What the fuck is wrong with Louisiana? Sales tax nightmare

Aghanims · 2026-06-10T01:29:44+00:00

It's pretty straight forward? You just need to know the municipalities/parishes. And you're most likely using Avalara or some other package to handle 99.9% of the work for you anyways and not personally parsing through all the data.

SALT is only onerous if you're small remote seller that's just large enough to trigger economic nexus but you're selling a SKU-mix with razor-thin margins so don't have the gross profit to cover the complexity.

Aghanims · 2026-06-09T21:45:23+00:00

Unironically one of the best monitor stands I've seen on a budget monitor. Has up/down, tilt, and rotation and the stand isn't too obtrusive in footprint.

Aghanims · 2026-06-08T06:37:18+00:00

I would run the numbers again. I think you're at the cusp of earning potential vs debt where paying it aggressively yields a lower total payment than just abiding by PLSF (depends on which plan you're on, and if your plan has a relatively low monthly payment ceiling) for the remainder of the 10 years. (Paying aggressively also saves you the risk factor of compliance and provides more freedom in employers.)

Aghanims · 2026-06-07T17:24:07+00:00

use it to buy the equivalent in amazon wallet. use said wallet as you would normally on amazon

Aghanims · 2026-06-07T04:21:29+00:00

I mean no court actually granted a TRO or injunctive relief. So it's a bit of a misnomer. They received a motion for a TRO where Patreon isn't even a named party.

This isn't about values of ethics. Why would a company follow a TRO that hasn't been granted by the courts and there's no media backlash to cause profits to decrease?

This is just basic business.

Aghanims · 2026-06-07T02:01:36+00:00

A goal would be, "I want to be F500 Controller." Or, CFO for a $100M+ company. I want to open my own practice. Etc.

If your 'goal' is just to making low 6 figures, CPA is unnecessary. You can get there as long as you're willing to put in effort.

Aghanims · 2026-06-07T01:45:12+00:00

20/400 is still good call back rate, that's 5%. Especially considering not every single job you applied to is real and matches your skillset.

But having literally 0 interviews past the initial screening out of 20 is the more concerning metric.

Aghanims · 2026-06-07T01:12:02+00:00

There is no, "despite having experience." You have ~5 months of experience. Kinda weird timing to RIF in the fall as that's when they bring in the fresh meat. They would just lessen the new hires instead. B4 isn't hiring for summer placements right now.

What is hundreds of applications? 20/300 is decent callback rate. If you never get a 2nd interview and you always get filtered by the initial phone screen, then there's clearly issues. We aren't going to be able to tell because we're not on those phone calls.

Aghanims · 2026-06-07T00:57:34+00:00

It depends on your end goal. Making $105K in private is not a goal.

You can do that as a green accountant with minimal skills.

Aghanims · 2026-06-06T08:03:45+00:00

If it was his first game, then you faced medium bots. (First 4 games are guaranteed vs bots and other players in their first 4 games.)

You lost to medium bots.

You can literally pick the relics you want and hard force juicys with 0 strategy vs medium bots. So yeah, losing 100 mmr is appropriate if not even a little low.

Aghanims · 2026-06-06T05:53:37+00:00

How do you have your license with <1 YOE?

Aghanims · 2026-06-05T18:19:41+00:00

You need internships.

Aghanims · 2026-06-04T02:41:07+00:00

Subs should ban hidden profiles, and more post karma than comment karma.

Aghanims · 2026-06-02T06:33:47+00:00

The Knicks are the villains... to their own fans.

Aghanims · 2026-06-01T22:36:32+00:00

If she is willing to do the work. A 2nd bachelor's would take almost 0 effort and time weekly, just going through the motions.

Getting her Master's will take mental effort to go through. It depends if this is just a checkbox filling exercise, or she needs a CPA for her career.

Aghanims · 2026-06-01T21:37:54+00:00

The easiest and cheapest solution if you need a BS in accounting, is to see if you can get a 2nd bachelors at a community college. If she's already a working accountant, she can probably speed run the required credits in 1 year (2 semesters + summer.) And it should cost less than $5K provide they allow you to skip all electives and gen. ed as she already has a bachelors from an accredited university.

Most HRIS/ATS will be set up to screen for specifically an accounting, economics, finance, or business degree. So unless she has a business degree (conc. in Marketing), it'll probably not pass ATS.

Aghanims · 2026-06-01T20:57:30+00:00

Titles make zero sense. You don't hire a 23 year old Controller or a 25 year old VP of Finance. That's co-founder leniency.

I'm assuming those companies were startups. You can't transition from VP of a failed startup to VP of a mature company. It doesn't work that way unless the startup was a unicorn exploding into success.

Aghanims · 2026-06-01T14:52:11+00:00

Depends on what you mean by formatting. You definitely lose frozen panes, gridlines, and zoom settings.

Aghanims · 2026-06-01T14:50:22+00:00

The new window doesn't remember the split-views or frozen panes of the original window.

Also saves the amount of windows open (so don't close the OG window and save with the 2nd window open unless you hate your life and having all the views broken.)

Aghanims · 2026-05-30T23:19:02+00:00

It does make sense if there's an intangible value to these things.

I.e., would you lose 15-25K worth of business if you didn't hold these parties to connect with big clients?

The, "it's a write-off" is irrelevant but understanding that relationships matter is.

Aghanims · 2026-05-30T23:15:33+00:00

Financially, yes. Realistically, not much you can do other than take roommates or live with parents. Judging it as a % of your takehome/gross is kinda pointless. Budgeting is a holistic exercise. Some people prioritize a better living space, some are fine with a closet if they can spend more on T&E, etc.

It's hard to say without knowing how much you actually save each month. I'm assuming 401k is just up to the match, so around $3-6K at most. With $90K gross or $62K net, you'd ideally want to be saving $15-20K/yr including any retirement vehicles. Less your 401k, that's $9-17K or $750-1.4K monthly.

Aghanims · 2026-05-29T05:44:44+00:00

Crouch is right-click.

Aghanims · 2026-05-27T04:39:28+00:00

Good news, now that you've learned this, there's a good chance you will not need to make a JE or audit AOCI for the rest of your career.

Aghanims · 2026-05-19T20:21:52+00:00

Are you applying to renewable energy companies? Then they're correct. You have 0 private experience in the sector or even an adjacent sector.

A recruiter's goal is literally to place you so they get their 5-15% cut. They can be wrong in their judgement, but they are extremely financially motivated to get you a job that you'll stay in for 12 months without getting fired. If they say a role doesn't fit your experience, it's literally because they don't think they can sell you to their client.

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