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I’ve also seen this called “The Whispering Earring”, and have seen it hosted here (this version slightly more readable) https://croissanthology.com/earring

It's just been one of those "I just haven't gotten around to it yet" aspirational acquisitions. It seems very interesting and maybe I'll eventually get around to it. It's more the …

Assuming we’re talking about the Stripe Press book: if you email me and if you have a US address I’d be glad to mail you my totally unread copy which is mostly just gathering dust …

The Sorcerer's Apprentice is a poem by Goethe, or more famously, a sequence from the Disney movie "Fantasia", which you can see here: https://video.disney.com/watch/sorcerer-s-appr…

This is 100% about Delaware Franchise Tax and is a rite of passage for all first-time founders. (There is no portal you can log into to view your federal taxes owed.) Here’s a deta…

Scalability is overrated - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34656776 - Feb 2023 (232 comments)

This is the correct parsing of it. (I can't take credit for coming up with the title, but I worked on the project.)

A bit reminiscent of Tallis's "London Street Views": https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015051808932&se...

See my example here for where it ends up biting you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44180533#44204246

Worth noting: the version of the Big Beautiful Bill passed by the House ends this particular change, starting in tax year 2025. We'll have to see if this provision makes it through…

This is what the Sec 174 change said: it says that you do have to capitalize it.

Here's a toy example that hopefully makes this clear: In 2024, your business has $1m in revenue and has $2m in expenses. 100% of these expenses are R&D salaries (engineers you hire…

You should go with Pilot. We literally do this for 2,500+ startups and are the largest startup-focused accounting firm in the US, by far. (I am one of its founders, though that doe…

We will do this for folks (moving from Bench to QBO) for free: https://pilot.com/bench-qbo-migration (It's a nontrivial problem but there's at least a reasonable check—"Did the bal…

Honestly, love to hear this :)

For Bench customers that want to look elsewhere, Pilot is doing free migrations from Bench to QBO, even if you don't want to use Pilot. (So you can even take advantage of it if you…

Current landing page reads "Welcome Back More information on how to continue your services will be available tomorrow at 9am EST" Digging a little deeper shows a banner that says "…

We do, yes.