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by ljhsiung 5y ago
You can rollover the I-Bonds to a 529 to bypass that AGI phaseout. https://www.savingforcollege.com/article/how-to-rollover-us-...
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by ljhsiung 5y ago
You don't pay tax on I bonds if they are directed towards educational expenses for you or your child. Compare this with a 529, which serves a similar purpose. Then this just reduces to a stocks vs. bonds argument, but for your kid&#x2
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by ljhsiung 5y ago
Huge fan of SemiAnalysis run by Dylan Patel https://semianalysis.substack.com/ I have yet to find a better in-depth source for hardware ongoings.
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by ljhsiung 5y ago
Looking at 1961, where we have 20% and 91% marginal tax rates, this comes out to be ~19k and 1.9mil, adjusted for inflation (2k and 200k nominally). Compare these days, where we have 12% min and 37% max for 10k and 500k respectively. If we
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by ljhsiung 5y ago
He's also launched a podcast-- https://www.youtube.com/c/DavidSinclairPodcast/videos I find the first 3 episodes to be absolutely stellar and was engrossed the whole hour. Pretty good takeaways. The more rece
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by ljhsiung 5y ago
Just a lot of standardization and years of intuiting what these mean. In this case, you definitely need some intuition of elliptic curves and "special points" that is hard to explain, but Quanta does it decently. Here's an ex
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by ljhsiung 5y ago
You didn't say "cost of tuition" in your original comment. Further, I think it's disingenuous to only consider tuition. Cost of living in e.g. Berkeley is ridiculous, literally more than tuition. [1] (I understand that l
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by ljhsiung 5y ago
Can I see your source? Here's mine [1] -- at UIUC, full tuition is 35-50k depending on residency. 30% get free tuition (given their family's net worth <50k/gross income < 67k) and 40% got some form of a loan averaging 2
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by ljhsiung 5y ago
I definitely share your opinion. I do think those more fortunate should put less weight on one's "wallet" and be "good samaritans". But I don't think that's a good solution to invoke the widespread change
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by ljhsiung 5y ago
5x is arbitrary and just how I chose to express the relative importance of doing nothing --> walking --> running. That's just my mental model. I.e. walking has no excuse barring disability. Running I recommend, but not as strongl
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by ljhsiung 5y ago
I'd agree. Frequency and intensity, aerobic or strength, all matter too. My mom walks for 30 minutes a day, while I run rather fast for the same time. I always tell her she should run a little, but she doesn't like to sweat. Grant
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by ljhsiung 5y ago
I speak with California bias, but the culture/recognition of Taiwan is rather massive here. Not as massive as Japan or South Korea, but very notable. It's all mostly food related though. Boba, Night markets, Taiwanese breakfast. O
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by ljhsiung 5y ago
I did some digging. To me it was rather unclear about the impact of this. Furthermore, it definitely just feels like a recategorization/relabelling on Brave's part to get some brownie points. Not that it's not interesting, bu
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by ljhsiung 5y ago
I'm a big fan of the radare2 suite. The integration of its ecosystem/plugin support is phenomenal. Only the decompiler is better in Ghidra, IMO, but I'm sure there's a plugin for that.
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by ljhsiung 5y ago
I recall voicing an opinion that we should record interviews we give candidates and re-review it during the hiring committee, much like we do code reviews. Have the interviewer justify certain beliefs about the candidate with hard timestamp
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by ljhsiung 5y ago
Shameless blog post, but I wrote about something similar here. [1] The TL;DR of it is that I think the hardware industry is in the exact same spot as the software industry was 20 years ago; a wild west of security. And I think the only way
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by ljhsiung 5y ago
Pointer authentication has been around for several years already. As with many things in hardware, though, it takes time for the software ecosystem around it to mature. Still, I've found it to be quite influential. Here are a couple &q
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by ljhsiung 5y ago
Slightly tangential-- to my knowledge, many common curves (e.g. secp256k1 i.e. bitcoin) use order == 3 mod 4 because it enables usage of quick Tonelli-Shanks shortcuts [1],[2]. Perhaps the claim that the selection of the curve has no cofact
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by ljhsiung 5y ago
I had the opposite reading. It feels obvious he's creating a caricature, some of which is exaggerated, some of which is truthful of not just him, but other developers. The recounting of "bullying"/hazing on forums defini
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by ljhsiung 5y ago
Yeah, I didn't fully understand the point of that tangent, and it sounds like to me this "debate" between the Progressive and Capitalist, was "won" by the Progressive. But I guess I'm just a radical? > P. ..
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by ljhsiung 5y ago
Also, w.r.t water consumption, cows still put back in some water to the cycle via peeing and pooping, something that several studies I've seen don't account for. Trees don't really give back water, they just consume. My takea
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by ljhsiung 5y ago
I literally just bought an SN550 last week. Any suggestions for recourse? Unlikely to be able to return it, since "technically" it's used.
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by ljhsiung 5y ago
Thanks for the read. Pretty cool. The following is my layman's understanding, mostly because it helps me to understand things by typing. Please criticize if I miss stuff. Noteworthy is Dan Boneh's contribution on this. Given his r
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by ljhsiung 5y ago
Does anyone know how he creates these animations? I like the representation and would like to create them as well.
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by ljhsiung 5y ago
Only partially true. You pay a *property* tax, which does sometimes have a land component to it, but mostly is a tax on the purchase price of your home. A Georgist-style land tax proposes a tax on solely the land, so a 2000sq-ft lot is the
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by ljhsiung 5y ago
The article mentions a student taking his own life. I remember this was huge news a couple years ago at ISCA '19 and something that really shook my decision to pursue academia. After that event, SIGARCH launched an investigation. After
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by ljhsiung 5y ago
From the blog-- >> This is likely an indication that the electrical coupling responsible for Rowhammer is a property of distance, effectively becoming stronger and longer-ranged as cell geometries shrink down From the paper (bottom of
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by ljhsiung 5y ago
Screw anecdata. Here are some statistics/resources. SF Chronicle (an SF based newspaper) tracks break-ins in SF [0]. Here is a more general crime dashboard as well [1]. For reference, here are some statistics in Chicago [2]. YTD, SF ha
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by ljhsiung 5y ago
Out of curiosity, what is your opinion on companies that created the infrastructure to support Nazi Germany/build camps? IBM, VW, Deutsche Bank, etc.
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by ljhsiung 5y ago
Numerous studies show that exercise provides U-shaped benefits to health [1], [2]. Specific to cardiovascular disease, repeat marathon runners [3] have higher calcium buildup than those who do not run in marathons, which as Robin might say,

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