Conferences, by their very nature, and ones with large well-known companies sponsoring them strongly implies international guests, and that translates to higher risks.
"In late October, Ashley Johnson, a single mom and seasoned gig worker in a quiet Seattle suburb, tweeted about the decline of lucrative work on Shipt, the Target-owned grocery delivery app."
"An hour after tweeting, Johnson received an email from Shipt telling her that she had been “deactivated” and was not “eligible to reapply” for her job, according to an email reviewed by Motherboard. The letter provided no explanation for her removal from the app. (On gig economy apps like Uber and the like, “deactivation” is the same thing as getting fired.)"
I don't doubt their intelligence or talent in solving problems. But chasing the highest Total Compensation, or glittering silicon jewel, or a comforting workplace that closely resembled the social & work dynamics they'd just graduate from in college... they were comfortable choices to make. Even chasing money losing startups for the first decade of your career always held the prospect of an off-ramp to one of the established players. Chasing work that moves the needle forward on culture, society, and civilization often requires a higher tolerance for risk and discomfort.
I feel like North Carolina is the sweet spot right now. I live in Wisconsin so it's hit or miss on summers and winters being too cold or too hot. NC has very comparable summer weather and warmer winter weather, also it doesn't have absurd cost of living like the west coast or NYC.
Not sure why this was down-voted, but this has been one of my concerns about ever moving to CA in the first place--I wouldn't want to be stalked by this predatory creature for the rest of my life. (And have already experienced this to a lesser degree with a couple of other-coast states.)
Yeah, I was wondering how that'd apply to getting accepted in YC... Maybe you intend to go back home after the 3 months or locate to another city big in tech like Austin or Boston. Wonder if California would try to say you were a resident, however I feel like YC would be more similar logically to how college students are treated since usually you are still a resident of where your parents live, unless you intend to get a job and live where you went to school after graduation.
In that case, if it comes up, I think California would be looking at your living situation: are you in a temporary living situation, like a long term stay hotel, or did you rent an apartment and move your stuff. Did you forward your mail and change your accounts? Are you visiting home, or are people visiting you in California. What did you actually do after the YC period, etc.
If you're living and working in California, there's not a whole lot of difference in taxation between a part-year resident and a non-resident who happens to be working in the state often; it's more of a problem when California considers you a full year resident and you're actually working somewhere else. For residents, during the period of residency, all income is treated as California source income, but for non-residents, California only taxes income that is actually from a California source (basically earned income from working in California, or gains on property in California).
Even if you're considered a resident during YC, you wouldn't be taxed on non-California source income before you moved in, or after you moved out. It's usually not a problem when you legitimately move; it's more of a problem when you keep a house in California, and visit frequently, and still get your hair cut in California, still vote in California, etc... Or in the case that you move overseas --- there's a presumption for US citizens that an overseas move is not a permanent move, and that when you come back, you'll return to the last state that you resided in, and many states with all-source taxation for residents will make a strong suggestion that you're still a resident, until you establish residency in another state.
California allows a domiciled taxpayer to be taxed as a nonresident of the state if they are outside of California for an uninterrupted period of at least 546 days under an employment related contract, unless they have intangible income of greater than $200,000, or the principal reason for their absence is tax avoidance.1 The employment related contract can be in another country or another state. The taxpayer is also allowed to have up to 45 days of presence in the state each tax year before they no longer can claim the safe harbor. A person can start filing as a nonresident on the presumption that their out-of-state assignment will last the required 18 months; but if for some reason their foreign employment terminates early and the 546 day requirement will not be met, any tax years for which the taxpayer treated themselves as a nonresident must be refiled as a resident and all taxes owed for that period must be paid.
Why does every disgruntled user/client/restaurant-goer feel the need to start a movement?
Is it something about this generation, that must constantly have its feelings validated by others?
If you already failed to heed others who never used the site, or quit it long ago, does that say something about your character, that you would want others to do now, what you hadn't done before?
