April Fools or real? Hard to tell this time of year...
Readit NewsScottWhigham commented on Duolingo launches a craft beer brewery 'based on science' brewolingo.duolingo.com/... · Posted by u/shacker
ScottWhigham commented on How to Work Out What to Charge Clients smashingmagazine.com/2017... · Posted by u/charlysl
I already pointed out that you pay the other half of SE tax, but that’s at most 7.65%, and since SS is capped, for many high-income self-employed workers it’ll be less.
And yes, you pay income tax, but no more than you pay as an employee, so it’s not relevant here.
In fact, you now almost certainly have a huge advantage if you’re self-employed: in addition to being able to write off more and save more for retirement pre-tax ($55k), you now get a 20% deduction of your net profit if your taxable income is below $157k single / $315k married, which most self-employed folks will be.
Healthcare is still by far the biggest cost difference most people will face but even if you add all these things up, they don’t represent anything even remotely close to 50%.
50% of your revenue goes towards taxes, office space, and buying products and services to support your business.
Healthcare is still by far the biggest cost difference most people will face but even if you add all these things up, they don’t represent anything even remotely close to 50%.
I beg to differ. For a family of four in Texas, we paid nearly $15,000 per year for insurance and that's deemed a "good policy" (not great) meaning that it has a good PPO, most docs are in network, and most medications are $10-$50. Insurance premiums don't scale with income and that's not accounted for if I read your arguments correctly. If we compare two families of four led by "a freelancer" (as we're talking about here) in Dallas and one freelancer makes $100k but another makes $200k, both have to pay the same $15,000 per year in health insurance premiums. For the $100k freelancer, his health insurance takes up 15% of his gross revenue - that's absolutely going to get him close to or above @ollerac's 50% figure. Maybe not so for the $200k freelancer who only has health insurance account for 7.5% of gross revenue.
ScottWhigham commented on Amazon changes its review policy madgeniusclub.com/2017/12... · Posted by u/fern12
Great idea. At least they get some cash with a real name attached to the review. I hope they don't allow those pre-paid Visa cards.
I don't know that the banks "tell" vendors "This purchase was made with a pre-paid credit/bank card" - I've not seen a flag that shows that before.
ScottWhigham commented on A Case of Stolen Source Code panic.com/blog/stolen-sou... · Posted by u/uptown
"There’s no indication any customer information was obtained by the attacker.
Furthermore, there’s no indication Panic Sync data was accessed."
Read: The attacker could have accessed all that data but didn't send me an e-mail telling me that he did.
It wasn't their production environment that was compromised; it was their source code repository.
ScottWhigham commented on Cold Does Not Increase Odds of Catching Cold (2016) nytimes.com/2016/07/19/up... · Posted by u/georgecmu
Do you know against what you had the allergic reaction? Because most season based allergies are during summer with grass pollen and the like.
I'm asking because my daughter also has allergy in winter, but they didn't discover against what (no dust-mites or anything like that)
I have the same "cold" allergy. I can walk into a room that is 10 degrees F cooler than, say, "normal indoor temperature" and if my quads/thighs are uncovered (shorts, for ex.), I will immediately start sneezing.
ScottWhigham commented on Musical Chord Progression Arpeggiator codepen.io/jakealbaugh/fu... · Posted by u/sergiotapia
This is so great - my 12yo son, a gaming fan, loved it. It inspired him to say, "That's so cool! Can we play Obduction now?" Kids today...
ScottWhigham commented on Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Express hub.docker.com/r/microsof... · Posted by u/itaysk
You have to have the Enterprise Edition to setup a cluster and then it starts to get expensive.
Not quite - you can cluster essentially every edition of SQL 2016 except Express Edition.
Yes, daily. I was and still am a big user of FeedDemon.
1. MoM Percent Change
It's better to use windowing functions, I believe it should be faster than self-join.
2. It seems that the first solution is wrong -- it returns whether "a"-s parent is Root/Inner/Leaf, not "a" itself.
I'd instead add a "has_children" column to the table, and then it would be clear.
Second solution works, but without optimization it's 1 query per row due to nested query -- slow, but not mentioned.