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by tkiley 3y ago
I don't trust the secondhand reporting and translation work here. I have seen several korean articles which claimed that Dr. Hyun-Tak Kim disavowed both papers. This would be very significant, as he is the coauthor with the h index! Ho
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by tkiley 3y ago
a counterpoint to this narrative: grants/scholarships have been rising rapidly, so actual net tuition prices are surprisingly flat in recent years. > Between 2006-07 and 2019-20, COA [cost of attendance] increased by around 27% at b
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by tkiley 6y ago
Recently, I read back through some of my forum posts on HN and elsewhere from the past ten years. In hindsight, I see that I often erred on the side of harshness, and often conflated cynicism and intelligence. As I get older, I see increasi
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by tkiley 6y ago
You're right, a lot of the benefit is in deferring taxes to a later date. This deferral is quite valuable when you consider the time value of money and the fact that by spreading out $millions of gains over many decades, I get to put
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by tkiley 6y ago
That's true! I'm happy that I am paying low taxes. It just seems ridiculous that my effective tax rate is so much lower than the effective tax rate paid by other people. As best I can make out, a CRUT reduces your tax burden dra
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by tkiley 6y ago
I had a bunch of equity in a startup that had a cost basis of, essentially, $0. Under normal circumstances, I would have sold this for $millions, and would have paid nearly 20% in capital gains taxes immediately. Instead, I contributed my e
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by tkiley 6y ago
Derek's writing influenced me quite a bit in the early 2000s. I bootstrapped a software business from zero to near $10m in annualized revenue, and sold it almost half a decade ago. I contributed 100% of my equity into a charitable rema
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by tkiley 6y ago
I'm surprised that a "Free Speech" network would demand that its users indemnify it against liability arising from their speech. Here's Parler's ToS: > You agree to defend and indemnify Parler [...] from and agai
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by tkiley 6y ago
"But what value of R would you pick?" I don't know -- and until we can agree on the answer to your simple question with a high degree of confidence, I think complex models based on specific assumed values of R obscure more th
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by tkiley 6y ago
I poked at the github repo for a bit. The ugliness of the code doesn't bother me, but the quantity of parameters does. Here's one params file that specifies some of the inputs to a run of the model: https://github.com&#
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by tkiley 6y ago
Even though the answer to your question is "no", many lawyers will advise you to add the copyright symbol anyway. Even if the symbol is not operative by law, it still operates on the minds of potential copyists who don't know
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by tkiley 7y ago
> So from Facebook's perspective, this is probably a big win. It does feel like they confessed and repented a few spectacularly egregious sins and bought a $5 billion indulgence for the rest.
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by tkiley 7y ago
If the pi is designed to throttle at a temperature where its lifespan is reduced from 50 to 49 years, then it is throttling at a gratuitously low temperature that affects quite a few use cases. On the other hand, if it is designed to thrott
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by tkiley 7y ago
lag compensating projectiles on the client decreases usability more often than you'd think. Projectiles like rockets apply a lot of forces to the player which are not easily predictable. If you fire a rocket and client-side prediction
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by tkiley 8y ago
> They are putting on steam largely because of the USA's shit healthcare system "after Zach's latest cancer scare, we determined that with my healthcare plan's copay etc., I'd be wiped out if I had to undergo the
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by tkiley 8y ago
I haven't played a big-budget game in years, but I decided to give RDR2 a try, specifically because reviewers described it as slow and boring. I think it's great, for the exact reason that other people think it's slow and bor
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by tkiley 10y ago
Oh man, there are so many hilarious threads buried in the Straight Dope archives. I have no idea how that forum managed to maintain such a high concentration of genuinely witty posters for so long, but it was a great crowd for years. (Might
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by tkiley 10y ago
> you probably wouldn't pay 400$ for a bag of saline solution Hey, this is a great example: I might very well pay $400 for a bag of saline solution even if I knew the price in advance, because I don't care about the price of th
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by tkiley 10y ago
> Healthcare providers must likewise be required to publish their rates in a uniform format such as industry standard CPT codes or a percentage of Medicare rates. This proposal does not address the primary reason that price transparency
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by tkiley 10y ago
It seems like it's good to be able to rebuild everything at a moment's notice after patching against a major exploit, though. You should have a fast way to rebuild secrets and servers after the next heartbleed-scale vulnerability.
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by tkiley 10y ago
I did a Show HN / feedback post for my startup almost nine years ago and got some very mixed feedback, but I felt that it was all well intentioned and at least somewhat reasonable. Over time, it seems like the feedback for early stage
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by tkiley 10y ago
Hi Paul. I'd love to see your service take off. I've spent a few years in healthcare IT and think that the world would be a better place if you succeed. With that said, there are a number of startups that have struggled with simil
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by tkiley 10y ago
Tesla is shipping 75kWh batteries as 60kWh batteries, and requiring customers to pay an extra $8,500 to flip a configuration bit to unlock that last 15kwh. I don't mind DRM for digital goods in which the variable cost is essentially $0
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Tesla's New Model S 60kWh Has a 75kWh Battery That's Software Limited(roadandtrack.com)
1 points by tkiley 10y ago|1 comments
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by tkiley 10y ago
Bettridge's law of headlines is out in full force today.
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by tkiley 11y ago
>... if we lived in such a world, would you still be upset that Mark Zuckerberg had a lot more money than you? Why? That's a really good question. Theoretically, I would be fine with that kind of world, but I dont think that kind of
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by tkiley 11y ago
I'm surprised at how primitive the response to pg's essay has been. None of it seems to respond to the central point of the essay (which is that economic inequality has many causes, and we should specifically attack the bad causes
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by tkiley 11y ago
Ok. Here's a response to his central argument: pg argues we shouldn't attack inequality itself because inequality has both good and bad causes and is thus amoral. He argues we should focus on the bad causes instead. I disagree. In
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Economic Inequality is Pollution(medium.com)
1 points by tkiley 11y ago|0 comments
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by tkiley 11y ago
Heh.. you hit the nail on the head here. I've been in health integration for the past five years. By restful nosql whizbang node standards, healthcare is full of really weird old shit, and if you want to interoperate, you have to be re

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