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by anamax 4mo ago
> He can borrow against it which gets around taxes and that should probably be addressed Folks who lend money against stock insist on being repaid. (In fact, they typically have the right to sell the stock to be repaid.) The money to r
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by anamax 4mo ago
Lenat's AM and Eurisko worked because large fraction of legal token strings were meaningful.
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by anamax 4mo ago
https://imgur.com/anon-starts-world-war-crow-K63U5ig
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by anamax 4mo ago
> Trust in science is so low in the US that this was bound to happen. How is "They were almost certainly transported via unchecked northward migration of people and animals." a consequence of loss of trust in science?
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by anamax 4mo ago
> even in the US you "cannot yet fire in a crowded theatre". Actually, you can yell "fire" if there is a fire. Note that the "can't yell fire" quote comes from a decision involving folks who were distri
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by anamax 4mo ago
> GPUs will fully depreciate after 3 years (6-year-old A100s are still in very high demand!) Depreciation is a tax thing. While it is supposed to track useful life, it almost never does. For example, houses are depreciated on a 28-year
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by anamax 4mo ago
I'll try it. And if it works, I'll wonder why microsoft doesn't make the ubuntu button use terminal.
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by anamax 4mo ago
Corporations are aggregations of people. Are AIs?
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by anamax 4mo ago
I switched from WSL (reconn'd to WSL1) to WSL2 because I thought that WSL1 would be abandoned. However, the shell for WSL2 runs in a window that grabs things, such as ^V. So, ssh from WSL2 (to AWS for example) is awkward. For exampl,
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by anamax 4mo ago
Fishers will spend a lot more money to keep a fishery alive than non-fishers will.
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by anamax 4mo ago
> Matt Damon talked about this somewhere. The risk aversion stems from the move away from DVD sales. DVDs and even video tape are relatively recent. Hollywood was a lot less risk averse before DVDs and video tape. Heck, Hollywood was le
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by anamax 5mo ago
One problem with prefab is that it isn't less expensive. https://www.construction-physics.com/p/the-elusive-cost-savi...
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by anamax 5mo ago
> The wealthy often make their money as capital gains, which if they held for at least one year, are exempt from the income tax Not even close. As your link shows, "the wealthy" pay taxes on long-term capital gains. The lowes
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by anamax 6mo ago
The first $500k is federal tax-free. The rest is taxed at long-term capital gains rates. IIRC, California taxes that $1.1M as ordinary income.
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by anamax 6mo ago
For private companies, valuation for the purposes of this tax is company-value * max(% owned, % controlled) From https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/25-0024A1%2... Section 50303(c)(3)(C) say
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by anamax 6mo ago
The "tax based on control" clause (quoted below) doesn't apply to public companies.
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by anamax 6mo ago
Google is public, so the 5% of max(ownership, control) clause doesn't apply. However, there are a bunch of private unicorns whose founders are subject to the tax even though their ownership is well under $1B. See Section 50303(c)(3)(C)
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by anamax 6mo ago
There's also a .com - https://thekalmanfilter.com/kalman-filter-explained-simply/
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by anamax 6mo ago
And if this guy isn't Satoshi? And if he comes to harm as a result of someone believing the NYT?
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by anamax 6mo ago
The energy saved by a new washer or dryer vs an older one is dwarfed by the energy needed to make the new washer or dryer. FWIW, the same applies to most building replacements. Yes, the newer buildings use less energy, but the savings does
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by anamax 9mo ago
A marriage differential is a mathematical consequence of progressive marginal rates and community property (specifically the ability to shift income between spouses). To put it another way, eliminating the marriage differential[1] in all ca
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by anamax 9mo ago
> the lawnmowers and weed-whackers in California with their two-stroke engines What's the intended precedence in that sentence? I ask because I've never seen a lawnmower (in the US) with a two-stroke engine. There are probably
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by anamax 9mo ago
How often do people die during football riots? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests says $1-2B in damage and more than 19 deaths. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct&#x2F
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by anamax 9mo ago
I had to talk to a human in PayPal's customer service because neither their documentation nor their chatbot says anything about how to "remember" a device, even though certain operations only work on remembered devices. They
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by anamax 9mo ago
> When it became cheaper to publish text did the quality go up? Average quality or peak quality?
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by anamax 9mo ago
The data is supposed to be available from the authors in almost all cases, but in many (most?) cases the authors won't provide it.
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by anamax 9mo ago
> My suspicion is that we are in Ptolemaic state as far as GPT like models are concerned. We will eventually understand them better once we figure out what's the better coordinate system to think about their dynamics in. Most deep l
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by anamax 9mo ago
There seems to be an assumption that there's a right to an effective protest. That said, impeding a college student who wants to walk through part of a college campus isn't "violence against the state."
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by anamax 9mo ago
Of course, you were concerned about how the folks who previously ran Twitter used it to influence national politics, right? You're concerned about such influence by the folks who run each of the four major networks, the folks who run
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by anamax 9mo ago
> billionaires became as such without utilizing any resources or regulations paid for by the public Strawman. No one is claiming "without utilizing". However, they are part of the public that paid. Moreover, if I let you use m

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