/lit/ - Literature

>>18043884
>Simulation theory is likely to be true. Therefore, some form of divinity likely exists
what a weak, irresponsible sentence

QBI - qualified business income deduction:
A portion of the business income of a flow through entity that can be deducted from taxable income. Generally equal to 20% of QBI but subject to several limitations. The full wage/property limitation, which is the greater of: 50% of the business's W2 wages, or 25% of W2 wages plus 2.5% of unadjusted basis of business assets,, applies in full when taxpayer's taxable income exceeds the upper limit threshold (about $415000 for 2018). If the taxpayer's taxable income is between the lower ($315000) and upper limit threshholds, then the wage/property limitation only applies to the extent that taxable income exceeds the lower threshhold, out of the total $100000 inter threshhold range. In other words rather than subtracting the whole excess of the raw 20% qbi over the wage/property maximum, you only subtract the mount proportional to the excess of taxable income over the inter-threshhold range.
If the business is not in a qualified industry, an additional limitation applies: If the taxable income falls between the threshhold amounts, the ratio of excess over the inter-threshhold range is used to reduce the qbi deduction amount. In other words, if the TI exceeds the lower threshhold by $20000, then the deduction is scaled by a factor of $80000/$100000, in addition to limitations described above. Effectively, for a non qualifying business, reaching the upper threshhold eliminates the deduction entirely.

i'm what you've described yes. I wasted several hours commenting in threads about authors I've never read. Procrastinating on studying for an exam

>>17047411
The first is a complaint about it being too predictable/cliche/formulaic (maybe not in a negative way?), the second is a complaint that the writer was engaing in vulgar self-indulgent fantasy at the expense of the story or something idk

>>17022140
CoC is the 3rd book in the series.
author quote from wikipedia:
"I think there is a noticeable shift in my tone from the first book to the third simply because (I'd like to think) I knew a lot more and had read a lot more. People often say after reading the first book that they think I really admire Jews, but they are unlikely to say that about the last two and especially about CofC. That is because by the time I wrote CofC I had changed greatly from the person who wrote the first book.[12]"

Is "nirvana" generally thought of as a monolithic state that can be reached regardless of specific cultural or denominational considerations?