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by svara 1y ago
It's a bit of a skill. Gaining an incorrect understanding of some topic is a risk anyway you learn, and I don't feel it's greater with LLMs than many of the alternatives. Sure, having access to legit experts who can tutor you
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by svara 1y ago
I don't know, this sounds a lot like in the late 90s when we heard a lot about how anyone could put information on the internet and that you shouldn't trust what you read online. Well it turns out you can manage just fine. You sho
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by svara 1y ago
LLMs make learning new material easier than ever. I use them a lot and I am learning new things at an insane pace in different domains. The maximalists and skeptics both are confusing the debate by setting up this straw man that people will
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by svara 1y ago
Based on my exchange with wdaher, who seems to understand this well, it's a bit more subtle than that: The salaries are of course expenses, but they are exactly offset by the value of the IP created by the R&D activities. It's
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by svara 1y ago
Taxes are calculated according to tax accounting rules, not IFRS, though? I know of at least two Western European countries where you don't have to do that. Don't worry, we pay enough taxes either way ;)
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by svara 1y ago
Is this true even if you don't capitalize the immaterial IP asset generated by the R&D salaries on the balance sheet? Is that required in the US? Otherwise I'm quite amazed that salaries can be carried forward as future expens
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by svara 1y ago
> For cash-strapped companies, especially those not yet profitable, the result was a painful tax bill just as venture funding dried up and interest rates soared Can someone explain this? What taxes do unprofitable US businesses owe that
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by svara 1y ago
Reread my comment. The point is that people being intimidated and clinging to hope while the things they believe in are being taken away from them is what happens in authoritarian regimes, not in a country of free spirited people.
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by svara 1y ago
I have some visibility into what goes on at different science institutions in the US. I sense a lot of fear. But the curious thing to see is how people just try to keep calm and carry on as if nothing was happening otherwise, while the gove
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by svara 1y ago
I think that might be true at some maths and computer science meetings but is unheard of in other scientific fields.
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by svara 1y ago
> On the other hand, where I remain a skeptic is this constant banging-on that somehow this will translate into entirely new things Really a lot of innovation, even at the very cutting edge, is about combining old things in new ways, and
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by svara 1y ago
Respectfully, I'm not sure you fully understand how dB is used. The analogy to aspect ratios only works for one of multiple uses of decibel. dB SPL and dB(A) are not ratios, they're absolute. You can derive them from a ratio and a
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by svara 1y ago
> makes me really doubt that the OP has any practical experience about the things they're talking about. Maybe not, but you can get used to many odd things given enough experience. I totally share the authors view. I don't usua
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by svara 1y ago
For practical day to day use in very narrow context, yes. But, what you're saying is only approximately correct (the factor is a bit less than 2) and there are many related fields, even in areas that would be relevant to the physics of
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by svara 1y ago
A pet peeve I share! An expanded version of this article should become the article on decibels on Wikipedia. I've read that article many times over my life and for the first couple times came back thinking I was too dim to understand.
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by svara 1y ago
Guessing their profits are regularly illegal or untaxed, so they're less likely to involve the police.
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by svara 1y ago
> Any carbon captured in a plant that depended on a fossil fuel source of nitrogen cannot be considered carbon neutral, unless you draw a useless system boundary. What? That sounds really confused. "Carbon neutral" in this cont
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by svara 1y ago
It's just carbon neutral, not "technically" carbon neutral. The reason we even care about CO2 emissions is that industrial emissions reconnect carbon reservoirs that were disconnected from the atmosphere for millions of years
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by svara 2y ago
> Is it so simple? The highest marginal tax rate in the US is 50.3% (37% federal + 13.3% state in California). The highest marginal tax rate in Norway is 47.4%. Marginal income tax rate. People's aggregate incomes are a drop in th
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by svara 2y ago
I guess where this is all going in the long run is something with an interface similar to TikTok, where the user gives rapid feedback to train an algorithm to generate content that they "love", er, that maximally tickles their rew
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by svara 2y ago
I agree, and I agree with that recommendation. It's the first one of his books that I read and I remember being completely in awe at his ability to write a novel as if he had a machine that allowed him to look into the minds of anyone
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by svara 2y ago
Sure, but if that's your reason to do that you're not being reasonable. The point is that relative to everything else you need to get right to build a successful company in any country, taxes, payroll and accounting in Germany f
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by svara 2y ago
No offense but if that's what kills your entrepreneurial spirit it doesn't sound like it would've carried you very far. It's really not that hard if you want it. You'll need it sooner or later anyway if you want to
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by svara 2y ago
You make it sound much harder than it is. I've done that and am doing that. It's totally possible that it's easier in other countries, I don't know that. But if you're serious about building a company, this is the l
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by svara 2y ago
There were way more young people back then. Germany as a country has the mentality of a retiree, because that's who lives there. I say that as a German doing a startup in Germany. There's upsides as well but it's true.
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by svara 2y ago
Not sure it's such a good analysis? He's just saying it's a tax on consumption. Is that a good thing? Importantly he's ignoring all the second order effects of disrupting international supply chains. And the mitigating f
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by svara 2y ago
I think my comment is entirely compatible with what you said, no?
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by svara 2y ago
It's true that free trade is hugely beneficial to the US economy as a whole, particularly with the USD being the reserve currency. The flow of goods is balanced by a flow of US dollars to other countries, which are ultimately cycled ba
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by svara 2y ago
The trade deficit is balanced by USD flows, which are ultimately reinvested with leverage into American capital markets. In many ways the US trade deficit combined with the USD reserve currency status is thus what enables the high budget de
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by svara 2y ago
It's spelled ジブリ - "Djiburi" roughly - making this one pretty easy to settle.

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