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mbetter··on Do you have to file an FBAR for a bitcoin account?
No, it really doesn't.
mbetter··on Do you have to file an FBAR for a bitcoin account?
If it's held in a foreign account, for sure.
mbetter··on Booth Babes, Street Clothes, and GDC: Thanks But You sort of Made It Worse
First ten participants get a free "My feelings for dongles are modern and nuanced" t-shirt.
mbetter··on What's Actually Wrong with Yahoo's Purchase of Summly
Ten points for missing the point.

You get more points than the informative posts because you are the glue - the viscous, translucent glue that makes the Hacker News comment pages always stick together into a big, messy ball of self-satisfied cluelessness.

mbetter··on MiiPC: $99 Family-Friendly Android PC
A real operating system would be nice, too.
mbetter··on Upside risk
Lose, lose, lose, lose.
mbetter··on A site dedicated to showing how awesome PyCon was
I think you're supposed to use asterisks instead of saying the D-word now.
mbetter··on US Senate approves proposed Internet Sales Tax
I've got a serious Poe's law problem with this post.
mbetter··on Unfit for work
Based on the glee that a significant proportion of Americans seem to derive from cutting social safety nets, that appears to be exactly the path we seem to be heading down.
mbetter··on Unfit for work
I wonder if your lack of ability to comprehend what you are reading would qualify as a disability.
mbetter··on Unfit for work
Absolutely fantastic content and presentation.
mbetter··on Fork My Dongle
I don't get it, are you mad that you actually paid for AutoCAD?
mbetter··on Is it Time for You to Earn or to Learn?
I created my company to buy office supplies.
mbetter··on Today's Email Incident
I'm not sure why you found it necessary to post that comment, or why I found it necessary to post this one.
mbetter··on Federal Judge Finds National Security Letters Unconstitutional, Bans Them
Translation: I'm rich and I don't want to pay taxes. Go suck an egg.
mbetter··on How can I tell if a plant given to me is patented?
If their crops are producing unlicensed copies of themselves, shouldn't Monsanto be suing the crops?
mbetter··on We'll Be Circling Back
Great comment.
mbetter··on SimCity’s Sims Don’t Seem That Smart After All
You ever misplace something and have to retrace your steps to find it? Dwarves are pretty dumb so they have to do that all the time.
mbetter··on The hypocrisy in Silicon Valley's big talk on innovation
"blue-sky R&D funding" is the definition of "massive waste" to many people. To you, it's probably feeding poor children or something else.
mbetter··on Hacker News Parody Thread
Glad you cleared that up, I was unsure of how to react to saraid216's post.
mbetter··on Dalvik patch for Facebook for Android
Problem: You can't develop your film outside at night because the moon is too bright.

Solution: Destroy the moon.

mbetter··on A closer look at the performance of Google Chrome
I'm talking about a cache clear blowing out autocomplete history.
mbetter··on A closer look at the performance of Google Chrome
Except when you are typing a URL.
mbetter··on TOML, Tom's Own Markup Language
I don't know how much it is going to help as you're going to have to wrap the values anyway to get a Map with heterogeneous values.
mbetter··on The Net Is a Waste of Time (1996)
I'm not sure what you're going on about.
mbetter··on Sorry, Geeks, Microsoft Excel is Everywhere
"These error rates, although troubling, are in line with those in programming and other human cognitive domains."

I take it you are against software in general, then.

mbetter··on Sony Pirates KDE Artwork
Could not've.
mbetter··on Diablo in JavaScript
Doesn't work.
mbetter··on I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora
"Run out of capital and cease to exist" works for me.
mbetter··on Sorry, Geeks, Microsoft Excel is Everywhere
Your comment is just darling. "Given that perhaps 90% of Excel spreadsheets have errors ..." -- a completely made up statistic leads to -- "I fail to see that Excel is a good or useful tool." -- a conclusion that doesn't even follow from your made up evidence, even if it were true.

Nicholas Taleb would be rolling over in his grave, if he was dead.

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