Yeah the more auditory learner types don't need to take notes. If I try to do this as a visual learner I'm like "yeah yes OK I get it!" then completely forget what the lecture was about 30 min later. If I just take like two- or three-word notes, especially placed around some kind of diagram, it allows me to remember a little bit of what was said (and, more importantly, be able to look it up).
Yeah my current washing machine is a refurbished old school top loader. Easy to install, wash cycle is 45 min, gets clothes super clean. It's definitely not water efficient but at least it doesn't take 3 hours to actually clean your clothes. Who's got time for that? I can get 6 loads of laundry done leisurely on a Sunday.
Not to mention that some of these things get easier once you have the skills for them. E.g. I've been buying my own health insurance on the open market since I was 22 - now in my early 40s, it takes me maybe an hour or two to fully compare a handful of policies and choose the best one for me and my family (even doing calculations, etc). This is vs having to immerse myself in it for a whole evening (4-5 hrs) and then agonize about it for the next week or so like I used to do back in the day (and only for myself)
People have varying definitions of art. Mine is more about communication and changing perceptions, I couldn't care less about time spent. I know artists from both camps.
Speaking as someone who was a teenager in the suburbs in the 90s, it totally predated screens. Walking 40 min on a road with no sidewalks got you to a 7-11. We used to go play in the woods until they knocked them down to build a "golfing community" (ie golf course interspersed with McMansions)
Because we've been gutting scientific grant spending since like 2005, leading to a cutthroat environment where for the most part only the most well-connected and well known get the big grants?
I'd rather have a panel of experts in the field with clear criteria decide the merit of the grant vs a crowdfunding-like model where people vote for the most charismatic person with the most well-produced video.
I saw him give a talk a couple years before his death where he said he wrote it when he was very depressed and regretted ending the series that way: he was considering writing another
Me too! I lived in Squirrel Hill and would see him doing things like going into the stationary store with one of his grandchildren to buy a card. Seeing him around was always magical.
Universities already have their indirect cost rate negotiated (most are like 80-120%). Default for newcomers is around 30%, until you can build up the history and wherewithal to navigate the negotiations for establishing your own rate.
No, it adds a huge burden. It's already eaten up a large amount of my bandwidth. If they don't repeal it I also have to get some kind of VC or other debt funding, which is by no means guaranteed. Not to mention that writing these grants is not inconsequential in terms of effort in the first place. At any point the added strain and uncertainty could force me out of business.
I'm no expert, but my understanding is that any expense related to software development would have to be amortized regardless of company structure or employees.
So, two scenarios: a) If you were a sole-proprietorship, you made $100K revenue, paid $10k in AWS fees, you would pay personal taxes on $98k (100 - 10/5) that year. b) If you paid a contractor $50k that year, you would pay taxes on $88k. (100 - 10/5 - 50/5).
In the past taxes base would be a) $90k (100 - 10) and b) $40k (100 - 10 - 50). So yeah larger tax implications for having employees, but the same would be the case with any expense.
Yup, I am screwed because I got an SBIR grant in 2022. The default indirect cost rate is ~30%. In this new scenario, it should be something more like 60%, which reduces the usable funds that can be spent on actual development (IF you can even get a high rate like that approved by the govt agency)
EDIT: By "screwed" I mean that I'm facing a $100k personal tax bill because the company is an LLC taxed as an S-Corp. You can say all you want about lack of planning, etc, but the reality is that many times very small business do not have the budget for a high-end business accountant on retainer. If I were to try to "plan better" to avoid this situation, I would have just not written the grant or tried to do any of it and gotten a FT job or something instead. It's an innovation-killer.
I own a two-person educational software company. We have a CPA that we engage once a year to do our business taxes and can't afford anything fancier than that. It's an LLC taxed as an S-Corp so all of the "profit" goes directly to me on my Schedule K. For 2022, if this is not reversed, I will owe around $100K in taxes. For reference, my salary was around $100k. I'll have to take out a payment plan with the IRS, and probably shut down the company if nothing changes because I can't do that again for 2023 and beyond.
We aren't making huge profits to absorb the costs and give me a fat bonus to cover my taxes. In fact in 2022, I WAS expecting a nice $30k loss and a refund. Do we deserve to survive? Probably not in some peoples' minds, but we've been scrapping together a living so far. It sucks because we were actually growing and gaining some momentum: any further growth would now be pretty impossible because I can't afford to pay my personal taxes to cover additional dev salaries.
Yeah I had something similar and took a looong break from like 30-37 because I just couldn't deal with all the stress of someone else's expectations and issues while I was working on some personal and professional stuff. Eventually I was like, I don't want to be alone, I'm going to actually try dating again, got married and had a baby at 41 :) But it could have easily gone another way and I was mostly fine with it.
I was recently talking to an elementary science teacher and she was saying that the kids are worse in everything except, surprisingly, physics/spatial reasoning. My guess: Minecraft/Roblox/etc. They spend hours and hours building stuff and playing/maneuvering in 3D.
The issue around Section 174 amoritization for R&D was discussed previously on Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34627712), I'm suprised it isn't hitting the front page again as tax season is upon us.
Personally, I'll owe $100,000 in personal taxes because I own an LLC taxed as an S-Corp (pretty much my salary last year - we're small and bootstrapped). I actually told my story to the WSJ hoping that it would make a difference, but there are still not a lot of people talking about it. https://www.wsj.com/articles/small-businesses-face-big-tax-b...
It's paying $100-200 a year to be able to get labs done pretty much immediately, schedule appointments easily, sit in waiting rooms that aren't depressing, and have a PCP and office workers that are nice to you and treat you like a human. Oh, and the video appointments are amazing. One time I had a really terrible UTI and got antibiotics within the hour from my phone.
Cribsheet, by Emily Oster. She also has one about pregnancy, Expecting Better, which might help you support your wife in decision making at the hospital when you go in to deliver.
You're not understanding the timescale or the context of the immune system's evolution. Imagine a cluster of unicellular organisms forming a multicellular organism for the first time. A multicellular organism stands a much better chance of survival than a single cell. Imagine a mutation that resulted in a cell surface protein that indicated cells were "friendly" and maybe even allowed them to glom together.
Later on, a billion or so years later after the system of cell surface proteins have grown in complexity, imagine a multicellular organism like a sponge, where the ocean flows freely through the inner compartment, helped along by simple differentiated cells containing primitive cilia/flagella. Some of the cells that line the wall of the inner compartment become proto-macrophages, capable of "eating" foreign objects that flow through. The context here is that the immune system has deep ties with the digestive system evolutionarily. So, a ton of the functionality of the immune system has an overlap with the digestive system... "self vs not self" goes way back.