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Words of advice, though, if the business is in CA don't hire contractors via 1099 unless the work really does fall under the legal definition of what a 1099 can be used for (in CA). If they appear to be an employee, in any way, then they should be an employee. The CA EDD loves auditing and assessing back taxes and fines. And all it takes is a disgruntled contractor to call the EDD.
Elon’s Twitter challenges: Free-speech idealism will clash with laws–and reality
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Registering as a business in a state though is usually an activity that takes 15 minutes and around $100. If you are doing enough to have a few employees, paying an accountant type to do this for you is very cheap and quite easy.
Anti-California sentiment in the context of small businesses generally, the FTB generally, and particularly in the intersection of these two, is eminently reasonable. The system is garbage, it’s designed to extract as much revenue as possible from large orgs and it absolutely fucks independents.
I believe it refers to a person who keeps traveling while working remotely.
It's also not that hard as a W2 to leave California. I just had to do partial tax returns for each state. California hasn't pestered me since I left nearly a decade ago. I've also done 1099 work for California companies from outside California without hassle. (I loved living in California, for the record, but I always crave change after a while.)

But when doing business that's partially in California, then yes, it's a significant entanglement.

California's a great source of tech workers, and bigger companies shrug off these costs. They're charging what the market will bear. But, like TFA says, I'd do my research if you're a smaller company outside California looking to hire someone in California.
There is an observable difference in brain activity between playing an instrument and actively listening: https://youtu.be/R0JKCYZ8hng

The activity of playing is unlike other skills based learning, including other arts. All this is in the video.

It’s the intersection of applying ephemeral knowledge (music theory, intuition for what sounds good) and active muscle memory building.

Personally, since picking up guitar and piano during lockdown, I’ve definitely noticed I’m faster at pattern recognition, more readily see simpler solutions to logic problems, and can find focus and flow with less effort. I did play saxophone from 5th grade on, but quit after HS; I was playing music before that too. The years in between just feel colorless and uninspired.

Will it make one Einstein? No. But it definitely brings a cognitive perspective, sense of self awareness and agency, nuanced inner monologue, that’s missing in its absence.

I don’t get uptight about proper music theory and all that. I just pluck my way into patterns that sound cool to me, build fluency playing them. It’s more like deep work than desire to succeed; I’ve tried meditating, yoga, etc, over years and nothing brings inner peace and sense of self like playing music.

But you know; ymmv
right but you can also just wait for California to challenge the 1099 distinction

OP wanted to be an employer and "make jobs" for the sake of printing job numbers, rustbelt mentality.

if they had more employees, elsewhere, it wouldn't have happened, if they actually did have the relevant counsel it wouldn't have happened. but they aren't able to or willing to afford either. lesson learned. likely the wrong lesson learned.
There are companies that businesses can hire such as Gusto, JustWorks, etc. that handle all this red tape for you. Most well-advised startups do just that.
Roy J. Glauber - Nobel Lecture: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2005/glauber/lectu...

And also at "Voices of the Manhattan Project": https://www.manhattanprojectvoices.org/oral-histories/roy-gl...
Another point for doom/stoner metal: Samsara Blues Experiment got me through my OS class in college. It's pretty easy to get into too since a most albums are uploaded in full as single videos to youtube. Just beware that one of the big channels uploading videos, Stoned Meadow of Doom, is questionable at best in the scene since operates on a pay-to-play basis.

Otherwise, if you don't mind some harsh vocals I also recommend atmospheric black metal, as well as drone metal. Caladan Brood, Saor, Eldamar, Sunn O))), and Summoning are some of my faves.
Not as my everyday desktop but I've used RPi 4 with 8GB RAM and SSD as a development computer for a specific project. The goal was to port Windows based device control software with GUI. The software was written in Delphi. I used Lazarus IDE for running straight on RPi so I can debug "in situ". The project was success and amazingly I was able to do the initial port in a couple of days.
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In the role in my sibling comment, I somewhat filled the role of the developer that went away. Hardcore Java/Spring Boot guy who could wrap his head around these amazingly complex code bases he made that the younger/less experienced devs could not manage on their own. I spent a ton of time mentoring in my role, and hopefully helped undo some of the mental damage the previous guy did :D. Things were running much smoother when I left then they did when I first joined at least, with teams that could have chosen whatever language they wanted choosing Go voluntarily.
When people complain about monopolies, remember applying the same set of onerous regulations on a company like Amazon and this guy with a one employee startup favors the large companies by orders of magnitude more.

When only the rich and powerful can start companies, it is not a fair world.
I am referring to the client having a dynamic IP connection with their ISP - The client's IP address may change for their email server. So DDNS service providers (i.e. ChangeIP, etc.) handle DNS for those - An application locally installed for the client (Synology offers one for their NAS devices, for example) polls the public IP every few minutes (or some frequency), then reaches out to the DDNS provider with any updates, that provider in turn updates DNS so the rest of the world "sees" the email server at the new address.
Musk should buy them and put a fire under their asses.
Musical training helps to delineate and connect different contexts together in real time. It also requires precise hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills executed perfectly (or as my instructor would say "as closely to perfect as you can: perfect does not exist").

There's probably many domains it overlaps and assists with (not to mention the general philosophies that translate to other domains like creativity, continuity of motion, practice/discipline/feedback/improvement -- e.g. "music is the tool to express life" Herbie Hancock). Though naturally, excellence in one domain does not grant the knowledge necessary to be a master in another
bring it on, I have a full arsenal of guitars behind my desk and it's routinely a conversation starter for my meetings. I even played for my colleagues once or twice while we were waiting for others to join.
Yes, CA FTB is gangsta, but I don't support the conclusion.

First, just because they say you owe something, doesn't mean you do. Just make sure your bank isn't in CA before standing firm. Ask me how I know.

Second, 1099 sounded like a better deal anyway. Why make things complicated for a non-entity (yet)?
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> why would you fix for 30yr when you know you're paying multiple points to offset market uncertainty?

At least in the US it is always better to get a fixed rate loan (meaning fixed for the life of the loan, typically 30 years).

This means your mortgage payment can never go up no matter how high rates climb in the market.

But if rates go down, you can always refinance to a lower rate and ratchet your payments down and lock them there.

It's as close to a free lunch as thing come. Your housing payment can never go up but can only go down.
The video made me feel like I was being punked, at first; turn up the volume or you'll miss it.
at that speed, the angle does not matter, the crater will be circular because the impact vaporized the rocket.
It's very hard to compare some of those things as they differ from home to home and country to country. Here in the UK most landlords will do extreme minimal maintenance and taxes on the house are paid directly by the tenant and not included in your rent.

"Realtor costs" are again different some estate agents in the UK charge a % of the sale price others a minimal fixed cost.

I'm sure that these things differ massively in different countries as well so it's hard to put an average number on that.

In terms of opportunity cost of the money again it depends on how you would invest that money you could put it in something very high risk and show a huge imbalance in buying a home vs investing in crypto or something like that. In the UK most low risk savings accounts will track lower than inflation on a property only the stock market will track higher but again that's higher risk and so not comparable. Also most savings accounts in the UK are capped at a max amount that can be saved per year.

As I said though if you try to compare mortgage vs something like stock market it's not really comparable. Also to note the large index funds in the USA track much higher on average than most other countries.

I've seen people use the S&P as an example that house prices don't track to the same amount and that you can compound any gains to make large sums of money. What's interesting about this is that the reason you make so much money with that model is that compound interest is non-linear in growth which means over say 40 years you make most of the growth at the end of the period (Literally in the last 20%). This also means that if the end of your growth curve ends on a bad few years for the S&P you'll do much worse than the average so the risk is still very high on even index funds.

Overall though my current mortgage cost is 2.5 x lower than rent for a comparable property. So you'd have to factor in the opportunity cost of that extra per month I save not paying into rent into your equation as well.
I did that. I paid all of the employment-related taxes and filed all of the paperwork, including with EDD.

This article is about income taxes, franchise fees, and absurd levels of paperwork.

Nobody benefits from excessive paperwork and overreaching bureaucracy, not even the unemployed.
Except it did, because all revenue generated by your business was made in substantial part by using Californian resources. A resource that, had you not hired them remotely, would have contributed to the Californian economy instead. As such, California has laws in place to recoup those losses. Of course, at some point "one Californian asset" amongst many assets from other states is a drop in the bucket, so there's a threshold, and your business was well above that threshold.

Is it questionable phrasing? Yes. Is it wrong? No. Your business clearly and directly derived income from California, and per California law, the state is owed income tax on that.

(But is it kind of ridiculous in a modern economy? ...ehhhh it depends. California is one of the few economic powerhouses amongst the states, and there's good arguments to be made for having this system in place. You can argue about the threshold, but the idea that states should not be allowed to recoup economic loss from people being hired out of state without the employer paying back taxes over the income generated through that hire to the state that got them that hire, is not quite thinking it through)
I had to go through this process once. Large multi-national didn't wanna do the whole paying the state thing(thats reasonable) and I was the only employee moving to that state.

They ended up classifying me as a "contractor" working under one of their existing agency relationships but aside from who signed my paycheck there was no distinction
Right, the information on Reddit is more likely (but not guaranteed) to be authentic, not necessarily more likely to be correct.
>Edit: I mean, once you have set a regulation, and established a body to police it, you have already interfered with the market, so even what you are suggesting could be described as having "done a communism"

Exactly, remove regulations from health care. I'm dead serious. Regulatory burden on nurses and health care workers are insane. It's completely plausible the net effect would be far more people saved than lost, due to greater access to healthcare and lower burdens to achieving outcomes.
Nano helped me edit config files on a Raspberry Pi when I was 15 - very grateful for it for those moment. I use vim for remote editing and notes now as I've gotten familiar and prefer it, but Nano absolutely has it's place.
Sounds like from the article California is actively disincentivizing companies from hiring W2 from there on a remote basis. If companies are incentivized to do 1099, how is that helping anybody?
Last I looked years ago, it was $800 per year in California. (It's $100 in the state I live in now, though.)
Oh for sure. I prefer female-fronted metal for this... Xandria, Arcadia, Unsun, Nightwish, Sirenia
> It's the condescending tone you display in every of your response, exactly like this one.

It is unfortunate that you continue to persist in not providing data but instead redirecting the energy of the conversation into allegations of condescenion which I can't defend. All I said was. I'm sorry you feel that way, however challenging your incredible claims and asking that you provide some evidence before we believe you is not the same "be so toxic with me".
I actually like the low 5-figure reality more because it seems more achievable and motivational for a side hustle
I was hoping this was about “Friday Night Lights”.
I'm pretty sure the owners wouldn't have sacrificed 5.3M chickens in profit if they had seen any other way. Also, I find it odd that the Guardian apparently did not wait for them to reply before publishing the story. If they had waited any significant amount of time, they probably would have gone with something else than: "Rembrandt Enterprises has been approached for comment"
It’s an alternative to working with threads. You pass “work” as messages to “actors” instead of using locks on resources.
$1 Billion can at any time.... this is in the contract

And Musk said it's not about money so be ready for anything.
> buy a leveraged asset that's likely to increase in price and reduce the overhead you pay on your largest expense

Oh boi. When you buy this you are giving all this benefit to the seller that takes these into account. You are not making a profit off of it unless the value increases more than the market expectation for it.

So its a leveraged bet that it will be better than expected by the market, and if it goes the other way you are toast.
Article doesn't talk about much, just a bit on dependencies apparently from someone focused on supply chain security at Github.

At previous role, the more we looked at some of the technical controls around security within github itself, and had a number of security concerns. There's alot of nuance which is hard to go through and comment on, but the defaults and controls caused us lots of concern.

Here's a good writeup for anyone interested: https://cycode.com/blog/github-actions-vulnerabilities/
Running Doom on Qt for MCUs
Perhaps it is a difference in 'climate' between working in a science based industry where we often get challenged on our data versus software development industry. Maybe I've spent too long in academia where 'citation needed' is an indicator of interest in my topic and considered a good thing.
Last years rates were a historic low, lower than the last 40 years at least. How do refinances compare to 3, 5, or 10 years ago
Housing units per capita is at an all time high. Housing units per working age person is at an all time high, by far.

Housing units per household is at year 2000 levels and in line with history.

Check the data, it's all on FRED

What you're repeating is common conversational talking points spread as fact.

It is true that building slowed in the 2010s, but housing was overbuilt in the 2000s too which neutralizes that. Also number of housing units under construction is at an all time high right now, while population growth is the slowest ever (including immigration) and decelerating.

Look to the Japanese property sector for the future of US pricing. Demographic story is a long one that will take decades to play out though. Immigration policy could change things
Actors are a more specific model of computation. Definitely related to event based systems but far more specific.
What do you consider improvement?"

I'm not here to have "nice conversations," when there's something wrong or dumb occurring; I want to draw attention to the topic. I get that people say that they like politeness and so-called constructive conversation -- but the reality is that people respond more to more intense stimuli.

Overall, I've found that I've had a much better time on the internet (here and elsewhere) by removing such filtering a bit. Of course, this depends on where you start from. I did start from that exact same place of "be very polite all the time," and I have definitely found that -- for me -- straying away from that has improved my experience.
Congress dumped boatloads of money into the economy over the past two years and failed to provide oversight.

Everyone is pointing at the Fed for causing inflation and ignoring the fact that Congress gave business owners five-to-seven figure payouts in straight cash. You can find out how much businesses around you received from the PPP, and there's no shortage of small companies who received a few hundred grand in aid.

Imagine what you'd do with a $250k check from the government.
I practically live in Lake Michigan in Chicago, because of my dog, and learning to embrace the cold means you get the beauty of seeing this huge, open expanse of water with nobody else around, because they are sane and are avoiding the cold.

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The javascript stuff that transformed hypertext documents into fully fledged applications is complicated. HTML and CSS really isn't. It's hard to have an unbiased opinion about what is easy and what is hard for a computer to do.

Much of what is done on the web could be 90% as good with 10% of the complexity, but we're buried under too many layers of abstraction, bloat, and "improvement".
It could be that reach is no longer being suppressed but another explanation is that people are now returning to the platform who previously felt like there was no point in trying to participate.
Musk is mostly not tying up free cash to buy Twitter, it's going to end up largely being a debt move (as is typical of what he does, as he hates to sell his stock).

And I'm not sure where your premise matters re what I said. Tesla is the entity in question with the booming free cash to spend from operations, as their business has become soundly profitable. If Musk leverages his enormous net worth on acquiring profitable Twitter - what does that have to do with Tesla's ability to direct its operational cash to robotics R&D? Maybe his focus being split further will increase the risk to Tesla's profitability over time, however you didn't suggest that (and maybe Tesla would be better off with a Gwynne Shotwell operating it anyway; a more distracted Musk that has to hire a superior operator might bolster Tesla).

With $3.6b in operating income last quarter, and $9.6b over the last four quarters, Tesla increasingly has huge resources to throw at big R&D programs. Which has little to nothing to do with Musk's personal finances.
someone tell North Dakota that we in SD don't actually hate them, it's just jokes, we hate California just as much as everyone else
Ok, fair, you're talking about desks. That's true. I don't think I've ever seen one on a desk.
Meh, the best developers sound like whiny brats.

I'm not the best developer but I've been around long enough to know that bringing the bottom half of development up to the plate does more for me in my day job than catering to what magic bullshit the "best" developers are pumping.
> It's not often discussed on HN, which is a shame.

It absolutely is. In fact, it's how I found out about the language. There's been several conversations about it and each release is posted on HN. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27903288

Crystal as a language is fantastic IMO. The type system literally forces you to consider race-conditions. Never had a language make me eat my vegetables in such a way. The code runs incredibly fast (on par with Rust and Go).

However, like the points you listed, it's hasn't "gone critical." It needs the basics to get even a hundredth of a percent of traction: cross-platform, IDE support, and some "killer" use-case.
California has a really strict view of what a contractor is, so 1099s are not as feasible as they seem in CA: https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/faq_independentcontractor.htm#:~....

IANAL, but if you are building a software product, and you hire someone to do software development work on your core product, then CA may easily take the view that person is an employee because of the ABC test (as of September 2019).
I always think musicians are some of the smartest people in the world. Being able to memorize hundreds of songs / pieces is impressive alone. Most of them are also capable of improvising and adding their own interpretations (e.g. in classical music) spontaneously. It's something that a lot of people including myself could never understand how to do well.
I will not allow this to become an underrated comment.
>ran out of ways to complain today?

Considering that the original post is a complaint, this is rich.

Note also that I did offer both an explicit (just press stop and hit record again) and an implicit (stop being concerned with irrelevant niggles) solution.
haha, did not think of that, could be a good idea. you view 1 or 2 ads, then this service donates some cents on behalf of you...

this site needs sign-up, it gives you 1$ to start with, not sure how many folks want to signup there...
Back when most of the population didn't have access to books, you'd only have to make a choice if you wanted to learn from your dad or your mum or some other relative. Once libraries became a thing, now you had to choose from dozens, then hundreds of different books on the same topic and across all that would interest you. Was that overwhelming? Yes, most certainly if you didn't have the skills to pick one book and go with it.

There is nothing special this time around with the Internet other than the number of choices being orders of magnitude higher. And there are tools orders of magnitude more capable to sift through them (provided you have the skills to use those tools effectively).

I used to go down rabbit holes and get overwhelmed but have since learnt not to and instead keep focus.
In what way are the states "greedy"? They're not hoarding the tax revenue. They're spending it on their citizens. Greed that is not. You may disagree with their allocation of tax revenue but calling it greedy is nonsense.
I'm still waiting for someone to create a modern equivalent to the Pebble watch with a color e-ink screen that can stay on all the time. I still use my Pebble, but the battery charge only lasts about a day and a half and I'll have to replace it at some point.
How is it short-sighted? This strategy has allowed a relatively high degree of normalcy in everyday life, and has kept death rates orders of magnitude lower than rates in the West.

Because most of the rest of the world has decided to allow the virus to spread, China will eventually have to allow it to spread. However, China has bought two years of time to develop and deploy vaccines and antivirals. That's been immensely valuable, both in lives saved (about 4 million Chinese people would have died if China had followed the same strategy as the US) and in economic growth (China has outperformed most of the world economically during the pandemic).