jmharvey

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by jmharvey 3y ago
CPAs aren't cheap, and most people's tax situations really aren't that complicated. Even for high earners with lots of investments, it mostly comes down to collecting a bunch of forms and either doing manual data entry or sen
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by jmharvey 3y ago
I've used TurboTax, H&R Block, and TaxAct software in the past, before switching to freetaxusa a few years ago. The major difference is that Freetaxusa isn't constantly trying to upsell you into different products, or starting
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by jmharvey 3y ago
There's a similar mechanism for most horse races in the US, though instead of it being just the winner's entry, all of the horses in the race are offered for sale at a certain "claiming" price just before the race star
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by jmharvey 3y ago
I'm a fan of the workflow where the PR gets squashed in the upstream git repo, but the individual commits are preserved in the PR in the code review tool. I feel that Phabricator handles this well.
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by jmharvey 3y ago
The DA treats anything less than automobile burglary as not worth their time. The way the law is written, smashing the window of a car and taking the contents is simple vandalism and theft (not as serious as burglary) unless there's ev
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by jmharvey 3y ago
It's not like that at all. The sunglasses aren't that expensive.
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by jmharvey 3y ago
It depends on what you're trying to optimize for, and how much you're trying to optimize it. If what you're concerned about is maximizing the odds of getting a jackpot, all you need to do is pick 27 different numbers. Say, 1-
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by jmharvey 3y ago
Afaik (and I watch this fairly closely) there hasn't been a study. There are a lot of anecdotes, typically of the form "a person won a few million but spent like they had an income of a few million per year," sometimes of the
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by jmharvey 3y ago
One thing I appreciated about Anchor was that, unlike most California breweries, it didn't focus on highly-hopped, high ABV beers. I'll miss it.
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by jmharvey 3y ago
As I recall, back in the day (90s) my family subscribed to a regional daily paper, a local weekly paper, National Geographic, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, Reader's Digest, Smithsonian magazine, various kids magazines depending on age
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by jmharvey 3y ago
$100+ monthly phone bills often include the cost of the device, not just the service.
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by jmharvey 3y ago
Watts are a rate. Joules per second.
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by jmharvey 4y ago
The extra B is for BYOBB.
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by jmharvey 4y ago
It sounds both somewhat difficult (the typical galaga player doesn't exactly aim carefully) and extremely tedious, both for players and for spectators. It reminds me a bit of the (possibly apocryphal) story that casinos promote tales o
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by jmharvey 4y ago
If anything, Buffett/Munger proves the rule: on the org chart, there's no question that Munger reports to Buffett. In practice Buffett isn't trying to call shots day to day, so Munger is functionally in charge of the org, and
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by jmharvey 4y ago
Another common geographic mental misplacement is the degree to which the east coast of the United States runs northeast/southwest. The closest US state to Africa is Maine.
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by jmharvey 4y ago
Somewhat counterintuitively, the billion-dollar jackpot lotteries' expected values often shrink as the jackpots grow, because the media circus pulls in a lot of players and increase the likelihood of a split jackpot. It's not that
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by jmharvey 4y ago
I've bought the number 1,2,3,4,5,6 on numerous occasions, but my lottery play isn't really representative of the typical player. A few years back, the Quebec Lottery published its most frequently played numbers. It seems the origi
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by jmharvey 4y ago
In my experience, the mom and pop outfits usually have a reasonably modern system from verifone/square/etc that accepts tap to pay; it's the giant behemoths (e.g. USPS or Lowe's) where I'm more likely to encounter a
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by jmharvey 4y ago
> Our stronger engineers work much more efficiently at home That depends on how you measure efficiency. On many teams, the strongest engineers maximize their impact by helping other people.
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by jmharvey 4y ago
0.0008%
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by jmharvey 4y ago
A banana's mass is on the order of 100g, so it's 20x as radioactive in terms of mBq/g, not 2000x
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by jmharvey 4y ago
Out of curiosity, when was that? The last time I was in a place with 25c beers, I was watching the 2001 Daytona 500.
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by jmharvey 4y ago
This reminds me of a startup CFO I worked with, who could see the big picture. In the early days of the company, they worked in an office that shared a bathroom with a half dozen other companies. And the toilet paper in said bathroom was
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by jmharvey 4y ago
Are there recruiters out there who pitch based on hours and money? Every pitch I get is all about the vision/team/prospects for success. And, yes, "prospects for success" in some ways means "money" but they&#x2
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by jmharvey 4y ago
> First this is just inherently wrong. You’ve been able to call and schedule a cab, even in the burbs, since before the internet was a thing. And maybe the driver would show up on time, or maybe they'd see a street hail en route to
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by jmharvey 5y ago
ESPN+ doesn't include most ESPN/ESPN2 programming. There are other "non-cable" packages that do include that programming, but they have a price point that resembles cable.
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by jmharvey 5y ago
Earlier today I mentioned to my first grader that when I was a kid we didn't have an ice maker in our freezer, and we just used ice cube trays, instead. He sat there for a minute, stumped, and finally asked, "so what made the free
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by jmharvey 5y ago
Yes, this is inflation adjusted. > The average price of American homes, in real terms, is now the highest it's ever been
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by jmharvey 5y ago
No. The first paragraph of the article states that these are inflation-adjusted prices. > The average price of American homes, in real terms, is now the highest it's ever been

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