tax. Amazon paid a shitton in taxes, and will continue to do so. It is probably the case that profitable companies pay too little in tax, but articles like th…

Individuals can only do this for 7 years FYI. Corporate carry forward is much longer (is there even a limit? I'm not sure. I usually don't keep my corporations that show a loss for…

Cool thanks, I did not know about that.

If you want to sell software, it's good to be situated physically next to the biggest software companies in the world. I work in the Valley (but live on the East Coast), and having…

Postgres is not an alternative to Mongo, though. Provide a noSQL alternative if you want an alternative. RDBs and non-RDBs seek to address different sets of problems, and sometimes…

Nothing can make shit and rotting carcasses smell good. A lot of people think weed smells amazing. I love the smell. As another poster said, it's like anything else you enjoy. I li…

Austin is a midsize city.

It is true and mostly accurate by some back of the napkin math I've done. What stops people from doing 51% attacks is a few factors: 1) If you can pull off an attack for a few hund…

The "owners" of the hardware are private miners. The rent-a-miner business (NiceHash) just connects sellers of hashrate (miners) with buyers of hashrate. The miners don't care what…