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Hack A Day Prize is a Trip To Space (Video)
Last month, at Maker Faire Bay Area 2014, Timothy Lord spotted a guy wearing a very large piece of headgear that included two crossed wrenches. The guy turned out to be Mike Szczys, Managing Editor of hackaday.com, which says, "The Hackaday Prize will send one person into space for building the next evolution of hardware." That's certainly of interest to the hardware hacker/maker crowd. How they're going to arrange the space flight (probably one of those "just above the atmosphere" hops) isn't specified, but even so the contest is an interesting idea, and the Hack A Day site seems to have some interest hacks and tutorials on it. So go ahead and enter the contest -- and don't forget to take your camera with you on your flight into space, because we'll want to see pictures! (Alternate Video Link)
...is built a working man-carrying spaceship.
Off you go!
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Somehow the name "Mike Szczys", like so many Slavic or Welsh names, reminds me of an old article in The Onion titled "Clinton Deploys Vowels to Bosnia".
Or you could just take the cash equivalent.
Italy has crazy laws about competitions. Most international competitions exclude Italy for that reason. Sorry.
We have already discussed this. The cost of a trip to space is so high that the average guy can't afford to win it and (as has happened before) would have to decline it, otherwise the taxes on the "prize" would ruin you.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
as Virgin is going to be defrauding people with "Not actually into space spaceflights".
If it's above 100 km, it's space by definition.
This.
The rational way to approach winning this prize would be to ask yourself if you'd buy a ticket to space if you had the cash value already in your savings account. If you'd spend your hard earned money on anything other than a brief flight "up real high" then take the cash equivalent.
Even if they cover the taxes that you'll be responsible for paying on the value of the flight, I'd rather be filling out tax forms knowing that some of that cash was still in the bank.
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Canadians will have to answer a skills test.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
You must be a lot of fun at your own birthday parties, asking "Why didn't you just give me cash" every time you open a present.
I've had all sorts of wonderful experiences doing things that were gifts from others that I wouldn't normally have bought myself.
Yes, it'd be nice to say, oh, I dunno, buy a friggin' house instead of go near space, but it's a terrible attitude overall to just want the full cash value of every prize.
Oh yeah. Totally cut and dry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K...
Generally, Birthday gifts are not taxable. But winning this "prize" could financially ruin you, at least if you live in the U.S.A., since you would have to pay taxes on it. Federal tax and, in most states, state and maybe even a local tax. We have already had someone who "won" a trip to space who had to decline it since there was no way that he could afford the taxes on it's supposed value. Even the cost of a sub-orbital trip is a lot more than I could afford to pay the taxes on, and I expect that many others feel the same way. So if you are going to offer a prize like this then you should either offer a cash equivalent (which you can pretty much expect most people would choose out of necessity, even though they might only get to keep about half of it) or sweeten it with the trip plus enough cash to cover all taxes (including the taxes on the extra cash).
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
but they don't have to pay taxes on lotteries or most prize winning games... Not sure if this falls under that.
The plethora of "free energy" device submissions. Heck, all the YouTube video work is already done!
Not many people offer cash equivalents when they give your a birthday present
To be fair, anyone who reads hackaday would have known about this competition over a month ago, since entires started on the 28th of April.
It's been 6 weeks now and there is only 8 weeks left until entires close.
i'm just giving trips to office space. you can even rent some for few hundred bucks / month.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.