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Re:AI companies are shredding rare books on Monday July 27, 2026 @05:30PM (#49075779)
Do they? scope out their federal tax liability in 2025.

https://insidethemagic.net/2026/04/new-report-shows-that-the...

Re:Accessibility Issues Are Often Usability Issues on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @08:35PM (#47256353)
Is it just me? or does this image and all the links not have the most basic element of accessibility. Image and Link naming
3 months of non-use is the lowest term available before it will enact. That's too long for most situations except maybe probate court
Re:Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @12:27PM (#45825453)
most importantly he made this 100 yard dash immediately after winning the primary, not when met with congressional objections as president elect.
in other news, half of Ohio county not dead in auto crashes, also test positive of THC
might be life insurance as well
Re:Did "Big Oil" Sell Us on a Recycling Scam? on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @04:30PM (#44174381)
but... but... the all new ipad pro is 2 microns thinner!

You can fit 2 of them under the bathroom door at the same time stacked, (DONT ASK)

wait, coinbase has staff?
Re:10 Reasons to Fight Cashless Contagion on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @01:15PM (#38101432)
all good points.

But, we are forgetting the unbanked, underbanked, the day laborers and migrant farm workers paid cash, the LexisNexis tracking leading to unbanked.

Check cashing places are slimming, buts that's more due to entry level jobs offering prepaid debit cards as payment of salary. Yum Brands I believe does this. But of course, prepaid debit cards cant be used everywhere. (Hotels, deposits, some gas pumps, etc)

Re:Photos from the SpaceX Debris Field on Friday April 28, 2023 @03:40PM (#35746134)
everything doesn't have to make sense. Like 12 day old accounts that signed up to jock elon musk.
Re:Photos from the SpaceX Debris Field on Thursday April 27, 2023 @07:37PM (#35735868)
honestly, this is all to plunder the solar system further. Mining asteroids, etc. Of course the R&D is tax payer publicly funded and the future profits privatized. This is the way it has always been.
Re:Photos from the SpaceX Debris Field on Thursday April 27, 2023 @07:27PM (#35735794)
needed that 420 launch date bro. Seriously, it comes down to that.
Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook requests and receives a 40% pay cut on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @04:39PM (#34510838)
ah, isn't the bulk of compensation in stock anyways?
Re:Why do new cars look like “Wet Putty”? on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @06:27PM (#33888552)
I feel like the "militarization" look of consumer vehicles is being overlooked by many.

From the color, to matte, to huge grills or sleek looks.

But infrared pictures of your license plate ran through private corporations databases are not.

The future is grand

Re:5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @04:01PM (#19676781)
be sure to research and laugh at e-rating windows and the 5g range.
Re:Verizon says to shed 10,400 jobs by mid next year on Monday December 10, 2018 @01:24PM (#18649980)
An acquantance was offered this. he was offered 2 years salery upfront. after the end date, it reverts back to 1 year salary.
Re:IRS Notification on Monday March 05, 2018 @06:50PM (#16525677)
Correct but slightly off.

Although the IRS considers it property, it also allows capital gains and losses on such due to its widely fluctuating price. This means filing cost basis and net gross and loss when the crypto was spent, sold, created (mined), given to another person, etcetera.

here is document Notice 2014-21. In which conditions for crypto IRS conditions are explained in an easy to understand fashion. It's widely interesting to me. https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-14-21.pdf

I filed for gains for three years, losses for one year. But im out of it, everything is to hot for me.

more info on filing losses. It is the same as declaring losses on stocks pretty much. Cost basis when received, bought, created, or given to you on commerce and then consolidation when that crypto is sold, traded in commerce, etc.

http://fortune.com/2018/01/29/bitcoin-taxes-cryptocurrency-i...

https://medium.com/the-litecoin-school-of-crypto/how-to-tax-...

And also very legitimate purposes for calling girls over to drink whiskey with them? It was good whiskey though!
the police drinking whiskey in the squad cars watching porn are gonna have to figure out how to get around this!
Re:IRS Notification on Friday February 23, 2018 @07:25PM (#16450820)
I think you are right, by law any other security or commodity or group would normally disclose any known profits or interest made.

It's a capital asset and you must disclose any realized gains or losses on a cost basis. And long term and short term gains rates apply.

The only difference here is that unlike a stock, I can go sell bitcoin on the street and it would be hard to trace.

IRS will have to go after exchanges or somehow get savvy enough for people to post proof of ownership on addresses to show they didn't liquefy their holdings or deal with those who said it got stolen...etcetera

I mean, I understand people don't like paying taxes, but laws in 2014 made it pretty clear you need to claim for crypto in the US. Some will argue that the feds don't make your local coin shop file if you pick up silver all the time in small batches, but if you went and sold 50k in silver to the shop, you better be ready to claim it on your taxes. (unless it sank on your boat of course)

sheets use to be at cost with free shipping, but the dang card churners killed everything related to this site.

They would buy monsterboxes of coins of various monies on credit cards and turn them back into the bank and pay the bill for perks.

They eventually changed the Merchant category codes to cash advance, and then raised the prices. :-(

Re:Grammarly shared its tokens with all websites on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @04:31PM (#16328194)
not sure, but they just lost a customer.

My annual sub end March 1st which is about perfect timing since they were trying to double the annual rate without proper notice, in my opinion.

um, is this link correct?
Re:China Escalates Crackdown on Cryptocurrency Trading on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @08:49PM (#16279167)
After 4 years of this back and forth Chinese crypto news, I'm starting to think China is shorting and buying based on their announcements.
Aleister Crowley is dancing a jig
Re:Why Netflix Was Less Outspoken on Net Neutrality This Time on Thursday December 14, 2017 @04:21PM (#15927179)
or.......it could be they saw the writing on the wall and have already been paying for better bandwidth since 2014....

https://news.avclub.com/netflix-to-pay-comcast-for-bandwidth...

Re:Statement on Cryptocurrencies and Initial Coin Offerings on Monday December 11, 2017 @10:26PM (#15902785)
thanks for the more detailed and accurate info!
Re:Statement on Cryptocurrencies and Initial Coin Offerings on Monday December 11, 2017 @08:42PM (#15902415)
and probably requiring Accredited Investors only at some point, which probably 90 percent of crypto folks aren't, myself included.

Accredited investors must make 200 to 300k annual (dual income allowed) and/or have 5 mill in tied up assets and/or a net worth of over 1 mill.

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