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Readit Newsjunar commented on Google Safe Browsing incident statichost.eu/blog/google... · Posted by u/ericselin
I was curious how other browsers handle this. Apparently Safari and Firefox delegate to Google.
https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/safari/
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-does-phishing-and-m...
Microsoft seems to do its own thing for Edge, though.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-...
junar commented on The fight between doctors and insurance companies over 'downcoding' nbcnews.com/health/health... · Posted by u/ceejayoz
I lost some money, or at least had a hard time using it, because I was quoted a price for something, set the FSA for the next year based on that, and then the billing ended up where only some of the price was eligible for FSA.
Combined with the PITA level, there's no way I'm doing it again. I can't see how it's worth my time. One of these three options is very likely:
a) my income level is low, so every dollar counts, but my marginal tax rate is also low, so spending a ton of extra time on this is not worth saving ~ 15% on taxes for health care
b) my income level is high, so my marginal tax rate is high, but saving 40% of taxes for health care is not worth the time, because health care is not a meaningful amount of income
c) my health care spending is high relative to income, and I can deduct health care costs on my tax return. Then I can deduct a lot more than the FSA will reimburse for, and the records don't need to satisfy a third party, unless I'm audited by the IRS.
There are a few caveats with the medical expense deduction.
* It's only a deduction for income tax. FSAs let you save on FICA as well.
* It's an itemized deduction. You only benefit after your total itemized deductions exceed the standard deduction. Fewer people are itemizing nowadays because the federal standard deduction is large.
* There's a 7.5% of AGI floor: you can only count medical expenses that exceed this fraction of your income.
junar commented on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year skyfall.dev/posts/slack... · Posted by u/JustSkyfall
Are there details that would make it suddenly math for you? Getting a $50k bill out of the blue with one week to pay is an organizational failure / bully negotiating tactic.
What I'm trying to say is that a story with more details is more interesting to me than a story with fewer ones.
They spent multiple paragraphs complaining about Slack, and gave Mattermost a brief mention in a single sentence. I'd enjoy hearing praise about Mattermost if they're willing to provide it as well.
junar commented on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year skyfall.dev/posts/slack... · Posted by u/JustSkyfall
I really wish this post had more details.
How was the price computed? If Slack charging per user, how did this organization have so many users? Why is their new provider more favorable in pricing?
If Slack was previously offering a nonprofit discount, what happened to it? Did they decide that this organization was ineligible, or are they shutting it down in general?
junar commented on “No Tax on Tips” Includes Digital Creators, Too hollywoodreporter.com/bus... · Posted by u/aspenmayer
I think one aspect that is understated: "No Tax on Tips" is only a deduction for the purposes of federal income tax. W-2 workers still owe FICA and other payroll taxes on such income, and similarly self-employed workers would still owe self-employment tax.
To me, a more appropriate name is "Some taxes on tips".
junar commented on U.S. added 911k fewer jobs in year through March than reported earlier barrons.com/articles/jobs... · Posted by u/Anon84
> Walking through the ancient towns another reality hit me: China doesn't need us anymore. These towns were packed with only Chinese tourists, I counted maybe ten Westerners the whole week. No Starbucks, no McDonald's, no Western chains at all.
What? New Orlean's French Quarter doesn't have McDonalds or Starbucks, either. And how is it shocking that a historical district in a province not internationally well known would have mostly domestic tourists?
> China has built its own enormous internal market—its own tourism, its own brands, its own everything. They've turned inward not from isolation but from self-sufficiency.
Is this person completely ignorant about Chinese history? Precisely nothing has changed about China, the culture has always been like this, if only because they've always been so large. There's a reason they've always called themselves the Middle Kingdom (i.e. the center of the universe). Large countries are like this, generally. The USA is like this. Perhaps the author is American and that's why they're so shocked when they begin to see the world through others' eyes.
I agree, that part seems like a weak argument.
Perhaps a more apt comparison is that China-based Luckin Coffee has far more locations in the country compared to Starbucks.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/12/china-us-br...
junar commented on Stanford’s Department of Management Science and Engineering poetsandquants.com/2025/0... · Posted by u/curioustock
This particular clickbait title formula -- The X No One Has Heard About -- drives me nuts because it is so manifestly self-defeating. Obviously someone has heard about it. At the very least, the author of the piece has heard about it, and now all of their readers have heard about it too.
Pretty sure any Stanford student would have heard about it. For students graduating in 2023-2024 year, Management Science and Engineering was the 9th most popular bachelor's degree and 7th most popular master's degree.
On mobile I just switch to the hiragana keyboard, but that obviously isn't a sane option on desktop unless I'm clicking all the characters with a mouse?
It might sound complicated at first, but you can do it pretty fast once you get used to it.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/globalization/input/japane...