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by wdaher 2mo ago
I’ve also seen this called “The Whispering Earring”, and have seen it hosted here (this version slightly more readable) https://croissanthology.com/earring
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by wdaher 3mo ago
It's just been one of those "I just haven't gotten around to it yet" aspirational acquisitions. It seems very interesting and maybe I'll eventually get around to it. It's more the satisfaction of (a) doing a sm
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by wdaher 3mo ago
Assuming we’re talking about the Stripe Press book: if you email me and if you have a US address I’d be glad to mail you my totally unread copy which is mostly just gathering dust for me. (Email in profile.)
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by wdaher 7mo ago
The Sorcerer's Apprentice is a poem by Goethe, or more famously, a sequence from the Disney movie "Fantasia", which you can see here: https://video.disney.com/watch/sorcerer-s-apprentice-fantasi... The s
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Msgvault: Fast Gmail search from the author of Pandas(wesmckinney.com)
3 points by wdaher 8mo ago|1 comments
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CapitalOne buys Brex (YC W17) for $5.15B(cnbc.com)
6 points by wdaher 8mo ago|1 comments
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by wdaher 10mo ago
This is 100% about Delaware Franchise Tax and is a rite of passage for all first-time founders. (There is no portal you can log into to view your federal taxes owed.) Here’s a detailed writeup I prepared a while back about exactly how to re
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Making a Living as an Artist(essays.fnnch.com)
4 points by wdaher 10mo ago|0 comments
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Shamelessness as a strategy (2019)(nadia.xyz)
233 points by wdaher 1y ago|165 comments
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by wdaher 1y ago
Scalability is overrated - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34656776 - Feb 2023 (232 comments)
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by wdaher 1y ago
This is the correct parsing of it. (I can't take credit for coming up with the title, but I worked on the project.)
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by wdaher 1y ago
A bit reminiscent of Tallis's "London Street Views": https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015051808932&se...
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by wdaher 1y ago
See my example here for where it ends up biting you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44180533#44204246
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by wdaher 1y ago
Worth noting: the version of the Big Beautiful Bill passed by the House ends this particular change, starting in tax year 2025. We'll have to see if this provision makes it through the Senate, and in what form.
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by wdaher 1y ago
This is what the Sec 174 change said: it says that you do have to capitalize it.
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by wdaher 1y ago
Here's a toy example that hopefully makes this clear: In 2024, your business has $1m in revenue and has $2m in expenses. 100% of these expenses are R&D salaries (engineers you hire.) Your company loses $1m/year. (You brought i
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by wdaher 1y ago
You should go with Pilot. We literally do this for 2,500+ startups and are the largest startup-focused accounting firm in the US, by far. (I am one of its founders, though that doesn’t make the above inaccurate.) Email me? (Email in profile
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Alleged Deel Spy Confesses to Coordinating with Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz(newcomer.co)
10 points by wdaher 1y ago|1 comments
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by wdaher 2y ago
We will do this for folks (moving from Bench to QBO) for free: https://pilot.com/bench-qbo-migration (It's a nontrivial problem but there's at least a reasonable check—"Did the balance sheet, P&L, and cas
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by wdaher 2y ago
Honestly, love to hear this :)
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by wdaher 2y ago
For Bench customers that want to look elsewhere, Pilot is doing free migrations from Bench to QBO, even if you don't want to use Pilot. (So you can even take advantage of it if you want to instead DIY or work with some local firm.) ht
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Was zombie-Bench just acquired?
19 points by wdaher 2y ago|6 comments
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by wdaher 2y ago
We do, yes.
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by wdaher 2y ago
It's a fairly capital-intensive business. Here's my best articulation of specifically what makes it hard: https://waseem.substack.com/p/tech-enabled-services
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by wdaher 2y ago
Price should be comparable to a high-quality local provider, but if that's not what you're seeing, I'd love to know that.
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by wdaher 2y ago
We have a number of folks who have switched from Bench, and as you can imagine there's enough volume here that it's worth building some bespoke stuff for this. And yes, we can do 2024 catch-up work. (waseem@pilot.com if folks have
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by wdaher 2y ago
If you’re a tech startup and previously used Bench, I’d strongly encourage you to check out Pilot.com - we work with literally thousands of startups. (Disclaimer: I’m one of the founders.)
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by wdaher 2y ago
A short story that explores some of these questions is "Where Am I" by Daniel Dennett, linked-to here: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/daniel-dennett-where-am-i...
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by wdaher 2y ago
Yes, exactly. I'm most motivated by the first $6,600 that go directly to the Harris campaign, and subsequently by the donations that go directly to battleground states -- but the hope here is that the matching proves successful at gett
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by wdaher 2y ago
I spent a ton of time on this for several thousand old photos and ultimately opted to use ScanCafe. It's not perfect, but if you have a little $, you're more likely to actually get the task done if you just ship them off.

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