clogston

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by clogston 11y ago
"18 months of credit monitoring? Crap, I've already got two of these."
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by clogston 11y ago
Even more sadistic, have an entire batch dedicated to ONE of those ideas and see which company has the least poor execution.
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by clogston 11y ago
Maybe if YC is their /only/ investor? I'm not familiar with how YC's initial investment is structured. But your scenario won't exist for many (close enough to all?) startups who have investors. What likely happened
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by clogston 11y ago
IRS requires you to authenticate yourself via one of two mechanisms if you efile (regardless of who you do your taxes with): 1) Prior year AGI 2) Electronic filing PIN They can also issue a taxpayer a special Identity Protection PIN. If you
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by clogston 12y ago
The whole image is being stretched vertically in CSS ("background-size: 104% 160%;"). You can see the same distortion on the man's arm, the phone, and the pencil holder. Definitely a "once seen, can't unsee" ty
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by clogston 12y ago
It looks like the author for Metrics is also the author (one of the authors) of Dropwizard.
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by clogston 12y ago
Everyone I know big enough to run a load balancer has had this happen. The next step in evolution is to have your script look for specific text on a page, which will change 24 months later and have all the perfectly good servers pulled out
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by clogston 12y ago
> It would also be nice if you could disable spam filtering entirely and run your own client-side. It's horribly convoluted but it /is/ possible to do so: http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/694
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by clogston 12y ago
> SOFTFAILs should not be used and they will cause problems Many SPF docs recommend using SOFTFAILs, including Gmail's docs [1]. What's your recommended SPF setup for his use case? [1] https://support.google.com&#x2
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by clogston 12y ago
> The author also doesn't show how the federal income tax is fundamentally different to what an employee would pay Not disagreeing. For anyone wondering what the fundamental differences are: 1) As an independent contractor you are r
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by clogston 12y ago
I can't help but think these straight-laced, shirt & tie, crewcut environments aren't attractive to the type of diverse skillsets they really need.
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by clogston 12y ago
I never advocated banning anything. The argument is closer to "cheap, high calorie low nutrition food is leading to an obesity epidemic." Tax fraud costs taxpayers billions of dollars[0]. There are surely many ways to combat this,
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by clogston 12y ago
Oh believe me I don't either. It's horrible an industry can crop up to assist with government inefficiency and eventually become powerful enough to keep the inefficiency in place.
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Free Tax Software Is Bad(common-form.com)
38 points by clogston 12y ago|46 comments
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by clogston 12y ago
Lots of speculation in this thread. Here's my hypothesis. Federal tax return fraud is huge. It's a growing problem that the IRS is struggling to cope with and it's been going on for years. State tax return fraud has been larg
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by clogston 12y ago
It's trivial for the IRS. They either cut a check (and mail it to an address) or direct deposit it in to an account. Most fraudsters opt for the check option... so much so in fact that one of the new fraud prevention mechanism the IRS
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by clogston 12y ago
Unfortunately there isn't an existing easy way to find out if your SSN has been used to file a tax return. When you file your taxes via efile[0], the IRS system will reject the tax return if a tax return with the same SSN has already b
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by clogston 12y ago
I would guess this is happening largely because Intuit started offering free state filing to a greater subset of users. This has been an ongoing problem at the federal level, but just started this year with the various states. Strong correl
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by clogston 12y ago
No you're not held liable, but it's a giant pain in the butt proving that you're the actual owner of your SSN. It also significantly delays your refund (if you're due a refund).
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by clogston 12y ago
There many tax software companies. The vast majority of them do not actively lobby against tax filing simplification.
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by clogston 12y ago
> Simple clerical errors rarely invalidate a contract. I'm not a lawyer though so I don't actually know. We need a name for this.
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by clogston 12y ago
For those not reading the article, please note this isn't just a claim made by the defense. This came out of cross examination of a DHS agent. "You thought you had probable cause that Mark Karpeles was intimately involved,
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by clogston 12y ago
We're running the Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana (ELK) stack with the recommended approach i.e.: logstash client \ logstash client --> redis -> logstash "server" process -> elasticsearch &lt
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by clogston 12y ago
There's nothing at all dumb about this question! And the answer is most definitely "yes." As a shareholder you should have an understanding of how many shares are authorized (i.e., how many units of measure the company has be
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by clogston 12y ago
There are two main options at the moment, with many simmers enjoying both: 1) DCS World ( https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/world/ ) is the "framework" and comes with some free aircraft. There are
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by clogston 12y ago
This sim still exists as Flaming Cliffs 3 ( http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/products/flaming_cl... )
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by clogston 12y ago
In early stage startups, the title of CEO has more to do with who's in charge of vision and runway and less about org structure. Decisions are usually made based on an equity stake.
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by clogston 12y ago
It's good to set expectation up front with each other, and a performance plan is one way to go about doing it. The downside to completely getting rid of a co-founder is: 1) They're likely going to take /some/ amount of e
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by clogston 12y ago
It may not really matter at first, but based on my experience it quickly becomes an issue once you grow to a size where you're either fundraising or hiring. In our case, as soon as we started relationship-building with angels and VCs i
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by clogston 12y ago
Agree on Smart Host. I really like the flavor they provided about the pricing recommendation I got from them.

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