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by dh2022 1y ago
They also also hedging this bet by building bunkers in far away places [0]. Truly insane. [0] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly17834524o
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Purges are a product of strength.
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I have read it for a few years. And I learned that back then the Economist mission was something along the lines of a robust defense of international trade. Something like what the GP wrote.... I stopped subscribing to it when I realized th
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by dh2022 1y ago
Re: "What is a productive way they can use LLMs in any of their flagship products today" - with LLMs users would not interact with other users and also users would not leave the platform. Meta's actual mission is to keep peop
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by dh2022 1y ago
You should edit your post and add the sarcastic tag :) It is really good when I read it that way :)
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by dh2022 1y ago
relevant to this discussion is an essay from James Mickens : https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf This essay is relevant to this situation because the threat model in James’ essay is almost t
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by dh2022 1y ago
I also liked Dennis Miller's quip that "nobody knows anymore what M stands for in MTV"
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by dh2022 1y ago
After reading this note I realized that there is a special breed of people that attends meetings, coordinates communication strategies across the organization, pro-actively addresses blockers and engages stakeholders as naturally as ducks t
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by dh2022 1y ago
I personally have a problem with "benchmark against however much money you want to extract from small businesses"... So a hard NO from me.
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by dh2022 1y ago
Nit - as far as I know in US this standard deduction applies only to overall household income. It does not apply to Schedule C (aka small business tax return form). For Schedule C you really have to itemize what you spend your money on and
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by dh2022 1y ago
Thanks, I did not know that - I live in a state with no income tax.
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How do other countries find out income and deductions for small businesses? For example: the cost of replacing the blade on a lawn mower. For a small business doing gardening that is a cost that needs to be deducted from their income. How w
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by dh2022 1y ago
The case you outlined is for employed people - in this case the income and deductions are very clear and relatively easy for government to find out and calculate the tax. How would the government be able to know the income and deductions fo
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by dh2022 1y ago
At Costco TurboTax with Business (or something like that) costs around $79.99 + tax. It has Schedule C [0]. Next time you want to buy TurboTax maybe buy it from Costco - $200 for your usage scenario looks like over-payment. [0] It also has
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by dh2022 1y ago
Looks like LLM-written article. It does not explain why Pivot tables never die. Also, somehow this page completely messed up my browser history - I could not just click the back arrow to navigate back.
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by dh2022 1y ago
Can you share some details about AI Debt Financing? In particular, who supplies the cash? I am thinking that commercial banks would not be able to supply all of this cash because of post-2008 regulations. Commercial banks may supply some ca
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by dh2022 1y ago
Oh, come on. Why don't you mention the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)? Which actually stoked the inflation by increasing government spending when the labor market was very tight? IRA's pie in the sky green energy cost reductions we
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by dh2022 1y ago
This is an indicator that is very close to the sale time. If you can share and don't mind sharing, how did whatever you saw during 2020/2021 corelate with retail sales?
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by dh2022 1y ago
This image-based PDF made my morning. I wish journalists would write like this these days, as opposed to jamming their reports through an LLM.
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Obama considered the war in Afghanistan justified- at least that is my recollection from one of his debates with McCain. Obama considered the Iraq unnecessary- and got him elected. in 2008 the American public was deeply upset about how thin
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by dh2022 1y ago
I was going to say Nobel Prize for Peace was irretrievably compromised when they gave it to Kissinger.
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by dh2022 1y ago
Is more complicated than that. Walmart back in the 80s investd heavily into physical infrastructure back to back - building new stores, their own trucks fleet. The first retailer with its own satellite communication system. There was never
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by dh2022 1y ago
Boeing uses Export / Import bank to finance some of its sales: https://www.exim.gov/news/export-import-bank-united-states-b... https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-export
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by dh2022 1y ago
That was Amazon's motto in mid to late 90s :). They almost went bankrupt. Now they are ruling retail and cloud.
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by dh2022 1y ago
Why would stocks raise with commensurate devaluation of the dollar? Stocks financial positions (assets / liabilities / cash flow) are most likely denominated in dollars..... If companies' financial position would be denominat
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by dh2022 1y ago
There are sales taxes on each sale (GPU sales / Cloud VMs sales / etc...) Meta point: governments want to tax each money transfer - when people are paid, when selling a real estate property, when selling stocks, when selling goods
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by dh2022 1y ago
Here on HN you are among friends, my friend :)
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Microsoft exec testified that US Govt can get access to the data Azure stores in other countries. I thought this was a wild allegation but apparently is true [0]. [0] https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/micr
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by dh2022 1y ago
All these license plate numbers now finally make sense!!!
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by dh2022 1y ago
Thanks for responding to my messages. I really do not think that if "ICE start shooting at cops we have won the battle" I do not think Gavin wins the presidency if Trump puts him in custody. In both of these situations I think the

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