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  • I was always under the impression that the fraudulent intent (outside of extremly blatant cases) would be very difficult to prove in court or otherwise. If a car is used to meet clients or haul some company-related cargo, it is used for business. If a company is a real estate developer, it is expected for them to own and lease residential properties. If the owners’ family members work for the company, they must collect salary. And so on.


  • A popular scheme I have seen is:

    Owner registered and de-facto runs an incorporated Company. Company employs Owner and pays them a small salary (down to state minimum wage even), so Owner minimizes the income tax they pay.

    The car Owner drives is owned by the Company for “business purposes”, which allows the car to be operated within 50 miles of the Company (and farther with supplemental insurance). Company counts the car purchase/lease, maintenance, gas as expenses, bringing down the bottom line.

    Flights, travel, meals could be paid by the Company, as long as it’s tangentially “business related”.

    The house Owner lives in (or several houses for the family) is owned by the Company and is rented to Owner for very cheap, so Company pays the taxes, maintenance, etc, breaking even, or taking a loss on this house. Again, this brings down the company’s bottom line.

    Somehow, purchases for a Company can be exempt from sales taxes, too.

    In the end, on paper, the Company is barely making any profit, but the Owner might be enjoying a nice car, nice house, and vacations. All for “business purposes” of course. While you pay taxes on your income and purchases like an idiot




  • Just yesterday, saw a fairly long article on how to properly train an LLM to send short email replies, and the time the guy wasted on prompts and writing the article would have been enough for a hundred responses.

    I still read HN, but I swear, they are in their own world at times.







  • I knew a guy in his 30s that has similar attitudes: thinks that his ways and opinions are the only valid ones, thinks he is smarter than most people, has instant assumptions about people based on appearance, and does not take criticism well.

    From talking to him, I would say that to avoid becoming someone like him:

    • Do not define yourself in terms of work or money. Yes, most people need a job to pay bills to live. But find a hobby, passion, or charity that you like. Trying to make / hustle / gamble money for the sake of a larger number in your account (with no other goal) is honestly sad.
    • No one is out to get you. Stop seeking enemies or blaming problems on others.
    • Do not make IRL opinions from online “content” (I don’t even wanna know which subreddits and YouTube people this guy follows) Interact with real people.
    • If your friends are repeatedly calling you out on questionable or insensitive actions and opinions, listen and think for a minute.