A Quick Puzzle to Test Your Problem Solving
A short game sheds light on government policy, corporate America, and why no one likes to be wrong.
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Posted on 2015-07-03T19:43:02+0000
Money remitted abroad for education taxed
ISLAMABAD: The government has imposed 5 percent advance tax on amounts remitted abroad for education purposes through Finance Bill 2015-16. The government was already char ...
Hasnain says:
This doesn't seem right. First taxing businesses 8% on gross revenue, a 14% tax on internet service, and now this.
Can't we just focus on actually, you know, collecting tax from the large majority that doesn't pay anything?
Posted on 2015-07-03T17:19:38+0000
72 hours to launch Celebrate Pride
The project was originally for internal use, started by two interns at a hackathon. A few days before the Supreme Court ruling, they decided to try to take it global.
Hasnain says:
Moving fast and not breaking things.
I'm honestly impressed at how fast this went out.
Posted on 2015-07-02T22:12:06+0000
A Dutch city is giving money away to test the “basic income” theory
"We think that more people will be a little bit happier and find a job anyway."
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Posted on 2015-07-02T11:38:46+0000
Made to Order - Futility Closet
Divide the number 999,999,999,999,999,999,999,998,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999 into 1 and express the result as a decimal expansion, and you’ll find the Fibonacci sequence presented in tidy 24-digit strings: (Thanks, David.)
U.S. Chamber Works Globally to Fight Antismoking Measures
The American trade group and its foreign affiliates pit countries against one another and lobby on behalf of the tobacco industry around the world.
MIT's Bitcoin-Inspired 'Enigma' Lets Computers Mine Encrypted Data | WIRED
MIT says it's found a new, more efficient way to blend data mining with the privacy protections of encryption.
gen/pages/blog/compiler-errors-for-humans
elm-lang.org
Hasnain says:
If only all compilers had error messages this helpful...
Posted on 2015-07-01T11:49:10+0000
The Software Engineer’s Guide to Negotiating a Raise
Mike Adams Negotiation Imagine that you’re poking around in your company’s payroll website when you stumble upon a mutable and persistent input field labeled “Market Rate Salary”. You naturally give yourself a 10x adjustment (b/c you’re that type of engineer of course) and go about the rest of your…
Hasnain says:
This is an awesome read. Just misses "get a competing job offer"
Posted on 2015-07-01T11:47:35+0000
Back to SF after the U.S. Digital Service - Insouciant
After 6 months working for the U.S. Digital Service, I returned back to San Francisco mid-April to figure out what was next for me back here. I got …
Hasnain says:
"Within a few seconds, I’d fall back into my old groove, geeking out with other engineers about tech stuff. It was so fun and intellectually satisfying to nerd out with them about all the techie subjects I loved. But after a period of time, sometimes sooner, sometimes later, this background process would kick off in the back of my head and ask me “But does this matter?”"
Posted on 2015-07-01T11:46:35+0000