I shouldn't have called the home energy thing a "deduction." It is a credit. And in 2021, some amount of charitable contributions could be claimed on top of the standard deduction. "This isn't hard" -- as illustrated by…
Looking at other countries is unproductive, since their tax laws and tax credit systems are completely different. For example, in the UK, I believe where a child is living is tracked through some centralized benefits…
"Something like 80%+ of tax payers could have their 1040s automatically generated by the government[.] The proposal was just to have the government send these taxpayers a summary that they can accept or amend, the…
Battleships are pretty intimidating too. Still obsolete.
Amazon is buying land piecemeal, lot by lot—probably roughly at market value, then. I don't think it's really comparable to someone buying Sears because they think Sears's land holdings are undervalued. At worst,…
Yeah, once you get above a basic level of filter complexity, Vapoursynth/Avisynth become much easier to script. The problem is that it's hard to do the initial setup of *synth.
To be clear, there is currently no good alternative to this. The way I see it, the IRS can switch to an invasive "selfie + utility bill" system, or it can remove self-service from their website altogether. It's…
That's a great achievement. It also illustrates why these long bike races are run in stages. A multi-day race where riders can disregard stages will turn into a nightmarish competition of inhuman endurance. In video…
Not a good analogy, for two reasons. First, workers who don't have equity in a company don't really have a gun to their head even if the existence of the company is at risk. The real "gun to the head" is the threat of…
If you look at nominal interest rates, yeah. Real interest rates haven't been particularly lower post-1980 than pre-1980. Sure, high interest rates pre-1980 built wealth passively, but periods of high inflation also…
I agree that removing public dislikes is a pretty bad idea, but it's not that important of a tool in fighting misleading videos. I mean, there was once a HUGE glut of videos with misleading thumbnails/titles, and what…
True. But I think progress over the years is a better metric for whether things are in a good place, policy-wise, than "some other country does things better." So I'm not grumpy about the state of the U.S.'s internet…
Well, if you are a simple family where everyone is biologically related and living together, then things are pretty simple in the end. The issues come up with mixed families, divorced parents, etc. As for the dollar…
Maybe it's "bull pucky" to you, but I have vivid memories of my parents agonizing over taxes as a child. The agony they went through is much ameliorated now due to advances in technology. And thank you for the link, but…
I agree with the basic premise that the IRS is nothing to be afraid of if you make a simple mistake. Though if you make a $5,000 error (which is getting out of "simple mistake" territory), they'll tack on a 20% penalty.…
The IRS can simplify the process, sure. And if you are living alone, have no children, and don't care about taking advantage of any special credits or deductions, then a "file for me" button would be fine. (Though the…
The most popular subtitling software has a script/plugin to export video, which can then be used in a motion tracking program, the data from which can be fed back into the subtitling program.
The best definition for "super low" that I can come up with is "bitrates at which x264-encoded content becomes hilariously unwatchable." I will try to be more specific. Youtube uses x264 to encode videos at a certain…
As someone who has been reading a lot of AV1 benchmarks over the last few months, it's also unclear to me how/why they're doing it. AV1 (and specifically google's libaom) is great, and for VOD-based content it is ready…
The virus, in some ways, has given them the opposite of leverage. The labor market is and will be flooded with laid off workers.
There's a lot of talk about fiscal responsibility in this thread, and I might have a unique perspective on it, living in a small-to-midsized town and being intimately familiar with a lot of people's finances who live…
I remember hearing a lot about it during the leadup to the trial, even as a middle-schooler at the time. Because of how popular the Monopoly promotion was at the time, it left a big impact.
I don't know about that. If a general financial crisis is the concern, stocks outside the S&P 500 would not be spared. What I got from this interview was just a reminder that it makes sense not to get caught up in…
So there are two concerns here. One concern is a problem with a certain asset being inflated, in this case S&P 500 stocks, and the money you might lose if you hold those assets and their value goes down to normal. A…
This summary only talks about the effects of dairy, rather than whole-fat dairy specifically. Does the article say more?
I shouldn't have called the home energy thing a "deduction." It is a credit. And in 2021, some amount of charitable contributions could be claimed on top of the standard deduction. "This isn't hard" -- as illustrated by…
Looking at other countries is unproductive, since their tax laws and tax credit systems are completely different. For example, in the UK, I believe where a child is living is tracked through some centralized benefits…
"Something like 80%+ of tax payers could have their 1040s automatically generated by the government[.] The proposal was just to have the government send these taxpayers a summary that they can accept or amend, the…
Battleships are pretty intimidating too. Still obsolete.
Amazon is buying land piecemeal, lot by lot—probably roughly at market value, then. I don't think it's really comparable to someone buying Sears because they think Sears's land holdings are undervalued. At worst,…
Yeah, once you get above a basic level of filter complexity, Vapoursynth/Avisynth become much easier to script. The problem is that it's hard to do the initial setup of *synth.
To be clear, there is currently no good alternative to this. The way I see it, the IRS can switch to an invasive "selfie + utility bill" system, or it can remove self-service from their website altogether. It's…
That's a great achievement. It also illustrates why these long bike races are run in stages. A multi-day race where riders can disregard stages will turn into a nightmarish competition of inhuman endurance. In video…
Not a good analogy, for two reasons. First, workers who don't have equity in a company don't really have a gun to their head even if the existence of the company is at risk. The real "gun to the head" is the threat of…
If you look at nominal interest rates, yeah. Real interest rates haven't been particularly lower post-1980 than pre-1980. Sure, high interest rates pre-1980 built wealth passively, but periods of high inflation also…
I agree that removing public dislikes is a pretty bad idea, but it's not that important of a tool in fighting misleading videos. I mean, there was once a HUGE glut of videos with misleading thumbnails/titles, and what…
True. But I think progress over the years is a better metric for whether things are in a good place, policy-wise, than "some other country does things better." So I'm not grumpy about the state of the U.S.'s internet…
Well, if you are a simple family where everyone is biologically related and living together, then things are pretty simple in the end. The issues come up with mixed families, divorced parents, etc. As for the dollar…
Maybe it's "bull pucky" to you, but I have vivid memories of my parents agonizing over taxes as a child. The agony they went through is much ameliorated now due to advances in technology. And thank you for the link, but…
I agree with the basic premise that the IRS is nothing to be afraid of if you make a simple mistake. Though if you make a $5,000 error (which is getting out of "simple mistake" territory), they'll tack on a 20% penalty.…
The IRS can simplify the process, sure. And if you are living alone, have no children, and don't care about taking advantage of any special credits or deductions, then a "file for me" button would be fine. (Though the…
The most popular subtitling software has a script/plugin to export video, which can then be used in a motion tracking program, the data from which can be fed back into the subtitling program.
The best definition for "super low" that I can come up with is "bitrates at which x264-encoded content becomes hilariously unwatchable." I will try to be more specific. Youtube uses x264 to encode videos at a certain…
As someone who has been reading a lot of AV1 benchmarks over the last few months, it's also unclear to me how/why they're doing it. AV1 (and specifically google's libaom) is great, and for VOD-based content it is ready…
The virus, in some ways, has given them the opposite of leverage. The labor market is and will be flooded with laid off workers.
There's a lot of talk about fiscal responsibility in this thread, and I might have a unique perspective on it, living in a small-to-midsized town and being intimately familiar with a lot of people's finances who live…
I remember hearing a lot about it during the leadup to the trial, even as a middle-schooler at the time. Because of how popular the Monopoly promotion was at the time, it left a big impact.
I don't know about that. If a general financial crisis is the concern, stocks outside the S&P 500 would not be spared. What I got from this interview was just a reminder that it makes sense not to get caught up in…
So there are two concerns here. One concern is a problem with a certain asset being inflated, in this case S&P 500 stocks, and the money you might lose if you hold those assets and their value goes down to normal. A…
This summary only talks about the effects of dairy, rather than whole-fat dairy specifically. Does the article say more?