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by the-rc 5y ago
You can enter toy numbers in TurboTax and see, but I found more references, e.g. when they wanted to make NYC track NYS' model: https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/12/nyregion/highest-tax-will... https
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by the-rc 5y ago
The state doesn't call it as such and it doesn't really mention much about it anywhere, other than implicitly in worksheet 7 on page 59 of the 2020 IT-201 form. It's still a recapture, though, and it does apply to income. It&
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by the-rc 5y ago
For 2020, the top bracket starts at $1,077,550. Then, gradually through the first $50K into the bracket, it becomes a full 8.82% tax on every single dollar of income, other brackets included. For 2021, that rate has been bumped up to 9.65%
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by the-rc 5y ago
With the exception of NY State, where there's a recapture at $1.1M that makes rates no longer marginal...
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by the-rc 5y ago
The mRNA vaccines don't multiply. From the moment they enter the body, their total volume can and does go down, but not up. Compare that to the virus, which clones itself and tries to evade immune defenses. Even contrasting the two vac
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by the-rc 5y ago
YouTube had peering agreements in place even before the acquisition. And the instant the contract was signed, Google's fiber wasn't near YT's (then) five-six locations, so it was of little use. Actually, in November 2006 YT h
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by the-rc 5y ago
IIRC, the NYPD budget is much higher than those for Sweden's or Mexico's military and not too far behind Iran's.
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by the-rc 5y ago
Yeah, what does the vaccine do that the virus doesn't? There's a lot the latter does that the former doesn't. That's the part I don't get.
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by the-rc 5y ago
It doesn't need to be public facing servers. It could be also for internal uses such as the storage nodes or YouTube transcoding (which has custom decoding/encoding HW as well). I doubt they'd keep the Tensor subsystem for ap
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by the-rc 5y ago
Years ago there was a cluster at Google where machines were kept around well past their prime, because it was cheaper than doing anything else, once you looked at all the constraints. There were still some CPUs and drives that could be reus
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by the-rc 5y ago
That's right, the transparency signature is not checked during installation. If you think somebody at Google might be out to get you and has all those powers and resources, there are many ways other than serving bespoke bundles, even w
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by the-rc 5y ago
I don't think the "ugly" point is completely true, there's another optional level of signing that uses keys under control of the developer alone, approximating the APK model: https://developer.android.com&#x2F
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by the-rc 5y ago
There's even greater herd immunity for measles and co., yet there are outbreaks among unvaccinated people all the time. Perhaps those odds are not that small. COVID-19 is probably never going to go away. And you worry about the long te
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by the-rc 5y ago
I was in a study. My IgG titer went up to 960, when I gave plasma twice, then 7-8 months after the infection it was below the 80 threshold to be considered positive. The weird thing was that six months in, I got tested for IgM and I was pos
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by the-rc 5y ago
It used to happen even with everything configured correctly, if your users connected over plain HTTP, from an ISP that forced their traffic to go through a transparent proxy with overaggressive caching. It's not fun to hear about users
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by the-rc 5y ago
I know this is an anecdote, but.. I run along the Hudson. I see some regulars only during March-October. They have houses in Florida, too, but can "survive" there only during the coldest months.
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by the-rc 5y ago
There's another aspect to consider, perhaps: nowadays it's very easy to get to get that kind of loans with low, low interest rates, well below average market returns. So, if you have a large collateral, you could just use a chunk
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by the-rc 5y ago
I agree that forcing people to sell has its issues, but perhaps you could have a tax on loans of a certain size and/or not being able to deduct as much for the interest paid. Then nobody would be forced to sell, unless they wanted very
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by the-rc 5y ago
As I suspected at the time ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25314818 ), the Google numbers are lower than anything in the Strubell paper, because you have to start from a much lower PUE and factor in additional efficien
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by the-rc 6y ago
NYC? In NY state, once you hit the top bracket at 1.1M, it's a flat rate applied to all income, not a marginal rate. Then you have the 3.8% Obamacare surtax on investments.
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by the-rc 6y ago
There's a good chance that the additional clicks are deliberate. Certain queries are a lot more resource-intensive than the average and it's not very difficult to turn Google Search into a money losing business, even with the ads.
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by the-rc 6y ago
Uh, I know you're kidding, but a Lamborghini police car is totally a thing, somewhere: https://www.thedrive.com/news/37625/italian-police-use-lambo...
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by the-rc 6y ago
It's not even their first migration away from Oracle. I am fairly confident that Google used the horrible Oracle Calendar internally fifteen years ago (at least for travel?), until later GCal was able to replace it. And I remember anot
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by the-rc 6y ago
At the opposite end, I heard a story of actually full storage from the beginning of the century, when I worked at a "large medical and research institution in the Midwest". They had expensive SMB shares (NetApp?) that kept getting
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by the-rc 6y ago
Overscan (using the borders) was at the mercy of the monitor, so games often used 304 pixels to work everywhere, not even 320. That's 19 sprites per layer. Any decent game would use at least two layers (38 sprites total in the general
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by the-rc 6y ago
One complication that is not mentioned explicitly, but can be inferred from the discussion on cycles is that context switching should take longer, right? In the most basic design, you'd wait for the entire instruction to complete, for
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by the-rc 6y ago
Most of the time, believe it or not, details like toilets are outside Google's control, let alone unions'. I heard so many stories when I was in the NY office, like facilities not being allowed to do anything about the big gaps al
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by the-rc 6y ago
"Life of a query" is a class that every Google engineer attends during orientation. It goes through all the frontends and backends involved in serving a search request. Many more presentations with similar titles have been created
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by the-rc 6y ago
He's right when he says that your desk location (your main office, not necessarily HQ) according to HR is what matters. That's where your withholdings go. You could maybe fight with the State of California for the refund next year
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by the-rc 6y ago
As I already mentioned, the paper also uses an industry average PUE factor of 1.58, when Google's is 1.1. Other large tech companies can't be too far behind. Which makes me wonder how far removed AI researchers are from actual pro

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