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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.

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 ver…

How are you handling privacy / security / confidentiality if I upload all this data? No way I could use this for work.

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 fo…

Asking Americans to read a French name that is a homonym for “clod” may not be the best mass market decision.

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…

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 l…

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 …

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 par…

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 thin…

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 f…

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 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 inst…

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).

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 ta…

I suspect if you threw away all preconceived notions of local mobility and started with maximizing {effectiveness/efficiency/carbon/infrastructure costs/real estate/ healthcare/eco…

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 …

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…