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dkarp commented on Show HN: I spent 4 years bootstrapping a financial planning tool to 30k MAUs   projectionlab.com/... · Posted by u/scubakid
scubakid · 9 months ago
Hey thanks! It's come a long way, but there is still a ton of additional functionality I'm excited to build.

Re: moving/retiring to a different country, would it potentially help to create a milestone to model this and add Tax Consequences to that milestone? That can be used to switch your tax config to a different international preset starting in a certain year, or apply new custom brackets/config, etc.

dkarp · 9 months ago
Yes, if it'd be possible to switch to another international preset on a milestone then that'd get us mostly the way there. I already have a milestone for the move where I sell current house, factor in moving expenses and buying car/house in retirement country.

I am not really sure the consequences of e.g. withdrawing from a US 401k while UK resident (as a US citizen). But treating the 401k as an analogous UK pension for withdrawal purposes would probably be correct enough for forecasting.

dkarp commented on Show HN: I spent 4 years bootstrapping a financial planning tool to 30k MAUs   projectionlab.com/... · Posted by u/scubakid
dkarp · 9 months ago
Hi Kyle,

I'm a big fan of projectionlabs and have recommended it to a few people. It's the best tool I've found in this niche. You've done a great job on the UI to keep it simple while being extremely powerful and I love moving milestones around and seeing how things react.

The Tax side is where things get interesting/complicated. In my case, I'll be retiring in a different country to where I'm working and so the tax for drawdowns doesn't really work

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dkarp commented on DoorDash apparently using client side source of truth    · Posted by u/dkarp
rappatic · 2 years ago
Did you check your credit card statement to confirm that you were actually being charged the incorrect price (incl. the service charges and delivery fees)? Is it possible that the client calculates the price shown in the UI itself while the backend calculates it separately to do the actual billing, and there was simply a discrepancy between the calculations until you re-installed the app? Of course if you did check your credit card statement then there is definitely something weird going on.
dkarp · 2 years ago
Good question, I just checked my credit card statement and they billed what the UI said they would...

I can also still see the orders in the my order history with the incorrect amount

dkarp commented on Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage client for Android   beeper.com/... · Posted by u/erohead
lobochrome · 2 years ago
In principle - it's cool - but I already dread the increased iMessage spam that this will surely bring.

WhatsApp is already almost useless with Notifications turned on for me. Maybe this is specific to Japanese phone numbers, but iMessage was always the safe spot where no fishing/scams happened.

My mother actually got scammed out of ~2000 USD on WhatsApp.

I think I hope Apple kills this fast.

dkarp · 2 years ago
I get spam messages on iMessage and never on WhatsApp, weird
dkarp commented on Transcript of taped conversations among German nuclear physicists (1945)   ghdi.ghi-dc.org/sub_docum... · Posted by u/davidbarker
dkarp · 2 years ago
It's not clear to me if the full transcripts are available here but I found the book of transcripts at my college library during my studies and found it fascinating.

Looks like you can now buy it on amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Operation-Epsilon-Farm-Hall-Transcrip...

dkarp commented on Judge rules Wyoming corner crossers did not trespass   hcn.org/articles/public-l... · Posted by u/bikenaga
lolinder · 2 years ago
Oh, yeah, I saw that one, but I wouldn't try to draw any conclusions from it. It's a link to another article[0] that provides the map with a proper caption:

> The area around Elk Mountain is surrounded by a checkerboard pattern of public (yellow) and private (white), as well as state (blue) lands.

So the yellow is actually the public land, and it's unclear how much of the white is actually the ranch in question and how much is just other private land.

[0] https://www.hcn.org/issues/54.3/north-public-lands-why-four-...

dkarp · 2 years ago
wow I didn't think they meant checkerboard pattern literally. I'd be interested to know why the land was partitioned that way across such a wide area
dkarp commented on Ask HN: Tell me about how you bombed a technical interview    · Posted by u/kevin_vanilla
renjimen · 2 years ago
I can think of a few.

Uni interview at Cambridge for physics, I was asked to: derive the equation of motion for some coins sliding into each other on a table, and identify the oscillatory nodes of a tea cup struck with a spoon. Needless to say I didn’t get in and have the utmost respect for those who did!

First technical job interview I was asked whether a heavy or light element is better for absorbing nuclear radiation. Now that one I am embarrassed I didn’t get having completed my physics degree. Lighter is better.

dkarp · 2 years ago
Was that for an undergraduate at Cambridge?
dkarp commented on Kerbal Space Program 2 Early Access Is Out Now   store.steampowered.com/ne... · Posted by u/skibz
MagicMoonlight · 3 years ago
You can see who is getting paid to shill it. Watching Scott Manley say “it’s running at a stable 20 fps, that’s enough” is hilarious
dkarp · 3 years ago
I also saw this and was disappointed about it. He said it multiple times, "20fps, it's not a problem" when it clearly is a problem

u/dkarp

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