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Sorry to pop your bubble, but...

I live in Denmark, and all of the above use cases are automatically calculated by our tax auth..

My most complex tax-filing was:

- Full-time job

- Extra "non-job" salary (board membership)

- Investment income from two different providers

- Expenses for multiple bank loans and mortage, and external credit card companies

- Three different companies (LLCs) that I own

All of that info send to the IRS (by law) from all provider.

My time for tax-filing 10 minutes to look it through (and do nothing as it was correct).

This year I had 1 change to the taxes. The interest from a small collective loan for our home-owners association was not automatically filed, and I had to enter that by hand... Took 5 minutes..

Small note, my three companies also had my time spent doing tax stuff, but that is by law required of the LLCs and the companies have a (shared) accoutant doing that..

Other note. Even royalties (for books, music etc) are correctly calculated by the danish IRS due to the requirements of posting from the companies doing payouts..

tl;dr: The requirements of the payer and all financial institutes to file to the IRS is extremely effective...
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For what it is worth, I cant remove the google search box on the Google Pixel 1 phone, (plus a permanent date and weather widget at the top) so now I have both Google and DuckDuckGo search boxes on my homescreen...
I'm using an open source browser because I don't trust third parties; what if they were served a NSL or similar?

Either way the common claim that it's purely local is certainly not true.
This would be nice, but they may not actually have all of the data: itemized deductions being one major missing piece.
It doesn't appear that the anti-debt pledge has any weight whatsoever since around January 2017.
Point of information - the progressive taxation ("tiered") method from the UK is the same as in the US.

You pay in tax bracket A up to $X, then the next tier is taxed at tax bracket B, and so on, and so on.
I think the intense focus and obsession over something is only undesirable if it interferes with normal functioning; if you were sleeping regularly, your addiction probably would have been normal. If your addiction had instead been to hacking sites together with php, maybe you would be a multi-millionaire now.

My parents taught me moderation and economics at the same time with computer time cards that were tradable for chores and other things they wanted to incentivize. Then when I got old and rich enough to just buy my own computer I understood the idea of a durable investment paying dividends :D
I once got a correction was was completely accurate. TurboTax has hidden something in a worksheet that errantly added something twice. The IRS corrected it and sent me a notice to let me know the correct value. It did reduce my refund, but it was correct.
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As a potential college dropout looking to publish my CS research, this is an extremely helpful thread. Thanks everyone for your contributions!
This is a perfect example of naive intervention. there is no evidence that pseudoestrogens may reduce violence and I have no idea how you came to such a ludicrous conclusion.

Is it because you believe the myth that high testosterone causes violence? That "roid rage" people normally picture when thinking of people who do steroids is actually people who neglect or don't put enough effort into post cycle therapy or aromatase inhibitors to LOWER their estrogen levels.

Yes taking steroids greatly increases Estrogen levels as well and this is the main reason many men who have done steroids without proper cycling have some semblance of breasts...

If anything this "violent" society you speak of is most likely a result of these pseudoestrogens / xenoestrogens and other endocrine disrupting chemicals.
That analogy is a little disingenuous as both divisions make PCs.

Executive management bears at least some responsibility in something as egregious as that - the fish rots from the head, as the expression goes.
It turns out that:

"I don't want government to operate effectively because to do so would ruin my ideological minarchism"

and

"I don't want government to operate effectively because I can profit from it operating less effectively"

are very friendly bedfellows indeed.
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What is HN's view on the Indian Electronic Voting Machines? These machines are not connected to any network. They reduced invalid votes by a huge margin, increased trust in the system by making it almost impossible to stuff ballots, reduced the time to get the results by a very significant margin - even a full recount can be done in just a few hours. There are risks. IMHO, those risks existed with paper ballots as well. Also to note that this works well in India (so far no major complaints) primarily because it's accompanied by an independent Election Commission i.e., national/state/local sitting officials don't oversee elections.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_in_India
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This comment reeks of "whataboutism". Coke and Disney employees can discuss the ethical ramifications of what they do in their communities. We in the tech industry should deal with our ethical failings.
All the author had to do with this "appeal" was present the text to be read. Instead they put it on gitlab behind javascript. Literally nothing renders without JS enabled, and even with it enabled in browsers more than a year or two old it's just spins forever: no text.

Text is easy guys. Here's my appeal: stop hiding all content behind javascript. It's not required and because if it I am unable to read the author's appeal.
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"Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace" is a true crime story covering the late 80s/early 90s era of hacking in the US, and a conflict[0] between two prominent hacker groups of the time - LOD[1] and MOD[2] - which mostly consisted of smart teenage kids who were just obsessed with computers and telephone networks. It's unquestionably one of my favourite books.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hacker_War

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legion_of_Doom_(hacking)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Deception
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I highly recommend reading The Idea Factory. It's a fascinating historical account of Bell Labs and how they performed research.
Yes. I do it every year, and taxes take roughly 10 minutes to prepare.

And the majority of those is because I'm a part owner of my dads company, so I have to verify that the given numbers are correct in two forms instead of only one.

Also note that companies usually prepay part of salaries as tax, so generally people only have to pay a few K, or receive a few K. Depending on how much is paid.

Taxes seem complicated in USA.
Air con is a bit more common, but nothing like the US.

Consumption is much higher in winter than summer (summer is actually the period of the year with the lowest consumption).

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In Chile, the government gives you the opportunity to pre-fill all your info. You could use gov-only accounting tools and at the end of the year everything is done for you. Just one click and you get your return, this has been true for 10+ years IIRC. When I moved to the US (7 years ago) I was so overwhelmed with taxes that I decided to pay for an accountant. This year I used TurboTax and even though there's a nice "wizard" it still feels overly (and unnecessary) complex.

As others have stated in comments, there's nothing special about US taxes that mandate it should be this complex, other than special interests of people wanting to make things complex for their own benefit.
The fine details of the ash cloud are captured by the flash of the lightening.

Look at the other photos in the series.
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Despite the sword and sorcery veneer this is actually the premise of several of CJ Cherryh's works, for example : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exile's_Gate
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While I agree Zuckerberg is out of his depth, I think there is some magical thinking in this article that there are just a cadre of imminently well qualified people waiting in the wings who could save the day if only given the chance.

These people, by and large, don't exist. I may think Zuckerberg has some issues, but I don't think there is some hidden group of folks who could do much better of a job than he could.
I have not. To be fair, other than the X1 Carbon, I haven't tried any of the latest PC trackpads (Surface, Dell, etc.) in a while. Hopefully they have improved.
I suspect that'd be much much harder - there's not that much variation between the shapes.
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Workstation-class machines seem to focus on executing multiple tasks in parallel and sharing resources fairly among them. Gaming laptops focus on giving one task 100% of the power.
Does this remind anyone else of Snow Crash? :)
Doesn't the bank send the same tax documents to the IRS as they send to you? (Mortgage interest is a commonly itemized deduction.)

Itemized deductions could be a "dispute" item, where you would login, switch from Standard to Itemized, then itemize your deductions. It could possibly recall this setting, and even the deductions, from the previous year's input.
I would love to just get a bill.
Who pays a 10% property tax?

The $165K to $315K bracket for a family in the US is 24%. A healthy chunk lower than France. Plus mortgage interest deduction, etc.
Share your paper with a colleague for comments. If they're a fan, they can serve as an advocate with a journal if necessary.

Science is a social endeavor. If you don't have colleagues, go meet people!

As a referee, it doesn't matter at all to me whether you have a PhD. Your institution may matter a little bit as context, but not a lot. It is the science that matters.

As with any paper, I'll read the abstract, read the introduction, look at the figures and the captions, glance at any short equation, and read the conclusion. By the end of that process, I will know whether or not the paper is worth further attention. The refereeing process is generally an investment of several days of my time, so I do it with care.

Do the work, talk with people, get feedback, and repeat.
I think the number of times a captcha is presented is directly correlated with the risk associated with the IP address. But you're right, very annoying indeed.
Well, if tasks are taking 10x what you estimated to your manager, your manager is probably already a bit upset.
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As one of the comments mentioned, you can use an external GPU with USB-C for your ML needs.
This is a sweet machine but the price is eye watering.
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It makes voting faster and less expensive (practically free). That means you could have the public voting at arbitrary frequency. You could imagine a system where the public is voting every month, week, or day on what the country should do next.

I'm not saying this would be good necessarily, only that such a technology would enable fast, frequent, continuous control distributed across the population. Such a country would be very different from anything that exists today.
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This would be fine and good if:

1. There was any relation between how much we spent and what we pay in taxes. There isn't. In the U.S., so-called "fiscal conservatives" routinely give massive tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans while simultaneously voting to increase spending in the largest discretionary spending category we have: the military—which currently represents 53.7% of our discretionary budget.

2. People currently had any idea what they were spending on taxes. In my experience, most people think the amount taken out of their paycheck is all federal taxes. They seemingly make no distinction between social security, 401k contributions, medicare, pre-tax benefits like health insurance, transportation benefits, FSA's, etc., local, state, or federal taxes. It's all just seen as "the government took money from me". It's amazing how many people legitimately think they're taxed over 50% (especially those that are in the 15-25% tax brackets).
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> Willful failure to file a tax return is a misdemeanor

Carrying up to one year of jail time under federal law. States usually have penalties, too.

> In cases where an overt act of evasion occurred, willful failure to file may be elevated to a felony

OP is bragging about willfully failing to file on the Internet. Something tells me proving this wouldn't take a sleuth.
Filing your own taxes is already trivial for the vast majority of people. The only reason people don’t fill out their own 1040-EZ is brainwashing that “taxes are hard”.
>Set extremely low speeds that don't make sense on highways. Allow most people to go 10-15 above.

I doubt people really speed because the limits have been set too low and the people know better what is an ideal speed limit.

I think people_think_ they know better what the speed limit is, and/or reason "well if 60mph is okay, 75 mph can't be that bad, I'm barely speeding and I'm in a rush". At least, that's the attitude I've seen with people who regularly speed.

If you were to raise the speed limit to 75mph, people would just use the same logic to drive 90mph instead.
For those wondering, "Роскомнадзор" is Russia's "Censorship Agency", Roskomnadzor[1]. If you are wondering, why is there a Censorship Agency in a country whose Constitution explicitly bans censorship[2], well... Let's just say it's not the first time in our history. Probably not the last.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Service_for_Supervisio....

[2] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Russia#Articl....
I've done Andrew Ng's Coursera specialization (deeplearning.ai) and course.fast.ai, and I would 100% recommend starting with fast.ai. (Seeing results more quickly is motivating. It's also free.) When you know that you enjoy the topic, feel free to learn more rigorous ML theory from other sources.
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You might be right. I'm sure Facebook have a great number of metrics that they use to guide their ranking of content. I do however wonder how accurate metrics are as guidelines for a platform's longterm health- I think some things are far easier to measure than others, and companies tend to put short-term engagement over long-term retention anyway. It's probably very easy to sell slightly-invasive advertising to managers, on the basis that you can straightforwardly quantify the money you're making from it. People's subtle feeling of being creeped out is basically impossible to measure, and would never show up in the short term anyway, but I bet it changes the way they act on the platform, and the platform's value proposition to its users.

It's also possible nobody is actually creeped out - but honestly, it just needs to be a sizeable portion of journalists and politicians before you start having legistlative problems. How many people were genuinely worried about nuclear power, for instance?
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Usually available DIMM sizes, 32GB ECC DIMMs may come along eventually. May also be a power restriction, since (AFAIK) ECC draws more power, so at some point the DIMM may hit an upper limit (ECC running on each refresh cycle).
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What made the French Revolution and today different is the sheer murderousness of the population and willingness to get whipped up into big mobs that then take people from their homes, kill them, put their heads up on pikes. This became normal. It got so bad that someone thought the guillotine was a humane invention.

You just can't conflate today's RedPillers with that.

If you look at the Civil War, this was a conflict that rent families apart. Brothers faced down brothers across a battlefield. Fathers fought sons. The Civil War was the culmination of a political quarrel that steadily rose in tenor since the inception of the nation. It was a hundred years in the making, enough time for the sides involved to get real passionate about it.

The essence of fighting and violence are still there, the same deep inner chaos is driving these conflicts.

But what's missing is the ridiculous amount of zeal that both sides possessed. If you have that kind of zeal, these days the only way to fulfill it is to go join ISIL. And people do that. But most people aren't getting that bad. They find an outlet. Trump is that outlet. Brexit is that outlet. Before it was mob violence.

It's the same with advertising. The continuation and slow civilization of the new domain of the marketing of human attention. However bad it is now, it was worse before. Before machines did the dirty work, it was other humans acting in unbelievably shady manners to rip people off for as much as they could. And it was considered normal.
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Interestingly this is pretty much how it used to work in France up until this year. No deductions from your paycheck, and on year N+1 you pay your income taxes for year N. People need to be careful to set aside enough money to be able to pay these deferred taxes. However, now they are moving to payroll deductions :)
Most people are using tax prep services that will default to 1040 since their software doesn't care about which form is going to be used and it's simpler to code for just the general case.
Referring to any successful male technologist as "tech bros" is just condescending on the face of it and really weakens your argument.

People (rightfully) don't go around referring to Sheryl Sandberg and Meg Whitman as "tech broads".
Would it be enough to disable/block social media apps, Youtube/Twitch and problematic games? The kid would still have a smartphone but without the addictive stuff.
>it is like bashing samsung washing machines for touchwiz on samsung phones.

those aren't really the same. in lenovo's case was breaching the consumer's trust, whereas in your example, it's purely a design decision.
I'm torn on this issue. On the one hand, in Sweden, taxes are extremely simple to file, and I love it for practical reasons. All work income (even from multiple part time jobs which someone said would be an issue) is declared by the employer, almost all saving/stocks/bonds/other stuff resulting in financial gains are reported by the broker/bank. I think many people don't change any of the data, almost 1 million (out of a 10 million population) just send a text message saying basically "Okay!" [0].

On the other hand, this also irks me in some way. It is good that it's so simple to file it, but at least when just texting an okay it probably hides just how much people pay in taxes. It's almost the same thing as the fact that most employers in Sweden just show the taxes they withheld from the salary, i.e not the significant payroll taxes the company had to pay (which could just as easily have been shown for/"payed" by the employee).

Regardless of ones opinion on how high taxes should be, and wether one believe they get good value for their money, I think everyone ought to know roughly how much they pay. I guess this is the reason why Grover Norquist of the Norquist pledge [1] tries to stop measures like this [2].

I imagine, if there was interest, it could be done in a way that actually _raises_ the awareness of how much tax is payed/withheld from people's income.

[0]: https://www.skatteverket.se/omoss/press/pressmeddelanden/201...
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Norquist#Taxpayer_Prote...
[2]: https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...
That's more a problem with the system surrounding the paper ballot than the paper system itself. Switch to an electronic means in those countries won't remove the fixing problem just make it harder to see because the fix will happen before election day instead of the day of.

It's not just the paper system it's that the paper system can be monitored by representatives of each party, there's no good way to do that with an electronic system that doesn't at least create a separate paper record of the vote that's counted separately.
The word on the street in the credit union industry is that you need $500 million in assets to be long term viable. It could be lower for a bank, but you'd need a laser focused niche.

[edit] source: I sit on the board of a credit union. This is a concern driven by the regulatory burden and cost to maintain a competitive IT infrastructure
Let's just castrate ugly men.
> The radical anti-tax groups are so anti-tax that they see making it easier to pay taxes as support for taxes. So they want it to be difficult to pay taxes to make it easier for them to argue against taxes entirely.

I don't know if getting rid of taxes entirely is really a goal for many of these people, but what you describe doesn't sound that unreasonable. Making paying taxes easier does sound like support for taxes, right? For example, if we didn't have payroll deduction, surely there would be more popular support for tax cuts.
Just to add my 2 cents. I participated in elections before, both as a candidate and as member of the voting table (at instances at the same time as well). If there is some complicit agreement you can see certain leaning votes being discarded as not being clear enough, mostly because they are too left for the table or the inverse. This is widespread and a mostly unknown phenomena, since no one is going to recount a table for a small percentage of discrepancy.

I don't know anything about electronic voting but if it can guarantee there is no personal opinion in the middle, good.
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You're spot on. And I would add that if and when they finally succeed in removing Zuckerberg from the throne (I'm convinced they're working on that; bad press is step 1) just to make space for another king, Facebook won't change a dime because making it better would make it also less profitable, so it's just a matter of taking away his seat for someone else in exchange for X (votes?).
Model 3 is more nimble, not quite a Subaru WRX but gets close. Also the Model 3 display and interior are more minimalistic. My 75D Model S having less range than my Model 3 would be the only thing that sticks out.

I don’t prefer one over the other, they each have their pros and cons.
>oppose any net reduction or elimination of deductions and
credits, unless matched dollar for dollar by further reducing tax rates

seems reasonable to me. otherwise you could "raise" taxes by eliminating deductions.
None of their workstation models have the option for a GTX 10-series.

Microsoft Surface Book comes with a 1060 option
You need to think about quality of life. 3.5 hours commute is, in my mind, pure hell. I wouldn't do that for 400K a year, never mind 200K.
Stephenson is more post cyberpunk really.
This is exactly why I started the thread:
I dropped out of college a couple years ago as I had opportunities that a degree could not offer me (I still believe this was the good choice). But as I move forward and do more and more RnD at work, in my startup and as a hobby, I would like to share some pieces of information to the world.

All I would advise you is to embrace the unknown and strive to learn more everyday.

Whichever path you chose, I wish you good luck.