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I would love to see some history to understand what's growing, what's in decline, and how rapidly.
I love this. Top Pages right now: Where's My Refund? - It's Quick, Easy and Secure. 4,600 "You take ~40% of my money every year. And you took too much this year. Give me a little back, please?" National Weather Service 1,858 "What's the weather gonna be?" National Weather Service - Forecasts by Region 1,846 "Will it rain today?" Internal Revenue Service 1,672 "Let me spend a few hundred hours figuring out how to pay…
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Everything we do at 18F is open source, usually as public domain. Interested in working on this stuff? Come work with us: https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/02/25/We-Are-Hiring/
what's the difference between 18F and USDS? i applied to USDS and never got a reply.
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What on earth are you doing that you pay a 40% effective tax rate and spend a few hundred hours doing your tax return?
I was casually lumping in state income tax. That, the Obamacare 3.8% investment surtax, &c., and the situation is reasonably painful for a whole lot of people.
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Medium volume day trading (hundreds or thousands of transactions per day), where you make $500k per year (which will get you to the 40% marginal tax rate, 31% effective). Have to account for the basis of every trade, all short-term gains/losses, and let's assume they're doing that accounting work themselves (the hundreds of hours is a stretch though), and that they're not plugging a csv file into a program to take ca…
Add the ~8% spent by the employer for Medicare and Social Security, and the 31% effective rate becomes ~39%, doesn't it? For income above $200K, there's also an "Additional Medicare Tax" of 0.9%.
Employers by definition want to pay employees as little as possible, only enough so they stay.
28.3% on IE, 41% on Windows 7. Wow. It's odd, being in the tech bubble, you forget how many people there are that really don't think about their technology (or work somewhere for whom the most important things are cost and stability). It would be interesting to take a poll of what people think the numbers would be like before they saw them. I would have guessed a lot more Chrome/FF.
What would someone who really thought about their technology run? Why would the most important things for an operating system not be cost and stability? e: Realise this comes off as confrontational. Genuine questions!
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Everything we do at 18F is open source, usually as public domain. Interested in working on this stuff? Come work with us: https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/02/25/We-Are-Hiring/
what's the difference between 18F and USDS? i applied to USDS and never got a reply.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/08/11...
If anyone would like to see, use or contribute to the code we used to build the Dashboard, we're on GitHub: https://github.com/GSA/analytics.usa.gov And also open-sourced the adapter we use to get the data out of Google Analytics and into a nice clean JSON API for our client-side static app to consume: https://github.com/18F/analytics-reporter
There was a bit of a kerfuffle around Healthcare.gov sending data to analytics services (despite that being industry standard practice), so I'm curious if there's any push to ditch Google Analytics, etc., for .gov, and move analytics services in-house.