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I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors

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Re: I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors

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Post by BrandonM »

PascLeRasc wrote: post #479
BrandonM wrote: post #222

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I've lived in many US cities, including SF, and your characterization rings hollow for me. Unless you're focusing exclusively on climate, SF without a car isn't all that much better than dozens of other cities. Notably, unless you live near a BART stop, most transit commutes are going to involve some bus, switching to a separate system, 30+ minutes daily commute, $12+ round trip, etc. Or paying for rideshares. Dozens…

I do love NYC, Chicago, and Philly, but I've always wanted to avoid winter entirely as I get pretty severe SAD. San Francisco seems like the only walkable city where that's possible.

That's fair. I imagine that there are parts of LA that are similarly walkable, but it's not like LA is immune to the problems SF has, and it has unique problems of its own.

There are bound to be some pretty cool places in AZ, NM, TX, and the southeast. I've been casually researching this topic for a while, and I've found it to be incredibly difficult to find a useful, non-biased index of walkable and interesting neighborhoods from all corners of the US.

Good luck!

Re: I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors

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Post by [deleted] »

jlokier wrote: post #449
NorwegianDude wrote: post #423

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That's why you have contracts/ToS, so it's clear what is and isn't your responsibility.

And if you have any sense, the contract expressly limits your total liabilities to the client to at most what they have already paid you. (ps. With some careful lawyer drafting to exempt things which can't be limited in that way (negligence etc.), while carefully wording the exemption so any part voided doesn't take the whole limitation with it.)

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Re: I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors

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Post by aj7 »

caymanjim wrote: post #288
mullen wrote: post #213

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I would like to point out that Universal Healthcare would be funded by a separate tax and probably would not come out of Income Taxes.

This is sorta already how it is in the US. While we obviously don't have universal healthcare, or a national pension, we do have Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security. These are separate than income tax. On your pay stub, it's the FICA ("Federal Insurance Contributions Act") deduction. There is also a smaller separate supplemental Medicare-specific tax. Federal income tax is a separate deduction.

Wait till COBRA runs out, friend.

Re: I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors

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Post by aj7 »

mullen wrote: post #213
aj7 wrote: post #138

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Aha. And now you understand why we don’t have universal healthcare, crumbling infrastructure, and so much cash in the hands of the wealthy that interest rates are near zero.

I would like to point out that Universal Healthcare would be funded by a separate tax and probably would not come out of Income Taxes.

I.e. so it can be properly regressive, right?

Re: I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors

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Post by neltnerb »

SpelingBeeChamp wrote: post #464
m0zg wrote: post #462

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You also need a company so you don't lose your house and life's savings if you're sued, too. That's what freelancers primarily create companies for. IRS doesn't really let you take advantage of any tax loopholes unless you employ a bunch of other people.

I don't understand characterizing compliance with tax law as using "loopholes." What are you referring to?

The topic is obviously enormous and more complicated than "big business bad", but it wouldn't be a loophole if it wasn't legal. Defining only illegal things as loopholes is not a great line in the sand, it's kind of a tautology that loopholes aren't illegal. I would expect that the specific definition varies a lot by person because democracy. One person's corrupt loophole is another person's tax incentive, but either way the loophole is legal.

What specifically the parent was referring to I'm not sure, but that would be why it is consistent to describe a company as both "in compliance with tax law" and also as "using loopholes". If they weren't in compliance with tax law they'd just be breaking the law. No one is accusing the companies of breaking the law, they're accusing the tax system of being biased and corrupt.

Re: I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors

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Post by dang »

hoorayimhelping wrote: post #54
msoad wrote: post #8

$100k is still not even close to how much you can make in SV as an engineer. Specially an engineer at this caliber. But working on OSS full time is probably 100x more fulfilling than building CRUD for a boring ad company.

> $100k is still not even close to how much you can make in SV as an engineer Oh, well then fuck this idiot, right? What a dumbass loser - doesn't even realize they can be a s i l i c o n v a l l e y e n g i n e e r and make a lot of money. Jesus it's so exhausting reading the knee-jerk "SV engineers make more money" reaction to everything. You know what this person has that 99.999% of all SV engineers will never hav…

Please don't post like this to HN. You broke this site guideline so flagrantly that I can't quite believe my eyes:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

... since the parent comment already made the same point, in the part you didn't bother to quote.

Also, please don't post in the flamewar style to HN generally. It's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors

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Post by O_H_E »

O_H_E wrote: post #482
arximboldi wrote: post #471

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That's how my sponsorship tiers are set up actually :) https://github.com/sponsors/arximboldi It doesn't seem to be working great though, at least on the page. I end up making a living through ad-hoc client work, which sometimes supports the open-source side as well.

Your arsenal of tools look impressive. I am a little bit heartbroken it is not working out yet. Hoping you the best of luck.

It might be worth it to lower the 4H tier a bit. IMO 1500 seems a bit too much for 4H/month. Who am I to know tho.

Re: I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors

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Post by Bjartr »

gbacon wrote: post #489
wins32767 wrote: post #396

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Perhaps consider that some people are talking about luck as a way of reasoning about how we should organize society (if luck is a factor that may imply stronger safety nets) while others (like you, I'd gather) are talking about how to approach one's own life? That's how I've been reasoning about the discussion and it helps clarify things.

What you wrote is insightful as to the underlying thinking, but I’m not sure I buy the premise. If luck is the dominating factor, how is the outcome of any election legitimate? Aren’t the winners merely the luckiest? Where’s the safety net for the unfortunate also-rans? Who are the rightful representatives to do the organizing? The questions are interesting because the ancient Athenians would reject what we call demo…

> If luck is the dominating factor, how is the outcome of any election legitimate? Aren’t the winners merely the luckiest?

On the one hand, I think this may be conflating different senses of luck. On the other hand, yes, luck played a big role in the winner of the election ending up in that position, but not because the election itself was akin to a coin flip (hyperbole), but because luck has a small impact innumerable times in the goings on of that individual's life leading up to that point.

> Where’s the safety net for the unfortunate also-rans?

Thinking about this, it's actually a good question. If the goal of an election is to select the person most able to perform the role of the elected position most satisfactorily, then providing a mechanism by which those without access to traditional campaigning resources and capital to participate could allow more qualified individuals to participate in the election who otherwise wouldn't have been able to.

And this is, I think, precisely the point of saying that luck is a bigger factor than people acknowledge because in order to be elected today, you need to have the connections and capital necessary to execute a successful campaign while continuing to fulfill any other obligations you have during the time leading up to the election, and you need to have something in place to deal with not being elected, something to fall back on. That's a whole bunch of moving parts that need to align before it makes sense to participate in an election.

Re: I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors

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Post by suifbwish »

M2Ys4U wrote: post #385
suifbwish wrote: post #380

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This is exactly the kind of problems cryptocurrency was made to address. I would just say each donation comes with a postcard so you are giving them something in return. If my government ever tries to do something like this, I will leave it up to them to figure out that I’m collecting donations.

That sounds like a very quick way to get a tax evasion charge...

Right. It must be such fun trying to figure that out from the monero block chain...
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