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koolba
1y ago
> $10M could keep a startup running for 1+ years at its most crucial time. That's 10 solutions instead of 1 -- statistically one of them will be a massive breakthrough? The failure rate for startups is much higher than 90%. And ther
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1y ago
But he’s no longer a “special government employee” anymore either. Or are you suggesting he’s blacklisted from all government contracts for life because he previously worked for the current administration?
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1y ago
Why would that exclude them from the running? Should government contracts not be granted on the merits of the receivers? Grok clearly exists in this space so it’s not like they’re rewarding vaporware.
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1y ago
Reminds me of the final boss in Smash Bros. If you purposefully let him whip you at first, the adaptive play would nerf him enough to let you easily finish him.
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1y ago
> AI has nothing in common with crypto other than it being hyped a lot. Don’t forget all the GPUs. Nvidia always gets its cut.
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1y ago
Forget Austria, there’s no way Greece or Cyprus would allow Turkey to join the EU.
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1y ago
How is this any different than a post-it note with your home phone number on it? It also solves the problem of trying to not knowing your kid’s friend’s parents’ names.
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1y ago
> An up-front depreciation deduction, a new accounting standard for interest deductibility, and expensing for research and development costs are also included. This trio of cuts has been avidly sought by business lobbies since they expir
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Trump's big bill will change taxes
(thehill.com)
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> In theory, why not, in practice welcome to the world where neutrality of internet explode... Anybody that has the sense^Wgall to clear their cookies regularly lives in this world as you get that CloudFlare gate keeping for just about e
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ChatGPT use linked to cognitive decline: MIT research
(thehill.com)
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Real Risk to Youth Mental Health Is 'Addictive Use,' Not Screen Time Alone
(nytimes.com)
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1y ago
You only need one inbound machine as your bastion. Then hop from there to the rest using local address. Once you set up the proxy config in ssh it’s completely transparent.
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> Someone who is not of sound mind is not getting approval for assisted death. For many of us, this is a classic catch-22 as requesting such approval demonstrates the lack of a sound mind.
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Pets are legally property. You may love your pet, but it’s not human. The risk with allowing humans to do this is that it’s possible for someone not of sound mind to come to this conclusion.
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1y ago
I feel oddly prescient today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44217676
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> So you are saying, some people in the crowd throw rocks, therefore, innocent people in the crowd should also die? I'm not suggesting they police should just blindly open fire on the crowd. But if you are in a crowd that turns viol
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1y ago
Don’t you think a properly sized rock thrown at someone’s head is assault with a deadly weapon?
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> Is it crazy to want someone to protect my neighbor's car , or business? Is it wild to expect my lifetime saving not be torched or destroyed? No, it’s not crazy but for an unusually large portion of the populace it makes you a raci
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1y ago
> if I earn $100/year, and I can deduct $50 of that, my tax bill is not $50. It is some percentage of $50, usually a low number for businesses. (Amazon regularly pays $0/year in taxes.) It’s not that low. Federal corporate tax
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Any decent sized company already does this. You’ll see a field on things like Jira tickets for whether something is maintenance or capital improvement. And presumably that information can be used to infer the percentage of a given workers t
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> ... but much less about the practices of the health care providers. > Noah Smith argued that the latter should be considered the main 'villain': Health care providers are like concert venues that outsource jerk-as-a-servic
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It's a charitable interpretation but there's a lot of specifics at play here. The tax was not 1%. It was defined as a fixed 20-cents per person, not a percentage of income. The wording of the law was that the US government would u
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What’s there to tell? Option grants that are not exercised have no tax consequence.
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Content from before the AI Cambrian explosion is going to be treated like low-background steel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
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1y ago
You forgot jq. The shell history is stored as json lines. Makes for easy grepping too.
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Same here. Also included the host, timestamp, user, and current directory. Unifying history across multiple machines is very pleasant when you know you did something, but don’t even remember where you did it.
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More Federal Workers Are Flooding the Job Market, with Worsening Prospects
(nytimes.com)
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Supreme Court Rules for Straight Woman in Job Discrimination Suit
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1y ago
Ha! That’s what I get for hallucinating using two day old data.
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