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Is 50% your ETR if you only look at INCOME taxes (federal and state)? If so, you're probably an extreme outlier. Or are you including payroll "taxes" (social security, medicare), s…

> Why does it still cost money to file taxes anyway? https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax...

I take this blog post as confirmation that: 1) ANY one message can be intercepted even if the sender exhibits ideal levels of alertness [Whatsapp server drops message to recipient;…

Of course, of course, this is unlikely to be an NSA backdoor. But maybe .... i dabbled in this api way back in the past so i may be wrong about its capabilities. skype used to be E…

Looks fine to me. Ikea's site looks similar (to my eyes at least), btw. And nothing like the 90's whitehouse site. There's a lot of niche sites that get the job done without follow…

Sorry, I don't know.

This function works surprisingly well in practice. IIUC, it's a hash function defined over 3D space with tunable gradient between points. The cool thing about the the marble vase e…

Is it possible that mining activity could accidentally change the orbits of one of these asteroids enough to send it crashing into earth eventually (in a few decades)?

bottle.py + Postgres + Nginx on Ubuntu on a VPS is my go-to boring stack. I recommend just using SQLite for the MVP. Launch then iterate.

What could possibly go wrong with securitizing interest streams? :)

This line bothered me more than it should :) typedef std::string String; when using std::string; would have done just as well. Yes, I noticed the capitalization change. But why do …

I hope (1) FM radio receivers come back, (2) and phones implement a way to grab the waveform and modify it before it hits the speakers. I can imagine useful public-safety capabilit…

Actually, I'm happy to see that this author didn't give into the temptation of making a "one ring that rules them all" abstract design. OpenGL is a C API. This adds a decent C++ AP…

The way I see it is that it's helping with "wallet bloat". It's a gizmo the end consumer buys to convert a stack of cards into a single card. Everything else is icing on the cake t…

Previous news stories? Such as unauthorized access of Sarah Palin's email.

IMHO, this is shortsighted. Art is of almost zero practical use. Investing a tiny fraction of society's resources in art is a sign of a society that has evolved beyond the starvati…

The Indian (and other govts) asked for the server to be placed in their country because otherwise RIM will invoke the technicality that that don't have to honor Indian govt's snoop…

Umm, RIM is providing to India exactly what they have to many other countries. So you are probably excluding a large part of the world from your list of places fit for you to live.…

I think he meant the "psychological profile" data, not his email text.