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whydoineedthis··on Robinhood Trader May Face $800k Tax Bill
true about the mark-to-market specific election, it does need to be done the year prior and makes things for the following year earlier. He will still get out of the tax bill though through documentation.

> A trader must keep detailed records to distinguish the securities held for investment from the securities in the trading business. The securities held for investment must be identified as such in the trader's records on the day he or she acquires them (for example, by holding them in a separate brokerage account).

whydoineedthis··on Robinhood Trader May Face $800k Tax Bill
There is a "Wash sale" rule that prohibits writing off losses on stocks purchased within 31 days of their sale, but they don't apply to day traders.

https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc429

He will need a good CPA to declare which assets were long term investments and which fall under mark-to-market day trading rules, but he won't need to pay $800k.

tl;dr: clickbait (mostly), but do read up on the wash-sale rule if you intend on day trading in order to save yourself an end of year headache.

whydoineedthis··on Robinhood Files S-1
I have been thinking of opening a deli myself. If you can't beat em, join em.
whydoineedthis··on The Vivaldi browser will not support Google’s FLoC
I thought the same thing, you indeed have to scroll a ways down, but it is there. There is a better explanation here https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/30/22358287/privacy-ads-goog...
whydoineedthis··on OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana
anyone know if OpenSearch still uses "/" as a special character? Largest pita when trying to use ES for logging web applications and quite frankly, made it near unusable.

If Amazon fixed that, I would be firmly on their side. Also, any improvement over Kibana would be welcome.

whydoineedthis··on Donation page "not compliant with Google Play Policies"
imho, the author should stop making apps for Google and iOS and start making them for the linux phones. "but so few people have a linux phone" you will argue.

Well, one of the reasons for that is that good hardworking app developers are still naively giving away their time to the large corps that make the rules. Want to live outside the rules? Support an echo system that has less of them. Until then, complaining is just a waste of your time and everyone else.

Google will only change when their pockets dictate it, no sooner.

whydoineedthis··on Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?
why do you think devops/sysadmin work doesn't exist anymore? Either DevOps or IT is what you are looking for.

Anyway, if you find this holy grail, please let me know

whydoineedthis··on Kallithea – Self-hosted alternative to GitHub
Are you saying you don't know what the word "bare" means? Is that the confusion?

Googling for the definition I find "Bare: without addition; basic and simple."

And yes, I can. A tiramisu repository is a fictional repository that is not at all mentioned the very helpful help section of git init. While completely fabricated, the tiramisu repository is one of the best tasting repositories git can produce.

whydoineedthis··on Kallithea – Self-hosted alternative to GitHub
> git init --help > OPTIONS > --bare > Create a bare repository. If GIT_DIR environment is not set, it is set to the current working directory.

I'm confused on what you find confusing here?

whydoineedthis··on Ten year study: No link between violent video games and aggressive behavior
I would argue if they are spending 40% of thier time on games, than it's the lack of other stimulation required for development that's the problem. If they were playing Atari Pong for that long, I would suspect he same outcome you observe. The violence in the video game had little to no impact on this scenerio.
whydoineedthis··on 90% of Waking Hours Spent Staring at Glowing Rectangles (2009)
Really? (No pun or /s intended). I grew up in the 80's and 90's watching a significant amount of television. Myself and my like friends seem to be ok. Didn't go mad or become dumb. Matter of fact, we seem to excell in the digital age because of how familiar we are with the tech behind the television. I'm not saying there could not be some detrimental effect, but it seems the research stating as such was a bit overblown and was more driven by fear than by observed facts.
whydoineedthis··on BMW to shame out-of-warranty UK drivers with smart billboards
Lol. I just looked at that car online. Comparing it to a bmw is laughable in every sense. Performance, not comparable. Safety rating, not comparable. Exterior and interior styling, laughably non existent in the Leon. Give me a break.
whydoineedthis··on They want us to be compliant, not secure
Work for the govt, can confirm.
whydoineedthis··on BMW to shame out-of-warranty UK drivers with smart billboards
Idk, I was in a new bmw recently and thought it was cool. Driver assist to stay in lanes. Full touch dash across the entire dashboard. Verbal assistant worked well and was able to adjust settings intuitively.

I'm still too poor to buy one new, but it didn't seem completely without innovation.

whydoineedthis··on Facebook Lets Vietnam’s Cyberarmy Target Dissidents, Rejecting a Celebrity Plea
I came to say something similar, with the same fears. It's amazing how brainwashed the west is in believing its own propaganda and naritive. So many don't even realize they have been fed propaganda about communist run countries. It's mind boggling.

What people should be outraged by is that MOST VIETNAMESE ONLINE SENSORSHIP IS CREATED BY US COMPANIES. No, not in the way facebook does in 'being complicit', but rather by blocking access from Vietnamese country ips entirely - no Vietnamese Government request required!

I lived there for over a year and what I was surprised by was how often I was blocked by the actual domain, and not some 'comunist firewall' that people think. Things like, signing into an Apple Developer account can not be done without a vpn. Lots of others I wish I documented.

You will never see an article on that though because it doesn't fit the wests propaganda nariative that 'democracy good, communism bad'.

whydoineedthis··on Show HN: Repeter, your.domain.com to localhost:3000 – AWS Automation
Basically a self-hosted ngrok. This is neat because ngrok costs a lot annually.

The other challenge with ngrok is that it only proxies ssl traffic to an localhost with an ssl certificate, which is a huge pain. When you do implement SSL, will it be able to connect to localhost without ssl?

On another note, I think the cli should warn before creating or destroying infra, even though I have entered the command.

whydoineedthis··on Show HN: Dashboard for tracking insider trading at S&P 500 companies
yup, i fully agree. Their analysis looks about as accurate using a $5/hr psychic to pick stocks.
whydoineedthis··on Show HN: Dashboard for tracking insider trading at S&P 500 companies
fair flag. here's the home page for anyone interested. https://www.quiverquant.com/
whydoineedthis··on Show HN: GitRecruit – Start Sourcing Candidates from GitHub
then github, gitlab, and others would also be in violation. if you read the information in your own link, they (Git and Github) are ok with other trademarks existing, which this would fall into. Particularly because it's not attempting in any way to imply it has any Git features. Thanks for the link though, good to know.
whydoineedthis··on Sites using Facebook ‘Like’ button liable for data, EU court rules
this is a great point. it would be awesome if indeed sites had to gain my permission before showing me an advertisement - or at least a custom one. someone should sue!
whydoineedthis··on Show HN: Stackkup – Don't let tabs slow the browser down
thought it was a problem with mobile, but nope, just a bit broken. The "View our Getting Started video here:" doesn't have a link to anywhere. Could understand what this did by itself. Was asking me to past links....what links? I thought it was a tab manager of sorts. good luck!
whydoineedthis··on Show HN: Qvault Open Source Password Manager
looks pretty cool. can it be packaged for mobile? share the encrypted vault with multiple devices? password vaulting in the browser? im guessing you would start charging someone money if you built those features, which is cool. keep going!
whydoineedthis··on Trump proposes forcing hospitals to disclose discount rates with insurers
Used to do medical billing. How is this not true? Your telling me doctors are running their businesses with just some random returns for procedures? are you out of your mind?

Also, it is true that thier is a requirement for estimates. Granted, insurance companies can turn down procedures - but like I said, if it's a competent diagnosis than it works out.

But you can just ignore all the words in my post to be dramatic, that's fine.

whydoineedthis··on Trump proposes forcing hospitals to disclose discount rates with insurers
how are "small and medium businesses" the same as "definitely ER"? To me, those are the exact opposite things.
whydoineedthis··on Capital One Says Breach Hit 100M Individuals in U.S
And if you knew anything of what you were talking about, you would see how easy it is for an engineer to make a mistake and there is 0 auditing or oversight. Also, if YOU actually took 10 seconds, you would see all the data was un-encrypted and in plain text. So where is all this "safety" the dude is speaking of? Cloud Custodian does shit when implemented incorrectly -and that's my point. You think banks are making all this effort, but in reality, the security team is completely understaffed, often not listened to, and in the end - we find this stuff happening all the time.

There, I gave you more than 10 seconds. Trying keeping up.

whydoineedthis··on Trump proposes forcing hospitals to disclose discount rates with insurers
Hrmm...not sure most of what you said is true. Small and medium business may lose claims, but they know the reimbursement for each procedure and if thier claims are legit, they will get reimbursed. There's a requirement to share how much a consumer needs to pay before procedures are done also. Unless your talking about ER care specifically, that's a different beast where you are somewhat correct.
whydoineedthis··on Capital One Says Breach Hit 100M Individuals in U.S
"there are a lot of safeguards that these banks use to make sure that any data that touches the shared server persistent storage is encrypted. And when I say safeguards, I mean automation to make sure that this sort of scenario shouldn't ever happen." ROTFLMAO....you have clearly never worked for a bank, no offense mate. Capital left this shit in plain text on an S3 bucket, I guarantee you
whydoineedthis··on Show HN: Cloudboost.io – open-source BaaS platform just like Firebase
The UI is super broken on mobile, hard to believe it would perform as well as Firebase.
whydoineedthis··on Show HN: Stackkup – Don't let tabs slow the browser down
Doesn't display well on mobile. How is it different than workona?
whydoineedthis··on Why We Can’t Figure Out Why Infrastructure Is So Expensive
there are only like 40k fatal accidents a year in the US, i seriously doubt 25-30% would be prevented from safer pavement design.
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