Equity taxes: the US perspective

Now that we’ve covered source taxation, US taxation, and Australian taxation, we can finally talk about all the exciting edge cases you hit when trying to file equity-related taxes after moving internationally. Some of these problems are from lack of clarity in one or the other of the domestic tax systems, but most come about from the quirks of...

We’ve talked a little about US equity taxes, but now let’s turn to a different country, and discuss how those same taxes are applied in Australia. If you’re not subject to Australian taxation this might sound irrelevant to you, but we’re going to need two countries to talk about the final details of international tax, so I’d encourage you to...

Let’s talk tax! Taxes aren’t the most interesting of topics, but as a mass exodus from San Francisco begins in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, there are a whole bunch of people working at Silicon Valley tech companies who are going to have to start dealing with them in much more depth.

I gave a talk about phishing at a few different conferences last year, and people occasionally ask me for the whitepaper and / or recording. They’re not very discoverable at the moment, so I figure I’ll link them here, and then I’ll have a better answer than “search my browser history”.

A bored network engineer caused a bit of a stir on the Internet in early 2013: they set up an IP that when traceroute‘d returned the introductory text of Star Wars: Episode IV. Their original implementation bounced packets between two different routers, with a series of virtual routing tables. I don’t have access to routers that are that...