PopAlongKid

Perhaps related to a recent change, where you now must be logged in to IMDB.com in order to view the User Reviews for movies.

(2017)

Dismissed by some as Monopoly or plastic money, the new £5 and £10 notes in particular have come in for heavy criticism.

Also featured in the 1985 novel Footfall by Niven and Pournelle.

Stay tuned for Part 2 where I explore the why for this practice.

Took me a minute or two scrolling through the article before I found what I was looking for, at the very end.

To me, this was not about the buying guide or directory, but the regular monthly printed issues received in the terrestrial mail.

Among other benefits, I attribute my fondness of Western classical music to eagerly reading this rag from cover to cover each month for a number of years during my teenage years (not the full run, of course).

It's like taking out a mortgage on a house, but letting the house owe the debt.

Isn't that a non-recourse loan, which in some states is the default for the initial loan to acquire the housel

living primarily off the unrealized gains on their home equity.

How is that paying for food? Insurance? Electricity? Gasoline? Health care? Gifts and charity? Or even taxes?

From the article: "As older people take up a greater share of society, the likelihood that society as a whole will adopt new technologies more slowly may increase"

It's odd that you confuse a massive capital investment with maintenance.

From the title I thought this was going to be about basis points, as used in finance. (A basis point is one hundredth of 1 percentage point).

Research often defines heavy drinking as more than 40 grams pure alcohol a day for women and 60 grams a day for men. Translated, that’s 1.4 ounces of liquor for women and 2.1 ounces for men.

To clarify this muddled statement (it's not clear that by "liquor" they mean "pure alcohol"), in the United States, a standard drink has 0.6 ounces (14 grams) of pure alcohol. That's a 12-oz 5% beer, or a 5-oz glass of wine.

This is something I tell people I am generally politically/socially align with (liberals/progressives) when they start talking about “handouts for red states.” California and other areas were not developed on their own, they required years of sustained federal investment and interest in the area.

If they were to ask where you think this "federal investment" funding came from, what would you reply?

DAFs (U.S. tax law) were never meant to benefit charities, they are a way to give donors a tax break today by putting money in the hands of for-profit entities like Fidelity in exchange for a vague promise to maybe someday donate to an actual charity.

https://blog.charitywatch.org/the-dark-side-of-donor-advised...

I wonder if Fidelity is putting a similar restriction on those age 70 and above who wish to make a Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD) from their Traditional IRA to Southern Poverty Law Center. This would be even worse, since it is not Fidelity's job to audit the charitable deductions made via QCDs.

It also helps to spread your lifetime Soc Sec benefits over more tax years, thereby lowering the total tax you pay (because pushing higher payouts into fewer tax years by delayed filing will typically increase your marginal tax bracket).

the monthly payment is about 1/4 of what I was paying for health insurance before I was eligible.

Maybe not, if you take into account the >$500/month subsidy of your Medicare Part A benefits (assuming you had the minimum number of calendar quarters paid in). And your Part B payment (the one usually deducted from your Soc Sec payment) is also partly subsidized unless your income is high enough to trigger IRMAA adjustment.

Unlike Pournelle, Niven is still alive (87 year old), but I don't think he is writing new science fiction these days (although he has collaborated on some stories this century and has made guest appearances at some conferences in the last few years).

https://larryniven.net/

I too prefer POP. I don't read email on my phone, I alternate between a desktop and notebook computer for that (and most everything else), and simply copy my Thunderbird profile back and forth (using robocopy) when I switch. I have four primary mail identities, and use the Thunderbird unified folders to easily manage it all.

Time turns out to be a great universal organizer, just like how a photo collection is wonderfully organized by date more than by any other single dimension.

I have found this same thing to be true. I even tell my family that if for some reason they need to access all our critical info on my computer, the most recent files in each directory are almost always the most interesting ones.

launched in the 99% of the US

excluding California, New York City, Seattle and Colorado.

I question your basic math skills if you conclude that those jurisdictions amount to only 1% of the U.S.

I don't understand how LLMs can ask questions at a press conference.

I was waiting to read about what these "wildly incorrect intuitions" were, but it's never explained. The maps correctly matched my own intuitions.

Most of the time 1245 property is not real property, it is personal property, which is why I didn't mention it in this context.

Death is a popular escape from deferred taxes. When you die, your obligations to the government vanish. Your heirs inherit assets/property at market value. Their assets depreciate from new cost bases.

The article only addresses a subset of economic activity. The larger portion of the adult population are wage earners or retirees, not business owners. For them, large investments in Traditional IRAs or 401k plans are most definitely not able to escape upon death the income taxes that were deferred.

People sometimes get into trouble with this if they rapidly depreciate real estate and then sell it. Even if you sell for less than your purchase price it is possible to owe taxes.

But in the U.S. you can't rapidly depreciate real estate, it is generally straight-line over 27.5 or 39 years (residential vs. non-residential). The gain on real estate due to depreciation is technically referred to as Section 1250 gain, and if there is no gain (which is calculated against your adjusted basis, not purchase price), then it follows that there is no Sec. 1250 gain (often mistakenly called "depreciation recapture").

The story I read recently involved Montana (MT), not Minnesota (MN).

an angry letter when the IRS

Do you have an example? I've seen dozens of IRS letters for dozens of different taxpayers and none of them had any "angry" language in them.

The myth that the IRS is trying to scare or traumatize you is just a dark pattern by certain 3rd party "tax resolution" services. The IRS is quite tolerant of the person who breaks the law by not filing and paying on time and provides many opportunities to come into compliance, starting with an automatic first-time abatement of the most common penalties.

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/understanding-your-irs-notic...

The belief by a juror that law enforcement personnel,

excluding these types of belief

You have not stated what belief you are talking about.

Can I use this same argument to avoid paying my taxes because I spent all my income and didn’t set anything aside?

Yes, you can. It's called Offer in Compromise (OIC).

1099-Rs from multiple inherited IRAs

There is nothing complicated about these, a 1099-R is one of the more straightforward info forms and any tax software can handle the input numbers and distribution code. Whether the IRA is inherited or not does not add complexity to the 1099-R, so not sure why this attribute gets multiple mentions.

The only other thing that might be considered complicated is the Form 1116 foreign tax credit. MFJ filers don't need it if total is $600 or less, so this might have added needless complexity.

Interesting that there is no Schedule A here, because that is one form (of many) that gives the lie to those who claim "oh the government already knows everything about your tax filing and could generate your return for you".

In short, this exercise didn't really involve any "intelligence" beyond what every tax software already does.

E-filing isn’t available for trust returns

False.

Similar here. I get emails almost every day that someone I know has posted something new, but if I click on the "view post" button in the email, it always opens a tab saying "we can't show you this content right now".