siberianbear

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by siberianbear 6y ago
The $100k you're referring to is the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion [1]. If you're an American working abroad, you don't need to pay income tax on your first $107,600. The exclusion does not apply to self-employment tax
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by siberianbear 6y ago
And it's not just you, either. I'm lucky to be alive after the crazy shit I did as a teenager.
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Polish Justice Minister announces online freedom of speech bill(polandin.com)
3 points by siberianbear 6y ago|1 comments
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by siberianbear 6y ago
^ Yeah, this. I socked away and invested everything I could during my career in Silicon Valley. I retired just a few months after my fortieth birthday. Why most of my colleagues didn't do the same and instead 'leveled up' th
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Russia Fines Google $41,000 for Failing to Remove Banned Content(themoscowtimes.com)
1 points by siberianbear 6y ago|0 comments
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Interview with John O. Brennan on Life in the CIA(medium.com)
3 points by siberianbear 6y ago|0 comments
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by siberianbear 6y ago
The parent comment is a bit flip and sarcastic, but he's not wrong. $550k isn't even a speed bump for Twitter. SV tech companies aren't going to take EU regulatory bodies seriously unless they pass out meaningful fines. Hop
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by siberianbear 6y ago
I think this is about the fourth time I've seen this story on HN.
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The Case for One More Child: Why Large Families Will Save Humanity(plough.com)
2 points by siberianbear 6y ago|0 comments
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by siberianbear 6y ago
Not knowing anything about philosophy, I started reading Nietzsche. I really couldn't even understand what he was talking about. After beating my head against it for some time, I reached out to an acquaintance who was a philosophy in
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AstraZeneca begins programme to assess Covid-19 vaccine combinations(astrazeneca.ru)
2 points by siberianbear 6y ago|0 comments
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by siberianbear 6y ago
If you're married or have children AND they come with you to AZ, that's obviously no problem. In that case, it works in your favor: it's just more data that you're a bona fide AZ resident. I was pointing out that if you
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by siberianbear 6y ago
You're absolutely right: it's a massive transfer of wealth from the young, productive class to older people and to commercial landlords. But it can't be changed: it's the "third rail" of California tax policy.
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by siberianbear 6y ago
(I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice) I left California for Nevada many years ago, and I subsequently sold stock I accumulated while in California without paying state income tax. It is legal and you can do it, but there are a lot o
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American pilot Chuck Yeager, first to break sound barrier, dies aged 97(dailymail.co.uk)
1 points by siberianbear 6y ago|0 comments
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You’re Not Underpaid ‒ but LeBron Is(aier.org)
3 points by siberianbear 6y ago|1 comments
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by siberianbear 6y ago
Obligatory apropos xkcd... https://xkcd.com/323/
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by siberianbear 6y ago
I have used Threema and I like it, but the barrier is that it is not a free app. I've only been able to get fellow nerds to install it. I like the idea that it indicates the level of safety you have with another person quite clearly.
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by siberianbear 6y ago
Amen!
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In a major scientific breakthrough, A.I. predicts the exact shape of proteins(fortune.com)
1 points by siberianbear 6y ago|0 comments
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Hacker Lexicon: What Is the Signal Encryption Protocol?(wired.com)
2 points by siberianbear 6y ago|0 comments
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by siberianbear 6y ago
Posting a link to Coinbase's peremptory rebuttal seems apropos. https://blog.coinbase.com/upcoming-story-about-coinbase-2012...
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Lion cheaper than a pedigree kitten in Japan(dw.com)
1 points by siberianbear 6y ago|0 comments
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Search Site DuckDuckGo Hands User Data over to Google(godfatherpolitics.com)
2 points by siberianbear 6y ago|0 comments
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by siberianbear 6y ago
One of the things most amazing about the world is that the activity of human beings spans such a wide range of behavior: we do things that are so stupid that an alien might think we are not even sentient, and then we're capable of doin
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by siberianbear 6y ago
Something about this doesn't make much sense to me. "Fauci said he's being 'practical' when he says, 'I think if we can get 75 to 80% of the population vaccinated, I think that would be a really good accomplis
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by siberianbear 6y ago
It reminds me of the famous quote by Upton Sinclair: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
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by siberianbear 6y ago
I was able to get around the paywall by using "reader mode" in Firefox.
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The Largest Gypsy Ghetto in Europe – Stolipinovo, Bulgaria (2016)(yomadic.com)
170 points by siberianbear 6y ago|226 comments
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by siberianbear 6y ago
Yeah, I had that same thought. A length of 4 or something seems unlikely to happen because a miner would almost have to be doing something nefarious to build on top of an already stale chain. A length of 2 could be some kind of concurre

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