jmcmaster

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by jmcmaster 4mo ago
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.
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by jmcmaster 4mo ago
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’
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by jmcmaster 1y ago
How are you handling privacy / security / confidentiality if I upload all this data? No way I could use this for work.
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by jmcmaster 2y ago
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
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by jmcmaster 2y ago
Asking Americans to read a French name that is a homonym for “clod” may not be the best mass market decision.
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by jmcmaster 2y ago
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 perso
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by jmcmaster 2y ago
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 dis
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by jmcmaster 2y ago
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.
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by jmcmaster 2y ago
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 fl
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by jmcmaster 2y ago
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&quot
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by jmcmaster 3y ago
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…
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by jmcmaster 4y ago
Microsoft Research had early implementation for this kind of visual sign language translation with Kinect & ASL recognition in 2013 or so. I expect that with the death of Kinect in the market it stayed lab-bound.
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by jmcmaster 4y ago
The best LD50 story I've heard was an Agriculture Canada scientist working on biocontrols for pests (think natural pathogenic organisms like fungi or bacteria to control weeds instead of chemical pesticide). Policy and commercializatio
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by jmcmaster 4y ago
ADHD weaker object permanence means that lots of people need to see their stuff to keep it in mind. “Hiding stuff” is problematic (and so is clutter).
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by jmcmaster 4y ago
The complaint is that by reducing taxes for highest incomes there are fewer resources for the state to address the wellbeing of its citizens. It is not that the poorest pay less tax, it is whether social services and other government progra
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by jmcmaster 4y ago
I suspect if you threw away all preconceived notions of local mobility and started with maximizing {effectiveness/efficiency/carbon/infrastructure costs/real estate/ healthcare/economic benefit/commute tim
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by jmcmaster 5y ago
Happy birthday! No great answers to meaning of life, but work focused on societal contributions helped me. In 2009 I was burned out on consulting for banks and telcos, switched to focusing on public sector challenges. Lots of needs for purp
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by jmcmaster 8y ago
Former NASA engineer turned YouTube science fun guy Mark Rober explained this attack in 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vc-69M-UWk and references this 2011 UCSD paper Heat of the moment: characterizing the efficacy of