skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's actually not true right now. Every time you trade it's a taxable event. So if you went USD --> BTC --> ETH --> BTC --> USD you would need to show 4 transactions to the IRS.

The total tax burden will look a lot like (Final USD - Total USD) * (Short Term Cap Gains Rate) but you can't just report it that way.

In 2017 I mucked around with Crypto and accumulated about 50 transactions over ~5 currencies. Reporting was a monster pain in the ass.
I'm pretty sure if you make a business out of switching currencies, you have to pay taxes on your profits.

1. Buy Euros with dollars
2. Value of dollar drops
3. Buy back more dollars than you started with
4. Pay taxes on your gains
Chuck Rettig, the new IRS commissioner comes from a tax litigation background. He's got a lot of experience and is preparing for one of the next big tax battles which is how to bring crypto under compliance with the current tax regime.

I still think they lack the technical knowledge to understand crypto and as a result, you'll start to see an increase in information being requested.

In any case, I willing to bet that you'll have a couple of court cases that will really bring crypto into compliance in a way that makes sense for 80% of the people.
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Oh goody I just hit my first medium.com effective paywall. Can we kill it now and go back to ordinary blog hosting? https://i.imgur.com/Ii3VcfA.png
How does that change anything about what I said? The people intentionally not paying taxes know full well that it's a crime.
Is there this false notion floating out there somewhere that "science" is a universal resource and paying "science" to one thing inhibits our ability to understand another thing?
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It still suffers a bit from ergonomics though, as all those macros on the samples for cloning widget data members into callbacks show.

relm might be a much saner approach to avoid trying to understand why some button callback cannot read the text from an input field and such stuff.
Juul and other e-cigarette makers should be required to sell 0 nicotine versions of all of their flavors.

Like alcohol, it is impossible to totally prevent teens from getting ahold of them as long as it is legal for adults.

If you completely ban vaping devices, smokers lose an effective option to quit.

Mandatory 0 nicotine juices would allow the adults who buy these products for underage users to discreetly give underage users non addictive juice. I suspect that kids don't really want a nicotine addiction, they just vape because it's trendy. If 0 nicotine juice were the default kids wouldn't get addicted and would get bored of vaping just like any other fad.
> 2. Going out of your way to write a long article detailing all the shortcomings of those that partake in the thing you don't like.

For those able to put words in order that article would take 15 minutes to write and 5 to proof read.

>Of course you have the right to dislike tattoos, but that doesn't give anyone the right to tell someone they suck for something they chose because they like it.

What would you do if the author tattooed that piece on themselves? You now can't tell them they are wrong for hating people with tattoos because it's a tattoo.
The biggest issue w/ vape pens like Juul is the discreteness factor - I have coworkers that use them constantly at work, even at client sites.

Older box-style vaporizers are not inconspicuous, chic, or sexy - but the sleek form factor of a Juul is easy to carry around and looks cool.

Maybe restricting their size/portability would help make them less attractive?
Thank you. That was it. Senesence > cancer

Edit: Can't believe I forgot the third option, cell death.

Here's some info from Dr. Rhonda Patrick and Dr. Judith Campisi when they got together for an interview.

> As our cells accumulate damage, which naturally happens as we age (even as a consequence of energy-generating processes and immune cell activation), there are only so many outcomes that we can expect. The first possibility is that the cells can die. The second is that they can become senescent – where they stop dividing, but stay alive, all-the-while secreting molecules that influence surrounding tissue. Or, the worst of all possible outcomes, the cells can go off the rails and become malignant.

> "Anything that persistent damage to the genome will drive cells into senescence. It makes sense because that puts you at risk for mutations. Mutation puts you at risk for cancer, so the cells want to shut that damaged cell down." - Dr. Judith Campisi

https://www.foundmyfitness.com/episodes/59
Like OS X 10.6.8 ... everything was perfect in that version.
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Really interesting article, one thing I thought fascinating, was the idea: we and gorillas (and chimps) share a common ancestor that developed complex societies, but chimpanzees have lost a lot of this trait. It makes we wonder what was the stimulus that caused their genus to undergo a regression of social skills?

Also, the "Darwin" hoodie the Dr. Morrison is wearing at the bottom is awesome.
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Bizarrely, investors sometimes do seem to be content to wait forever. Surely AMZN, with it's P/E ratio, isn't a startup any more. They're making a ton of money, but not 80-years-to-recoup-your-investment money. They're investing a lot, but these investments would have to quadruple their profits to get the price back into justifiable range.

Apple, meanwhile, steadfastly maintains a P/E under 20.

Investors seem OK as long as there's a new generation of investors to sell to when they retire. Everybody is content with the fiction because somehow the economy keeps chugging along at its tolerable 2-3%. You can short the overpriced thing all you want, but you're gonna run out of cash waiting for it to fall.

Got me. I keep expecting this long, slow boom to end and reset everything. I've been expecting it for a decade. So what the hell do I know.
How practical is bitcoin as a currency for day to day use. I thought the transaction time was 10 to 30 minutes. I get frustrated at the checkout counter when my credit card takes longer than 10 seconds.

10 to 30 minutes seems a lot closer to how long it takes for a stock sale to go through on E-Trade so I can see why the IRS would classify it more like a stock than currency.
I did not state that it was not tax fraud. I was just replying to the person above who states that the government will find you whatever you do. There are multiple ways so the government is not aware of what you are doing in cryptocurrency.
Asset prices of equities aren't figured into the inflation calculations. So, when equities get sold off, all that money comes flooding into the money supply.
I hate that people treat currencies as an "investment". In my mind, crypto concurrency is the perfect value-store (like gold used to be), not an appreciating asset. Yet because people treat it like stocks, it behaves like stocks.
Yes. Agree completely. Giving new hires bugs is the best way to bring them up to speed. They get to delve into the whole software stack, interact with people, understand data flows, familiarize themselves with code names if any, and generally get an appreciation and understanding of the product. This is my go to move for new hires.
So long as this is the case how can it possibly make sense to use bitcoin to actually transact e.g. fulfill the vision of bitcoin as "digital money" if every time you buy a cup of coffee with bitcoin the expectation is that you'd have to calculate capital gains and report every year?
A lot of small companies that were selling shrink-wrapped software have shuttered down - for various reasons no doubt, but the effect of a steady revenue stream on any business cannot be dismissed. Most of the software I use is either free, under some kind of subscription, or has a large corporate brand/vendor behind it. What about you?
The opioid crisis in the US started from doctors prescribing opioids, often in hospital settings.

Those meds were licenced and controlled.

Has oxycontin ever been available without a prescription?
And every person arguing this is going to use this tech to save their kid regardless of their current moral position
Crypto trading is so casual it's very easy to not realize you have legal responsibilities. That's what got Chris Boden of The Geek Group arrested.
"Hey company in shenzen that i suspect is a shady front to illegal data mining business, do you have any data on me? i'm john doe, living at 123 naive st #42, phone number 555-555-555, national registry number 1234556. You can reply to me on this same email address. thank you. PS: maybe i filled this in an webform, so please do not attach this new info to all the traffic/behaviour you previously collected from your TV on this same IP address"
> The math behind crypto doesn’t magically make you immune to government oversight.

Not legally, but the math always gives you a stronger presumption of innocence than you'd otherwise have.

The economics are the same as gold mining, where what gives gold value is the fact that the expected returns from mining it are always negative. With gold, the concept is basically just that different types of sand have different weights, so due to a quirk in physics if you shake up sand the the heavier types of grains go to the bottom of your bucket. The fact that you can't ever reverse entropy like this (predictably) profitably is what secures its value. Similarly, with crypto what secures its value is that electricity cost of mining always outweighs the expected value of the crypto mined.

Anyway because the expected returns are always negative, it's much harder than it would otherwise be to identify people who have actually beat the odds to make money. Maybe not with Bitcoin due to the design of the ledger, but certainly with other cryptocurrencies.

If you Google for people who have made the money money mining gold, there are literally zero results. Why? Because the expected negative value makes it exceedingly difficult for the IRS to convict folks who are cheating on their taxes.
The dogs not alone. It has the robot. The robot could let you peer in remotely and say hi. The robot could comfort your dog for you while you’re away. The robot is there for your dog while you can’t be. The robot could 3D print dog friendly toys for it and feed it too.
For health reasons if nothing else. Everything foreign that people have put in their bodies which isn't food or drink turns out to be poison over a long enough time frame.
I agree they should change their laws. This is where Tesla has an advantage. People are importing the cars in states that don't allow it.
The IRS doesn't need to show intent to show you failed to pay substantial taxes you owe.
Yea, there's a notion of boilerplate + context setting in media reporting. It's a common editorial pattern.

For example, look for a single news article about the Houthi's in western media that doesn't contextualise them as "Iranian backed" or "Iran linked"
It's hard to prove intent after you receive a letter from the IRS telling you to do something then you don't?

The nice thing about the IRS is that intent is pretty irrelevant. You make money, you don't pay taxes, your wages get garnished and your bank accounts seized for taxes, fees, penalties and interest. There's no messing around with the IRS, intent not required. If they can show intent you go to prison.

[edit] The difference with under the table work is that you get cash, then you spend the cash and not a record was made, then you've got the IRS forensic accountants on your ass if you do it too much. With crypto if you want to get your purchasing power back you pretty much have to go through a fiat gateway, every transaction there is logged, and likely reported.
> One version of the letter recently uploaded to the IRS website asks recipients who believe they have followed the law to sign a statement

Does anyone have a link to the letters? It drives me mad that journalists refuse to link to primary sources.
I don't think the Republic of Ireland has a good alternative.

Given that the rest of the EU has been giving RoI a de facto veto on any UK withdrawal agreement, and given that the backstop appears to be the only complete deal-breaker here, they could have compromised in various ways that would be strictly better for them than driving everyone into a no-deal outcome.

For example, accepting a time-limited version of the backstop while May was still in charge would probably have got the WA through the UK Parliament. Brexit would have happened, defusing a lot of the political tension in the UK and liberating the EU27 from having a half-in, half-out member and all the attendant uncertainty. Everyone would have benefitted from a more orderly transition, including keeping the Irish border open without needing checks due to either WTO MFN rules or the EU's need to protect its overall border. There would have been perhaps another 5-10 years to clarify the future relationship and resolve any issues still arising at the Irish border, which would have been a far more plausible than magicking something up overnight in the event of a no-deal outcome. And the EU would have been dealing with a basically pro-EU government in the UK while that was going on, at least for the next few years.

That possibility appears to have been lost with the arrival of Boris Johnson as PM. If the Irish do want a 23:59 reprieve, it's going to cost them a lot of political capital to get it at this point. But realistically, I don't see that happening. I think they've blown it, and either a no-deal Brexit or a UK general election that certainly could result in a majority hard-Brexit government now seem like the most likely outcomes.

Critics often say, with considerable justification, that this is a mess of the UK's making. Certainly the UK's negotiators haven't done very well in all of this. Still, if we're playing the blame game, I think there is plenty to go around. The EU's rigid approach and negotiating strategy also caused problems right from the start, and the Irish hardline stance on the backstop in recent times has essentially sealed their own fate. It's all very sad, because it won't matter whose fault it was if a decade from now, as the Irish government's own commissioned analysis suggests, their economy is still significantly smaller and real terms wages are still significantly lower.

I still don't understand why both sides went into this with such an adversarial and rigid approach to the negotiations. There was so much common ground that could have been established early on, and if we were going to have Brexit, we could have had an amicable separation where we remained good friends even if by mutual agreement our relationship was not going to be as close as before and we'd each gain a bit more flexibility in other respects. The whole thing just seems like not only a huge missed opportunity, but an opportunity missed by following a process where glaring mistakes were made by both sides and both sides refused to then fix them even when they were widely criticised. It's just... sad.
"Friends don't let friends P-hack."

"This is your research on P-hacking."

"Just say no to P-hacking!"
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Several years ago, I experimented with a monospaced CS-like font. It has only the ASCII set, but it's free.

https://www.dafont.com/pointfree.font
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And it makes you want to double your ram just like the first time you got win95
All specific opinions are subsets of all opinions. Deprecating something is not a challenge if it is presented as subjective. It is the combination of deprecation and statement as fact (e.g. "without a doubt") that is confrontational. And confrontational opinions are perfectly acceptable in the correct context. My claim is that a context where any disagreement breaks social conventions is the wrong context.
Intent or playing dumb maybe only matters as a defense against tax evasion charges, but everyone is liable to pay taxes and associated penalties for late/non-payment, even on an under the table side gig.
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This is true with cash too. You can take part of your income into cash and make anonymous transactions with cash, and maybe even profit from them in an untraceable way.

But you better hope it is truly untraceable, and that no one else involved in that transaction makes it traceable, otherwise the IRS will come for you.

Same with crypto, except it is a lot easier for someone else to make you traceable since all the transactions can be traced to their origin on the blockchain. If someone you transacted with files US taxes, it's not that hard for the IRS to trace that back and ask who the BTC came from. It would only take one person turning on you for you to get caught.

It's really not worth it.
In what way? I learned about all this stuff a few years ago in school. Yeah there's more stuff to learn about now but the basics never change.
Funny because Word 6 is often praised as perfect balance. Or maybe I read wrong
You're definitely right. Different countries have varying degrees of credit vs debit penetration. US skews more credit.
Systems programming language is only a useful term if you define what systems you are talking about. Are you talking about creating an OS, highly performance micro services, distributed systems, etc.? Common Lisp would likely be a poor choice for an OS but would be great for some of those other types of systems.
There will still exist a fascinating dichotomy, up until we can predict result without either simulation or animal models. An ideal engineered organism would be a delightfully weird homunculus, and a sufficiently advanced simulation could be deemed to be a living creature too.

Perhaps it is best to make sure that lab technicians feel a great deal of empathy for the animals they work with.
You can often (maybe even usually) ask to have deposits and authorizations waived.
Thoughts on adults enjoying marijuana? How about pot-brownies? Alcohol? Flavored liquors?

If something is legal for adults and illegal for children, then why is it okay to restrict the methods of enjoyment of that item in ways that do not impact other people (e.g. driving while drunk impacts other people).

Your whole argument seems to be built around protecting children, so let’s protect them by disallowing advertisement of the product, especially explicit or advertisement that can be reasonably expected to be viewed by minors, and by carding people that buy the products.

Let’s make all vaping, nicotine, thc or otherwise illegal for minors.

Please don’t come after my apple vodka. I like those flavors, too.
You might be interested in Arial Rounded [0], a similarly over-hated font

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Do you find science fiction to be a good predictor for the near future?
If you can get enough of your like-minded friends to settle an area that doesn't have many of the desirable resources that'll be fought over (water, fertile land, nice climate) and doesn't have many people who do want those things, probably. Just be Switzerland.
Omg I love this! I'd love to put some time aside to study the techniques used here. Very cool (and probably fun) project you have here. :)
Even as a C++ amateur I didn't find it as a meaty or intimidating proposal, rather it was refreshingly brief. If you understand that constexpr functions can be evaluated at either run time or compile time, it makes sense that asm isn't allowed in a compile-time context (it could get really trippy if it was!). This allows for flow analysis to permit asm when evaluating at runtime within a constexpr function, as long as there's a non-asm constexpr alternative path available at compile time. If I'm misunderstanding or missing some subtleties, as a novice I'd appreciate any corrections.
Voting power in Google is controlled by the founders, regardless of how much ownership they have.
What would happen if there was somekind of treatment where people could reduce aging process, so potentially we could reach the age of 500. Would we still able to handle this mentally wise.
We're talking about actual revolving credit credit cards, not debit cards. I understand that you need access to the Visa payment system to function in modern society, but you can trivially get access to that simply with a checking account.

It is absolutely not impossible to book a hotel room or rent a car without a credit card. This is a weird thing that HN seems to believe about consumer finance that has not all that much basis in reality. I book rooms exclusively on debit cards, and doubt there is really a hotel that will refuse to do that. You might not be able to book a car with Hertz, but who cares? Other major rental car companies take debit cards.
Instagram has made any setting a movie set, that's the implied value of all these pictures.
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Non IT people are on the verge to be able to claim fees for emotional damage. So many of them are struggling.
If you exchange your money for a foreign currency, and that foreign currency appreciates in value vs the US Dollar such that you realize a profit, that’s absolutely taxable profit.
If you can root the device and replace the firmware, sure. Or do extremely difficult hardmodding to tap the data buses, perhaps.

But both of those approaches are very difficult and resource-intensive. The first requires many, many hours of reverse engineering to find a security hole which allows you to write unsigned firmware to the device (or find a way to sign your own firmware and then upload it), then hack the firmware to do your snooping (good luck if the firmware updates are encrypted!).

The second is so fiddly and awkward, I've never heard of anyone actually doing it.
US Surgeon General's report is pretty good.

https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/reports-and-publications/...

In the context of tobacco the nicotine is addictive; possibly carcinogenic; but there's a load of other stuff in tobacco which is far worse.

I think it would be foolish to allow 16 year olds to have access to nicotine products unless they're already smokers.
But your gains and losses are just a sum of all your transactions.

If you had 100 shares of GOOG and sold one share each day, over 100 transactions, your gains and loses are the sum of each individual transaction.
> Young people are almost always the ones who get tattoos. I think because they want to define themselves.

Wait until all the old people have tattoos, young people won't tattoo.

My father told me that old guys wore one earpiece when he was little (Milan area, Italy). It took 100 years to become acceptable again. Women had two and still have.
1 USD always equals 1 USD and you pay taxes on gains relative to the USD as a US person.

It's not possible for your USD to be an appreciating asset relative to the USD and that's how capital gains are defined. However, if you go to a store in America (and hypothetically) they give you change in Euros, then you take that to another store, and redeem the Euros there, you do in fact owe taxes on the increase in value of the Euro relative to the US dollar over that time period spanning those two transactions.
If I bought and sold gold or British Pounds, I'd still be subject to taxes on my gains. I'm not sure I see your point.
Every system is gambled, if you pay for Bugfixes, company's will create synthetic bugs.

Software is crystallized behavior, which rots when not in symbiosis with a developer.

Software developer holds the software ecosystem hostage, trying to extract the maximum amount of value.