Aidan

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[Aidan @aidanh010]

@giver_yuta Doesn't Japan have a tax treaty with China? It should be reduced to 10%, and you should be able to take a foreign tax credit for that against your Japan income tax, right? But maybe that's only if you are still living in Japan and tax resident there.

[Aidan @aidanh010]

@GurpreetSSahota Maybe they had to cut the budget as a result of increased wheelchair usage, which the airlines ultimately pay for. 😅

[Mason Kamb @MasonKamb]

"A PhD student costs the school ~500k" principally because of a set of accounting tricks that universities use to move earmarked research grant money into a general fund, with grad students as a conduit.

PIs experience these as real costs but it is substantially an external imposition by the university rather than a real resource issue.

[Aidan @aidanh010]

@YohnnathonSmith @EndVisaScams Took two masters in a row, now in a PhD and mentions can do a second PhD after that. The second two degrees are "day 1 CPT" which means you work 40 hours a week and squeeze in some minimal online assignments. That is not entry for the primary purpose of study, nor a real PhD.

[Román @Zmei_Hhsss]

rant: America has the most insufferable race and ethnic relations of any country I've lived or been to. In Japan you'll be barred from certain establishments as a foreigner and angry drunk teens will call your "fakinu Gaijin." In Russia they will call you chololadka/Ethiopian/negr if black, pindos if American. In Brazil, you'll be referred as a gringo-colonialist. In Israel, girls will ask if "you Jew?" and run a background check if you're not — but in each of these places, people's initial cold feelings or racially sensitive jokes will be replaced by a genuine warmth once they like you as a person (the race jokes never fully go away though).
Only in America do people who've been friends for years walk on eggshells when mentioning each other's race, and is there a naughty word you can't say because it has evil mystical power. Now you have identities centered on nervous quirk social media trends: "I'm a Kimchi-Pizza Wasian, tehehe." No lady, you aren't a set of condiments and snacks, you're part Korean and part Italian.
Worst of all, this hypersensitivity rests strongest in people furthest removed from the race/ethnicity they call their own. You can tell a FOB Ghanaian (who'll call you Obroni) he looks like one of those Doctors turned Generals who runs a small unrecognized republic in the Congo and he'll laugh but some guy born in Oakland will call you insensitive. It applies to every race and ethnicity.
I do wonder if the chief cause of this (aside from low confidence in your own roots) is the fact so much of this race discourse is heavily monetized — a few people make cash by tearing apart any unity the country has left, making every conversation incredibly annoying.
— end rant —

[Aidan @aidanh010]

@NYCEMSwatch This does highlight a real mistake people make. They rush to pay their taxes or medical bills on a card or personal loan, not understanding that the original creditor may have been less aggressive and almost certainly had a lower interest rate.

[Aidan @aidanh010]

@LoxMulder @9to5mac @iryantldr Even with ADP, they get access to additional metadata for .app and .pkg files IIRC.

[Aidan @aidanh010]

@prettycritical @hatemyson @kchoudhu Passports and US visas treat a single name as a last name, there's no option to put a first name and no last. That isn't binding on DMVs etc, but most just go along with it. Working in IT that causes all sorts of problems because most stuff just treats it as if that is a name.

[Aidan @aidanh010]

@CapitalMktGuy @GayBearRes Right (but green card not citizen). Since she entered legally with the F1 visa, she can file I-130/I-485 together and stop following the F1 rules entirely. However, lawyers sometimes recommend following the F1 rules anyway just as a backup in case it gets denied for some reason.

[Aidan @aidanh010]

@CR1337 The company has stated here on X that this is not an incident, blaming users for sharing the links. However, short of sharing them on a user's own website, that doesn't explain how they wound up on Google.

[Aidan @aidanh010]

@psifertex @zaphraud @GoogleSupport Tbf the entire purpose of writing "don't share this code with anyone," to which many companies add "even our staff," is specifically to address rogue support agents because it's common. So to me Occam's razor would be assuming it is doing exactly that.

[Aidan @aidanh010]

@MREXKO @dailytarheel Huh? I think you have this story backwards. The fired professor is the one that was pro-DEI, according to his lawsuit.

[Aidan @aidanh010]

@ChocolateyCrepe Same is used for Duke and NC public universities. We’ve had some really nice folks that spent their 15+ year careers solely dealing with PeopleSoft. In my one experience the ORCL support/QA was not very good. We were researching and then teaching them what their code was doing.

[Aidan @aidanh010]

@Climatologist49 Raleigh and Atlanta are not in the Midwest 🤣

[Aidan @aidanh010]

@kevinmnye1 The use of the word “dispense” is interesting. They are putting themselves in a risky position by taking the role of dispensing medicines without licensed nursing or pharmacy staff. They don’t have access to a the prescription so they have no way of knowing the schedule/dose.

[Aidan @aidanh010]

@Heminator Many times, Congress itself specifically endorsed and required agencies to collect user fees to pay for regulatory agencies costs in multiple statutes (PDUFA/FDA, USGC, CBP, FCC, etc). In the absence of statutory direction on funding the program, imposing a fee seems reasonable.

[Aidan @aidanh010]

@dtmorgan18 With cash to spare, you can pay your $7k in health bills out of pocket and leave your $7k/year in the HSA forever. There, you can put it into the stock market, and avoid dividend and capital gains taxes. You can use the decade-old bills to avoid taxes when you do withdraw.

[Aidan @aidanh010]

@dtmorgan18 With an HDHP, you put money into an HSA, and then you take it out as you pay your bills. You can even put it in and take it out the same day. The money isn’t subject to income tax. Sounds fair enough, right?

But that’s actually doing it wrong, if you’re wealthy.

[Aidan @aidanh010]

@ThatGirlMissy_j @AdamSchEsquire OP is talking about the Clerk of Court’s Office (in some states an elected position like the sheriff), not judicial clerkships, which is different.