However some states were able to implement their own systems separately...which is why sites like HR block don't offer free filing in Illinois. Illinois hosts it's own solution, on it's own website, very easy and totally free and no upsell.
I have such complicated taxes that I need to buy a "Premier" edition of TurboTax. It comes with "free" state, but what they mean is that the computations are free but they demand serious money to e-File.
Illinois website is so awesome that I simply use it despite the free state addin. TurboTax does the computations with almost no extra effort, so I use it for a sanity check, but there's never been a difference.
The K-1 definitely provides another order of magnitude of complexity beyond the forms you cite here. I would say that and tracking asset depreciation are the two big things that make spreadsheets unwieldy....particularly because values start to carry over from year to year.
I am not familiar with financial aid at 2-year programs, but find your account plausible. On the other hand, 4-year colleges tend to have considerable need-based aid available even for non-minorities; in many cases it's even grant rather than loan-based. I am curious -- why didn't you either choose one at the outset or transfer into one after your 2-year degree? I know of some superb success stories following the latter pattern.
Dumb question: it's about the actions of the believers. That's why the anti-vax kooks (whotends to skew left) gets a similar reaction to the creationists and climate wackos.
Granted that homeopathy stuff is ridiculous pseudoscience, but the difference is that nobody is trying to push it as a driver of public policy. When I shop at Whole Foods, it's for the tasty, tasty bread and local salsa and nobody minds that I walk right past the snake oil. I don't have a problem with creationism, I have a problem with it being forced on others. That's why we perceive it differently.
So, an even higher proportion of bitcoin owners are dishonest jerks than I had previously thought, having cleaned out a bunch of honest-but-naive Mt. Gox clients.
This makes me want to do anything in bitcoin even less than before -- why should I muck around with such counterparties?
This guy cost the government untold fortunes -- not only in dollars but in goodwill. He poisoned relationships with the international community, undermined the confidence of the citizenry in our institutions and ignored the democratic process. He should be in jail, no question.
Oh, whoops! I thought you were asking about Dick Cheney!
> Is it just me or do the people who want you to work in open offices sound like the nobility in Downton Abbey?
It's just you...here's my anecdote from which you can synthesize data.
I've had an office. It was lonely and I got sleepy. Give me an open plan any day, where I'm more productive and learn more about what's going on.
(And for what it's worth, in the last few places I've worked, the multimillionaire bosses have always sat right in the middle of the open plan with everybody else).
I generally refuse to post anything but the most anodyne statements on public web forums under my own name. Who knows what political or cultural opinion some future interlocutor might find offensive?
However, give me a pseudonym and I'm happy to post. The risk of search engines making the association is small. I'm fine with being legally responsible (and culturally anonymous) for what I post, which is precisely what pseudonymity gives me.
As with moderation, this is something Slashdot gets more or less right.
CPS pays an average of just under $75K to teachers, which is more than most private schools do. Along with the extra job security and (promised if not delivered) pensions, that makes the teaching positions attractive to quite a few people. The teachers I know also feel good about dedicating their professional lives to students in CPS, who are generally in need of every bit of help they can get.
If I had made a bundle in the dot com bubble or something, I could see myself teaching CS in CPS. Or at least trying -- I teach grad school and don't know if I have the personality for younger students.
"Make your society egalitarian with this 1 weird trick!"
If we postulate that this measure will leave company profits unchanged, then the cap will send extra money somewhere else. Its backers seem to assume that it would go to the rank and file workers, but I think it likelier that the owners of the firm would begin experiencing a better return on their money. That cohort, too, is wealthier than average, though not by so much as CEOs since a lot of it is comprised of pension funds and mutual funds. In any case, the loopholes around this kind of measure are so numerous that it would be silly to pursue.
What we really need is to bring back serious inheritance taxes, even if some people want to call them "death taxes". In the long run, huge wealth is not a societal problem so long as it doesn't become dynastic. Rather than playing havoc with the incentives of the living via convoluted tax laws and weird rules, let's concentrate on fighting the growth of entrenched classes.
Given the recent revelations about NSA spying, I refuse to use these services. The risk is simply too high that the government might see my tax returns.
There's a lot of useful chemistry and energy in ammonia (a significant component of urine), because nitrates, or bound nitrogen, have potential energy. Gunpowder manufacture in the middle ages relied on factory-style processing of animal urine.
I used to do it the same way you do, with different levels of passwords. I eventually lost track and just started using KeyPass and generate unique passwords.
Every new MMORPG that comes out now has a huge wave of "hacked" account
It would be interesting to know which "level" people tend to choose for their MMORPGs (at least of those who have "levels"). On the one hand it's just a game, while on the other it involves a gargantuan investment of time and attention.
I haven't checked, but I assume my own Adobe account was part of this leak. And I don't care.
Along with a large portion of the increasingly savvy population, I have more than one "level" of password in use. My account used the lowest of these, basically something like adobe_123. Learning that is not going to help anyone form useful heuristics on how I create my banking passwords -- it might even poison them.
On the whole, I believe the breach will probably help crackers (if decryption can be achieved). But, I think it is foolish to automatically assume that accounts with "weak" passwords are contributors to the problem. As with me, they might be poor indicators of how humans choose more important passwords.
It's always interesting to hear of novel (to me) industrial processes Apple uses to make its product. Case in point: the article mentions Apple has switch to friction-stir welding.
A point I've read in The Economist, and has really stuck with me, is how one of America's strengths is the somewhat loose federation of the states, which allows for different approaches to any given problem. Each state can try its own approach to the ACA, or education, or taxation laws, et cetera. Eventually the "better" approaches should become clear, and the country as a whole will adopt them.
Now in practice it doesn't always work like that, but I think we see it in action right now with marijuana legalization and gay marriage.
Of course, the federation also means that, in cases where the "best" approach is known a priori, we lose efficiency when some states fail to adopt it. I don't consider that a big problem, because I think politicians are rarely capable of identifying and engendering quality programs right from the start, especially at the national level.
Let's hope the rule proves true here, and that other states copy Kentucky. (Maybe Kentucky can even share the code?)
I mean selling crack to American school kids to buy guns for Osama bin laden is only the tip of the iceberg.
Wow.. Give me some of what you are smoking. Also, a few creditable links to this information would be nice. I have a feeling you are conflating several different things.
He's a little off, but pretty likely referring to the Iran Contra Affair.
I would have been interested to see what the gap looks like on a Hackintosh where, presumably, hardware optimizations would be in Windows' favor. I suspect the gap would remain, since the battery optimizations don't depend much on device drivers.
there is no requirement to release modified GPL source unless you publish the binary in a form described by the GPL. There are a lot of "internal use" scenarios where modifications will never be published.
Indeed -- every place I've worked in the last 20 years has modified GPL code, and used the modified versions internally, while only rarely publishing those modifications externally. Declining to publish those changes is perfectly legal, and matches Stallman's original intent of the GPL as well -- namely that users have access to the source code of programs they are running.
Over time, many people have come to believe that modifiers of GPL should always publish their modifications. (Some sloppy license readers even believe they must). There's certainly a moral argument there somewhere. But in practice, more modifications are kept quiet than most people realize. In these situations, GPL and BSD are equivalent.
I did my masters in non-Newtonian budget surpluses.
So far as I have seen, econophysicists are people who mistake applied behavioral psychology for simply characterized physical systems. But your joke describes them better.
Since both crashes and spikes are typically more than 30 standard deviations larger than the average price movement either side of an event (see Figs. 1A and 1B), they are unlikely to have arisen by chance
This statement implies that the authors believe a gaussian model "should" apply to the market dynamics. As Benoit Mandelbrot and many others before and after him point out, financial markets never have followed gaussian dynamics and they probably never will. It's especially silly because they go on to analyze the distribution of Ultrafast Extreme Event (UEE) sizes as a power law.
Today's market has both accumulation algorithms now used by mutual funds and other sophisticated "buy and hold" investors, and market-making algorithms used by HF firms, and I fully believe there is some interesting dynamics arising from all that. Whether it is any weirder than the slower, human-derived, dynamics of yesteryear is still in doubt. Humans are so much more complex than any of those algorithms that I suspect if you examined the market behavior in 1980, and sped it up, you would see plots wilder than anything Nanex produces.
The paper is somewhat interesting, but not very convincing.
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However some states were able to implement their own systems separately...which is why sites like HR block don't offer free filing in Illinois. Illinois hosts it's own solution, on it's own website, very easy and totally free and no upsell.
I have such complicated taxes that I need to buy a "Premier" edition of TurboTax. It comes with "free" state, but what they mean is that the computations are free but they demand serious money to e-File.
Illinois website is so awesome that I simply use it despite the free state addin. TurboTax does the computations with almost no extra effort, so I use it for a sanity check, but there's never been a difference.
The K-1 definitely provides another order of magnitude of complexity beyond the forms you cite here. I would say that and tracking asset depreciation are the two big things that make spreadsheets unwieldy....particularly because values start to carry over from year to year.
I am not familiar with financial aid at 2-year programs, but find your account plausible. On the other hand, 4-year colleges tend to have considerable need-based aid available even for non-minorities; in many cases it's even grant rather than loan-based. I am curious -- why didn't you either choose one at the outset or transfer into one after your 2-year degree? I know of some superb success stories following the latter pattern.
Dumb question: it's about the actions of the believers. That's why the anti-vax kooks (whotends to skew left) gets a similar reaction to the creationists and climate wackos.
Granted that homeopathy stuff is ridiculous pseudoscience, but the difference is that nobody is trying to push it as a driver of public policy. When I shop at Whole Foods, it's for the tasty, tasty bread and local salsa and nobody minds that I walk right past the snake oil. I don't have a problem with creationism, I have a problem with it being forced on others. That's why we perceive it differently.
So, an even higher proportion of bitcoin owners are dishonest jerks than I had previously thought, having cleaned out a bunch of honest-but-naive Mt. Gox clients.
This makes me want to do anything in bitcoin even less than before -- why should I muck around with such counterparties?
This guy cost the government untold fortunes -- not only in dollars but in goodwill. He poisoned relationships with the international community, undermined the confidence of the citizenry in our institutions and ignored the democratic process. He should be in jail, no question.
Oh, whoops! I thought you were asking about Dick Cheney!
> Is it just me or do the people who want you to work in open offices sound like the nobility in Downton Abbey?
It's just you...here's my anecdote from which you can synthesize data.
I've had an office. It was lonely and I got sleepy. Give me an open plan any day, where I'm more productive and learn more about what's going on.
(And for what it's worth, in the last few places I've worked, the multimillionaire bosses have always sat right in the middle of the open plan with everybody else).
I sense a superhero origin story in this. Part-human, part-nanobot.
I generally refuse to post anything but the most anodyne statements on public web forums under my own name. Who knows what political or cultural opinion some future interlocutor might find offensive?
However, give me a pseudonym and I'm happy to post. The risk of search engines making the association is small. I'm fine with being legally responsible (and culturally anonymous) for what I post, which is precisely what pseudonymity gives me.
As with moderation, this is something Slashdot gets more or less right.
The landlords/property owners are the ones raising the rents. And the reason its being raised is for pure greed.
Exactly. SF could fix this problem by enacting much stronger rent control laws!
CPS pays an average of just under $75K to teachers, which is more than most private schools do. Along with the extra job security and (promised if not delivered) pensions, that makes the teaching positions attractive to quite a few people. The teachers I know also feel good about dedicating their professional lives to students in CPS, who are generally in need of every bit of help they can get.
If I had made a bundle in the dot com bubble or something, I could see myself teaching CS in CPS. Or at least trying -- I teach grad school and don't know if I have the personality for younger students.
"Make your society egalitarian with this 1 weird trick!"
If we postulate that this measure will leave company profits unchanged, then the cap will send extra money somewhere else. Its backers seem to assume that it would go to the rank and file workers, but I think it likelier that the owners of the firm would begin experiencing a better return on their money. That cohort, too, is wealthier than average, though not by so much as CEOs since a lot of it is comprised of pension funds and mutual funds. In any case, the loopholes around this kind of measure are so numerous that it would be silly to pursue.
What we really need is to bring back serious inheritance taxes, even if some people want to call them "death taxes". In the long run, huge wealth is not a societal problem so long as it doesn't become dynastic. Rather than playing havoc with the incentives of the living via convoluted tax laws and weird rules, let's concentrate on fighting the growth of entrenched classes.
Given the recent revelations about NSA spying, I refuse to use these services. The risk is simply too high that the government might see my tax returns.
There's a lot of useful chemistry and energy in ammonia (a significant component of urine), because nitrates, or bound nitrogen, have potential energy. Gunpowder manufacture in the middle ages relied on factory-style processing of animal urine.
I used to do it the same way you do, with different levels of passwords. I eventually lost track and just started using KeyPass and generate unique passwords.
I think you mean KeePass and I quite agree.
Every new MMORPG that comes out now has a huge wave of "hacked" account
It would be interesting to know which "level" people tend to choose for their MMORPGs (at least of those who have "levels"). On the one hand it's just a game, while on the other it involves a gargantuan investment of time and attention.
I haven't checked, but I assume my own Adobe account was part of this leak. And I don't care.
Along with a large portion of the increasingly savvy population, I have more than one "level" of password in use. My account used the lowest of these, basically something like adobe_123. Learning that is not going to help anyone form useful heuristics on how I create my banking passwords -- it might even poison them.
On the whole, I believe the breach will probably help crackers (if decryption can be achieved). But, I think it is foolish to automatically assume that accounts with "weak" passwords are contributors to the problem. As with me, they might be poor indicators of how humans choose more important passwords.
It's always interesting to hear of novel (to me) industrial processes Apple uses to make its product. Case in point: the article mentions Apple has switch to friction-stir welding.
A point I've read in The Economist, and has really stuck with me, is how one of America's strengths is the somewhat loose federation of the states, which allows for different approaches to any given problem. Each state can try its own approach to the ACA, or education, or taxation laws, et cetera. Eventually the "better" approaches should become clear, and the country as a whole will adopt them.
Now in practice it doesn't always work like that, but I think we see it in action right now with marijuana legalization and gay marriage.
Of course, the federation also means that, in cases where the "best" approach is known a priori, we lose efficiency when some states fail to adopt it. I don't consider that a big problem, because I think politicians are rarely capable of identifying and engendering quality programs right from the start, especially at the national level.
Let's hope the rule proves true here, and that other states copy Kentucky. (Maybe Kentucky can even share the code?)
Wow.. Give me some of what you are smoking. Also, a few creditable links to this information would be nice. I have a feeling you are conflating several different things.
He's a little off, but pretty likely referring to the Iran Contra Affair.
I should probably have read the GP's post more carefully.
Clearly you are a Wikipedia editor.
I would have been interested to see what the gap looks like on a Hackintosh where, presumably, hardware optimizations would be in Windows' favor. I suspect the gap would remain, since the battery optimizations don't depend much on device drivers.
Samsung has been known to be unusually corrupt, even for Korea, for quite a while. Here are some links to discussions about it
http://lanle.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/book-on-samsung-divides-korea/
http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/30/3709688/samsung-25-years-lee-kun-hee
there is no requirement to release modified GPL source unless you publish the binary in a form described by the GPL. There are a lot of "internal use" scenarios where modifications will never be published.
Indeed -- every place I've worked in the last 20 years has modified GPL code, and used the modified versions internally, while only rarely publishing those modifications externally. Declining to publish those changes is perfectly legal, and matches Stallman's original intent of the GPL as well -- namely that users have access to the source code of programs they are running.
Over time, many people have come to believe that modifiers of GPL should always publish their modifications. (Some sloppy license readers even believe they must). There's certainly a moral argument there somewhere. But in practice, more modifications are kept quiet than most people realize. In these situations, GPL and BSD are equivalent.
I did my masters in non-Newtonian budget surpluses.
So far as I have seen, econophysicists are people who mistake applied behavioral psychology for simply characterized physical systems. But your joke describes them better.
Consider the following quote from the paper
This statement implies that the authors believe a gaussian model "should" apply to the market dynamics. As Benoit Mandelbrot and many others before and after him point out, financial markets never have followed gaussian dynamics and they probably never will. It's especially silly because they go on to analyze the distribution of Ultrafast Extreme Event (UEE) sizes as a power law.
Today's market has both accumulation algorithms now used by mutual funds and other sophisticated "buy and hold" investors, and market-making algorithms used by HF firms, and I fully believe there is some interesting dynamics arising from all that. Whether it is any weirder than the slower, human-derived, dynamics of yesteryear is still in doubt. Humans are so much more complex than any of those algorithms that I suspect if you examined the market behavior in 1980, and sped it up, you would see plots wilder than anything Nanex produces.
The paper is somewhat interesting, but not very convincing.