I noticed that the following identity for a summation of stars and bars held for specific $k$ but I was wondering if someone could provide a general proof via combinatorics or algebraic manipulation. I wouldn't be surprised if this is a known result; it looks very similar to the Hockey Stick identity.
$$\sum_{i=0}^k {d+i-1 \choose d-1} = {d+k \choose k}$$
The left can be immediately rewritten as $\sum_{i=0}^k {d+i-1 \choose i}$ if it helps inspire intuition.
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