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·2 माह पहले·discuss
The only reason he paid $11B that year was because he exercised Tesla options. Many other years his tax bill has ranged from zero to millions.
jmcmaster
·2 माह पहले·discuss
So make income tax a deduction on a wealth tax, and avoid penalizing people who do indeed pay top marginal rate income tax on a large salary/bonus.

Given that the ultrarich pay very little to no income tax then Paul’s argument is “don’t increase my income tax from unnoticeable to 20%”
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·पिछला वर्ष·discuss
How are you handling privacy / security / confidentiality if I upload all this data? No way I could use this for work.
jmcmaster
·2 वर्ष पहले·discuss
I am a layperson for astrochemistry but IIRC comets have much higher hydrocarbon content by an order of magnitude or more (and obviously more water, fewer metals to contend with for extraction energy requirements).

Anyone have more insights? Did I miss mention of comets in my skim of the paper?

Ps usually HN not a punfest, but kudos for the Starmite(tm) @andai
jmcmaster
·2 वर्ष पहले·discuss
Asking Americans to read a French name that is a homonym for “clod” may not be the best mass market decision.
jmcmaster
·2 वर्ष पहले·discuss
I have a nonfiction draft built on conversations between 4 friends. Started as a regular nonfiction book but quickly realized the desired mainstreet audience would never read it. I created personas (as in UX style goal-directed design personas) to describe each character’s background, POV, goals, expertise, values, concerns and questions. Different than anything else I’ve ever written. Still very rough but rewarding.
jmcmaster
·2 वर्ष पहले·discuss
Noto doesn't ship with OS, and users need multiple fonts for different use cases.

Grandparent comment is saying that Microsoft, Google, Apple could settle on a common set of open licence fonts and bundle them with the OS (and Linux distros / other OSS OSes could also do the same). Then web design & dev could rely on those fonts without having to locally serve them, or embed with Google fonts, etc. Noto could indeed be one of the bundled fonts in this alternate reality.

But no real incentive for any of those big players to do so, and disincentive for Google who gain surveillance data from font embeds as noted elsewhere in thread.
jmcmaster
·2 वर्ष पहले·discuss
Horses evolved in North America, and disappear from the fossil record along with other megafauna about 10,000 years ago.

Clovis people almost certainly interacted with horses, but likely as food.
jmcmaster
·2 वर्ष पहले·discuss
One of the ways you become authentic is by practicing something you want to become. It’s doing the thing consistently that leads to character development. Also, if you and your partner value different love languages (my partner is meh on flowers, I spent time in high school doing floral arrangements) then having a guide to help you translate could be super helpful. Disappointed this is EU and USA only for now but will see if it shows up in my country soon.
jmcmaster
·2 वर्ष पहले·discuss
Which is why if you're job searching you should spend a decent chunk of your time making connections. Go to meetups, work on open source, volunteer, join a hackathon if such a thing still exists near you as well as "job board" job searching.

I read the evergreen "What Color is Your Parachute" when I was 18 or so (before the web), and it profoundly affected my take on job search (and sales). It gets updated pretty regularly though the original author has passed not that long ago.
jmcmaster
·2 वर्ष पहले·discuss
Dall-E readily generates an image of Tintin fighting Godzilla in the style of the Hergé comics.

How much more IP liability exposure do LLM companies have? NYT just the biggest so far…