This is like building a custom swagger implementation

"The vaccines provide nearly perfect protection against serious outcomes."

I am vaccinated, however, my young child is not. If I get a breakthrough case, I don't want to spread it to my kid. I know this is anecdotal, but... my wife's office just closed because of a breakthrough case, and another friend was recently exposed to someone with a breakthrough case.

Children are at exceptionally low risk from Covid. The data is simply overwhelming.

https://hackernews.hn/item?id=28041775

Can you expand on that? How do you get out of paying taxes?

Good tax planning make best use of 401k and other tax advantaged plans there are these Roth planes for example.

A FANG developer in London has even more opportunities

Max out your pension (Tax relief at 40%) plus presumably an employer match around 5-8%

Put £20k a year into a Stocks and Shares ISA - which puts that beyond tax for income and CGT (apart from stamp duty on share purchases)

Put £30k into premium bonds and than start thinking about VCT's and EIS

This is ignoring any shares scheme you are in

I think the 40% number is the point of contention. The highest tax bracket for 2019 is 37%, and that's a marginal rate, so no one is going to be paying 37% of ALL of their income. More likely it'll be in the range of 20-25% of all income.

You forgot about state tax in addition to federal taxes.

right, but federal, state, and FICA is still less than 40%

Not really. That's about what I paid last year.

It's about 38% last year on that gross, as I noted elsewhere (including FICA and state). But assuming no 401(k) or match isn't realistic either so it's actually lower.

I'm not really sure why you keep pushing back on all of this. It's just how the math works.

The short version is, if you make $300k year if you are careful with the money you can have 1 million in savings in (conservatively) 6-8 years just by doing the obvious things, assuming reasonably similar market conditions.

I paid 20% federal (effective) and something like 6% state (effective).

On average, the top quintile of earners pay 22.9% effective federal rate [1]. Take a look at your effective rates for 2019, I bet you pay less as a percent than you think.

[1] https://www.pgpf.org/sites/default/files/All-income-groups-p...

I know it would be nice to have it built in to GitHub, but you can try this as well: http://first-commit.com/ (and comments: https://hackernews.hn/item?id=10610065)

I named my hobby HTTP2 server after that string in the connection header:

https://github.com/gregory144/prism-web-server

(obviously haven't had much time to work on it lately).

That is one of the main advantages of HTTP2 - it's called server push. When the server receives a request, it can send the headers for the requested resource plus the headers for as many related resources as it wants. The client can choose to either disable this, or reject pushed streams when it receives their headers.

I agree with you that this would be a great experiment. However, that won't stop any potential bias once they get the job.

simple. require everyone to work in cubicles that are closed off where your coworkers cant see you. all voice chats must be done without video and with voice modulation technology so that gender can not play a role. Also, the persons name must always be changed to J Smith to not hint at gender or race.

Or change the name 'J. Doe' so you can't even tell if they are alive or not.

Agreed, of course. But I still think it's a good idea to eliminate one opportunity for bias if we can.

The sample was not "every federal investigation of the past 12 years".

How many thousands of investigations is he personally involved in per year? I'd guess something on the order of 0.05.

My point was that he's making it seem like this happens a lot without actually quantifying it. It seems misleading to me.

How is it misleading? He thinks it's happening a lot, and he says so. Not everything needs to be demonstrated to the standards of a mathematical proof.

They play that card as a matter of course, because once they've got you for felony false statement, that's leverage to get you to play ball on the real reason they were talking to you in the first place.

"That's a nice, felony conviction-free life you've got there. It would be a shame if something were to happen to it..."

More likely they do something similar relatively often and only spring the trap if they feel it necessary.

Yeah I didn't mean they don't trap you often, rather they don't have to use it that often--certainly not prosecute it often--and therefore the guy doesn't see it that often.

I should have made my opinion more clear, judging by the downvotes.

I think you're being a little harsh. S/he was listing things that are not essential to a college education. The second point is referring to a different type of college education - one that obviously needs the internet since it would exist on the internet.

Also, Wifi != internet access. You can get to the internet without Wifi.

How is using something from a TV show taking your self too seriously?