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The $100k you're referring to is the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion [1]. If you're an American working abroad, you don't need to pay income tax on your first $107,600. The exclusi…

And it's not just you, either. I'm lucky to be alive after the crazy shit I did as a teenager.

^ Yeah, this. I socked away and invested everything I could during my career in Silicon Valley. I retired just a few months after my fortieth birthday. Why most of my colleagues di…

The parent comment is a bit flip and sarcastic, but he's not wrong. $550k isn't even a speed bump for Twitter. SV tech companies aren't going to take EU regulatory bodies seriously…

I think this is about the fourth time I've seen this story on HN.

Not knowing anything about philosophy, I started reading Nietzsche. I really couldn't even understand what he was talking about. After beating my head against it for some time, I r…

If you're married or have children AND they come with you to AZ, that's obviously no problem. In that case, it works in your favor: it's just more data that you're a bona fide AZ r…

You're absolutely right: it's a massive transfer of wealth from the young, productive class to older people and to commercial landlords. But it can't be changed: it's the "third ra…

(I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice) I left California for Nevada many years ago, and I subsequently sold stock I accumulated while in California without paying state inco…

Obligatory apropos xkcd... https://xkcd.com/323/

I have used Threema and I like it, but the barrier is that it is not a free app. I've only been able to get fellow nerds to install it. I like the idea that it indicates the level …

Amen!

Posting a link to Coinbase's peremptory rebuttal seems apropos. https://blog.coinbase.com/upcoming-story-about-coinbase-2012...