I have a journal / everyday book where I record probably way too much data: what I eat, where I go, when I sleep, what aches and pains or health issues I experience, where I drive, what I spend and how, what dreams I have, odd number sequences I notice, when where and how intensely I exercise, and really, another couple dozen intensely personal things that I started tracking because I wondered about the trends.
While I started tracking everything because I was hit with a bad migraine that came out of nowhere and I couldn't trace back to my normal triggers, I expanded what I track because I find the data incredibly fascinating and very handy to have. When I go to the doctor and he asks, "When did this start?" I can look it up. When the scale goes up, I know how many calories I've eaten, how much exercise I've had, how much sleep I've managed, and where most of my stressors are. A low protein diet can trigger depression, so I look for enough protein in my nominally vegetarian diet to make sure I'm getting enough, and adjust as needed.
I have a low-tech approach, but think about moving to a digital version so that I can integrate other data (fitbit data and sleep quality, in particular). The key to consistency is motivation. Once you've been doing it for a while, wow, not doing it is uncomfortable. Find something that works for you (phone app, moleskine, etc.), even if it's just an index card that you jot notes down to scan and OCR them later. Whatever you use, you have to have it with you at all times to be effective (which is why a phone app might work best for most people).
While I find this guy's attitude a little sad, in reality, he's just part of the spectrum/bell curve of programmers. Some people love programming, enjoy doing it, and think how amazing and fun it is to create something AND get paid for it, too? Wow! Some people program as a job, and that's it. Despite what the author suggests, some accountants love numbers enough to play with the statistics after work hours, and good for them.
Programming can change the world, and starting a project over a weekend can be the first step. Can't really change the world, even a little bit, if you don't try.
So, yeah, this guy shouldn't go to SHDH. Doesn't mean we don't invite him. So, he doesn't get it. Maybe the girl he brings with him will.
1. That's pretty much already the case (lobbyists are paid by someone, and that someone isn't the poor).
2. You make that sound like a bad thing, when it's not.
Given the categories listed on the receipt, which one of those would you really be upset if a rich person decided to put 51% of his taxes to? Medicaid? Pell Grants? How about the National Parks?
"If the wars are important to you, use your money to pay for it, stop using mine," is pretty much my philosophy. Having no control over where my taxes go makes me significantly less pleased with paying them.
And this is what I was about to post, but instead of 20-30%, make it 51%. Allow taxpayers to decide where (the broad categories the receipt listed are a perfect starting point) their tax dollars are going. The remaining 49% can be discretionary, let the government decide where that goes: fill in the gaps for items needed, but that no one wants to pay for.
Such a policy would give people a sense of power over the money they're paying. I, for one, would begrudge less the paying of taxes if the monies went to programs important to me.
If you become a supporter and give a donation for the service, you can keep your nick even if you don't log in. So, instead of complaining about a free service, he could have made a tax-deductible donation and not had any of these problems. Alas, lots of "could haves" in this whole episode.
Although iron deficiency may be a concern, a word of caution about taking too much (such as iron supplements if you (the general "you") are not a menstruating female): you can ingest too much iron. If you are low in iron, eat iron-rich foods (eggs, spinach, beans/lentils, fortified cereals), rather than take supplements.
Easy non-scientific way to check if you're low: pull down your lower eyelid and check the color of your skin of the uncovered lid. A pale red suggests you should be checked for anemia.
First suggestion, network to find a lawyer you like and trust. They'll help you far more than any HN advice will.
Going against that suggestion, my next suggestion is don't register in California, as you'll pay the $900 LLC tax each year just to exist. The $900 varies based on how much the corporation earns each year, but that's the minimum.
That said, you don't have to live in the state where you incorporate, but it does make things easier, as you have to have some place with a physical, non-P.O.Box-like address to send corporate documentation to. If you are not located in the state of incorporation, you'll need to have a registered agent. This agent will receive your corporation documents and forward to them for you. Most agents charge about $200 for the service -/+.
Since you move frequently, having a registered agent will probably work just fine for you, as your corporate mailing address wouldn't change unless you change agents.
You file taxes in the corporation's state, then apply the profits to your own taxes, as a pass-through. Note that, if you set up the corporation with pass-through taxes, you'll pay taxes on the corporation's profits, even if you don't pay yourself the money (as in, if you end up with $20k in a savings account at the end of the year, you'll pay taxes on that $20k, even if you aren't paid the $20k).
Hire an accountant, too. And a bookkeeper who can show you the books at any point (say, using a site like http://netbooks.com/ ).
I've used http://mycorporation.com/ a couples times in the past for incorporations, one S corp, one LLC. They've since been bought out by intuit.com, so I don't know how they are now, but I was good with the service I received.
Then, use a domain wild card to point everything to your main www.example.com host (create an A record (HOST) to point * to your IP address).
Now, all example.com subdomains (hosts) will go to the A record IP address, which will be redirected to the program/pages/urls you expect.
Next, have the customer modify their DNS to point to your IP address. If you want, you can do the request yourself to their current ISP, to update the domain's DNS, if they're keeping their email with the ISP. If they don't, and you're controlling their email, too, go with Google's hosted email.
Now, this unknown domain is coming to your IP address. If you're using apache, set up the domain to go to the redirected domain. Easy way to do that is to set up a server alias, or have a virtual host that answers for everything:
While I started tracking everything because I was hit with a bad migraine that came out of nowhere and I couldn't trace back to my normal triggers, I expanded what I track because I find the data incredibly fascinating and very handy to have. When I go to the doctor and he asks, "When did this start?" I can look it up. When the scale goes up, I know how many calories I've eaten, how much exercise I've had, how much sleep I've managed, and where most of my stressors are. A low protein diet can trigger depression, so I look for enough protein in my nominally vegetarian diet to make sure I'm getting enough, and adjust as needed.
I have a low-tech approach, but think about moving to a digital version so that I can integrate other data (fitbit data and sleep quality, in particular). The key to consistency is motivation. Once you've been doing it for a while, wow, not doing it is uncomfortable. Find something that works for you (phone app, moleskine, etc.), even if it's just an index card that you jot notes down to scan and OCR them later. Whatever you use, you have to have it with you at all times to be effective (which is why a phone app might work best for most people).