Or for people that want reasonable prices. Lawsuits are expensive, and those costs are passed on to customers. Arbitration is dramatically less expensive (for both parties). I have been through both civil lawsuits and private arbitration, and I would choose to arbitrate every time. I am happy to sign the arbitration clause in any contract, and put them in every contract that I initiate.
The IRS takes a dim view of the converting W2 to 1099 scam so most people don't have that option.
Yet some people actually try to go the other way. Uber drivers are 1099 contractors, yet many are agitating for W2s, although they would be way worse off from a tax avoidance perspective.
the IRS will investigate (and fine both you and your employer).
Only if you are too dumb to do it right. There are rules. But if you telecommute from home and use your own computer, you already meet most of the criteria. Switch to a 1099, and now that "home office" and computer are deductible expenses. Then just assign the copyright to your code to your Cayman Island corp, and then license it back for a (deductible) fee, and watch your overseas account grow tax free. If you need to tap your savings for living expenses, just take out a tax-free loan from your own corp.
Which is exactly why we should have a reasonably flat tax with no deductions.
That is idiotic. 99% of business cannot operate without deductions. If they cannot deduct employee salaries, or the cost of their products, or the cost of contracted services, then they cannot stay in business.
Of course, you will now say that they should only be able to make legitimate deductions. But then how do you determine which are "legitimate"? Maybe we could elect a national body whose job it is to make those decisions. And now you are right back to where we are now.
The "flash crash" was attributed to HFT bots in the immediate aftermath. A fuller investigation determined that they were not the cause, and when HFT programs were disabled, that actually made the crash worse because of reduced liquidity. Programmed trading may have been a cause, but HFT != programmed trading.
It is for this reason that I propose a random small amount of time (say, 30 sec to 2 min?) be added to all trades.
What "problem" are you trying to solve? HFT algorithms reduce transaction costs and reduce prices for everyone else. Your "solution" will increase costs, and provide no benefit to the "little guy" (who doesn't have direct access to the market in the first place), since HFTs will just wait until the last microsecond before the window closes to place their trade. A bigger problem is that most transactions (by volume) don't even happen in the public markets. They happen in unregulated and opaque dark pools, and your "solution" will just make that even worse.
if it was as easy as depicted here, then everyone would be doing it.
You are WAY underestimating the laziness and stupidity of the average taxpayer.
There are plenty of EASY ways to avoid tax that are obvious and widely known... like maxing out your employer matched 401k. Yet about half of eligible employees fail to do that, and about a third don't participate at all, despite it taking about one minute to set up. Many of these idiots even have private savings, with no tax advantage, so it is not even an issue of affordability.
If you're just a regular working stiff and not a corporation or rich person, you are paying too much tax.
If you get all or most of your income on a W2, then there is little you can do to avoid tax. But if you are self-employed and are paid on a 1099, it is easy to incorporate and take advantage of the loopholes. You can set up a Delaware S-corp on-line in about an hour for $200. Setting up a corp in the Cayman Islands isn't much harder. Educate yourself, and make tax planning a normal part of your financial life.
I'm not sure how well the laws re: attractiveness are enforced, if at all.
There is no law against hiring only attractive people. Ugly people are NOT a protected class under the law. As an ugly person, I think that sucks, since attractive people already have a lot of other advantages in life, but that's the way it is.
However, if you only hire attractive white people, you will be in big trouble.
Couldn't this turn into a trivial discrimination lawsuit against McDonalds if they were doing it in USA?
In what way is this illegal discrimination? He said they are looking for "bubbly personalities". In America, calm boring non-bubbly people are not a protected class, so it is legal to discriminate against them.
Humble people may make better business leaders, but that doesn't mean it is true for political leaders, where charisma can help to build political capital and accomplish things. Not all political leaders are charismatic. Some that were not: GHWB, Jimmy Carter, Harry Truman, Herbert Hoover. None of these guys were very successful.
Either you have a boarding pass with a seat assignment or you don't. Once you do, you have a seat.
No you don't.
So this means they had to have taken someone who didn't have a seat and given that person a seat while forcing somebody else who already had a seat to give up that seat.
There are situations where the airline is required by law to do this. For instance, a child under 12 must be seated with a responsible adult, and if the airline needs to reseat or bump someone to do that, then that is what they are required to do. This happens all the time.
I clearly remember many, many programs randomly crashing and taking the entire OS with it
Me too. I remember not just rebooting, but power-cycling, several times per day. Software is way more reliable today. I am typing this on a Macbook with 57 days of up-time, and the last reboot was for a software upgrade, not a bug.
I sure ain't missing those days...
Me either. I'll take a 2.7GHz i5 with 16GB of RAM over a 4.77 MHz 8088 with 64KB anytime.
If no one knows what to do when they hear the siren, then there's really not much point in having the siren in the first place.
1.2 million people live in Dallas. 4400 confused people, or about a third of 1%, dialed 911. You can't extrapolate from that to say that "no one" knew what to do.
For the clueless, here is what you should do when you hear a siren: 1. If you are in a tsunami warning area, head for higher ground. 2. Make sure your house isn't on fire. 3. If you have an air raid or fallout shelter, get in and seal the door. 4. If none of the above apply, then go back to bed and hope that someone else deals with the problem.
Pit bulls are way more common than "pet" wolves or hybrids. So it is no surprise that there are more pit bull incidents. Pit bulls are selectively bred to be vicious, so comparing wolves to pit pulls isn't much of an endorsement.
Employers are free to discriminate against people that do not negotiate by paying them less.
No they aren't. It is illegal to systematically pay significantly less to members of a protected class on any basis other than qualification for the job.
If Google's hiring and promotion process results in men systematically getting higher salaries for equal qualifications, then it is illegal and they need to fix it.
If members of a protected class are systematically paid less than other employees, then you need to be able to justify that on the basis of objective qualifications for the job. The compensation does not have to be "fair', it just has to be equal for equal qualifications.
Either it's the free market...
Employment is nowhere close to being a "free market". There are mountains of laws and regulations for every aspect of employment. You need less government paperwork to buy plutonium than to hire an employee.
many people own the hybrids as pets; some people own wolves as pets.
The number of people killed (often including the owners) by these "domesticated" wolves likely exceeds the number killed by wild wolves. Keeping a wolf as a pet is a really bad idea. In a wild wolf pack, only the alpha male and female reproduce. So a wolf has a genetic imperative to eventually challenge the alpha, and take over the pack. If you own a wolf, you are the alpha, and one day, possibly when you are sick or injured and the wolf senses your weakness, your "pet" is going turn on you.
"Domesticated" wolves will seek opportunities to escape, and since they don't have the hunting skills of wild wolves they may be driven by hunger and lack of fear to hunt humans. Some "pet" wolves have killed dozens of people.
one of them turns out to be 10 times as productive as the other, and wants a bonus and a raise. What are you going to do ?
Pay differentials based on qualifications for the job are legal. But Google is NOT claiming that women employees are less qualified, or less productive, so that is irrelevant.
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I mean come on, who would go to work for a company after which you can't work in the same fucking field that you are an expert in?
Non-compete agreements are not enforceable in California. This dispute is not about non-compete agreements. It is about theft of trade secrets.
Arbitration is just for suckers like you.
Or for people that want reasonable prices. Lawsuits are expensive, and those costs are passed on to customers. Arbitration is dramatically less expensive (for both parties). I have been through both civil lawsuits and private arbitration, and I would choose to arbitrate every time. I am happy to sign the arbitration clause in any contract, and put them in every contract that I initiate.
But you have to have enough money TO max out your 401k. Most people don't have that ability.
Yet they arrive every morning with a $6 latte from Starbucks.
The IRS takes a dim view of the converting W2 to 1099 scam so most people don't have that option.
Yet some people actually try to go the other way. Uber drivers are 1099 contractors, yet many are agitating for W2s, although they would be way worse off from a tax avoidance perspective.
the IRS will investigate (and fine both you and your employer).
Only if you are too dumb to do it right. There are rules. But if you telecommute from home and use your own computer, you already meet most of the criteria. Switch to a 1099, and now that "home office" and computer are deductible expenses. Then just assign the copyright to your code to your Cayman Island corp, and then license it back for a (deductible) fee, and watch your overseas account grow tax free. If you need to tap your savings for living expenses, just take out a tax-free loan from your own corp.
Which is exactly why we should have a reasonably flat tax with no deductions.
That is idiotic. 99% of business cannot operate without deductions. If they cannot deduct employee salaries, or the cost of their products, or the cost of contracted services, then they cannot stay in business.
Of course, you will now say that they should only be able to make legitimate deductions. But then how do you determine which are "legitimate"? Maybe we could elect a national body whose job it is to make those decisions. And now you are right back to where we are now.
The one in 2010 was attributed to HFT bots."
The "flash crash" was attributed to HFT bots in the immediate aftermath. A fuller investigation determined that they were not the cause, and when HFT programs were disabled, that actually made the crash worse because of reduced liquidity. Programmed trading may have been a cause, but HFT != programmed trading.
It is for this reason that I propose a random small amount of time (say, 30 sec to 2 min?) be added to all trades.
What "problem" are you trying to solve?
HFT algorithms reduce transaction costs and reduce prices for everyone else.
Your "solution" will increase costs, and provide no benefit to the "little guy" (who doesn't have direct access to the market in the first place), since HFTs will just wait until the last microsecond before the window closes to place their trade.
A bigger problem is that most transactions (by volume) don't even happen in the public markets.
They happen in unregulated and opaque dark pools, and your "solution" will just make that even worse.
When an AI can explain how AI works, then maybe I'll believe that it's an AI. Until then ...
Since a human brain can't explain how a brain works, that seems like a silly criteria.
if it was as easy as depicted here, then everyone would be doing it.
You are WAY underestimating the laziness and stupidity of the average taxpayer.
There are plenty of EASY ways to avoid tax that are obvious and widely known ... like maxing out your employer matched 401k. Yet about half of eligible employees fail to do that, and about a third don't participate at all, despite it taking about one minute to set up. Many of these idiots even have private savings, with no tax advantage, so it is not even an issue of affordability.
If you're just a regular working stiff and not a corporation or rich person, you are paying too much tax.
If you get all or most of your income on a W2, then there is little you can do to avoid tax. But if you are self-employed and are paid on a 1099, it is easy to incorporate and take advantage of the loopholes. You can set up a Delaware S-corp on-line in about an hour for $200. Setting up a corp in the Cayman Islands isn't much harder. Educate yourself, and make tax planning a normal part of your financial life.
I'm not sure how well the laws re: attractiveness are enforced, if at all.
There is no law against hiring only attractive people. Ugly people are NOT a protected class under the law. As an ugly person, I think that sucks, since attractive people already have a lot of other advantages in life, but that's the way it is.
However, if you only hire attractive white people, you will be in big trouble.
Couldn't this turn into a trivial discrimination lawsuit against McDonalds if they were doing it in USA?
In what way is this illegal discrimination? He said they are looking for "bubbly personalities". In America, calm boring non-bubbly people are not a protected class, so it is legal to discriminate against them.
Humble people may make better business leaders, but that doesn't mean it is true for political leaders, where charisma can help to build political capital and accomplish things. Not all political leaders are charismatic. Some that were not: GHWB, Jimmy Carter, Harry Truman, Herbert Hoover. None of these guys were very successful.
Either you have a boarding pass with a seat assignment or you don't. Once you do, you have a seat.
No you don't.
So this means they had to have taken someone who didn't have a seat and given that person a seat while forcing somebody else who already had a seat to give up that seat.
There are situations where the airline is required by law to do this. For instance, a child under 12 must be seated with a responsible adult, and if the airline needs to reseat or bump someone to do that, then that is what they are required to do. This happens all the time.
Write software after/before work.
Or during work. If your boss walks by and sees a page of code on your workstation, he is just going to assume that you are working hard.
I clearly remember many, many programs randomly crashing and taking the entire OS with it
Me too. I remember not just rebooting, but power-cycling, several times per day. Software is way more reliable today. I am typing this on a Macbook with 57 days of up-time, and the last reboot was for a software upgrade, not a bug.
I sure ain't missing those days...
Me either. I'll take a 2.7GHz i5 with 16GB of RAM over a 4.77 MHz 8088 with 64KB anytime.
Interesting it took him this long to figure out that its common human nature to find a scapegoat and kick it endlessly.
Also cynicism lets people that have done nothing feel superior to people actually accomplishing stuff.
I would use it on my hair.
Try not to inhale the methanol fumes, and avoid open flames.
If no one knows what to do when they hear the siren, then there's really not much point in having the siren in the first place.
1.2 million people live in Dallas. 4400 confused people, or about a third of 1%, dialed 911. You can't extrapolate from that to say that "no one" knew what to do.
For the clueless, here is what you should do when you hear a siren:
1. If you are in a tsunami warning area, head for higher ground.
2. Make sure your house isn't on fire.
3. If you have an air raid or fallout shelter, get in and seal the door.
4. If none of the above apply, then go back to bed and hope that someone else deals with the problem.
He didn't break the 911 emergency number. The people did that to themselves by flooding the number with calls. Blame where blame is due.
Those people were idiots. If the sirens are blaring, then it is obvious that the authorities are already aware of the problem.
Pit bulls are way more common than "pet" wolves or hybrids.
So it is no surprise that there are more pit bull incidents.
Pit bulls are selectively bred to be vicious, so comparing wolves to pit pulls isn't much of an endorsement.
Employers are free to discriminate against people that do not negotiate by paying them less.
No they aren't. It is illegal to systematically pay significantly less to members of a protected class on any basis other than qualification for the job.
If Google's hiring and promotion process results in men systematically getting higher salaries for equal qualifications, then it is illegal and they need to fix it.
But who decides what is a "fair" compensation?
If members of a protected class are systematically paid less than other employees, then you need to be able to justify that on the basis of objective qualifications for the job. The compensation does not have to be "fair', it just has to be equal for equal qualifications.
Either it's the free market ...
Employment is nowhere close to being a "free market". There are mountains of laws and regulations for every aspect of employment. You need less government paperwork to buy plutonium than to hire an employee.
Any dog can bite.
Plenty of dogs bite, but they rarely bite their owners.
This kid was mauled by his own "pet".
many people own the hybrids as pets; some people own wolves as pets.
The number of people killed (often including the owners) by these "domesticated" wolves likely exceeds the number killed by wild wolves. Keeping a wolf as a pet is a really bad idea. In a wild wolf pack, only the alpha male and female reproduce. So a wolf has a genetic imperative to eventually challenge the alpha, and take over the pack. If you own a wolf, you are the alpha, and one day, possibly when you are sick or injured and the wolf senses your weakness, your "pet" is going turn on you.
"Domesticated" wolves will seek opportunities to escape, and since they don't have the hunting skills of wild wolves they may be driven by hunger and lack of fear to hunt humans. Some "pet" wolves have killed dozens of people.
Good advice on wolves from XKCD.
one of them turns out to be 10 times as productive as the other, and wants a bonus and a raise. What are you going to do ?
Pay differentials based on qualifications for the job are legal.
But Google is NOT claiming that women employees are less qualified, or less productive, so that is irrelevant.