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by twoodfin 2y ago
There’s no way the IRS can track and calculate many large, important features of the tax code. EITC eligibility, for example, depends on the aggregate employment and spending patterns of your household. The IRS does not (and shouldn’t) trac
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by twoodfin 2y ago
The TCJA made $4.5T in cuts for the richest 0.1%? Can you explain more about that? Is that by income, wealth?
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by twoodfin 2y ago
The number of drugs developed would drop. In particular, the really expensive to develop drugs that target rare conditions, exploit novel pathways, or require difficult synthesis. The kinds of drugs that routinely experience years of delaye
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by twoodfin 2y ago
I don’t think it should be controversial to say that if the US imposed a Canadian-style price control regime on more than the handful of drugs currently regulated by Medicare, the future number of drugs developed and commercialized would dr
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by twoodfin 2y ago
Not my favorite (they’re all my favorites!), but maybe most underrated: Under Suspicion (2000). The film’s only reason to exist is to put Hackman and Morgan Freeman in a room together sparring for 90 minutes. That’s more than good enough.
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Airbnb founder Joe Gebbia joins DOGE(twitter.com)
7 points by twoodfin 2y ago|4 comments
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by twoodfin 2y ago
No, the analysis (and it’s not exactly rocket science) says just the opposite: Way more downstream manufacturing jobs that rely on steel as input are lost, vs. domestic steel production jobs gained. https://www.pbs.org/newsh
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by twoodfin 2y ago
You’re begging the question: What makes an agency “independent”? The answer given by the original poster was “because Congress says so, and they can”. That is, again, flatly wrong. Congress can’t reorganize the Treasury as an independent ag
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by twoodfin 2y ago
The quote I was referring to as “flatly wrong” is repeated above. Nowhere there or in the original post are the phrases “quasi-legislative” or “quasi-judicial”. Instead a much more general claim is made that the Congress’ power to constrain
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by twoodfin 2y ago
The Constitution is explicit that all executive power is vested in the president. Article III courts can “sort out all legal nuance”, but the power remains with the president.
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by twoodfin 2y ago
What the parent said: “If the law says the President cannot fire someone, or interfere in an agency’s work, then the President cannot.” This is, indeed, flatly incorrect. Congress cannot pass a law requiring that the Secretary of State or D
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by twoodfin 2y ago
This is just flatly incorrect. Humphrey's Executor (which may not be long for this world as precedent, anyway) lays out specific cases where "for cause" requirements on termination are Constitutional, but otherwise the Pres
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by twoodfin 2y ago
Database stored procedures / user-defined functions written in arbitrary languages is a live use case on several platforms today.
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by twoodfin 2y ago
Not helpful to you now, of course, but this billing practice is now illegal: https://www.cms.gov/nosurprises/ending-surprise-medical-bill... (Signed by Trump during the 2020 lame duck!)
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by twoodfin 2y ago
It’s hard for me to tell if you’re describing a breakdown in the process for evolving the language or the process for evolving the primary implementation . Bugs happen, CI/CD pipelines are imperfect, we could always use more lint ru
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by twoodfin 2y ago
If I’m reading this right, the insertion benchmark for TrailBase C# is hitting about 4.4k inserts of relatively small records per second per core. What’s the bottleneck at that point? That number seems small even when stacked up against muc
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by twoodfin 2y ago
The quest for diversity in the ATC workforce at the FAA is actually pretty horrifying: https://x.com/tracewoodgrains/status/1752091831095939471
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Bill Atkinson reviews the Lisa source code(youtube.com)
9 points by twoodfin 2y ago|1 comments
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by twoodfin 2y ago
Given what we know about Apple and Cook, this seems like at least a modestly foolish story for Chang to have told. Apple’s senior leadership has always for better or worse had long memories and held even longer grudges. And they don’t like
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by twoodfin 2y ago
No, you cannot. All M-series Macs to date—including the Mac Pro—have RAM fixed at manufacturing.
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by twoodfin 2y ago
Thank you, fantastic answer. I do wonder if there are other common code patterns that a practical LVP could exploit. One that comes to mind immediately are effectively constants at one remove: Think processing a large array of structs with
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by twoodfin 2y ago
BA has one daily morning flight from Boston to Heathrow. The only non-red eye transatlantic out of Logan that I’m aware of. Always quite busy, and personally I’d much rather not try to get a good night’s sleep on a barely 6 hour flight.
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by twoodfin 2y ago
This introduced me to the idea of load value predictors. Is Apple the only chip designer using these in commercially released microarchitecture?
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by twoodfin 2y ago
I was more worried—and continue to be so—that Databricks will bring the rat’s nest of complexity and pseudo-open source model that characterizes Delta to the future of Iceberg.
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The £58B company that doesn't exist(taxpolicy.org.uk)
2 points by twoodfin 2y ago|1 comments
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by twoodfin 2y ago
How sure are you that the next generation of video compression codecs won't rely in part on AI/ML models? I'd even be surprised if a decade from now there are 0 models in the Linux kernel. If a SOTA model for I/O schedul
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by twoodfin 2y ago
Because they believe (correctly, I think) that AI is going to be foundational to most of the computing experiences we have, moreso over time. I don't think it's particularly absurd to make an analogy to other foundational technolo
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by twoodfin 2y ago
What, specifically, wasn’t HHS allowed to do? They weren’t purchasing the drugs. Certainly the VA can and does negotiate prices for the drugs it buys (that’s one input to the HHS Medicare price-fixing formula), but it has a formulary and is
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by twoodfin 2y ago
IANALE, but any time the exercise of fundamental rights is being constrained, I understand intermediate scrutiny is the floor.
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by twoodfin 2y ago
Because this isn’t really a “negotiation” as configured by the statute: Medicare doesn’t have a formulary, it doesn’t pay for drugs, the Part D plan providers (some quite large and with their own negotiating heft) do. It’s a price-setting e

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