Consider hiring an executive coach. Sometimes things we don't enjoy are opportunities for growth. I worked with one and it unlocked a lot of stuff for me.
Personally I'd love to see Firefox use the same Keychain for passwords (same with Chrome). It would make it FAR easier to switch browsers. I wouldn't even mind shared cookies and bookmarks for that matter. Let the best engine win, but keep it frictionless to move in-between.
I wish there was (and I hope someone comes along and tells us!) During my switch to FF, I kept the Safari prefs dialog open and then copy and pasted the passwords when requested by a site in FireFox. It was a total drag, but in a few days I was all set in cross-device password management with Firefox.
You can just use Firefox Sync and Lockwise on mobile to manage passwords etc instead of using Keychain I suspect. I'm not sure of the import functionality of that ecosystem but it wouldn't surprise me if someone figured it out already and posted the code.
23.8%, because he would surely have to pay NIIT as well, right?
But also, that's just federal taxes. California adds 13.3% on top of that (for any income over $1 million, which is most of the income here).
But also, this is a stock grant, which generally get taxed as ordinary income, so I would expect 37% federal, 2.35% medicare, 13.3% California tax, adding up to 52.65% in taxes.
I’d bet money that Apple’s or Cook’s could afford an accountant that is smart enough to structure the deal so that it would be all long term capital gains instead of all ordinary income. Just say that he received the shares a year ago or when he started but those shares weren’t vested until now. Then it would be 23.8% federal instead of 37% federal… Although our government is broke and needs that extra tax revenue.
The legal structures for RSUs are pretty clear, and they are counted as ordinary income when they vest.
The particular shares involved _could_ have used a different legal structure, but that's not my understanding based on the articles I've seen about this.
But even in your hypothetical it would not all be capital gains. It would be ordinary income for the value of the shares at the point of the grant, and capital gains for the appreciation since then.
You're thinking social security. Medicare is very much not capped, and in fact you only hit the 2.35% rate after 200k individual or 250k family income; it's 1.45% before that (for the employee side).
The FCC care about emissions criteria in various frequency bands. They are worried about undue interference with other devices caused by incorrect use of spectrum or inadequate and poorly made transmission equipment, not protocol level reverse engineering concerns.
If Flipper can supply a device to an FCC approved testing lab which passes the emission criteria in the emitted bands, I don't see why they couldn't get approvals in those bands. For example, for NFC, Flipper is no different from a normal Android phone with respect to compliance.
They'll have to get the 433Mhz "Tamagochi" feature compliance approved, and that gets them the CC1101 chip signed off to live in the device. Notice how the homepage cleverly does not mention any transmitting features besides NFC/LF RFID and the Tamagochi one...
Probably they will have to include a "locked" firmware with any arbitrary SDR transmission features above and beyond approved frequencies/bands disabled, and the user will be responsible for compliance past that point.
The other option is pre-approved modules. IIRC if you're using drop in daughter boards you can generally skip additional FCC approval because the thing actually transmitting is pre-approved.
Having worked several years for the largest real estate franchiser in the U.S., I can tell you that getting into real estate - at least as a realtor - for passive income is no longer an easy thing to get into. Maybe years or even decades age, it was considered the kind of job that people can obtain some easy passive income, but nowadays - at least to make any worthwhile money - it takes quite a bit of time and commitment. Many home buyers - especially younger buyers - often question the value of real estate agents. Younger buyers buy stuff online all the time - they figure - so why not simply use online services like zillow, etc. - they think to themselves. So if you do get into real estate you have to constantly fight to show your value. Furthermore, nowadays, being in real estate means you have to build and manage yourself as your own business AND brand...Even with an affiliation to an established real estate brand/franchise and any tools and support they might provide, it is still a very time-consuming (and often a capital-intensive) operation. You have to build up your network of clients and potential referrals...You have to build your brand within the geography that you will sell within...Current and potential clients need to know that "when they think real estate, homes, rentals, etc.", that they think of you. Then, you have to compete against other real estate agents who got into the job years ago when they lost their earlier careers to a recession (and are not leaving this job)...And, then you have to fight against any start-ups trying to dis-intermediate the whole concept of needing human real estate agents...And then, you have to consider any dangers with the large real estate companies trying to acquire the disruptive start ups as they try to bring costs down by lessening the need to pay humans for "doing" real estate, etc., etc., etc.
I don't mean to make real estate sound like an awful/dead-end career...I simply want to clarify that it is not the easy career that people think that it is, or that it perhaps used to be so many years/decades ago. And, while it may start as a passive income job for many at first, in the long-term it requires the attention of a full-time career.
While I generally agree that members of Congress listen more to lobbyists than to constituents, the idea that money flows this transactionally is just absurd.
You yourself have probably given to a member of Congress because they did something rather than so that they will do something. I gave to a member of Congress because they spoke out for Gun control, not because I called them and told Them that if they speak out I will write them a check.
That’s what makes this kind of uncontextualized data pretty disheartening. You’re showing some correlations, conflating it with causation, and disaffecting the electorate (which, in turn makes the lobbyists more powerful)
