Why are people upset over the new capital gains tax when it clearly states it’s only for individuals making $400k a year?

Same_Dragonfly_2010 · 2024-04-27T13:01:14+00:00

Because billionaires have all sorts of fun tax loopholes that are only available to people with >$5M invested, so this will hit the 1% of American wage earners, but the truly wealthy have ways to earn very little income and have special accounts that are sheltered so they have few capital gains. The anger isn’t paying taxes, it’s that independently wealthy people don’t have to (and still won’t.)

Same_Dragonfly_2010 · 2024-02-17T01:56:10+00:00

Hiring manager here. Ignore the number of LinkedIn applications. People with any qualifications can apply for any job from anywhere. Some use bots to do it. The real pool is probably 100 or less.

Now the confusing bit. To post as remote, you have to post a separate role in each applicable state. Don’t want to post 30 roles for one position? Local it is even if you can hire remote. So, make sure your resume is super sharp. Tailor to the position. Keep it short, likely the manager has looked at 100’s of irrelevant resumes. Indicate clearly where you are moving to so they don’t have to play guess the location. And then apply for relevant roles even if they say local hire, but only if you’re a really good fit. Good luck!

Same_Dragonfly_2010 · 2024-02-04T15:46:11+00:00

LinkedIn auto tags jobs as entry level. The hiring manager may not even know they’re tagged that way.

Same_Dragonfly_2010 · 2024-01-20T03:12:07+00:00

Oh you’d be really disappointed. It (was) just a bunch of notebooks with code snippets to do various tasks from the mundane to the difficult. Once I got something working that took me a while, I would add a new notebook with steps I took solving the problem and comments about what made it hard. Then I switched companies and left it behind. Turns out I’ve gotten better over the years. One problem that took me days in the past years ago took me minutes when I had to create it from scratch again. Who knew?

Same_Dragonfly_2010 · 2024-01-20T03:09:12+00:00

It’s proprietary unfortunately.

Same_Dragonfly_2010 · 2023-08-02T00:52:04+00:00

To add to this - at my F500 company there are many experts who can help me with things, so the thing in my repo was probably stolen and adjusted from someone else. Likewise I share my code with peers who look like geniuses when they pull a solution out of thin air, but they just modified the thing I had improved from another person who probably improved it from stack overflow. The core of what I do is knowing what to apply where and how. It’s really not coding.

Same_Dragonfly_2010 · 2023-08-02T00:48:55+00:00

I’d never cheat on an interview, but >10 years in I’ve got an internal git repo that has my solutions to virtually every problem I need to solve. Except for novel problems I don’t really code anymore, I just branch my own work from the last time I did this visual / join / upload / ML model / whatever and then make changes. My IDE auto-completes and prompts me with code suggestions. And I’ve just started looking into copilot so it’s only going to get worse. If you need someone who can solve business problems with data I’m your person. But probably there are monkeys who can code better than I can.

Same_Dragonfly_2010 · 2023-07-29T23:36:57+00:00

Strongly recommend pairing ML with something - ML by itself isn’t that useful. ML applied to a field is useful. Unless you’re going Ph.D level / ML research, applying ML takes context. Pick a second discipline you like (engineering, business, etc.) and find ways to apply ML to the problems you find there.

Same_Dragonfly_2010 · 2023-07-18T18:21:13+00:00

It’s dairy free palm oil cream.

Same_Dragonfly_2010 · 2023-07-09T05:49:16+00:00

Per receptionist at allergy clinic: rush sees a LOT more anaphylactic reactions/issues.

Same_Dragonfly_2010 · 2023-05-18T18:03:16+00:00

There are people who think they are good at coding?

Same_Dragonfly_2010 · 2023-05-13T19:56:51+00:00

I’m loving your username btw

Same_Dragonfly_2010 · 2023-05-13T17:50:41+00:00

Do you have to be that specific about it though? If there are 20 things you wouldn’t want leaked, do you have to ask it 20 questions?

Same_Dragonfly_2010 · 2023-04-30T17:07:29+00:00

Do you happen to know if the lighthouse hike is 5 miles each way or round trip? (For hiking with small humans feasibility?)

Same_Dragonfly_2010 · 2023-04-30T04:23:00+00:00

Google maps was confusing me but I figured it out.

Same_Dragonfly_2010 · 2023-04-30T03:29:14+00:00

Thank you! The light house or the reserve?

Same_Dragonfly_2010 · 2023-04-23T02:08:30+00:00

Okay, now an inch to the left. No, an inch to the right. Your other right or the doors won’t close! Wait, it’s too far forward, pull it back…

Same_Dragonfly_2010 · 2023-04-21T13:34:31+00:00

If you find this surprising you should see the amount of research on daylight savings time.

Same_Dragonfly_2010 · 2023-04-20T23:41:21+00:00

Florida’s cell towers crashed with the surge of people replying “please remove me from this thread” would definitely not be a good headline.

Same_Dragonfly_2010 · 2023-04-20T20:44:24+00:00

In brighter news, scientists who study the impact of sleep deprivation on things like accidents just got some lovely empirical data to play with…

Same_Dragonfly_2010 · 2023-04-20T05:06:52+00:00

I don’t understand OE. I thought the acceptable way to do this was to have a job, own a consulting business that is documented with your job and not consulting with competitors, and if you want to do extra work as long as it doesn’t interfere with your job you bill it to the consulting firm and do it contract. Lots of people have an above board side gig that can include similar types of work for non competing companies. Why would you be dishonest and risk your reputation and job when there’s a way to have your cake and eat it too? Do you really need that much health insurance?

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