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Most of the old homes are actually not worth living in. Construction is so terrible you are practically living outside in terms of insulation. Earthquake hazards with huge shingle roofs unlike anything in US. Even newer construction that’s not even 10 years old is still shit compared to US standards. There is a lot that can be said about why but it would take up a full essay.

True all of the above. Live in a rural city.

Back in the day you used to be able to get people to click a series of sharing dialogs with fake iframe overlays. People were abusing it to get insanely viral posts shared by millions.

Speechless.

Indeed. For me that moment was a single split second where I decided to email my would-be wife. I almost didn’t, but decided to anyway. Of course, I have no idea how life may have played out had I not made that decision but here I am now, some thousands of miles away from my home country, from country I grew up in and in a new place I call home with a little kiddo that makes every day worth living. Funny how a single moment decided all of this.

When I was young my mom would go into H&R Block to do her taxes. She was a single parent raising 2 kids on minimum wage income. She wasn’t tax savvy at all and English was a 2nd language. I recall her paying $89 at the time. I always found it odd that someone as poor as her had to pay money to file taxes. I was too young to say anything at the time. So much for free tax preparation. I wonder how many millions of Americans and for how many decades have been ripped off by these scumbags.

Let’s not forget this is the same company that robbed tech workers in secret do not hire pacts that included eBay, intel, apple and google.

My tax situation was simple enough but I’ve always used a service. This year I used a few services but didn’t file, them printed out the infilled returns and was shocked at how few documents I would have to fill out if I did it on my own.

I ended up using Tax slayer and filed for free.

Kinda off topic but I find it incredibly worrying the lack of privacy people have online when it comes to advertising. There is creepy retargeting and then there is retargeting to specific individuals.

Right now I can find just about anyone’s email, seed them with an ad pixel, show them hyperpersonalized landing pages and follow them online knowing exactly who they are, allowing me to tailor ads to individual level.

If that doesn’t creep you out, what would?

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Can anyone recommend a good alternative for iOS to do just this?

I have clients who occasionally do this while we are half a world apart. It ends up wasting our time because sometimes I can’t get back to them while they are in the office and an entire day passes before I know what they want.

I wonder about this too. What if I, as an index fund holder do not want the fund to buy up junk like lyft and uber?

Photoshop!

You mean to tell me this is not a gif?!

Akzidenz Grotesk is one of my favorites right up there along with suisse intl.

I wish a bill would also ban the cancer that is retargeting. I’m sure I’ll get downvoted for saying this as many entrepreneurs and SaaS companies browsing are making their conversions on retargeting, but something has to be said about the creepy nature of following people wherever they go without obtaining direct consent.

Would love to see LinkedIn reigned in with their false notifications. They’ll show one of those red dots then when you click it nothing new has happened. There are a ton of other terrible dark patterns used by LinkedIn but I forget to take note when I encounter them.

Slack needs a serious spanking for how they handle notification opt outs. As far as I know there is no global mute everything switch which should exist.

You see, the tax code is incredibly complicated but for the vast majority it’s rather straight forward. Predatory services like tax preparation feed on the fear and insecurities of average Americans by pitching taxes as some difficult task. In reality, one only needs a handful of pages to get their taxes completed and sent in. This process would be even easier if the IRS did it for you, but politics is not a career of public service, but one to reap maximum personal benefit. We have no laws barring public servants working for the same industries that put them into office so there is a massive conflict of interest, and nobody to do anything about it. The power is not in people’s hands and never has been.

Lazy, really? The average person has enough crap to worry about to figure out tax forms. We shouldn’t require effort when much of the process can be automated.

It would be incredibly easy to set up a step by step flow to intake basic info or to confirm the numbers and hit send.(if not doing alway with you doing the taxes)

I can only suspect that this hasn’t happened because of strong lobbying.

Just had all the blood tests done here in Japan. Walked out paying a total of $80. Had I been employed by a Japanese employer, it would have been free. They told me the fee up front.

Why do I get the feeling there is an underground market of sorts where people are paying to watch streams of hidden cameras in hotel rooms?

Whoops, don’t get any ideas now!

Did the article even mention fees and taxes? 8% adjusted for inflation will more than likely be just 3% once you figure in fees and taxes.

Maybe world policy makers should think to the nth order before making bad policies.

Tax prep lobbying at work. I’d love to know how much H&R and TurboTax spend on keeping things as is.

Yes, thank you

What’s next, an AI to make a judicial verdict? Seriously though, this is very exciting. I can imagine a future in which medical diagnosis is damn near 100% accurate - all you need to do is lay down and get scanned and smelled by an all in one machine and your diagnosis is displayed with recommended treatment. If treatable with drugs or molecular repair, done on the spot.

MindSweep

What do they mean by this? I did notice that looking for archives of a few domains, including my own returned no results.