You really don’t get more time off, you still have to prep, you don’t get paid vacation. You only get more time off if you make less money or charge astronomical amounts. If you charge 200%, if you work more than 1/2 the time you would have as a W2, you’re not getting more time off and you’re not making more money…

That’s the point, you don’t work the same hours. You have to charge a higher rate in order to even make it worth while. You’re not working full time all year, you’re paying both employee and employer payroll taxes, you pay full price for health care, you get no vacation, you get no money for prep time (depending on…

That was only one example. Google will actually do this for any place you search for on Google.

Not only that, but Google Now recognizes your daily commute times (once you’ve told Google your home and your work) and will automatically give you a heads up regarding traffic conditions.

The money is better as a freelancer, until you take into account the fact that you’re solely responsible for payroll taxes, you get no vacation (i.e., you don’t work, you don’t get paid), you get no health care, you get no job security, etc....

As someone self-employed, you also have to pay all of the payroll taxes which sucks. My mother consults and she hates tax time because she always underestimates the amount of money she’ll make (contracts pop up through the year and there’s no real good way to estimate it) and she always ends up owing. That and she has…

Well, there’s no doubt those words will come up. They will.

I don’t judge candidates on how they look. I don’t care if Warren dyes her hair. I care about policy. I care about what that person is going to try to do in office. Whether that plays with the general public, I don’t know, but I can honestly say, I don’t care.

I don’t know, I’m pretty damn liberal and I find Hillary detestable. She’s for big banks, big money, status quo and hasn’t accomplished a single thing without the help of former President Clinton (she’d have never been NY Senator or Secretary of State without riding Bill’s coattails).

You know, personal preference and opinion aside, Sanders polls the same or better than Clinton against every Republican candidate? Here’s a source on that.

Previously I was a federal district court clerk, and I’m trying to get back into it (private practice sucks, you’re punished for doing your job quickly because it’s harder to meet billables).

You should read Judge Richard Posner’s article The Incoherence of Antonin Scalia.

You are totally correct. I think, this year, that resulted in an $8,000 deduction for us (1st year of our mortgage, so interest is huge). I don’t think I took that into account when I did my calculations, which would certainly reduce the “monthly” lifetime cost (basically reducing the interest paid by about 1/3).

It’s almost like when George W. Bush signed the law that prevents the federal government from negotiating drug prices it negatively impacted the entire market. Who’d have thought.

No, I promise you, rent will always go up. In states where property taxes are levied (which is all of them), property taxes will go up. Do you think that landlords are going to eat that cost? Moreover, inflation will always continue to go up (unless we go into deflation, which hasn’t happened since 1933). Do you…

Pretty sure you just described alcoholism. So... you’re defending people’s ability to be alcoholics. Odd cause to champion, but whatever floats your boat. I just hope one of those alcoholics you’re defending doesn’t end up giving birth to a kid who will require lifetime care, or more realistic, end up killing someone…

Well... this is illegal in certain states. In NY, a notary cannot charge more than a nominal fee (I think it’s $1 or $2) to notarize a document.

That’s actually not what the CDC said, but ok.

Then you take the risk. No one’s forcing a woman to consume or not consume alcohol. I think the CDC would admit a single drink every few months would, even if it does cause some damage, cause negligible damage.

Neither my wife or I drink, I don’t think we’re “losing a form of fun.” We just do something else instead.