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by hodgesrm 3y ago
> But it’s misleading to suggest you earned 0 profit. That dev effort is going to apply its value to the company over time. I would be with you except that Section 174 just says the following: [0[ .03 Activities that are treated as
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Not if it’s software development. That’s now considered r&d and is deducted over 5 years or 15 if it takes place overseas.
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Unfortunately it’s not that simple. You can’t deduct software dev (aka r&d per section 174) as an operating expense. Instead the expense is capitalized over 5 years. The effect is to make software companies look a lot more profitable th
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Doing the homework and showing up to class do wonders for academic performance. Many people (me included) have learned this the hard way.
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> I feel like we "beat" our SV competitors (we have several) by simply providing better customer service. That and refusing to give up. Grit counts for a lot.
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You don't need anti-trust violations to make this a problem. Well-funded companies can always undercut competitors at least for a while. The cure is to be able to survive at low[er] gross margins. Many VC-backed companies need monopoly
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Isn't making money the best way to beat VC-funded companies? (Or any competitor for that matter.) In other words, sell something people will pay for right from the start. You won't be building SpaceX or Tesla but you can build 1Pa
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Isn't that just a win-on-execution model? Given that OpenAI does not exactly have stellar management and the fact we're not sure where the big economic wins for LLMs will occur it seems premature to declare them the winner.
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
> Funny, considering people said the same thing about OpenAI and look who is eating FAANGs lunch now when it comes to AI? Precisely how is OpenAI eating anyone's lunch? This is a serious question. Is OpenAI fantastically profitable?
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> I think dang made a mistake by allowing this topic onto HN. Nothing good is going to come out of that. Actually I find the discussion on HN has brought up many useful insights on a complex conflict that provokes emotional responses. It
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Short answer: yes. In the 1970s it was standard to IPL ("initial program load" == boot) using a short deck of cards. As I recall you dropped the cards in the card reader, and brought the system up by reading the deck, which then p
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> This whole comment thread is teaching me that apparently there isn't any objective truth when it comes to t shirt comfort. That's true of many things and has been for a long time. "De gustibus non disputandum est,"
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There are multiple levels of encryption. Server side encryption of cloud block storage and object storage are simple to enable or even defaults in public clouds. (Well for sure in AWS and GCP.) I would do these because they are simple. On t
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Indeed, both US and Germany industrialized around the same time.
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According to Wikipedia [0] it has at least three meanings: 1.) The period 1871-1873 of rapid economic growth in the German empire following the peace treaty that ended the war of 1870. It ended with a stock market crash (aka Gründerkrach).
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I'm so sorry to hear this. She personified service to others. My condolences to her family.
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
> Wow I didn't know that snowflake charges on query level. It doesn't. You get charged "credits" for virtual data warehouse operation plus storage. A credit corresponds (approximately) to running a VM of a certain siz
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
You can't make this stuff up. The backstory on the AI girlfriend is pretty interesting. [0] Maybe it's in the original article too, but that's paywalled to me. [0] https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts&#x
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> I'm following the development of DuckDB and one aspect that's nice about it is how predictable prices are when you run it on dedicated servers: Are the predictable prices worth the trade-off of more labor to operate the serv
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In my limited experience dealing with the USFS on backcountry trips the org is choked with bureaucracy and completely ineffective at basic management. I remember one trip to Mt Adams where we had to register at least 3 different ways for a
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Precisely. I was submitting from my iPad which is like typing with mittens. There are other examples. [0] I really want this problem solved, because it's preventing us from managing forests in a way that's provably more sustainabl
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
The problem with controlled burns is they don’t always stay controlled. [0] In California at least you would need to get buy-in from people living in the area to break through the gridlock. The concerns of people in say Susanville or Lake B
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Be careful what you wish for. If you are like the median HN commenter your job may depend on one or both of them.
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
> You ask yourself: What would have made me jump off my chair if I had read it six months ago (or a week ago, or however fast you write)? If you have figured out something that made you ecstatic, this is what you should write. And you do
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Oh sorry! I meant that the people to whom you referred above focus on the "one true catastrophe" (whatever that is) without truly thinking what it would mean to have a few dozen nuclear weapons used. It's not just the immedia
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I'm always a bit surprised at how people seem to wish away the destructiveness of nuclear weapons or the likelihood of their use. Another commenter alluded to a "failure of imagination" which seems very applicable here. You w
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> He's pretty sure that human civilization will be extinct this century. This is certainly possible, but if so extinction seems far more likely to come from nuclear warfare and/or disasters resulting from climate change. For ex
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> I think this points more to poor and ungoverned use of Snowflake and Cloud than it does organisational dysfunction. This is a "blame the user" argument that I hear a lot. It's true that in many or most cases users being
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That would include low interest rates that made funding WeWork plausible/possible. That's probably not coming back for a while.
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Fully agree on your 50 years ago point. The crux of the matter seems to be how grants are awarded. Alzheimers Disease research is a case in point. [0] What do do about it? There should be a "crazy ideas bin" that forces a percenta

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